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* In ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', [[spoiler:Descending-Helix made a deal that he be paid for his work by making him and all his descendants immune to divine interference and prophecy]]. A few thousand years (and the laws of genetics) later, his great*n-granddaughter gets roped into that business anyway, thanks to the interference of a prophetic ''slug''. His ghost admits that he had neglected to fill that particular loophole.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', [[spoiler:Descending-Helix the protagonist's ancestor, [[spoiler:Descending-Helix, made a deal that he be paid for his work by making him and all his descendants immune to divine interference and prophecy]]. A few thousand years (and the laws of genetics) generations) later, his great*n-granddaughter gets roped into that business anyway, thanks to the interference of a prophetic ''slug''. His ghost admits that he had neglected to fill that particular loophole.
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* In ''Webcomic/Rain2010'', Rain's plan to get another girl into prom [[note]]her friend Maria's girlfriend Chanel, who isn't a senior and so can only attend prom as a senior's guest[[/note]]. A boy is only allowed to take a girl and vice versa. However, since Rain is still registered under her dead name, [[GenderBlenderName Ryan]], she writes in Chanel as her guest anyway, gambling that someone at the school who doesn't know her who sees the listing will think "Ryan" is a boy taking a female date. Then when she gets to prom and is clearly a girl, she'll claim to the reception hall staffer who is unaffiliated with her school that she thought the "bring a guest" option on the forms allowed her to bring a friend who wasn't a romantic date. It actually works, and though as a result the entire school learns her dead name, she diverts suspicion by claiming she "doesn't like it" because it's "too masculine" and that she uses the nickname Rain instead.

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* In ''Webcomic/Rain2010'', Rain's plan to get another girl into prom [[note]]her friend Maria's girlfriend Chanel, who isn't a senior and so can only attend prom as a senior's guest[[/note]]. A boy is only allowed to take a girl and vice versa. However, since Rain is still registered under her dead name, [[GenderBlenderName Ryan]], she writes in Chanel as her guest anyway, gambling that someone at the school who doesn't know her who sees the listing will think "Ryan" is a boy taking a female date. Then when she gets to prom and is clearly a girl, she'll claim to the reception hall staffer who is unaffiliated with her school that she thought the "bring a guest" option on the forms allowed her to bring a friend who wasn't a romantic date. It actually works, and though as a result the entire school learns her dead name, she diverts suspicion by claiming she "doesn't like it" because it's "too masculine" and that she uses the nickname Rain instead.works.
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* In ''Webcomic/Rain2010'', Rain's plan to get another girl into prom [[note]]her friend Maria's girlfriend Chanel, who isn't a senior and so can only attend prom as a senior's guest[[/note]]. A boy is only allowed to take a girl and vice versa. However, since Rain is still registered under her dead name, [[GenderBlenderName Ryan]], she writes in Chanel as her guest anyway, gambling that someone at the school who doesn't know her who sees the listing will think "Ryan" is a boy taking a female date. Then when she gets to prom and is clearly a girl, she'll claim to the reception hall staffer who is unaffiliated with her school that she thought the "bring a guest" option on the forms allowed her to bring a friend who wasn't a romantic date. It actually works, and though as a result the entire school learns her dead name, she diverts suspicion by claiming she "doesn't like it" because it's "too masculine" and that she uses the nickname Rain instead.

