History Manga / CellsAtWorkAndFriends

* CatSmile: Helper T Cell always sports one.

* FurryReminder: More like Cellular Reminder. M Cell wants to commit "apoptosis," not "suicide." It's "Love, Golgi Apparatus, & Other Illusions," not "Literature/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions."

** Combined with a bit of IdiotBall in Chapter 3, "Ransomware," where Killer T's underlings find his broken cell phone, see or overhear bits of information, and come to the least reasonable conclusions possible.

** The Vibrio Parahaemolyticus bacterium in chapter 17 is drawn like a ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' character and is referred to as "the villain from Fist of the N-... Vibrio."
** The granular layer in chapter 24 looks like a [[Franchise/SuperMario Super Mario]] level, complete with pipes, coins, and punchable blocks. Upon getting punched by Killer T from below, one block popped out an infected cell that heavily resembled Mario's mushroom power-ups.

* EmbarrassingHobby: Taken to an extreme by Killer T, who has taken his {{Jerkass}} RatedMForManly image so far that he doesn't feel like he can openly do anything "unmanly" like...have friends, attend parties, play cell phone games, or watch sappy romantic comedies for fear that he would lose the respect of his squad and the populace.

* RatedMForManly: Even though the comic focuses on Killer T's social awkwardness and desire to come down from his tower of testosterone, make no mistake: he really ''is'' a badass squad leader who can stop a viral invasion almost single-handedly.

* FurryReminder: More like Cellular Reminder. M Cell wants to commit "apoptosis," not "suicide." It's "Love, Golgi Apparatus, & Other Illusions," not "LightNovel/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions."

** Some of the videos Killer T rents include ''[[LightNovel/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions Love, Golgi Apparatus, & Other Illusions]]'', ''[[Manga/MyLittleMonster My Little Nucleosome]]'', and ''Defying Synapse-kun[[note]]Defying Kurosaki-kun[[/note]]''.

This is the core question of ''Cells at Work and Friends!'', a shoujo manga first serialized in ''Bessatsu Friend'' starting in February 2019. As its name implies, the manga is a spinoff of the popular {{Edutainment}} manga Manga/CellsAtWork written by Kanna Kurono and illustrated by Mio Izumi. While Manga/CellsAtWork creator Akane Shimizu does not actively write or draw this series, she does serve as its supervisor.

Other [[SpinOff Spin-Offs]] of ''Manga/CellsAtWork'' include ''Manga/CellsNotAtWork'', ''Manga/CellsAtWorkCodeBlack'', ''Manga/CellsAtWorkBacteria'', ''Manga/CellsAtWorkPlatelets'', ''Manga/CellsAtWorkBaby'', ''Manga/CellsAtWorkLady'' and ''Manga/CellsAtWorkWhite''.

Other [[SpinOff Spin-Offs]] of ''Manga/CellsAtWork'' include ''Manga/CellsNotAtWork'', ''Manga/CellsAtWorkCodeBlack'', ''Manga/CellsAtWorkBacteria'', ''Manga/CellsAtWorkPlatelets'', ''Manga/CellsAtWorkBaby'', and ''Cells At Work: Lady!''

-->'''Killer T Cell:''' She's perfectly equipped for every possible contingency...

-->'''Killer T Cell:''' Today, you'll all stay behind for risk assessment training! I won't let you go home until you tell me 100 individual risks hidden inside this illustration![[note]]a Killer T Cell standing next to a small rock[[/note]]

->'''M Cell:''' [[SuicideAsComedy I wanna commit]] [[FurryReminder apoptosis]]...

* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Combined with a bit of IdiotBall in Chapter 3, "Ransomware," where Killer T's underlings find his broken cell phone, see or overhear bits of information, and come to the least reasonable conclusions possible.

* RedBaron: Killer T's nickname is "King Killer".

* {{Otaku}}: Mast Cell. He spends his entire salary on "supporting his faves" and none on basic necessities.

* AbuseMistake:
** [=IM1235=] offers to help Killer T with what she thinks is a romantic relationship. He mentions that he yells at them every day and threw them to the ground, and [=IM1235=] thinks he's domestically abusing a girlfriend. He was actually talking about trying to be friendlier towards the Killer T squad.
** Adult Killer T says he needs to confess to Platelet, a child. [=IM1235=] thinks he means confessing romantic or sexual feelings. What he actually means is confessing that he threw away her coagulation factor, something that she needs to do her job, without knowing what it was.

-->''Killer T Cell:''' She's perfectly equipped for every possible contingency...

--''Killer T Cell:''' She's perfectly equipped for every possible contingency...

* CrazyPrepared: NK Cell, who brings riot gear, a tear gas grenade, and has a perforin drone strike prepared, all for a glamping trip. Zig-zagged in that she is prone to forgetting more mundane home safety things like if she locked her house or left the gas on; with a little more preparation she would not have those problems.
->'''Killer T Cell:''' Where are you trying to trek to?
->'''NK Cell:''' To the mountains where I'm sure to die.
* TheEeyore: M Cell.
->'''M Cell:''' [[SuicideAsComedy I wanna commit apoptosis...]]

->'''M Cell:''' [[SuicideAsComedy I wanna commit apoptosis...]]

** Some of the videos Killer T rents include ''[[LightNovel/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions Love, Golgi Apparatus, & Other Delusions]]'', ''[[Manga/MyLittleMonster My Little Nucleosome]]'', and ''[[Manga/DefyingKurosakiKun Defying Synapse-kun]]''.