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** The time colonists were a parody of the primary crew of StarTrekTheNextGeneration. Their leader, in particular, is a dead ringer for PatrickStewart.
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** The time colonists were a parody of the primary crew of StarTrekTheNextGeneration.''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Their leader, in particular, is a dead ringer for PatrickStewart.
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* VastBureaucracy: Nephilopolis not only has departments of 'Tastes' and 'Opposition', but you have to register every single robbery you commit.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Two occur during the first batch of guest comics in the form of newspaper clippings.
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[AlternateCharacterInterpertation Some readers see Kimiko as this]].
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[AlternateCharacterInterpertation [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Some readers see Kimiko as this]].
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** [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/12/16/kc-guest-comic/ This guest strip]] has references to ''{{Fahrenheit 451}}'', ''BattlefieldEarth'', ''BattlestarGalactica'', and ''{{Snowcrash}}''. Wait... [[SweetBroAndHellaJeff what did that first one say about stairs?]]
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** [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/12/16/kc-guest-comic/ com/2010/05/07/kc-guest-comic/ This guest strip]] has references to ''{{Fahrenheit 451}}'', ''BattlefieldEarth'', ''BattlestarGalactica'', and ''{{Snowcrash}}''. Wait... [[SweetBroAndHellaJeff what did that first one say about stairs?]]
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Dresden Codak is a sometimes [[DadaComics Dada]], sometimes MindScrew comic focusing on the (mis)adventures of several often unrelated characters:
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Dresden Codak is a sometimes [[DadaComics Dada]], sometimes MindScrew comic focusing on the (mis)adventures of several often unrelated characters:
characters:
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* ArtificialLimbs: Kimiko, post-Hob.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Kimiko herself, if [[http://twitter.com/KimikoRoss her Twitter account]] is anything to go by.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Kimiko herself, if [[http://twitter.com/KimikoRoss her Twitter account]] is anything to go by.
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** Considering that Diaz is an avowed transhumanist, it's pretty clear that the comic is a complete aversion.
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** Considering that Diaz is an avowed transhumanist, it's pretty clear that the comic is a complete aversion.
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* FunWithAcronyms: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/03/11/mademoiselle/ M.A.D.E.M.O.I.S.E.L.L.E.]]
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* FunWithAcronyms: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/03/11/mademoiselle/ M.A.D.E.M.O.I.S.E.L.L.E.]] ]]
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* MadScientist: Kimi.
** Her estranged father seems to be a bit out of touch with reality as well.
** Her estranged father seems to be a bit out of touch with reality as well.
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* MadScientist: Kimi.
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** Her estranged father seems to be a bit out of touch with reality as well.
** Her estranged father seems to be a bit out of touch with reality as well.
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* {{Ms Fanservice}}: Yvonne frequently sports an [[MostCommonSuperpower impressive]] CleavageWindow.
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* {{Ms Fanservice}}: MsFanservice: Yvonne frequently sports an [[MostCommonSuperpower impressive]] CleavageWindow.
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** Diaz has installed a "Next Comic On [date]" feature and claims to have personal deadlines. Time will tell how well he sticks to them.
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** Diaz has installed a "Next Comic On [date]" feature and claims to have personal deadlines. Time will tell how well he sticks to them.
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** [[http://dresdencodak.com/2012/03/09/dark-science-17/ Caspar]] is clearly a stand-in for [[Main/AynRand Ayn Rand]], considering her books titled [[Main/TheFountainhead "Wellspring"]] and [[Literature/AtlasShrugged "Nimrod Faltered"]]
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** [[http://dresdencodak.com/2012/03/09/dark-science-17/ Caspar]] is clearly a stand-in for [[Main/AynRand Ayn Rand]], Creator/AynRand, considering her books titled [[Main/TheFountainhead "Wellspring"]] and [[Literature/AtlasShrugged "Nimrod Faltered"]]
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* TabletopGames: The philosophy-based role-playing game "Dungeons & Discourse".
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* TabletopGames: The philosophy-based role-playing game "Dungeons & Discourse".
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[AlternateCharacterInterpertation Some readers see Kimiko as this]]. [[YourMileageMayVary Whether they're right is up to some interpretation]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Surprisingly gratuitous amounts are present. Special mention goes to Kimiko [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ naked]] (Only mildly {{NSFW}} due to BarbieDollAnatomy, but YourMileageMayVary), and Kimiko in a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/01/25/future-memories/ loose dressing gown]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Surprisingly gratuitous amounts are present. Special mention goes to Kimiko [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ naked]] (Only mildly {{NSFW}} due to BarbieDollAnatomy, but YourMileageMayVary), and Kimiko in a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/01/25/future-memories/ loose dressing gown]].