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* Immortals in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' are only allowed to guide and empower mortals without risking the wrath of other immortals. Those are the rules, here are the loopholes:
** [[spoiler:Helena and Demetrius tricked consent from a younger Susan and Nanase by giving them the false impression that they were the only two who could stop a monster. This ended up causing Susan enormous emotional damage, which later deeply angered Jerry, another immortal, when he learned her story]].
** Chaos has twisted the rules into pretzels by [[spoiler:''forcibly'' empowering unsuspecting mortals and pumping enough power into them to make them susceptible to suggestion bordering on MindControl]]. Her son notes when explaining this, "even immortals have loopholes." We find out that this is an even bigger loophole later, because [[spoiler:the mind-control aspect was added by ''another'' immortal, leading her son to suspect her, while what she was doing was relatively harmless.]]
** An immortal can only attack a mortal in self-defense, [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-06-28 but according to Jerry]] Grace is lucky he's a "wise and jolly" immortal ("Like Santa Claus!") because making a threat display, like the way Grace did, towards a more flinchy immortal would have been enough to make that immortal panic and attack the offender.
** An immortal is [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2107 "pushing guide and empower as far as they'll bend"]] by [[spoiler:appearing as a godlike figure in the middle of a crowded mall and lying to a creature convinced that immortals are forbidden from lying]].
** As it turns out, the rules aren't an agreement between immortals, but a sort of species-wide curse they cast on themselves. If an immortal breaks the rules, the other immortals don't decide to fight them. The other immortals automatically gain knowledge of what happened, and the power to work together to force the offending immortal to [[ResurrectiveImmortality reset]]. The immortals wouldn't have agreed to this if there was some way to break the rules on accident, so only the opinion of the immortal breaking the rules matters on deciding whether or not something is breaking the rules. This is why Chaos can get away with so much loophole abuse: She's crazy and thinks everything she's doing is within the bounds of the rules.
** Subverted when Voltaire vows not to attempt to kill Elliot. Mr. Verres points out that if Voltaire ''successfully'' kills Elliot, it's not an "attempt." Voltaire disagrees, and thinks that's a really stupid loophole since he'd have to be insane for that loophole to even work, but rewords his vow to close that loophole anyway just so Edward will get off his back on that.
** Chaos [[spoiler:increased the overall magic concentration in Moperville to incredibly high levels, allowing novices to use spells that they should never be able to. When Sarah learns of this, she immediately realizes that Chaos basically "empowered" the entire town. Furthermore, when Chaos realizes she has to fix what she did, she needs help from a mortal (which falls under the "guiding" rule), since she's not allowed to "dis-empower," even though she was behind the original empowering]].
** Magic itself is a quasi-sentient force that wants to be used and known about, but not widely known about or able to be used by many, which would seem to be contradictory goals since there's nothing stopping magic users from telling others about it ''and'' providing them the means to use it themselves, nor can magic simply go away. [[spoiler: But there's nothing saying magic can't change the way it works, so that previous methods of using it are rendered useless, and only a few rare individuals will be initially able to use it again. Chaos/Pandora witnessed the last time this happened several centuries ago in her past life]].

