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* Homage: Several strips.
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* Homage: {{Homage}}: Several strips.
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* HouseAmnesia: Rontti once got so worried over his infidelity, and over the notion that his current partner's boyfriend or husband is about to come home, he ejects himself out of the house... which, as she then mentions, is his own.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: How the comic seems to approach its more surreal elements. (See PostModernism below.) Whenever something truly outlandish happens, one can't quite tell if it's the result of a character's ImagineSpot, an exaggerated representation of what really went down, or a completely accurate portrayal of events.
* OneNightStandPregnancy: How Anni came to be. Luckily, both her parents love her and even agree to take care of her together.
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* PostModernism: A lot. There's often some sort of nonsensical element or FramingDevice that doesn't really make sense within the universe of comic. For example, there's a strip where Muusa and Otto host a cooking show, where they ''cook'' their Master's Thesis using other books as ingredients. Many of these comics actually are part of the canonical storyline despite the weirdness. There's See {{Homage}} above and ShoutOut below.
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* PostModernism: A lot. There's often some sort of nonsensical element or FramingDevice that doesn't really make sense within the universe of comic. For example, there's a strip where Muusa and Otto host a cooking show, where they ''cook'' their Master's Thesis using other books as ingredients. Many of these comics actually are part of the canonical storyline despite the weirdness. There's See {{Homage}} above and ShoutOut below.
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* MrsRobinson: Rontti's mother has a 22-year-old lover, and she's not hiding it either, liberally willing to discuss the topic even in front of [[spoiler:her own grandchild]]. When Rontti chews her out for this, she starts wondering when was the last time he got laid.
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* InterruptedIntimacy: Happens a lot, especially to Rontti (who else), but other characters get their share as well. Whenever the first panel shows two characters in an intimate position, you just know somebody, be it a relative, roomie or [[{{Cuckold}} bedmate's SO]], is going to walk in on them, so it's in fact far easier to point out the subversions and aversions. In one strip, Rontti hears something, thinks someone's going to walk in on them and hides in a closet — before he realizes he's in his own apartment. In another one, it finally doesn't happen despite the setup, causing him to admit that there are advantages to [[spoiler:having a spouse to do it with]].
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* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Rontti is a repeat offender.
** In one strip, he tries to hit on a Swedish girl in her native language, and the result is a mixture of this and PoirotSpeak. Needless to say, she's not impressed.
** In another occasion, he starts speaking English to Anna because he doesn't want a third person who only understands Finnish to listen in, and the attempt turns out the same. To add insult to injury, Anna, between fits of giggles, keeps correcting him in Finnish.
** In one strip, he tries to hit on a Swedish girl in her native language, and the result is a mixture of this and PoirotSpeak. Needless to say, she's not impressed.
** In another occasion, he starts speaking English to Anna because he doesn't want a third person who only understands Finnish to listen in, and the attempt turns out the same. To add insult to injury, Anna, between fits of giggles, keeps correcting him in Finnish.
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* JawDrop: Ukko and Verneri do a double one in one strip. First Otto declines a drink, announcing he's gone sober, and then Rontti turns down a pretty girl trying to hit on him.
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* ShoutOut: The cover art of each album is a direct ShoutOut towards a certain piece of art. For example, the first album cover is a reference to Edwards Hopper's ''[[http://routakoto.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/villimpi_pohjola.jpg "Nighthawks"]]''
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** The cover art of each album is a direct ShoutOut towards a certain piece of art. For example, the first album cover is a reference to Edwards Hopper's ''[[http://routakoto.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/villimpi_pohjola.jpg "Nighthawks"]]''
** The cover art of each album is a direct ShoutOut towards a certain piece of art. For example, the first album cover is a reference to Edwards Hopper's ''[[http://routakoto.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/villimpi_pohjola.jpg "Nighthawks"]]''
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** In one strip, Muusa [[Film/TheRing crawls through a TV screen showing noise.]]
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** JP Ahonen is evidently very fond of Franchise/SuperMarioBros, as the shout-outs to the franchise could fill its own page. In one strip, Ukko starts jumping up and down in the middle of the bar — because he's looking for a hidden coin block so he can pay his tab. In another, Rontti uses the star power-up to [[ItMakesSenseInContext cleave through a throng of overenthusiastic women]]. In yet another, Muusa and Verneri end up inside the game itself — and Mario then tries to hit on Muusa. And these are really just some of the examples.
