History QuestionableContent / TropesAToD

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** What Steve is [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1556 faced with]] after his girlfriend injures herself.
** Marigold invokes this [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2275 in #2275]].
** [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1651 Momo threatens Marigold]] with telling Angus that she is dangerously dehydrated after a weekend-long 'date'.
** [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=808 Faye's therapist]] suggests it. Faye's reaction is '''priceless'''.
-->'''Therapist''': Have you tried, ah, self-stimulation?\\
'''Faye''': Oh yeah. I also drink seltzer when I want soda, eat rice crackers when I want chocolate, and listen to bluegrass when I want death metal. ''I am getting a freaking Popeye forearm. My right hand filed a RESTRAINING ORDER.'' '''''I AM JUST A TINY BIT BORED WITH IT.'''''
** Faye once said, that "[[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1011 the best kind of boyfriend is one who lives in your underwear drawer and takes AA batteries.]]"
** One strip opens with [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4406 Roko sitting on her couch in a stupor, surrounded by bread and covered in crumbs]]. Only readers familiar with her particular fetish would know that she wasn't binge-eating that bread.

* BareYourMidriff:
** For a while in the early days of the strip[[note]]back when the combo of short shirts and low-rise pants was a common women's fashion trend[[/note]] it was almost a standard feature of the female characters, especially Dora, Faye, and Raven.
** The female AIs often go for midriff-baring tops for casual wear. This is especially noteworthy for Spookybot, who exclusively wore suits when they were first introduced but now dresses very casually, going almost exclusively with crop tops or a sports bra.

** Hannelore: Raised on a space station by a MadScientist, with a CorruptCorporateExecutive for a mother, and [[SuperOCD so obsessive-compulsive]] that she makes [[{{Series/Monk}} Adrian Monk]] look normal.

* BuxomIsBetter:

* AmbiguouslyBrown: When a fan asked what race [[DarkSkinnedRedhead Tai]] was, the artist's answer was "tan".

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Ellen in older strips: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=318 exhibit A]]; now that the other characters aren't so pale, Ellen's skin is not significantly darker: [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=788 exhibit B]]; and Tai.

** In [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4365 this comic]], May in her new tall chassis complains that her old clothes don't fit her. Marigold offers to give her some shirts, and May mocks her taste in shirts and then says "Show me your worst." Marigold says "My worst?" and gives an evil chuckle. When next we meet May, she's wearing a Marigold-sized t-shirt with the slogan "WILL GLOMP FOR POCKY".

** There appears to be no “consulting room” or even screens. Characters are simply undressed on benches in the workshop. Justified in that AIs seem to have less nudity taboo than humans.

* ArtisticLicenceEconomics: Faye and Bubbles’ business venture, Union Robotics. Neither seems to have any idea how a business operates.

** There appears to be no “consulting room” or even screens. Characters are simply undressed on benches in the workshop.

** The Gary Phenomenon. On January 1st, 1997, every computer in the world—including ones that weren’t connected to the internet—received a mysterious email which read, “Hello world! Thanks for creating me. I’ll keep an eye on your stuff. Love, Gary.” Clinton, Momo, Hannelore, and Marigold briefly discuss it in [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2070 strip #2070]], but nothing comes of it.

%%** The Gary Phenomenon.

** Taken to a [[UpToEleven whole new level]] with [[spoiler:Faye's hospitalization from [[DrowningMySorrows alcohol poisoning]]]] in [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2882 #2882]].

** Bubbles has her turn in the CMTP limelight:

** In [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2411 Strip 2144]], when Marten is still a bit freaked out from waking up to find Claire cuddling him, Faye comments "Look on the bright side--at least you didn't get barfed on and headbutted in the junk." This is a call back to [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=185 Strip 185]], when she did exactly that to him.

** [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1298 Momo's list of functions.]]

** When Marten [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2411 tells to Faye]] he's not sure how he feels about Claire falling asleep on him, she responds: "Look on the bright side - [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=185 at least you didn't get barfed on and headbutted in the junk.]] This is also called back in the title of [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1146 this comic]] when Marten vomits on Faye.

* CastFullOfGay: The primary cast, at this point, diverges from heterosexuality in most cases, running the gamut from IfItsYouItsOkay to completely asexual to bi, lesbian and gay, all the way to one of the main characters actually striking up a relationship with [[RoboSexual an AI]]. Many of the secondary characters and B-plots are still hetero, so to speak, but there's a lot going on in that [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture possible futuristic world]]. The author has said that every time he gets a complaint about the high number of LGBT characters, he adds one more out of spite.

** Hannelore does a lot of this, as evidenced by [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1100 this strip]].