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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
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Immortals in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' are only allowed to guide and empower mortals without risking the wrath mortals. The rules aren't an agreement between immortals, but a sort of other immortals. Those are species-wide curse they cast on themselves. If an immortal breaks the rules, here are the loopholes:
** [[spoiler:Helena
other immortals automatically gain knowledge of what happened, and the power to work together to force the offending immortal to [[ResurrectiveImmortality reset]]. The immortals wouldn't have agreed to this if there was some way to break the rules on accident, so only the opinion of the immortal breaking the rules matters on deciding whether or not something is breaking the rules. This opens up the rules to a lot of loophole abuse, particularly if the immortal is crazy and thinks what they're doing is within the rules.
*** Helena
and Demetrius tricked consent from a younger Susan [[spoiler:Susan and Nanase when they were younger]] by giving them the false impression that they were the only two who could stop a monster. This [[spoiler:This ended up causing Susan enormous emotional damage, which later deeply angered Jerry, another immortal, when he learned her story]].
** Chaos *** Pandora has twisted the rules into pretzels by [[spoiler:''forcibly'' empowering unsuspecting mortals and pumping enough power into them to make them susceptible to suggestion bordering on MindControl]]. Her son notes when explaining this, "even immortals have loopholes." We find out that this is an even bigger loophole later, because [[spoiler:the mind-control aspect was added by ''another'' immortal, leading her son to suspect her, while what she was doing was relatively harmless.]]
** *** An immortal can only attack a mortal in self-defense, [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-06-28 but according to Jerry]] Grace is lucky he's a "wise and jolly" immortal ("Like Santa Claus!") because making a threat display, like the way Grace did, towards a more flinchy immortal would have been enough to make that immortal panic and attack the offender.
** *** An immortal is [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2107 "pushing guide and empower as far as they'll bend"]] by [[spoiler:appearing appearing as a godlike figure in the middle of a crowded mall and lying to a creature convinced that immortals are forbidden from lying]].
** As it turns out, the rules aren't an agreement between immortals, but a sort of species-wide curse they cast on themselves. If an immortal breaks the rules, the other immortals don't decide to fight them. The other immortals automatically gain knowledge of what happened, and the power to work together to force the offending immortal to [[ResurrectiveImmortality reset]]. The immortals wouldn't have agreed to this if there was some way to break the rules on accident, so only the opinion of the immortal breaking the rules matters on deciding whether or not something is breaking the rules. This is why Chaos can get away with so much loophole abuse: She's crazy and thinks everything she's doing is within the bounds of the rules.
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Subverted when Voltaire vows not to attempt to kill Elliot. Mr. Verres points out that if Voltaire ''successfully'' kills Elliot, it's not an "attempt." Voltaire disagrees, and thinks that's a really stupid loophole since he'd have to be insane for that loophole to even work, but rewords his vow to close that loophole anyway just so Edward will get off his back on that.
** Chaos
back.
*** Pandora
[[spoiler:increased the overall magic concentration in Moperville to incredibly high levels, allowing novices to use spells that they should never be able to. When Sarah learns of this, she immediately realizes that Chaos basically "empowered" the entire town. Furthermore, when Chaos realizes she has to fix what she did, she needs help from a mortal (which falls under the "guiding" rule), since she's not allowed to "dis-empower," even though she was behind the original empowering]].
** Magic itself is a quasi-sentient force that wants to be used and known about, but not widely known about or able to be used by many, which would seem to be contradictory goals since there's nothing stopping magic users from telling others about it ''and'' providing them the means to use it themselves, nor can magic simply go away. [[spoiler: But there's nothing saying magic can't change the way it works, so that previous methods of using it are rendered useless, and only a few rare individuals will be initially able to use it again. Chaos/Pandora Pandora witnessed the last time this happened several centuries ago in her past life]].life]].
** The Crystalline Turtle Frog refuses to give out their name since it could be used to summon them. They can't even provide a fake name, since anything they come up with would have the same effect. However, there's nothing stopping someone else from just making up a name for them so long as they don't use it themselves, so Edward decides to call them Steve for convenience.
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* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', Torg is forced into a parody of the Tri-Wizard Tournament from ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', despite having no magical ability whatsoever. So, when faced with the task of defeating a [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20080407 giant, sword-wielding chicken]], he interprets the rule saying "be resourceful and use the tools around you" to mean he can lift a magic-user out of the stands, point her at the chicken, and let ''her'' kill it. And if that fails, he's still got Plan B, yelling, "''[[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20080410 Eat her! I'm old and stringy!]]''"
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* ''Webcomic/EveryoneIsHome'':
** In "Hyrule Travelers", Isabelle takes advantage of the Blood Moon and the fact that K. Rool sort of resembles a Lizalfos to revive him easily.
--->'''Incineroar:''' (to Isabelle) Man, I'm glad we revived you early.
*** Becomes darkly hilarious when you remember that they didn't revive Isabelle, they just replaced her until the other one returned from the depths of Hell.
** In an allusion to what fans might be thinking now that they have the Creation trio (sans Giratina) and Xerneas, the fighters can use them to revive everyone. Unfortunately, Sephiroth anticipated this and uses Giratina to steal the fighters' Pokémon and thwart their plan.
** After watching Mega Man being revived by an extra life head, Kirby attempts to use a decapitated Mushroom Kingdom penguin head to revive King Dedede. As seen by the "fighters revived" panel, it didn't work, but kudos to him for trying.
** "Mr. Arts & Crafts" sees Sora manage to revive Mr. Game & Watch... by using black construction paper and cutting out a "1UP".
** How were the Mii Fighters revived? [[spoiler:By taking them to the Mii Channel... and having their eyes replaced.]]
** In "Multi-Purpose Pellets", Pac-Man consumes one of Mega Man's buster shots as if it was a Pac-Man pellet. The gang revives him by feeding him enough buster shots to reach 10,000 points.
** Bayonetta gets advice from Scorpion on how to revive Ryu, Ken and Terry Bogard -- just recreate the HUD of a fighting game (via Winged Pikmin and cardboard health bars) and then announce "Round 2: FIGHT!" to which they instantly get back up.
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**This is Nelson's hat in general really.
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** In [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2006-06-08 "this comic"]], a superhero girl has power to make puppies appear anywhere. A supervillain laughs at her but she then makes puppies appear IN HIS LUNGS!

