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* SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: [[PlayedWith Tied in a knot]] in "talent quest". First [[InvokedTrope invoked]] by the ''Who Fucked The Most Judges'' contest. A woman eagerly signs up to try and [[ExploitedTrope exploit]] the trope, only for everyone around her to [[DefiedTrope defy]] it. She runs into another, "official" judge who is also not getting any, and is wondering whether the contest is even real or a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] to try and turn her on. The two decide to solve their mutual frustration together... [[DoubleSubverted thus tying for first place in the contest]] (which, judging by the empty pedestals, had no other qualifiers).
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* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: After spending several panels confused about what "meat decoration" means, the traveler in "[[https://www.oglaf.com/streakybeef/ Streaky Beef]]" decides to get a tattoo of a steak with jewels on it. Another guy at a sauna remarks that it's a weird tattoo, to which he replies, "It seemed to make sense at the time."

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* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: In [[https://www.oglaf.com/brimstone-vinegar/ "Brimstone and Vinegar"]], the dread lord Xlpth is read the riot act by a demon king for [[spoiler:cleaning his summoner's home and filing his taxes]].
-->'''King:''' Do you enjoy working here, Xlpth? Because this kind of behaviour is totally unacceptable.



* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The strip ''[[https://www.oglaf.com/better-angels/ Better Angels]]'' has a man being hit with the existential dread of his inevitable death. A shoulder angel shows up and points out that the world of oglaf has explicitly proven afterlives, so the dread is meaningless; no one dies, they just go somewhere else.

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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The strip ''[[https://www.oglaf.com/better-angels/ Better Angels]]'' has a man being hit with the existential dread of his inevitable death. A shoulder angel shows up and points out that the world of oglaf Oglaf has explicitly proven afterlives, so the dread is meaningless; no one dies, they just go somewhere else.else.
* DemonicPossession: A sorcerer [[https://www.oglaf.com/brimstone-vinegar/ performs a ritual for this purpose]]. He's a bit baffled when he wakes up [[spoiler:to find his filthy home cleaned up and his extremely overdue taxes filed.]]
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* InstantTurnOff: The Bard singing an ode to hot people, then asking the people in question, what is it like to be that hot. When one of them remarks it's a lot of work, the Bard's response is just "Fuck that then."

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* InstantTurnOff: The Bard singing an ode to hot people, then asking the people in question, what is it like to be that hot. When one of them remarks it's a lot of work, the Bard's response is just "Fuck "Screw that then."
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* InstantTurnOff: The Bard singing an ode to hot people, then asking the people in question, what is it like to be that hot. When one of them remarks it's a lot of work, the Bard's response is just "Fuck that then."

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** In "This Could Happen," the disciples of Sithrak go proselytizing: "God hates us unreservedly!" "So why shouldn't a woman in a blonde wig fuck a door-to-door evangelist in front of his dorky friend?" (The comic's world being what it is, they actually get some takers!...not quite like how they imagined, but they rolled with it. Until some guy wanted them all to be tied to the post while watching two dogs have sex with the blonde wig on the bitch)

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** In "This Could Happen," the disciples of Sithrak go proselytizing: "God hates us unreservedly!" "So why shouldn't a woman in a blonde wig fuck a door-to-door evangelist in front of his dorky friend?" (The comic's world being what it is, they actually get some takers!...not quite like how they imagined, but they rolled with it. Until some guy wanted them all to be tied to the post while watching two dogs have sex with the blonde wig on the bitch)bitch.)
** The defendant in "[[https://www.oglaf.com/insummary/ In Summary]]" reasons that if he looks sexy but doesn't sleep with strangers, society won't trust him; if he dislikes them but doesn't kill them, they won't consider his feelings; and if he doesn't eat their corpses, carnivorous animals will disrespect him. So he ''had'' to be a seducer, murderer and cannibal in order to be respectable and trustworthy!

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* UnusualEuphemism: The Immaculate City's inhabitants have curious notions of what sexual terms exist, and what the real ones actually mean.

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** "Streaky Beef" features an odd fellow who offers ''meat decoration''. His would-be customer at first assumes that he's referring to garnish, then that it's a sex act, and then wonders if he's putting jewels on steak or something before it's revealed that "meat decoration" means "tattoo".
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* MixAndMatchCritters: "Owlbear" features an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin owlbear]] from TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons, and the AltText mentions the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocoduck crocoduck]]. Additionally, Allegory from "[[https://www.oglaf.com/atonement/2/ Atonement]]" looks like a cross between a giraffe and a velvet worm.
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* StealingTheCredit: In "Endpoint", one adventurer holding a torch and a spear suddenly comes up with the idea of creating a "torchspear" that has the properties of both and frees up one hand. Her partner is more focused on solving the riddle of the Void posed by its guardian. ''The guardian'' thinks it's a good idea and runs off. The adventurers are hailed as heroes upon their return for stopping the Void. The female adventurer's mood is soured upon seeing the former Void guardian running a shop that sells torchspears.