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[AlternateCharacterInterpertation Some readers see Kimiko as this]]. [[YourMileageMayVary Whether they're right is up to some interpretation]].
this]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Surprisingly gratuitous amounts are present. Special mention goes to Kimiko [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ naked]] (Only mildly {{NSFW}} due toBarbieDollAnatomy, but YourMileageMayVary), BarbieDollAnatomy), and Kimiko in a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/01/25/future-memories/ loose dressing gown]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Surprisingly gratuitous amounts are present. Special mention goes to Kimiko [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ naked]] (Only mildly {{NSFW}} due to
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[AlternateCharacterInterperetation Some readers see Kimiko as this]]. [[YourMileageMayVary Whether they're right is up to some interpretation]].
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: Some readers see Kimiko as this. Whether they're right is up to some interpretation.
* {{Fanservice}}: Surprisingly gratuitous amounts are present. Special mention goes to Kimiko [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ naked]] and Kimiko in a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/01/25/future-memories/ loose dressing gown]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Surprisingly gratuitous amounts are present. Special mention goes to Kimiko [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ naked]] and Kimiko in a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/01/25/future-memories/ loose dressing gown]].
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[AlternateCharacterInterperetation Some readers see Kimiko as this. this]]. [[YourMileageMayVary Whether they're right is up to some interpretation.
interpretation]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Surprisingly gratuitous amounts are present. Special mention goes to Kimiko [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ naked]] (Only mildly {{NSFW}} due to BarbieDollAnatomy, but YourMileageMayVary), and Kimiko in a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/01/25/future-memories/ loose dressing gown]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Surprisingly gratuitous amounts are present. Special mention goes to Kimiko [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ naked]] (Only mildly {{NSFW}} due to BarbieDollAnatomy, but YourMileageMayVary), and Kimiko in a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/01/25/future-memories/ loose dressing gown]].
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** am I the only one who noticed the reference to PrincessMononoke on [[http://dresdencodak.com/2007/12/01/live-forever-or-die-trying/ this page]]
** did anyone else notice that the time colonists were a parody of the primary crew of StarTrekTheNextGeneration?
* SpaceAmish: The time travelers in the Hob arc [[spoiler: destroyed earth because they believed post-singularity technology had taken all meaning from their lives, and they planned to colonize the past earth and live like us "noble savages"]]
** did anyone else notice that the time colonists were a parody of the primary crew of StarTrekTheNextGeneration?
* SpaceAmish: The time travelers in the Hob arc [[spoiler: destroyed earth because they believed post-singularity technology had taken all meaning from their lives, and they planned to colonize the past earth and live like us "noble savages"]]
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** am I the only one who noticed the reference to PrincessMononoke on [[http://dresdencodak.com/2007/12/01/live-forever-or-die-trying/ this page]]
This page]] references PrincessMononoke.
**did anyone else notice that the The time colonists were a parody of the primary crew of StarTrekTheNextGeneration?
StarTrekTheNextGeneration. Their leader, in particular, is a dead ringer for PatrickStewart.
* SpaceAmish: The time travelers in the Hob arc [[spoiler: destroyedearth future Earth because they believed post-singularity technology had taken all meaning from their lives, and they planned to colonize the past earth Earth and live like us "noble savages"]]
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* SpaceAmish: The time travelers in the Hob arc [[spoiler: destroyed
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* KickTheDog: Dark Science has Mathias Melchior, Director of the Department of Opposition, who in his first appearance trips a scientist/bureaucrat carrying a huge stack of paper and tosses a old lady with a walking frame off the side of a building. But then again that's his job.
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* KickTheDog: Dark Science has Mathias Melchior, Director of the Department of Opposition, who in his first appearance trips a scientist/bureaucrat carrying a huge stack of paper and tosses a old lady with a walking frame off the side of a building. But then again again, [[PunchClockVillain that's his job.job]].
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* FunwithAcronyms: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/03/11/mademoiselle/ M.A.D.E.M.O.I.S.E.L.L.E.]]
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* FunwithAcronyms: FunWithAcronyms: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/03/11/mademoiselle/ M.A.D.E.M.O.I.S.E.L.L.E.]]