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** In [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2006-06-08 "this comic"]], this comic]], a superhero girl has power to make puppies appear anywhere. A supervillain laughs at her but she then makes puppies appear IN HIS LUNGS!LUNGS, killing him instantly!
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**[[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dear-lord "Dear Lord"]]: Instead of eating communion wafers, a man saves all of them and keeps them in his basement. He has amassed 150 pounds of them, so he technically has one Jesus in his basement right now. Because he has captured God, can he make a wish? God says sure and is amazed more people don't use the same loophole.
** In [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2006-06-08 "this comic"]], a superhero girl has power to make puppies appear anywhere. A supervillain laughs at her but she then makes puppies appear IN HIS LUNGS!
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** There is a whole type of Caster whose whole schtick is this: carnymancers. They can use their magic to either impose a new rule or break a rule of reality (canonical example is a carnymancer saving a heavily burned person from death by making them only able to die from fire if they bring that fate on themselves). According to carnymancers and as shown with a card game, they can't use the rules they themselves made to win a game/trick, only those rules that others made.
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** When Agatha asks Otilia, the Muse of Protection, to follow Gil, she says she can't leave because she was assigned to protect Agatha by the Storm King. Tarvek tells her that Gil acknowledged him as the true heir to the Storm King, in front of witnesses, and therefore he has the authority to release her from this task. When Olita starts to point out all the ways this doesn't work, Tarvek just reminds her that she ''wants'' to protect Gil. (It probably helps that between the Storm King, her creator, and the Other, Olitia is already something of a mess of conflicting orders by this point.)
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* ''Webcomic/DICETheCubeThatChangesEverything'': Dongtae realizes that as [[spoiler:the GameMaster X cannot attack a player directly unless [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem he makes a rule]] that allows that as punishment]], which he also has limitations about. [[spoiler:All other casualties were Dicers killing each other by his suggestions, or technically count as transformations and not death.]]
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** Chaos has twisted the rules into pretzels by [[spoiler:''forcibly'' empowering unsuspecting mortals and pumping enough power into them to make them susceptible to suggestion bordering on MindControl]]. Her son notes when explaining this, "even immortals have loopholes." We find out that this is an even bigger loophole later, because [[spoiler:Chaos wasn't the one who did that. Another immortal left clues that made her son think it was her, thus remaining hidden for months]].

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** Chaos has twisted the rules into pretzels by [[spoiler:''forcibly'' empowering unsuspecting mortals and pumping enough power into them to make them susceptible to suggestion bordering on MindControl]]. Her son notes when explaining this, "even immortals have loopholes." We find out that this is an even bigger loophole later, because [[spoiler:Chaos wasn't the one who did that. Another immortal left clues that made [[spoiler:the mind-control aspect was added by ''another'' immortal, leading her son think it was to suspect her, thus remaining hidden for months]].while what she was doing was relatively harmless.]]

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* Website/GaiaOnline's four towns engaged in loophole abuse during the "Reject Olympics" plot, by recruiting nonhuman athletes for their teams.

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* Website/GaiaOnline's ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity'': The players discover the horrendously overdesigned game they've been playing was actually created by a demon and they are now damned to play it forever. After reviewing the rules, Nelson determines that they're allowed to take breaks but there's no limit on how ''long'' those breaks can be. As such they take a "break" to bury the game in Frank's yard.
* ''Website/GaiaOnline'''s
four towns engaged in loophole abuse during the "Reject Olympics" plot, by recruiting nonhuman athletes for their teams.
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-->'''George''': You're a robot! You're not allowed to kill humans!\\
'''Protoman''': That only applies if I think he's a human, which I don't.

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-->'''George''': -->'''George:''' You're a robot! You're not allowed to kill humans!\\
'''Protoman''': '''Protoman:''' That only applies if I think he's a human, which I don't.



* In ''Webcomic/{{Collar 6}}'' Sixx plans to win her bet with Butterfly by surrendering her title to Laura and becoming her slave so that she can take part in the contest directly.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Collar 6}}'' ''Webcomic/Collar6'' Sixx plans to win her bet with Butterfly by surrendering her title to Laura and becoming her slave so that she can take part in the contest directly.