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* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Anni is a curious case.
** The strip's original newspaper run downplays this. She does age, but very slowly. Each of the strips is set to take place on or close to the date of its original publication. (See ComicBookTime above.) She was conceived in the autumn of 2009, and she was finally born in the spring of 2011, after having spent nearly two years in her mother's womb. She was still a one-year-old baby in strips originally published in 2014, and in the most recent ones she's now roughly a preschooler.
** The album collections, however, seek to completely avert this. It is done by gathering together strips from multiple years and rearranging them so that they give the impression of much more natural, linear progression of time. For example, strips from the winters of 2011, 2012 and 2013 are gathered into one book and arranged so that they form a coherent storyline that appears to take place over a single winter, and Anni ages accordingly. It mostly works, but sometimes panels that show mismatching dates in the forms of calendars, cell phone screens and such give it away, as does the zigzagging ArtEvolution.
** The strip's original newspaper run downplays this. She does age, but very slowly. Each of the strips is set to take place on or close to the date of its original publication. (See ComicBookTime above.) She was conceived in the autumn of 2009, and she was finally born in the spring of 2011, after having spent nearly two years in her mother's womb. She was still a one-year-old baby in strips originally published in 2014, and in the most recent ones she's now roughly a preschooler.
** The album collections, however, seek to completely avert this. It is done by gathering together strips from multiple years and rearranging them so that they give the impression of much more natural, linear progression of time. For example, strips from the winters of 2011, 2012 and 2013 are gathered into one book and arranged so that they form a coherent storyline that appears to take place over a single winter, and Anni ages accordingly. It mostly works, but sometimes panels that show mismatching dates in the forms of calendars, cell phone screens and such give it away, as does the zigzagging ArtEvolution.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Lapsus" is a play on both the word's actual meaning, "mistake" or "lapse", as well as the word's similarity to Finnish word for a child ("lapsi"). [[spoiler: Most of the book deals with Anna's unplanned baby.]]
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Lapsus" is a play on both the word's actual meaning, "mistake" or "lapse", as well as the word's similarity to Finnish word for a child ("lapsi"). [[spoiler: [[NewBabyEpisode Most of the book deals with Anna's unplanned baby.]]]]]]
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Rontti. (It means "Rascal" in Finnish.) His real name is Markku. Early in the comic's run, even his friends didn't know it and were genuinely confused when somebody referred to him using his given name.
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* ''"Lapsus"'' ("Error", Arktinen Banaani, 2014) (See DoubleMeaningTitle below.)
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* ''"Lapsus"'' ("Error", ("Little Mistake", Arktinen Banaani, 2014) (See DoubleMeaningTitle below.)
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Lapsus" is a play on both the word's actual meaning, "error" "mistake" or "lapse", as well as the word's similarity to Finnish word for a child ("lapsi"). [[spoiler: Most of the book deals with Anna's unplanned baby.]]
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* YouRemindMeOfMyself: In one arc, Rontti ends up in hospital and is put in a room with a middle-aged, overweight DirtyOldMan who aggressively hits on and gropes young nurses and who's never bothered to settle down, thinking steady relationships are for suckers. [[spoiler:He's also got terminal cancer, meaning he will die soon with no one there to mourn him.]] He then suggests that Rontti is his JuniorCounterpart, citing the trope. Rontti is not exactly pleased, as he thinks the old guy is a total embarrassment. But then it [[WakeUpCall dawns on him]] that he really could be looking at himself a few decades down the road. [[spoiler:Cue him deciding that he wants to take part in raising the child he's accidentally fathered.]]
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* His girlfriend '''Muusa''' is nervous about the future, and at the same time she both despises and envies her cohabitants carefree attitude.
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* His girlfriend '''Muusa''' is nervous about the future, and at the same time she both despises and envies her cohabitants cohabitant's carefree attitude.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Lapsus" is a play on both the word's actual meaning, "error" or "lapse", as well as the word's similarity to Finnish word for a child ("lapsi"). [[spoiler: Most of the book deals with Anna's unplanned pregnancy.]]
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Lapsus" is a play on both the word's actual meaning, "error" or "lapse", as well as the word's similarity to Finnish word for a child ("lapsi"). [[spoiler: Most of the book deals with Anna's unplanned pregnancy.baby.]]
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* InsecureLoveInterest: Curiously, this goes both ways with Ukko and Muusa. She is constantly afraid that he will eventually find someone taller and prettier, while he's actually planning on proposing, but can't bring himself to pop the question for months, out of morbid fear of being rejected.