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Fine, that\'s a wholly fair criticism, but the one about \"sleepwalkers\" has to stay since it\'s the most obvious example (he even originally posted it with kimiko topless but later changed it) . The point is that the author manages to put the main character, an attractive well endowed woman, in a lot of different comics without clothes, which is clear fanservice.
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Removed the \"fanservice\" references to showing her naked back because it\'s a scene specifically showing her cybernetic attachments for the first time, which is extremely plot-relevant. \"Fanservice,\" by definition, is unnecessary to the story. Similarly, a character being naked in one or multiple scenes isn\'t fanservice unless it\'s nonsensical (ex: the webcomic The Meek).
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* {{Fanservice}}: Surprisingly gratuitous amounts are present. Special mention goes to Kimiko [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ naked]], Kimiko in a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/01/25/future-memories/ loose dressing gown]], and a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2011/02/23/dark-science-08 mix of]] SexyBacklessOutfit and PantyShot.gown]]
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* {{Fanservice}}: Surprisingly gratuitous amounts are present. Special mention goes to Kimiko [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ naked]], Kimiko in a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/01/25/future-memories/ loose dressing gown]], and a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2011/02/23/dark-science-08 mix of]] SexyBack SexyBacklessOutfit and PantyShot.
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Right, but a character being naked or topless (albeit sans nipples) once ever three comic is definitely fanservice. I trimmed out the bit about Diaz since that\'s more YMMV, but this is definitely applicable.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Surprisingly gratuitous amounts are present considering that Diaz has been outspoken about his dislike of {{Fanservice}} in mainstream comics. Special mention goes to Kimiko [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ naked]], Kimiko in a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/01/25/future-memories/ loose dressing gown]], and a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2011/02/23/dark-science-08 mix of]] SexyBack and PantyShot.
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** And [[http://vimeo.com/39131013 the sequel]] from AprilFoolsDay 2012. ''And'' the [[ShowWithinAShown Film Within This Film]]!
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* GratuitousFrench and GratuitousGerman: The AprilFoolsDay movies ''[[http://vimeo.com/10593465 En Deuil]]'' and ''[[http://vimeo.com/39131013 A Work in Progress]]'' respectively.
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* AnachronismStew: Kimiko knew that a group of people were time travelers because they were dressed in a mismash of styles from all eras and segments of the 20th century, in a similar fashion to how other centuries are portrayed in modern media.
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[[caption-width-right:166:Kimiko.]]
->'''Sokar''': ''I have issues with the Schrödinger's cat experiment. [...] In the period before observing the outcome, [the cat] is said to be in "superposition," a state of both decay and not decay, meaning [it] is both dead and not dead. Observer-dependent physics undermines the gods' decision three thousand years ago to ban cats from straddling the borders of the Netherworld. We won't have it!'' \\
'''Kimiko''': ''I have reservations about reconciling a quantum mechanics thought experiment with Egyptian mythology. More importantly, what possible threat could superpositioned cats pose?'' \\
'''Sokar''': ''Somewhere, Niels Bohr walks among us, unobserved and '''immortal'''''.
''[[http://dresdencodak.com/ Dresden Codak]]'' is a webcomic by Aaron Diaz that has been running at an irregular (and very slow) pace since 2005. It offers whimsical humor focused on physics, philosophy, and transhumanism -- except for the Hob storyline, which, while having the same focus, was much more serious. The current story, [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/dark-science-01/ Dark Science,]] starts out humorous, but [[CerebusSyndrome this doesn't last long.]]
Dresden Codak is a sometimes [[DadaComics Dada]], sometimes MindScrew comic focusing on the (mis)adventures of several often unrelated characters:
* Kimiko "Thunderbolt" Ross: A misanthropic, cybernetically-enhanced MadScientist.
* Tiny Carl Jung: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Self-explanatory]].
* Dmitri and Alina Tokamak: A parody of the Wonder Twins and Marvel Family. They also have [[WonderTwinPowers similar powers]], except rather than using transformation and...water... they use physics.
* "D.H." Ron Awning: A caricature of the literary-minded artsy intellectual.
* Yvonne "Vonnie" Awning: Ron's sister and a fashionable, trend-focused bureaucrat, fitting, considering she works for the Department of Taste.
* Rupert and Hubert: Two elderly Victorian scientists who live in a castle they built on the moon.