* ''WebComic/EerieCuties'': The bonus story of vol.2's print edition has Blair trick Kade and Ace into playing a game of [[spoiler:[[StripPoker "Strip]] TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit"]] against Layla and Brooke, during which, he rigs the game so [[spoiler:he can see the girls naked]]. Layla guesses wrong on her next turn, leaving her no choice but to [[spoiler:take off her bra]]. However, Brooke saves her by [[spoiler:cupping Layla's breasts from behind]]. When the boys object, she counters:
-->'''Brooke: (smug)''' "Ha! You boys haven't won anything yet!"\\
'''Kad:''' "No fair!"\\
'''Ace:''' "That's against the rules!"\\
'''Brooke: (smug grin)''' "I'm technically made of snakeskin, so I [[spoiler:count as clothing]]!"

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* ''WebComic/EerieCuties'': ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'': The bonus story of vol.2's print edition has Blair trick Kade and Ace into playing a game of [[spoiler:[[StripPoker "Strip]] TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit"]] against Layla and Brooke, during which, he rigs the game so [[spoiler:he can see the girls naked]]. Layla guesses wrong on her next turn, leaving her no choice but to [[spoiler:take off her bra]]. However, Brooke saves her by [[spoiler:cupping Layla's breasts from behind]]. When the boys object, she counters:
-->'''Brooke: (smug)''' "Ha! -->'''Brooke:''' ''[smug]'' Ha! You boys haven't won anything yet!"\\
yet!\\
'''Kad:''' "No fair!"\\
No fair!\\
'''Ace:''' "That's That's against the rules!"\\
'''Brooke: (smug grin)''' "I'm '''Brooke:''' ''[smug grin]'' I'm technically made of snakeskin, so I [[spoiler:count as clothing]]!"clothing]]!



---> '''Sam''': I've never heard maniacal laughter from a robot before. It feels good to have brought something new and wonderful into the world.

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---> '''Sam''': --->'''Sam:''' I've never heard maniacal laughter from a robot before. It feels good to have brought something new and wonderful into the world.



** A little later, the loophole to attack the high priest in question gets closed when [[spoiler:the High Priest of Hel]] transfers his position [[spoiler:to another vampire as he leaves to dominate the Dwarven Elders]]. Since Roy wasn't designated as the bodyguard [[spoiler:of that vampire, he's not allowed to kill her]]. However, he quickly exploits another loophole to ensure that [[spoiler: Malack's staff]] doesn't fall into their hands.
---->'''Roy''': The Order of the Stick is not responsible for any damage that may occur during the delivery of unholy relics.

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** A little later, the loophole to attack the high priest in question gets closed when [[spoiler:the High Priest of Hel]] transfers his position [[spoiler:to another vampire as he leaves to dominate the Dwarven Elders]]. Since Roy wasn't designated as the bodyguard [[spoiler:of that vampire, he's not allowed to kill her]]. However, he quickly exploits another loophole to ensure that [[spoiler: Malack's staff]] staff doesn't fall into their hands.
---->'''Roy''': --->'''Roy:''' ''[snaps the staff on his knee]'' The Order of the Stick is not responsible for any damage that may occur during the delivery of unholy relics.



---> '''Hel:''' '''I didn't know Thor would ''tell'' them about it!'''

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---> '''Hel:''' '''I '''''I didn't know Thor would ''tell'' TELL them about it!'''it!'''''



** When the dwarf clan elders are taking a vote that a group of vampires try to affect, and the heroes try to stop them, it becomes a duel of loopholes in the magically enforced rules. The first gate to the chamber dispels all magic and prevents non-dwarfs from entering, and no magic may be used within the second gate, so the dwarf-bodied vampires go through the first gate and use CharmPerson after that. After that, they just have to give orders to the dominated elders -- that's just talking so there's no rule against it -- and further, nobody can use magic even to dispel the domination without being turned to stone. Durkon counters by [[spoiler: breaking the table by which the elders sit, because even though he gets turned to stone for that too, the rules say no vote can be held without all the details like a proper table being in place.]]

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** When the dwarf clan elders are taking a vote that a group of vampires try to affect, and the heroes try to stop them, it becomes a duel of loopholes in the magically enforced rules. The first gate to the chamber dispels all magic and prevents non-dwarfs from entering, and no magic may be used within the second gate, so the dwarf-bodied vampires go through the first gate and use CharmPerson after that. After that, they just have to give orders to the dominated elders -- that's just talking so there's no rule against it -- and further, nobody can use magic even to dispel the domination without being turned to stone. Durkon counters by [[spoiler: breaking [[spoiler:breaking the table by which the elders sit, because even though he gets turned to stone for that too, the rules say no vote can be held without all the details like a proper table being in place.]]



