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** [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus91.html This comic]] demonstrates another rule: [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Make it short and easy to pay attention to.]]


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* WrongGenreSavvy: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus91.html This couple]] appears to believe that minus is a [[RulesLawyer rules lawyering]] LiteralGenie, quite forgetting that she's really just a naive little girl with a rather short attention span.
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Planet Eris is being renamed to World Of Weirdness. Misuse and Zero Context Examples are being removed.


* PlanetEris: Whatever minus can think up, there it appears.

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* AmbiguousInnocence
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* AncientAstronauts

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* AmoralHero



* TookALevelInBadass: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus75.html The ponytail girl.]]
* SpiritWorld


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* SociopathicHero: minus, in as much as ''all children'' are kind of sociopathic. The strips are full of people whose lives she has ruined or casually tormented over a [[DisproportionateRetribution minor slight]] or just because she was playing around.
* SpiritWorld


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* TookALevelInBadass: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus75.html The ponytail girl.]]
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** [[spoiler:It's implied that these are future generations of dead people (so I guess ghosts can have kids and grow up). They never had legs.]]

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A webcomic by Ryan Armand that ran for 130 episodes from February 2006 to July 2008. It is archived [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus.html here]], with extra strips for afterward [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minuse1.html here]], and [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/mnus1.html here]]. There is also [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/store.html#minus a print version]] with some extra strips.

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A webcomic by Ryan Armand that ran for 130 episodes from February 2006 to July 2008. It is archived [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus.html here]], with extra strips for afterward [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minuse1.html here]], and [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/mnus1.html here]]. There is also [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/store.html#minus a print version]] with some extra strips. \n A larger version of the comic is [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minusb1.html here]].
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** The then apparently retroactively sends her sister back in time with her, so they could live life together.
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* FieryRedHead: [[JerkAss The red-haired ghost.]]


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** When minus brings the red-haired ghost back to life, her hair inexplicably changes from red to [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green]], presumably to distinguish her from her (living) identical twin who was just introduced.


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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If the red-haired ghost hadn't demanded that minus bring her back to life, [[spoiler:the end of the world]] might not have happened.
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* ChekhovsGunman: The aliens. They first appear as the inhabitants of a random planet that minus visits on a lark. At the very end of the comic, it turns out that [[spoiler:those same aliens were responsible for the evolution of humans]].
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* KaleidoscopeHair: minus's hair changes from strip to strip. {{Justified}}, since she ''is'' omnipotent.

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* KaleidoscopeHair: minus's hair changes from strip to strip. {{Justified}}, {{Justified|Trope}}, since she ''is'' omnipotent.
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* ShockingSwerve: The climax and ending do come right the hell out of nowhere.
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...And then it turns out both of those are YMMV tropes.


* OneSceneWonder: Larry. Well, technically a two-scene wonder, but his second appearance is in the very last strip.

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Misused trope


* GainaxEnding: The climax and ending do come right the hell out of nowhere.


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* OneSceneWonder: Larry. Well, technically a two-scene wonder, but his second appearance is in the very last strip.


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* ShockingSwerve: The climax and ending do come right the hell out of nowhere.
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** The dishman who was out dojo-hunting obviously battled a practitioner of [[BattleAngelAlita Panzerkunst]].
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* ExcitedShowTitle: Temporarily, when [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus107.html minus becomes...wackier?]] The [[TheRant rant]] for that comic is just a single exclamation point.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Strip [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus10.html #10]] was the first one actually drawn, and at the time the creator had not yet decided whether minus would actually be all-powerful or just a shape-shifter. If he had chosen differently, the comic would have turned out very different.
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-->"[[{{Baka}} Fool]] ! Do you think you can withstand the power of the Black Knight ?"

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-->"[[{{Baka}} -->"[[YouFool Fool]] ! Do you think you can withstand the power of the Black Knight ?"
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* GainaxEnding: The climax and ending do come right the hell out of nowhere.
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* MagicRealism: To an extent.
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* KaleidoscopeHair: minus's hair changes from strip to strip. {{Justified}}, since she ''is'' omnipotent.
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* ContinuityCreep

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* ContinuityCreepContinuityCreep: Strip [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus50.html #50]]. Apparently minus's actions have consequences after all...