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* GenderBender: The wizard in "Cornwalling", and also the effect of the [[http://www.oglaf.com/fountain-of-girl Fountain of Girl]]. The nerds in "Babes of the Abyss" had this as the price they paid for getting to sleep with sexy devil girls -- [[DemonOfHumanOrigin becoming a sexy devil girl themselves]]. None of them seem that broken up about it, or maybe they just got used to it.

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* GenderBender: GeekyTurnOn: "Babes of the Abyss" has a wizard making a DealWithTheDevil in order to have sex with hot devil girls, with the demon telling him that he'll become a devil girl himself once he dies. Upon realizing that the devil girls are former nerds, he decides to paint figurines with them, with the demon bummed that [[{{Unishment}} none of them feel especially punished]].
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The wizard in "Cornwalling", and also the effect of the [[http://www.oglaf.com/fountain-of-girl Fountain of Girl]].
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The nerds in "Babes of the Abyss" had this as the price they paid for getting to sleep with sexy devil girls -- [[DemonOfHumanOrigin becoming a sexy devil girl themselves]]. None of them seem that broken up about it, or maybe they just got used to it.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The strip ''[[https://www.oglaf.com/better-angels/ Better Angels]]'' has a man being hit with the existential dread of his inevitable death. A shoulder angel shows up and points out that the world of oglaf has explicitly proven afterlives, so the dread is meaningless.

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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The strip ''[[https://www.oglaf.com/better-angels/ Better Angels]]'' has a man being hit with the existential dread of his inevitable death. A shoulder angel shows up and points out that the world of oglaf has explicitly proven afterlives, so the dread is meaningless.meaningless; no one dies, they just go somewhere else.

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** Of CryingWolf, [[http://oglaf.com/wolf as seen]] on the trope page.
** Of the AndroclesLion, [[http://www.oglaf.com/kindlyhunter specifically, the Kindly Hunter variation]].

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** Of CryingWolf, [[http://oglaf.com/wolf as seen]] on the trope page. \n If you prank someone with false danger then mock them to their faces, they may react worse than just not falling for it the next time.
** Of the AndroclesLion, [[http://www.oglaf.com/kindlyhunter specifically, the Kindly Hunter variation]]. You gotta eat sometime.


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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In [[http://oglaf.com/godoflies/ God of Lies]], after a puppet show by the Sithrak cultists gone OffTheRails that turns out to be a ScoobyDooHoax by the homeowner to avoid talking to them, one of the cultists points out he could have just pretended to not be home.

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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In [[http://oglaf."[[http://oglaf.com/godoflies/ God of Lies]], Lies]]", after a puppet show by the Sithrak cultists gone OffTheRails that turns out to be a ScoobyDooHoax by the homeowner to avoid talking to them, one of the cultists points out he could have just pretended to not be home.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In [[http://oglaf.com/godoflies/ God of Lies]], after a puppet show by the Sithrak cultists gone OffTheRails that turns out to be a ScoobyDooHoax by the homeowner to avoid talking to them, one of the cultists points out he could have just pretended to not be home.

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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: Discussed in "[[https://www.oglaf.com/dancingblade/ Dancing Blade]]." The curse of the blade is that it will make the wielder useful, and a useful person will be asked by everyone to help them in their time of need.

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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: Discussed in "[[https://www.oglaf.com/dancingblade/ Dancing Blade]]." The curse "curse" of the blade is that it will make the wielder useful, and a useful person will be asked by everyone to help them in their time of need. need.
-->'''Guardian of the Blade''': "Do you have the stomach to tell desperate people you won't help? If not, I wouldn't go near the sword. You'll never have any time for your own dreams."
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* StorybookOpening: Parodied in [[https://www.oglaf.com/fin/ "Fin"]], where a pair of adventurers find such a book, which turns out to be about the very adventure they're having... or so it appeared at first.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: From "How to Hide a Body" we have a technique known as "the Turducken", which involves CoffinCramming in the most absurd way. Navaan, overseeing the funeral, says "We're here this evening to bury John ''and nobody else.''"
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* EpicFail: "[[http://oglaf.dreamhosters.com/bilge/ Bilge]]": A village builds their own boat to take revenge on the Viking raiders who destroyed them before. Unfortunately, the [[OnlySaneMan leader of the village]] points out that they have no actual experience in shipbuilding, so the result is a comedically dismal failure. Taking the resulting "craft" in the water fails so badly that (somehow) the boat catches fire all on its own without the Vikings doing anything.

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* EpicFail: "[[http://oglaf.dreamhosters.com/bilge/ Bilge]]": A village builds their own boat to take revenge on the Viking raiders who destroyed them before. Unfortunately, the [[OnlySaneMan leader of the village]] points out that they have no actual experience in shipbuilding, so the result is a comedically dismal failure. Taking the resulting "craft" in the water fails so badly that (somehow) the boat catches fire all on its own without the Vikings doing anything.

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