-->'''Hades''': If you want to avoid Tartarus and instead get back to your mortal life outside you will have to fill these forms correctly. I have found about 30 typos specifically in the sections Alpha 437 to Delta 304. Your name was signed incorrectly twice, oh and... did I mention this? Ancient Greek 2.0 is no longer valid language in this domain. You will have to take a course to learn the version 3, as there are quite a few terms that changed.\\
'''Persephone''': Wow... some punishments truly are [[FateWorseThanDeath worse than Tartarus]].\\
'''Hades''': Thank you, dear. I do my best.
* ''Webcomic/PvP'': Apparently, playing as the [[{{Series/DoctorWho}} Doctor]] in a medieval-themed LARP is [[http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2013/04/11/Fielddoctor absolutely possible]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}'' the local office of the [[CelestialBureaucracy Department of Minor Nuisances]] is unable to covertly support the Circle Band due to rules and budget concerns. [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=2571 Nothing wrong with doing it overtly though.]]

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-->'''Hades''': -->'''Hades:''' If you want to avoid Tartarus and instead get back to your mortal life outside you will have to fill these forms correctly. I have found about 30 typos specifically in the sections Alpha 437 to Delta 304. Your name was signed incorrectly twice, oh and... did I mention this? Ancient Greek 2.0 is no longer valid language in this domain. You will have to take a course to learn the version 3, as there are quite a few terms that changed.\\
'''Persephone''': '''Persephone:''' Wow... some punishments truly are [[FateWorseThanDeath worse than Tartarus]].\\
'''Hades''': '''Hades:''' Thank you, dear. I do my best.
* ''Webcomic/PvP'': Apparently, playing as the [[{{Series/DoctorWho}} [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]] in a medieval-themed LARP is [[http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2013/04/11/Fielddoctor absolutely possible]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}'' the local office of the [[CelestialBureaucracy Department of Minor Nuisances]] is unable to covertly support the Circle Band due to rules and budget concerns. [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=2571 Nothing wrong with doing it overtly overtly, though.]]



---> '''Executioner''': "On the one hand I'm mad, but on the other hand ''wow'' what a loophole."

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---> '''Executioner''': "On --->'''Executioner:''' On the one hand I'm mad, but on the other hand ''wow'' what a loophole."



--->'''Tagon''' (Having just shot someone's lawyer-drones): Get as mad as you want. You're going to have a hard time suing me.

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--->'''Tagon''' (Having --->'''Tagon:''' ''[having just shot someone's lawyer-drones): lawyer-drones]'' Get as mad as you want. You're going to have a hard time suing me.



** Tailor is a clothing fabrication robot given to Captain Tagon by his father. The captain hates robots, his father, and isn't particularly crazy about new clothes, so he refuses to agree to any fittings. Tailor freaks out about not being able to fulfill his purpose, until the company doctor points out that the captain is responsible for clothing the entire company--therefore, Tailor can fulfill his purpose by creating clothing for her.

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** Tailor is a clothing fabrication clothing-fabrication robot given to Captain Tagon by his father. The captain hates robots, his father, and isn't particularly crazy about new clothes, so he refuses to agree to any fittings. Tailor freaks out about not being able to fulfill his purpose, until the company doctor points out that the captain is responsible for clothing the entire company--therefore, company -- therefore, Tailor can fulfill his purpose by creating clothing for her.



** At one point, their ship is in orbit around what might be an ancient artifact, and Kevyn is ordered [[ExactWords not to collaborate with anyone on figuring out what it is]]. (The conversation ''after'' that takes a quick turn into 'how many assistants count as collaboration'. Cindy thought they were pushing the envelope as it was.) When Tagon later asks Kevyn his opinion on the value of where they're located, he throws back [[IronicEcho "You explicitly ordered me not to collaborate on figuring this out."]] Tagon's reply? "I gave you an order with loopholes in it."
* ''Webcomic/{{Sheldon}}'': One storyline has Gramp going on a liquid diet and attempting this. First he helps himself to some melted ice cream, which Arthur points out isn't technically a liquid ("'''''I KNOW! AND IT HAS COOKIE DOUGH CHUNKS!'''''" Gramp admits). Then he sticks a Twinkie in a blender and tried to purée it. It eventually culminates in him somehow getting his hands on a beaker of hydro-chloric acid and pouring it on a steak in order to create liquid steak. Which then proceeds to eat through the plate.