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Does minus ever consider herself cursed? I don\'t think so...


* CallBack: [[ShowWithinAShow Sergeant Davy]] and his trusty steed, Prendon, are mentioned as having existed in the comic's world several strips after minus altered history to make Davy a war hero.



* CursedWithAwesome



* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus40.html To her credit, she isn't the originator of this]].



* ShoutOut: Various references to anime [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus13.html here]]. In order of lines, the immortal who wants to be human is from SoulHunter, the second one sounds vaguely like a quote about immortality from GalaxyTrain999, the one about the witch giving up her powers is [[OjamajoDoremi Magical DoReMi]], and the quote about everything coming easy sounds similar to a lament made in MagicUsersClub by Takeo's gay friend.

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* ShoutOut: Various references to anime [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus13.html here]]. In order of lines, the immortal who wants to be human is from SoulHunter, ''SoulHunter'', the second one sounds vaguely like a quote about immortality from GalaxyTrain999, ''GalaxyExpress999'', the one about the witch giving up her powers is [[OjamajoDoremi ''[[OjamajoDoremi Magical DoReMi]], DoReMi]]'', and the quote about everything coming easy sounds similar to a lament made in MagicUsersClub ''MagicUsersClub'' by Takeo's gay friend.



* SmilesPaintedOnTheirSouls: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus40.html To her credit, she isn't the originator of this]].
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* AnnoyingArrows: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus23.html #23]]. That has got to hurt...
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* OnlySixFaces: It becomes increasingly difficult to tell Minus from characters with similar hairstyle.
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* SmilesPaintedOnTheirSouls: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus40.html To her credit, she isn't the originator of this]].
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* ShoutOut: Various references to anime [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus13.html here]]. In order of lines, the immortal who wants to be human is from SoulHunter, the second one sounds vaguely like a quote about immortality from GalaxyTrain999, the one about the witch giving up her powers is [[OjamajoDoremi Magical DoReMi]], and the quote about everything coming easy sounds similar to a lament made in [[MagicUsersClub]] by Takeo's gay friend.

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* ShoutOut: Various references to anime [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus13.html here]]. In order of lines, the immortal who wants to be human is from SoulHunter, the second one sounds vaguely like a quote about immortality from GalaxyTrain999, the one about the witch giving up her powers is [[OjamajoDoremi Magical DoReMi]], and the quote about everything coming easy sounds similar to a lament made in [[MagicUsersClub]] MagicUsersClub by Takeo's gay friend.
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* ShoutOut: Various references to anime [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus13.html here]]. In order of lines, the immortal who wants to be human is from SoulHunter, the second one sounds vaguely like a quote about immortality from GalaxyTrain999, the one about the witch giving up her powers is [[OjamajoDoremi Magical DoReMi]], and the quote about everything coming easy sounds similar to a lament made in [[MahoTsukaiTai Magic Users Club]] by Takeo's gay friend.

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* ShoutOut: Various references to anime [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus13.html here]]. In order of lines, the immortal who wants to be human is from SoulHunter, the second one sounds vaguely like a quote about immortality from GalaxyTrain999, the one about the witch giving up her powers is [[OjamajoDoremi Magical DoReMi]], and the quote about everything coming easy sounds similar to a lament made in [[MahoTsukaiTai Magic Users Club]] [[MagicUsersClub]] by Takeo's gay friend.
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* ShoutOut: Various references to anime [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus13.html here]]. In order of lines, the immortal who wants to be human is from SoulHunter, the second one sounds vaguely like a quote about immortality from GalaxyTrain999, the one about the witch giving up her powers is [[OjamajoDoremi Magical DoReMi]], and the quote about everything coming easy sounds similar to a lament made in [[MahoTsukaiTai Magic Users Club]] by Takeo's gay friend.
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* ReusedCharacterDesign: Most of the unnamed characters look like the characters from another one of the artist's series, ''Great''.
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* FridgeHorror: A few of the strips will get you, but inparticular the [[spoiler:[[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus106.html faceless man in red shoving minus into a briefcase, only to dump her back out 'wrong']]]] can become very unsettling if thought about too much.
* FridgeLogic: You're going to have to turn it off to get through most of the strips.
** May be FridgeBrilliance at times, depending on how you look at it/how dark you consider the comic to be.

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