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* InsecureLoveInterest: Curiously, this goes both ways with Ukko and Muusa. She is constantly afraid that he will eventually find someone taller and prettier, while he's actually planning on proposing, but can't bring himself to pop the question for months, months out of morbid fear of being rejected.
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* MoodWhiplash: One particularly dark strip goes from a laugh out hilarious anecdote about a drunken Santa who made his face explode with vomit to Anna's TroubledChildhood with a drunk dad between panels.
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* MoodWhiplash: One particularly dark strip goes from a laugh out hilarious anecdote about a drunken Santa who made his face explode with vomit to Anna's TroubledChildhood troubled childhood with [[AbusiveParents a drunk dad dad]] between panels.
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* ''"Pelinavaus"'' ("Opening Move", Arktinen Banaani, 2013. An 2013) (An UpdatedRerelease consisting of material featured in the two originally self-published albums)albums.)
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* InsecureLoveInterest: Curiously, this goes both ways with Ukko and Muusa. She is constantly afraid that he will eventually find someone taller and prettier, while he's actually planning on proposing, but can't bring himself to pop the question for months, out of morbid fear of being rejected.
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* BiteOfAffection: One of Anna's go-to moves is sinking her teeth on the flanks of her bedmates, leaving a semi-permanent bite mark. (Although, she sometimes also employs this on people who simply irritate her.) One strip cleverly uses this to hint at the identity of [[spoiler:the father of her child]].
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''Northern Overexposure'' (original title ''Villimpi Pohjola'', Finnish for "''Wilder North''") is a Finnish SliceOfLife SundayStrip comic written and drawn by J. P. Ahonen, started in 2005. The comic follows the lives of a group of University stundents [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield somewhere in Nothern Finland]]. The cast tries its best to [[ComingOfAgeStory balance between their carefree youth and the responsibilities of adulthood]],each in their own way.
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''Northern Overexposure'' (original title ''Villimpi Pohjola'', Finnish for "''Wilder North''") is a Finnish SliceOfLife SundayStrip comic written and drawn by J. P. JP Ahonen, started in 2005. The comic follows the lives of a group of University stundents students [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield somewhere in Nothern Finland]]. The cast tries its best to [[ComingOfAgeStory balance between their carefree youth and the responsibilities of adulthood]],each in their own way.
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* '''Rontti''' is the [[BigManOnCampus Campus]] [[TheCasanova Casanova]] who [[GottaCatchThemAll deals with women like with Pokemon ]].
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* '''Rontti''' is the [[BigManOnCampus Campus]] [[TheCasanova Casanova]] who [[GottaCatchThemAll deals with women like with Pokemon ]].Pokemon]].
* '''Anna''' is a [[SpearCounterpart female counterpart]] of Rontti when it comes to aggressively hitting on people. Her results, however, are less than satisfactory.
* '''Anna''' is a [[SpearCounterpart female counterpart]] of Rontti when it comes to aggressively hitting on people. Her results, however, are less than satisfactory.
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* '''Jouni''' [[TheSixthRanger joins the cast late]] as Minna's boyfriend. Tends to a bar named [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Pub-Niggurath]].
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* '''Jouni''' [[TheSixthRanger joins the cast late]] as Minna's boyfriend. Tends to a bar named [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Pub-Niggurath]].
* Another late addition is '''Anni''', [[spoiler:Anna and Rontti]]'s daughter. She's a headstrong little girl who seems to have inherited the best and worst traits of both of her parents.
* Another late addition is '''Anni''', [[spoiler:Anna and Rontti]]'s daughter. She's a headstrong little girl who seems to have inherited the best and worst traits of both of her parents.