Not to be confused with TheDresdenFiles or the city of Dresden, though its name is a reference to the [[{{Mayincatec}} Dresden Codex]].
The comic also has a number of similarly surreal one-shots, including the page that we adapted into the EssentialThirdActTwists.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AllOfThem: As seen at the end of [[http://dresdencodak.com/2012/02/15/dark-science-16/ this strip]]
* AlliterativeName: Kim's dad (Kaito Kusanagi) and Kim herself as a child, before she had her surname changed.
* ArcSymbol: the "rising sun" half-circle.
* ArtEvolution: The art quality increases immensely as the comic progressed. For full effect, compare [[http://dresdencodak.com/2005/06/08/the-tomorrow-man/ this first strip]] to [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ this more recent strip]] and [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/07/10/dark-science-03/ this even more recent strip]]. The art is actually starting to get kind of ridiculously detailed. Perhaps not coincidentally, author Aaron Diaz considers {{Moebius}} to be his most important artistic influence.
* ArtificialLimbs: Kimiko, post-Hob.
* AuthorAppeal: Among Diaz's four majors was Anthropology. It shows.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Be warned. The author doesn't like religious types, especially [[http://dresdencodak.com/2006/12/03/dungeons-and-discourse/ Evangelical,]] [[http://dresdencodak.com/2005/11/29/secular-heaven/ fundamentalist]] [[http://dresdencodak.com/2005/12/07/oldman-man-returns/ Christians.]]
* BigEater: Kimiko's prostheses run on [[http://dresdencodak.com/2012/02/15/dark-science-16/ glucose]] , which requires her to eat huge amounts of sweet stuff.
* BookDumb: Kimiko got very poor grades in school. According to WordOfGod, this is because she generally [[BrilliantButLazy didn't bother]] to do her schoolwork in the first place.
* CerebusSyndrome: The comic started out as lighthearted and whimsical. Characters talked to Egyptian gods, Niels Bohr is apparently a cat, and everybody was all happy-happy-joy-joy-let's-go-to-the-moon-and/or-play-tabletop-[=RPGs=]. Then [[http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_045.html this]] came along. And then [[http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_059.html this]], which seems to swing right back to comedy again.
* ChangedMyJumper: The time travelers in the Hob storyline who look like mashups of several pop culture characters.
* CharacterBlog: Kimiko, D.H. Ron, and Tiny Carl Jung have their own Twitter accounts.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:tiny Hob]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Kimiko herself, if [[http://twitter.com/KimikoRoss her Twitter account]] is anything to go by.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Possibly averted in that [[spoiler: Kimiko seems no more or less human after losing her arm and legs in the Hob storyline]].
** Considering that Diaz is an avowed transhumanist, it's pretty clear that the comic is a complete aversion.
*** If anything she's ''more'' human now.
* DeepImmersionGaming: Whenever the characters engage in a tabletop roleplaying session.
* DisappearedDad: Kimiko's father who was always away doing his job.
* ElectronicEyes: Kim has one.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Some readers see Kimiko as this. Whether they're right is up to some interpretation.
* FloatingContinent: Nephilopolis
* ForScience: Kimiko's entire purpose in life.
* FunwithAcronyms: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/03/11/mademoiselle/ M.A.D.E.M.O.I.S.E.L.L.E.]]
* FutureImperfect: See the ChangedMyJumper point above.
* GadgeteerGenius: Kimiko.
* HerCodenameWasMarySue: Kimiko's attempts at writing fan fiction.
** [[ViewersAreGeniuses Alternate]] [[ShownTheirWork prehistory]] [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ fan fiction]] involving her [[WishFulfillment making out with the T.A. from her physics class]].
* HotBloodedSideburns: Kaito Kusanagi
* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: In the first strip.
* InfiniteCanvas
* InNameOnly: Ronnie's "adaptations." Kimiko sponsors them in order to harvest the energy of their original creators spinning in their graves.
* IronicHell: Hell is apparently reserved strictly for [[ChurchMilitant religious]] types. This comic also has an ironic heaven, namely, Secular Heaven, a parody of FluffyCloudHeaven
* LeFilmArtistique: [[http://www.vimeo.com/10593465 This video]], which took over the ''DresdenCodak'' website on AprilFoolsDay 2010.
* KickTheDog: Dark Science has Mathias Melchior, Director of the Department of Opposition, who in his first appearance trips a scientist/bureaucrat carrying a huge stack of paper and tosses a old lady with a walking frame off the side of a building. But then again that's his job.
