History Webcomic / LeftoverSoup

* [[Spolier: If you [[http://www.leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=811 read]] [[http://www.leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=727]] closely, Nicole helped John recover from a drug addiction.]]

*** Jamie counters this by calling Cheryl "Cheryla" until she stops calling him "Halliganiv". (She never did.)

* {{Twincest}}: [[http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=637 Defied]] by Carol; she may be in a {{Polyamory}} relationship, but incest is still too much.

* ThemeNaming: When Jamie makes up pseudonyms for his [[spoiler:investigation of Richard Knight's death]], all of the names he chooses are Richard plus a chess piece: Rick Bishop, Dick [=McQueen=], Richie Pawn.

* AcceptableTargets: [[http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=223 Discussed]] in TheRant, as Tailsteak feigning outrage at complaints that the character of [[ScaryBlackMan Richard]] was racist. [[invoked]]
-->'''Tailsteak:''' Richard was a one-dimensional brute, not because of his race, but because he was male, seventeen, poor, stupid, and had a habit of abusing recreational narcotics. I'm not a racist - I'm a sexist, an ageist, a classist, an intellectualist, and a narcoticist! Those are all socially acceptable prejudices.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: In the backstory, when Ellen was "up at an inadvisable hour, under the influence of inadvisable substances" after a bad breakup, she "made an inadvisable phone call", which got uploaded to an internet sound board and (presumably) got made into several of these, though the only one actually [[http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=209 appearing in-comic]] is a mashup with Music/SnoopDogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot". Which Max uses as her ringtone.
--> When the pimp's in the crib, ma, '''cram a scorpion up your urethra!'''

* RealityEnsues:
** Max is a vegan for entirely ethical reasons, but she has no illusions about it being sustainable without a lot of supplements and workarounds.
** Max's quirky ManicPixieDreamGirl personality is to a considerable degree the result of multiple psychological issues, and she relies on a very exacting medication routine to keep herself from going off completely. [[spoiler:When she's trapped in an elevator with Jamie before being able to take her scheduled dose, her first act is to give him anything she has that can be used to harm, and inform him of the situation.]]

* EatsBabies: Maxine's ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' character:
-->Best roleplaying moment: Ate a baby, managed to convince GM she was still neutral good.
** We get some further context for this later on. Max's character was a member of an insect-like people who considered "reclaiming protein from a malfunctioning spawnling for the benefit of the hive" to be a moral and reasonable act.

* {{Robosexual}}: Lily is apparently not attracted to either men or women, only [[CargoShip to inanimate objects.]] Presumably for this reason, everyone in the {{Utopia}} she has invented are likewise uninterested in sex with other human beings but make liberal use of [[{{Sexbot}} Sexbots]].

* {{Robosexual}}: Lily is apparently not attracted to either men or women, only [[CargoShip to inanimate objects.]] Presumably for this reason, everyone in the MarySueTopia she has invented are likewise uninterested in sex with other human beings but make liberal use of [[{{Sexbot}} Sexbots]].

* TheAllegedComputer: Jamie has a "Linux clusterfuck" of three laptops that were supposed to act as one machine but in practice didn't work without all three active at once and was much less powerful than even one of them by itself. He apparently bought the mess for $50 and the original creator had died without leaving any documentation. Professional computer geek Ellen tries for a full day and night to make one of them work on its own, [[spoiler: but eventually just wipes them and buys him a new laptop]].

* GameBreaker: InUniverse, Max's amateur tabletop game system is easily broken by the fact that Mayhem Points can be used to double the outcome of a roll, and deal double damage for each 10 points they beat the target's defense -- with ''no {{cap}} on either of these''. Ellen hoards her Mayhem Points throughout the entire game, only using them when they meet the adventure's FinalBoss to {{retcon}} a "test shot" she took several scenes ago into {{One Hit Kill}}ing him with a modified attack roll of 256 dealing damage in the millions.

*** Jamie counters this by referring to Cheryl as "Cheryla" until she stops referring to him as "Halliganiv". So far, this hasn't happened yet.

** Max's Crazy-Awesome RPG storyline (Which starts with a bear driving a bulldozer through a wall and ends with Ellen {{One Hit Kill}}ing a zombie foetus on a giant robot body), seagues into a heavy discussion about who gets into heaven and hell and why. This is interrupted in the middle by a "suprise orgy" for Max.

** Jamie gets [[http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=55 one]] then [[http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=56 another]].
** [[http://www.leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=23 It's not his first, though.]]
** [[http://www.leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=885 He gets another]] near the end of the comic.