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* ''"Kypsyyskoe"'' ("Trial of Maturity", Arktinen Banaani, 2011)
* ''"Pelinavaus"'' ("Opening", Arktinen Banaani, 2013. An UpdatedRerelease consisting of material featured in the two originally self-published albums)
* ''"Lapsus"'' ("Slip of the Tongue", see DoubleMeaningTitle below, Arktinen Banaani, 2014)
* ''"Valomerkki"'' ("Last Call", Arktinen Banaani, 2015)
* ''"Pelinavaus"'' ("Opening", Arktinen Banaani, 2013. An UpdatedRerelease consisting of material featured in the two originally self-published albums)
* ''"Lapsus"'' ("Slip of the Tongue", see DoubleMeaningTitle below, Arktinen Banaani, 2014)
* ''"Valomerkki"'' ("Last Call", Arktinen Banaani, 2015)
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* ''"Kypsyyskoe"'' ("Trial ("Exam of Maturity", Arktinen Banaani, 2011)
* ''"Pelinavaus"''("Opening", ("Opening Move", Arktinen Banaani, 2013. An UpdatedRerelease consisting of material featured in the two originally self-published albums)
* ''"Lapsus"''("Slip of the Tongue", see ("Error", Arktinen Banaani, 2014) (See DoubleMeaningTitle below, Arktinen Banaani, 2014)
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* ''"Valomerkki"'' ("Last Call",Arktinen Banaani, 2015)WSOY, 2015)
* ''"Irtiotto"'' ("Breakaway", WSOY, 2018)
* ''"Pelinavaus"''
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* AllJustADream: One strip does this ''thrice'' with Rontti. [[spoiler: the last one is a subversion.]]
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* AllJustADream: One strip does this ''thrice'' with Rontti. [[spoiler: the The last one is a subversion.]]
* BedroomAdulteryScene: These become something of a running joke with Rontti; many of his liaisons end with him being forced to flee from an angry husband or boyfriend. Their frequency decreases greatly after [[spoiler:he and Anna become a couple]], but they still show up in an occasional flashback.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Topi disappeared mysteriously in the original storyline between ''Villimpi Pohjola 2'' and ''Kypsyyskoe''. The new strips in ''[[UpdatedRerelease Pelinavaus]]'' {{Retcon}} his fate and show how he eventually gets fed up with the cold North and leaves to study in Santiago.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Topi disappeared mysteriously in the original storyline between ''Villimpi Pohjola 2'' and ''Kypsyyskoe''. The new strips in ''[[UpdatedRerelease Pelinavaus]]'' {{Retcon}} his fate and show how he eventually gets fed up with the cold North and leaves to study in Santiago.Santiago de Compostela.
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* ComicSutra: As Rontti tries to rehabilitate himself of his Casanova tendencies, a woman hits on him by drawing a sex position into frosted glass. His friends can't recognize it but he does: Polynesian 97.
* CreatorProvincialism: The author J.P. Ahonen studied in the University of Lapland himself, [[WriteWhatYouKnow which shows.]]
* CreatorProvincialism: The author J.P. Ahonen studied in the University of Lapland himself, [[WriteWhatYouKnow which shows.]]
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* ComicBookTime: Largely averted. While the in-universe time doesn't run on a perfect synergy with the real world, what began as a slice-of-life comic strip about twentysomething university students has evolved into a story about a group of thirtysomethings who have graduated (or dropped out) and are trying to find jobs and starting families.
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* CreatorProvincialism: The authorJ.P. JP Ahonen studied in the University of Lapland himself, [[WriteWhatYouKnow which shows.]]
* ComicSutra: As Rontti tries to rehabilitate himself of his Casanova tendencies, a woman hits on him by drawing a sex position into frosted glass. His friends can't recognize it but he does: Polynesian
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Lapsus" is a play on both the word's actual meaning, "mistake" or "slip of the tongue", as well as the word's similarity to Finnish word for a child ("lapsi"). [[spoiler: Most of the book deals with the unplanned child of Anna.]]
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Lapsus" is a play on both the word's actual meaning, "mistake" "error" or "slip of the tongue", "lapse", as well as the word's similarity to Finnish word for a child ("lapsi"). [[spoiler: Most of the book deals with the Anna's unplanned child of Anna.pregnancy.]]
* LadykillerInLove: Rontti, eventually, with [[spoiler:Anna, after he accidentally knocks her up]].
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* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: Muusa literally hears hers start ringing shortly after Rontti and Anna have their own child.
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* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: Muusa literally hears hers start ringing shortly after Rontti [[spoiler:Rontti and Anna have their own child.child]].
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* OnlySixFaces: [[PlayingWithTropes Played with.]] There's a subplot where Verneri uses this to disguise as Rontti. What he does is simply pierce his eyebrow and bleach his hair, and the result is too identical people.
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* OnlySixFaces: [[PlayingWithTropes Played with.]] There's a subplot where Verneri uses this to disguise as Rontti. What he does is simply pierce his eyebrow and bleach his hair, and the result is too two identical people.people, whom even Rontti's own sister can't tell apart.
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