* MadScientist: Kimi.
** Her estranged father seems to be a bit out of touch with reality as well.
* MindScrew: NeonGenesisEvangelion makes more sense.
* MismatchedEyes: As of the Dark Science storyline, Kimiko has one brown and one (artificial) blue eye.
* NerdsAreSexy
* NetworkDecay: Highlighted in-universe in [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/12/15/spike-guest-comic/ "Spike's Guest Comic"]]
* NewFirstComics
* NoodleIncident: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/10/02/epilogue-2/ "Remember when Reverse Moses parted the city to escape Aqua-Pharaoh?"]]
* OddShapedPanel: Panels are often warped and/or arranged in unusual ways.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative
* ParentalAbandonment: Kimiko's mom is dead, and her dad had apparently long since [[DisappearedDad buggered off to parts unknown]]. Then HE died.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman (or gentlemen, rather): Rupert and Hubert.
* LaResistance: The Department of Opposition.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Kim [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/03/11/mademoiselle/ concentrated on science]] and [[http://dresdencodak.com/2011/02/23/dark-science-08/ let her social skills languish]] all her life. This is especially apparent on her Twitter account.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Kaito Kusanagi.
* ScheduleSlip: It has a schedule? (New comics show up basically at random, with time gaps varying from a week to two or three ''months''.)
** Diaz has installed a "Next Comic On [date]" feature and claims to have personal deadlines. Time will tell how well he sticks to them.
* ScienceIsBad: Parodied and taken to extremes in [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/ "Caveman Science Fiction".]]
** A similar parody of this trope appears in the lengthy comment under [[http://dresdencodak.com/2007/09/04/an-exotic-matter/ this comic.]]
* SeriesHiatus: See ScheduleSlip.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/12/16/lantern-season/ Lantern Season]]
* ShoutOut: Kimiko "[[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Thunderbolt]]" Ross (née Kimiko Sarai '''Kusanagi''') dresses (and at times acts) a lot like her [[GhostInTheShell namesake]].
** [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/12/16/kc-guest-comic/ This guest strip]] has references to ''{{Fahrenheit 451}}'', ''BattlefieldEarth'', ''BattlestarGalactica'', and ''{{Snowcrash}}''. Wait... [[SweetBroAndHellaJeff what did that first one say about stairs?]]
** The stuffed animals near the beginning of [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/12/16/lantern-season/ this]] comic include Beartato and Reginald from {{Nedroid}}.
** [[http://dresdencodak.com/2012/03/09/dark-science-17/ Caspar]] is clearly a stand-in for [[Main/AynRand Ayn Rand]], considering her books titled [[Main/TheFountainhead "Wellspring"]] and [[Literature/AtlasShrugged "Nimrod Faltered"]]
* TheSingularity: Kimiko mentions it a few times in the comic. She (and the author) ''are'' futurists, after all.
** [[spoiler: In addition, the time travelers are refugees from an alternate timeline where this almost happened, but they rebelled and killed off anyone beyond baseline human intelligence,]] and [[spoiler: the series climax involves a second, small scale one causing a DeusExitMachina.]]
* SpaceAmish: The time travelers in the Hob arc [[spoiler: destroyed earth because they believed post-singularity technology had taken all meaning from their lives, and they planned to colonize the past earth and live like us "noble savages"]]
* StuffBlowingUp: [[LampshadeHanging "This seems excessive on the bank's part."]] With a PlungerDetonator, too.
* SuperSenses: According to the author, Kimiko's robotic eye shifts, the iris becoming more square, to give her better vision in low light.
* SwissArmyAppendage: Kim's artificial arm. It's apparently weaker than her real one, though.
* TabletopGames: The philosophy-based role-playing game "Dungeons & Discourse".
** [[DeFictionalization Now in playable form]], thanks to the fans.
** Particularly notable for Dmitri's "Dark Kantian": "[[StupidEvil I am compelled to do evil, regardless of its utility]]."
* TeenGenius: Kimiko. Who has entered her early twenties (it says so on the cast page!), but continues to fit in the looser sense of being young, brilliant, and angsty.
* TerminallyDependentSociety
* TokenEvilTeammate: the Dark Kantian in [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/01/27/advanced-dungeons-and-discourse/ this one]]. He is compelled to do evil, regardless of its utility.
* {{Transhuman}}: See TheSingularity above.
