History TheOrderOfTheStick / TropesMToO

* MainliningTheMonster: A head-regenerating hydra which was incapacitated by the Order has become the source of meat for an enterprising goblin's hydra-head sandwich franchise.

** Seen with [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0353.html Leeky Windstaff]].
** Vaarsuvius, whether they [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0638.html shapechange]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0697.html voluntarily]] or [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0176.html are victim]] of a ''{{baleful polymorph}}''.
** Also, thus far Sabine always kept her skin tone (except for facepaint) and her black hair color (with a couple exceptions) in human form.

** Vaarsuvius, whether they [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0638.html shapechange]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0697.html voluntarily]] or [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0176.html are victim]] of a BalefulPolymorph.

** Hinted about the elves in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0670.html "Old allies, that are slow to go to war."]]
** A more direct example would be the reptilian bounty hunters Gannji and Enor, who have no stake in the Empire of Blood's political struggles and are perfectly willing to do business with it...until Tarquin tries to [[spoiler: have them kill each other in a gladiatorial arena]], after which they [[spoiler: sign up with a newly-formed [[LaResistance resistance group]].]]

* NeutralityBacklash: Poor Therkla...
* NeutralNoLonger: The Elvish war party.

'''Vaarsuvius:''' True, and the ensuing meal was excellent, but the analogy still stands.

* MoralDissonance: Intentionally. Moments like the slaughter of Redcloak's village and the brutal execution of a hobgoblin prisoner from Azure City by the Elvish liberation forces remind us why Redcloak is on his crusade, and lead us to wonder if he might not have a bit of a point.
* MoralityKitchenSink

* NamedAfterTheInjury:
** Redcloak gives his brother, who lost his left eye when paladins raided their village, the nickname Right-Eye. Later, after Redcloak loses his own right eye, Tsukiko mocks him by calling him Wrong-Eye, a Xykon-suggested way to get under his skin.
** Old Blind Pete was blinded by Bozzok as punishment for selling Thieves' Guild secrets. Before that he was Eagle-Eyed Pete.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Roy mistakes [[spoiler: the High Priest of Hel saying "Go Hel! Know? Thor won't!"]] as "Hell No! Thor won't go!" This is [[spoiler:[[InvokedTrope exactly as the High Priest of Hel intended]]; he chose the rather awkward syntax so he could be saying something that technically counts as praying to Hel but would sound like praise of Thor to anybody listening in... and as a vampire his +8 bonus to Listen mean he certainly was aware of Roy's approach well before Roy could put his ear to the door]].

** "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0747.html What the heck is it going to take for you to see that your dad is bad news?]]
** In [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0084.html Saddest. Comic. Ever]], Durkon responds to Hilgya's LoveConfession, despite her marriage and her duty, by telling her that his ma taught him the dwarven way is to "take feelings like that, and bury them inna deep dark part o' my soul and nev'r ev'r talk about em' again". Over a thousand strips later in [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1129.html Reasons Why]], we see the context that [[spoiler:his ma is talking about sacrificing the chance to raise her husband from the dead in order to save five random strangers]]

** It turns out the Draketooth clan [[spoiler:has dragon ancestry. Specifically, they're of the lineage that V's familicide spell wiped out.]]

* MinorInsultMeltdown: V to Elan.

* MeaningfulEcho: "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0747.html What the heck is it going to take for you to see that your dad is bad news?]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0759.html Do you need, like, 200-foot-tall flaming letters or something??]]"

* MexicanStandoff: Haley and Serini [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1250.html engage in a bluffing variation]]. Lien gets impatient and just sics her shark familiar on Serini to settle matters.

-->'''Haley:''' ...Though I did expect him to spend most of it purchasing [[LandmarkSale local bridges]].

-->'''Belkar:''' No, ''you're'' [[FunWithHomophones a homophone!]]

* NotSoDifferent:
** V and Belkar have always opted for a brute force style in facing their problems, but thanks to CharacterDevelopment, they've also seen other ways of looking at the world. To drive the point even further, they both have dark fates in store. [[spoiler:Belkar is slated to die before the end of the year, while V is indebted to the service of the IFCC for 44 minutes and 16 seconds.]]
** Nale and Tarquin. [[spoiler:When rejected by family members, they both react by stabbing the rejecter. They also think that anything that happens near them is about them.]]

** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0186.html "The wheels on the bus go round and round..."]] -- a black dragon after surviving one Disintegrate spell, [[FamousLastWords before being vaporized by another]].

'''Vaarsuvius:''' Given that my entire function in this endeavor is predicated on the robustness of my cognitive response-- occupying my brain with unnecessary telepathic conversation is the equivalent of borrowing Sir Greenhilt's sword to peel potatoes.\\

'''Elan:''' ...and that's why Banjo's holy water is made with seltzer!

*** Insofar as actual types of dragon go, only black and red dragons have been seen on-panel, although green dragons have also been mentioned.

** V mentions using the invisibility spell whenever going to the bathroom. According to them, it's a habit they developed purely to annoy Belkar.
** Durkon uses the Sending spell to check in with his mom.

** Played with when Qarr the imp notices that V uses [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0624.html invisibility before going to piss.]]

** Qarr says it out loud when V cast ''See Invisibility'' in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0624.html "This Happens to Telemarketers All the Time"]]

** V mentions using the invisibility spell [[AmbiguousGender whenever going to the bathroom]].

** The gender of Vaarsuvius, V's mate and their (adopted) children.

** In [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0321.html "Q & A"]], V is missing their right arm in the second-to-last panel. This error is not corrected in the retail version of ''No Cure for the Paladin Blues''.

* OffModel: In the web version of [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0011.html "Alignment Differences"]], Haley is drawn with three arms in the first panel. This error is corrected in the retail version of ''Dungeon Crawlin' Fools''.