History Webcomic / Endtown

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Sam Sanders, Flask, Octavius Allgood, Jim.]]
** Most of the Arc villains it turns out, but not all of them.
* AlmightyJanitor: Aaron Marx. He's working towards some overall mission to protect the multiverse and beyond from an OutsideContextProblem, and as such sticks to the sidelines in Endtown despite having a post-singularity reality-warping computer in his pocket watch.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Wolf anthros are seemingly depicted as this during the Pigs Arc. While it's initially shown that they're disgruntled due to being discriminated against by other citizens of Endtown, it soon becomes clear there may have been a good reason for that; with exception of one or two individuals, wolves are constantly shown to be varying degrees of JerkAss, ranging from harassing people, instigating fights with others at the drop of a hat and eventually starting up a riot fueled by supremacist beliefs.[[spoiler: As Mavis reveals, this made them the perfect scapegoat and cover for the butcher cabal's activities.]]

* ApocalypseHow: Probably class 2, depending on where you look.
** In the Eden arc, it threatens to escalate to class X-5 if not class Z.
* ArcVillain: Sam Sanders. Due to the change in perspective after the arc was over, he has been rarely mentioned.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Gustine and Wally in the main cast.
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Jacob Jackrabbit's plan in the Milk and Eggs plot. He took Octavius Allgood, a MoralGuardian KnightTemplar with goals opposite his, an overzealous security force recently bereft of its leader, and a High Council that has (supposedly) random selection and a short window of authority in exchange for functionally limitless power, and manipulated them all, knowing it would be a recipe for disaster. And they did not disappoint; Allgood had a pair of well-liked citizens and a recent transplant arrested on a charge that is widely considered 'icky' but not actually considered a crime. The arrest was performed by a squad of security rats who went in guns blazing, ransacking the locations they went to. Allgood then went forward with a sham showtrial expecting that the cronies he had seeded on the council would find them guilty no matter what and then issue an admonishment, when the council was under no obligation to do so and had explicitly left execution on the table as a punishment from the start. Jacob's outspoken position that mutants should accept proudly and loudly their animal aspects caused people to demand that he step forward to represent for the defense, which allowed him to loudly play up the ridiculousness of the trial to a raptly listening populace. The perceived over-reaction by Allgood and the High Council led to increased tensions in the town which turned into a riot when the trigger-happy rats were cornered by protesters. By the end, Allgood's position had been so thoroughly reviled by the public that Jacob was considered a hero and in an excellent position to take more power for himself.]]
** And apparently, [[spoiler:putting the bunny on the tyrant's throne will eventually do a ''lot of good'', says Aaron Marx]].

*** Taunting [[spoiler:Holly about her baby, while throttling a child right in front of her. When a possessed Jim did so, she used her apron [[ShutUpHannibal to attempt to gag him]] and then bit off all his fingers.]]

* CarnivoreConfusion: The wolves and pigs arc.

* ContrivedCoincidence: It so happens that [[spoiler: The transporter that became known as Petey so ''happened'' to be Flask's lover.]]

* CrapsackWorld: We've yet to see any area of the surface that wasn't zero-bombed to dust or warped by even stranger effects, a probable majority of the planet's population died about a decade ago, ravening monsters roam the world, society is divided between Nazi-esque gasmasked goons and depressed bunker-dwellers, there's an eldritch abomination eyeing the souls of the remaining population, and [[{{ArsonMurderAndJaywalking}} the only thing left to eat is beans...]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Flask, even before her mutation.

* DespairEventHorizon: Flask feels she has nothing to lose once [[spoiler:everyone rejects her command]].

* DeusExMachina: , an almost literal ''deus''.

* DoAnythingRobot: The dittos seem to be heading there. Biomechanical organisms, they have so far proved to be capable of camouflage, transport, shielding, strength enhancement, memory access and power source tracing. It's anybody's guess what they'll end up doing next.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: Wally.

* DrJerk: In a place like Endtown, can you really blame Dr. Chase?

* DrowningMySorrows: A common practice. Perhaps most notable with Allie.

* EmotionEater: [[spoiler:The Dittos are revealed to be this.]]

* {{Expy}}: Aaron Marx, of [[{{Series/Doctor Who}} The Doctor]], specifically the Second.
* ExtraEyes: Mutating while conscious almost invariably results in these.

* EyesAlwaysShut: Dr. Chase.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Octavius Allgood]]

* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Holly to Wally.

* GasMaskMooks: All the Topsiders are this. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in comic with the virus.
* GeneralRipper: Flask.
* GlasgowGrin: [[spoiler:Jim]] while suffering from Schism Syndrome. Best seen in [[http://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2014/12/03 THIS strip]]

* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:Flask was stopped by Allie and Leo]].
** [[spoiler:Holly was stopped by Wally]].
** [[spoiler:Heather Hoss was stopped by Walt. Didn't work a second time.]]

* ItTastesLikeFeet: The results of Professor Mallard's Protein Recombinator, as shown [[https://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2009/03/16 here]]. Beans go in it, and come out looking like roast turkeys that taste like "creosote flavored cow flop" according to Albert.

* KangarooCourt: Set up for Al and Gustine. The trial is kept secret so as not to panic Endtown with accusations of treason.

** Another in the Unity colony to determine what to do with Wally, Holly and Jim.
** Yet another in the "Pig Arc", albeit this time [[spoiler:with the non-guilt of Heather Hoss pre-decided by the jury.]] It's beginning to look like this is a favored trope of the writer.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Part of the Topsider process for making brain-controlled machinery.

* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Flask, once she realizes [[spoiler:who Petey used to be]].

* MiseryLit: Has taken a disturbingly hard turn into this in recent arcs, by way of [[spoiler:Holly Hollister]] and [[spoiler:Heather Hoss]].
* MoodWhiplash: The entire comic is this, because it balances funny animals with how humans would actually react.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Another typical result of mutating while conscious.

* OddCouple: Even putting aside the InterspeciesRomance, [[spoiler:Aaron Marx and Flask]].
* OhCrap: Too many moments to count.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Doctor Mallard.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Eye (or I. Or sometimes Jim. Calls itself "God".).
* PastExperienceNightmare: Wally is shown to regularly have them. Usually related to [[spoiler:his past as an engineer for a militarized equivalent of the CDC that started killing anyone suspected of being a mutant before World War 3 happened.]]

* PerpetualFrowner: Dr. Chase.

* PuppyDogEyes: Care of Holly, a mouse.

* RuleOfScary: Why else would those monsters -- and the Dittos -- look like they do?

* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: [[http://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2012/07/02 Flask is.]]

* SpeciesSurname: Adopted by some of the residents of Endtown after their mutation.
* TakeThatAudience: [[http://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2016/12/12 In an apparent reference to some of the complaints from his large 4chan fanbase]], with a heavy dose of StrawFan and overtones of ArtistDisillusionment.

* UndergroundCity: The titular Endtown.

* WhamLine: September 19th's comic, in the midst of an InfoDump, gives this:
--> [[spoiler: "What, really? You mean you guys STILL haven't realized? There ''is'' no mutagenic virus"]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Flask]].
* XanatosGambit: Jackrabbit and the Milk Trials. ItMakesSenseInContext.

* YourSizeMayVary: Holly Hollister goes from being small enough to fit in her boyfriend's backpack to being nearly as tall as he is. This was done, according to the author, because he was finding it hard to fit them both in frame when talking to each other.
** To a smaller degree, and combined with OffModel, Holly's buckteeth. They've steadily been getting larger over the course of her story, possibly in a case of art drift or perhaps as part of a deliberate attempt to make her less cute.