* TruthInTelevision: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2006/10/22/phantoms-of-a-lost-muse/ Phantoms of a Lost Muse]] is based on the premise that people contribute small parts towards a greater work. Similarly, [[http://www.westendshowslondon.com/news/91129royal-opera-house-is-all-of-a-twitter/ the Royal Opera house is planning to show an opera written by Twitter contributors]].
* UnusualUserInterface: Kimiko has a interface jack in her upper back post-Hob.
* ViewersAreGeniuses:
** It does tend to refer to all sorts of weird and obscure topics; but the author, [[TheSingularity unsurprisingly]], expects readers to augment their own intelligences with the Internet while reading, as mentioned in the comic comment [[http://dresdencodak.com/2007/05/06/after-many-a-summer-dies-the-swan/ here]].
* WordOfGod: The author has stated that Kimiko, the protagonist, is meant to come off as more than a bit misanthropic, describing her version of transhumanism as how he felt when he was a teenager.
* WhatYearIsThis: The time travelers in the Hob storyline, when they realize [[spoiler:Kimiko is their BigBad]].
* WordSaladTitle: The title is a reference to the Dresden Codex, a Maya book considered to be the oldest written document in the New World.
* WrenchWench: Kimiko, especially in the Hob storyline.
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[[caption-width-right:166:Kimiko.]]
->'''Sokar''': ''I have issues with the Schrödinger's cat experiment. [...] In the period before observing the outcome, [the cat] is said to be in "superposition," a state of both decay and not decay, meaning [it] is both dead and not dead. Observer-dependent physics undermines the gods' decision three thousand years ago to ban cats from straddling the borders of the Netherworld. We won't have it!'' \\
'''Kimiko''': ''I have reservations about reconciling a quantum mechanics thought experiment with Egyptian mythology. More importantly, what possible threat could superpositioned cats pose?'' \\
'''Sokar''': ''Somewhere, Niels Bohr walks among us, unobserved and '''immortal'''''.
''[[http://dresdencodak.com/ Dresden Codak]]'' is a webcomic by Aaron Diaz that has been running at an irregular (and very slow) pace since 2005. It offers whimsical humor focused on physics, philosophy, and transhumanism -- except for the Hob storyline, which, while having the same focus, was much more serious. The current story, [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/dark-science-01/ Dark Science,]] starts out humorous, but [[CerebusSyndrome this doesn't last long.]]
Dresden Codak is a sometimes [[DadaComics Dada]], sometimes MindScrew comic focusing on the (mis)adventures of several often unrelated characters:
* Kimiko "Thunderbolt" Ross: A misanthropic, cybernetically-enhanced MadScientist.
* Tiny Carl Jung: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Self-explanatory]].
* Dmitri and Alina Tokamak: A parody of the Wonder Twins and Marvel Family. They also have [[WonderTwinPowers similar powers]], except rather than using transformation and...water... they use physics.
* "D.H." Ron Awning: A caricature of the literary-minded artsy intellectual.
* Yvonne "Vonnie" Awning: Ron's sister and a fashionable, trend-focused bureaucrat, fitting, considering she works for the Department of Taste.
* Rupert and Hubert: Two elderly Victorian scientists who live in a castle they built on the moon.
Not to be confused with TheDresdenFiles or the city of Dresden, though its name is a reference to the [[{{Mayincatec}} Dresden Codex]].
The comic also has a number of similarly surreal one-shots, including the page that we adapted into the EssentialThirdActTwists.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AllOfThem: As seen at the end of [[http://dresdencodak.com/2012/02/15/dark-science-16/ this strip]]
* AlliterativeName: Kim's dad (Kaito Kusanagi) and Kim herself as a child, before she had her surname changed.
* ArcSymbol: the "rising sun" half-circle.
* ArtEvolution: The art quality increases immensely as the comic progressed. For full effect, compare [[http://dresdencodak.com/2005/06/08/the-tomorrow-man/ this first strip]] to [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ this more recent strip]] and [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/07/10/dark-science-03/ this even more recent strip]]. The art is actually starting to get kind of ridiculously detailed. Perhaps not coincidentally, author Aaron Diaz considers {{Moebius}} to be his most important artistic influence.
* ArtificialLimbs: Kimiko, post-Hob.
* AuthorAppeal: Among Diaz's four majors was Anthropology. It shows.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Be warned. The author doesn't like religious types, especially [[http://dresdencodak.com/2006/12/03/dungeons-and-discourse/ Evangelical,]] [[http://dresdencodak.com/2005/11/29/secular-heaven/ fundamentalist]] [[http://dresdencodak.com/2005/12/07/oldman-man-returns/ Christians.]]