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** At one point, their ship is in orbit around what might be an ancient artifact, and Kevyn is ordered [[ExactWords not to collaborate with anyone on figuring out what it is]]. (The conversation ''after'' that takes a quick turn into 'how "how many assistants count as collaboration'.collaboration". Cindy thought they were pushing the envelope as it was.) When Tagon later asks Kevyn his opinion on the value of where they're located, he throws back [[IronicEcho "You explicitly ordered me not to collaborate on figuring this out."]] Tagon's reply? "I gave you an order with loopholes in it."
* ''Webcomic/{{Sheldon}}'': One storyline has Gramp going on a liquid diet and attempting this. First he helps himself to some melted ice cream, which Arthur points out isn't technically a liquid ("'''''I KNOW! AND IT HAS COOKIE DOUGH CHUNKS!'''''" Gramp admits). Then he sticks a Twinkie in a blender and tried to purée it. It eventually culminates in him somehow him somehow getting his hands on a beaker of hydro-chloric acid and pouring it on a steak in order to create liquid steak. Which then proceeds to eat through the plate.



* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/TerrorIsland,'' one arc involving a competition to skateboard over a river ends with the alien baddie teleporting over the river instead; he wins, because "teleporting" is [[http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/257.html one of the few things ''not'' prohibited by the contest's rules]], as the people drawing it up [[PunyEarthlings couldn't conceive of it]].
* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In "Hell Train: The Dallar Show", the characters take part in a (deadly serious) competition inside a maze of pipes. Then [[TheHero Bam]] discovers that the stage is set up against his team so that he'd need to be on the opposite end of the maze to use his overpowered abilities to help his companions, who'll encounter the enemy boss at any moment. Well, the rules say you have to stay inside the pipes, but not that you can't magically move them to rearrange their structure so that the one you're in attaches to another on the opposite side.
* In the parody webcomic ''Webcomic/VanVonHunter'', Von Hunter and his (nameless) assistant agree to get out of the ghoul court's sentencing by making their last requests 'Drop all the charges against my friend'. After the assistant successfully gets Von Hunter set free this way, the judge points out that he's no longer being sentenced. Meaning he isn't entitled to a last request to use on releasing her.

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* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/TerrorIsland,'' ''Webcomic/TerrorIsland'', one arc involving a competition to skateboard over a river ends with the alien baddie teleporting over the river instead; he wins, because "teleporting" is [[http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/257.html one of the few things ''not'' prohibited by the contest's rules]], as the people drawing it up [[PunyEarthlings couldn't conceive of it]].
* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': In "Hell Train: The Dallar Show", the characters take part in a (deadly serious) competition inside a maze of pipes. Then [[TheHero Bam]] discovers that the stage is set up against his team so that he'd need to be on the opposite end of the maze to use his overpowered abilities to help his companions, who'll encounter the enemy boss at any moment. Well, the rules say you have to stay inside the pipes, but not that you can't magically move them to rearrange their structure so that the one you're in attaches to another on the opposite side.
* In the parody webcomic ''Webcomic/VanVonHunter'', Von Hunter and his (nameless) assistant agree to get out of the ghoul court's sentencing by making their last requests 'Drop "Drop all the charges against my friend'. friend." After the assistant successfully gets Von Hunter set free this way, the judge points out that he's no longer being sentenced. Meaning he isn't entitled to a last request to use on releasing her.



* In the fantasy comic strip ''Webcomic/{{Yamara}}'', a toad familiar is tasked with bringing a newly-revived ex-vampire her first non-blood meal in centuries. The cleric forbids him from serving her meat, while another character threatens him with punishment if he offers her fruits or vegetables. [[TakeAThirdOption His solution]] is to serve her cream of mushroom soup.

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* In the fantasy comic strip ''Webcomic/{{Yamara}}'', a toad familiar is tasked with bringing a newly-revived newly revived ex-vampire her first non-blood meal in centuries. The cleric forbids him from serving her meat, while another character threatens him with punishment if he offers her fruits or vegetables. [[TakeAThirdOption His solution]] is to serve her cream of mushroom soup.

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