* BigEater: Kimiko's prostheses run on [[http://dresdencodak.com/2012/02/15/dark-science-16/ glucose]] , which requires her to eat huge amounts of sweet stuff.
* BookDumb: Kimiko got very poor grades in school. According to WordOfGod, this is because she generally [[BrilliantButLazy didn't bother]] to do her schoolwork in the first place.
* CerebusSyndrome: The comic started out as lighthearted and whimsical. Characters talked to Egyptian gods, Niels Bohr is apparently a cat, and everybody was all happy-happy-joy-joy-let's-go-to-the-moon-and/or-play-tabletop-[=RPGs=]. Then [[http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_045.html this]] came along. And then [[http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_059.html this]], which seems to swing right back to comedy again.
* ChangedMyJumper: The time travelers in the Hob storyline who look like mashups of several pop culture characters.
* CharacterBlog: Kimiko, D.H. Ron, and Tiny Carl Jung have their own Twitter accounts.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:tiny Hob]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Kimiko herself, if [[http://twitter.com/KimikoRoss her Twitter account]] is anything to go by.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Possibly averted in that [[spoiler: Kimiko seems no more or less human after losing her arm and legs in the Hob storyline]].
** Considering that Diaz is an avowed transhumanist, it's pretty clear that the comic is a complete aversion.
*** If anything she's ''more'' human now.
* DeepImmersionGaming: Whenever the characters engage in a tabletop roleplaying session.
* DisappearedDad: Kimiko's father who was always away doing his job.
* ElectronicEyes: Kim has one.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Some readers see Kimiko as this. Whether they're right is up to some interpretation.
* FloatingContinent: Nephilopolis
* ForScience: Kimiko's entire purpose in life.
* FunwithAcronyms: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/03/11/mademoiselle/ M.A.D.E.M.O.I.S.E.L.L.E.]]
* FutureImperfect: See the ChangedMyJumper point above.
* GadgeteerGenius: Kimiko.
* HerCodenameWasMarySue: Kimiko's attempts at writing fan fiction.
** [[ViewersAreGeniuses Alternate]] [[ShownTheirWork prehistory]] [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ fan fiction]] involving her [[WishFulfillment making out with the T.A. from her physics class]].
* HotBloodedSideburns: Kaito Kusanagi
* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: In the first strip.
* InfiniteCanvas
* InNameOnly: Ronnie's "adaptations." Kimiko sponsors them in order to harvest the energy of their original creators spinning in their graves.
* IronicHell: Hell is apparently reserved strictly for [[ChurchMilitant religious]] types. This comic also has an ironic heaven, namely, Secular Heaven, a parody of FluffyCloudHeaven
* LeFilmArtistique: [[http://www.vimeo.com/10593465 This video]], which took over the ''DresdenCodak'' website on AprilFoolsDay 2010.
* KickTheDog: Dark Science has Mathias Melchior, Director of the Department of Opposition, who in his first appearance trips a scientist/bureaucrat carrying a huge stack of paper and tosses a old lady with a walking frame off the side of a building. But then again that's his job.
* MadScientist: Kimi.
** Her estranged father seems to be a bit out of touch with reality as well.
* MindScrew: NeonGenesisEvangelion makes more sense.
* MismatchedEyes: As of the Dark Science storyline, Kimiko has one brown and one (artificial) blue eye.
* NerdsAreSexy
* NetworkDecay: Highlighted in-universe in [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/12/15/spike-guest-comic/ "Spike's Guest Comic"]]
* NewFirstComics
* NoodleIncident: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/10/02/epilogue-2/ "Remember when Reverse Moses parted the city to escape Aqua-Pharaoh?"]]
* OddShapedPanel: Panels are often warped and/or arranged in unusual ways.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative
* ParentalAbandonment: Kimiko's mom is dead, and her dad had apparently long since [[DisappearedDad buggered off to parts unknown]]. Then HE died.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman (or gentlemen, rather): Rupert and Hubert.
* LaResistance: The Department of Opposition.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Kim [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/03/11/mademoiselle/ concentrated on science]] and [[http://dresdencodak.com/2011/02/23/dark-science-08/ let her social skills languish]] all her life. This is especially apparent on her Twitter account.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Kaito Kusanagi.
* ScheduleSlip: It has a schedule? (New comics show up basically at random, with time gaps varying from a week to two or three ''months''.)
** Diaz has installed a "Next Comic On [date]" feature and claims to have personal deadlines. Time will tell how well he sticks to them.
* ScienceIsBad: Parodied and taken to extremes in [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/ "Caveman Science Fiction".]]
** A similar parody of this trope appears in the lengthy comment under [[http://dresdencodak.com/2007/09/04/an-exotic-matter/ this comic.]]
* SeriesHiatus: See ScheduleSlip.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/12/16/lantern-season/ Lantern Season]]
* ShoutOut: Kimiko "[[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Thunderbolt]]" Ross (née Kimiko Sarai '''Kusanagi''') dresses (and at times acts) a lot like her [[GhostInTheShell namesake]].
** [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/12/16/kc-guest-comic/ This guest strip]] has references to ''{{Fahrenheit 451}}'', ''BattlefieldEarth'', ''BattlestarGalactica'', and ''{{Snowcrash}}''. Wait... [[SweetBroAndHellaJeff what did that first one say about stairs?]]
** The stuffed animals near the beginning of [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/12/16/lantern-season/ this]] comic include Beartato and Reginald from {{Nedroid}}.
** [[http://dresdencodak.com/2012/03/09/dark-science-17/ Caspar]] is clearly a stand-in for [[Main/AynRand Ayn Rand]], considering her books titled [[Main/TheFountainhead "Wellspring"]] and [[Literature/AtlasShrugged "Nimrod Faltered"]]
* TheSingularity: Kimiko mentions it a few times in the comic. She (and the author) ''are'' futurists, after all.
** [[spoiler: In addition, the time travelers are refugees from an alternate timeline where this almost happened, but they rebelled and killed off anyone beyond baseline human intelligence,]] and [[spoiler: the series climax involves a second, small scale one causing a DeusExitMachina.]]
* SpaceAmish: The time travelers in the Hob arc [[spoiler: destroyed earth because they believed post-singularity technology had taken all meaning from their lives, and they planned to colonize the past earth and live like us "noble savages"]]
* StuffBlowingUp: [[LampshadeHanging "This seems excessive on the bank's part."]] With a PlungerDetonator, too.
* SuperSenses: According to the author, Kimiko's robotic eye shifts, the iris becoming more square, to give her better vision in low light.
* SwissArmyAppendage: Kim's artificial arm. It's apparently weaker than her real one, though.
* TabletopGames: The philosophy-based role-playing game "Dungeons & Discourse".
** [[DeFictionalization Now in playable form]], thanks to the fans.
** Particularly notable for Dmitri's "Dark Kantian": "[[StupidEvil I am compelled to do evil, regardless of its utility]]."
* TeenGenius: Kimiko. Who has entered her early twenties (it says so on the cast page!), but continues to fit in the looser sense of being young, brilliant, and angsty.
* TerminallyDependentSociety
* TokenEvilTeammate: the Dark Kantian in [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/01/27/advanced-dungeons-and-discourse/ this one]]. He is compelled to do evil, regardless of its utility.
* {{Transhuman}}: See TheSingularity above.
* TruthInTelevision: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2006/10/22/phantoms-of-a-lost-muse/ Phantoms of a Lost Muse]] is based on the premise that people contribute small parts towards a greater work. Similarly, [[http://www.westendshowslondon.com/news/91129royal-opera-house-is-all-of-a-twitter/ the Royal Opera house is planning to show an opera written by Twitter contributors]].
* UnusualUserInterface: Kimiko has a interface jack in her upper back post-Hob.
* ViewersAreGeniuses:
** It does tend to refer to all sorts of weird and obscure topics; but the author, [[TheSingularity unsurprisingly]], expects readers to augment their own intelligences with the Internet while reading, as mentioned in the comic comment [[http://dresdencodak.com/2007/05/06/after-many-a-summer-dies-the-swan/ here]].
* WordOfGod: The author has stated that Kimiko, the protagonist, is meant to come off as more than a bit misanthropic, describing her version of transhumanism as how he felt when he was a teenager.
* WhatYearIsThis: The time travelers in the Hob storyline, when they realize [[spoiler:Kimiko is their BigBad]].
* WordSaladTitle: The title is a reference to the Dresden Codex, a Maya book considered to be the oldest written document in the New World.
* WrenchWench: Kimiko, especially in the Hob storyline.
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