History Webcomic / PennyAndAggie

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: With the Pennies it's Penny (choleric), Sara (melancholic), Michelle (phlegmatic), and Katy-Ann/Brandi (sanguine). With Aggie's gang it's Aggie (choleric), Lisa (sanguine), Daphne (melancholic), and Fred (phlegmatic).

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: At current count, the cast page lists 26 regular characters, all with their own subplots, to the point that nearly half the strip feels like a LowerDeckEpisode of some kind.

* PantyShot: [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=1128 Brandi's skirt is a ''little'' too short for manual labor.]]

* FoeYay: In-universe, Sara pretty much shipped Penny and Aggie during their entire rivalry. The comic itself toys liberally with the idea throughout the entire length of the comic [[spoiler: before ''finally'' giving in for the final story arc and making them a couple. Then throws a monkey wrench into things in the finale and the epilog.]]

* LoveLetterLunacy: Aggie makes a complicated love letter scheme to arrange for a date with Duane and Penny. It fails horribly and because Sara sees Aggie doing it, Sara assumes Aggie herself was trying to meet with Penny, setting off Sara's long FoeYay shipping. Later on, Penny calls Aggie out on this when Aggie accuses her of turning down Duane because she's racist.

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The Pennies, the Aggies/[[FanNickname Scoobies]], and the Omegas ''all'' have this.

%%* FiveManBand: According to Karen's description of her clique in "The Popsicle Wars":
** BigBad: Karen
** TheDragon and EvilGenius: Meg
** TheBrute: Samantha
** DarkChick: Cindy and Charlotte

* FiveManBand: According to Karen's description of her clique in "The Popsicle Wars":

** [[DarkChick Dark Chicks]]: Cindy and Charlotte
* FlatCharacter: Subverted with Michelle, who is flat out described in detail in the comic about how she is a simple, flat person, who doesn't have that much depth. Oddly enough this seems to make her character more deep and human than ever before.

* GambitPileup: "The Popsicle War."
* GirlPosse: Penny's, Meg's, and Karen's.

* SecondYearProtagonist: The comic begins toward the end of the main characters' freshman year, with only three non-{{Flashback}} strips actually showing them in school. The remainder of the series spans from the summer before sophomore year to the summer before senior year.

* {{Animesque}}: Lagacé's art style was a blend between Franchise/ArchieComics and anime with it being closer on the anime spectrum. Waltrip's art still keeps a mild animeish theme, but stays closer to the western cartoon style.

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Aggie's dream about being in love with a female mannequin.

''[[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/ Penny and Aggie]]'' is a HighSchool -centric BettyAndVeronica pastiche with LesYay and a healthy dose of that Creator/TCampbell (of ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' fame) weirdness.

* ThemeNaming: [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Sara and Michelle, Nick and Charisma]], [[MarvelUniverse Stan and Jack]], [[ScoobyDoo Fred and Daphne]].

* FiveBadBand: According to Karen's description of her clique in "The Popsicle Wars":

''[[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/ Penny and Aggie]]'' is a BettyAndVeronica pastiche with LesYay and a healthy dose of that Creator/TCampbell (of ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' fame) weirdness.

** Charlotte's mother bears some striking similarities to {{Carrie}}'s mother.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Calvin Machrie, the director of the school play, physically resembles Colin Mochrie of ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway,'' while his personality and directing style are patterned after those of Mochrie's recurring "Hollywood Director" character.

* {{Crossover}}: Helen crosses over into the ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' 'verse [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02232010.shtml here]]. She narrowly avoids the [[LookBothWays standard Milholland crossover greeting]], and it all goes downhill from there. Some fans understandably viewed this as Helen being PutOnABus, but the writer of SomethingPositive [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp08092010.shtml later stated]] that Helen was a ''Penny and Aggie'' character and wouldn't be permanently joining his cast. But then, ''Penny and Aggie'' finished (with Helen appearing briefly in the epilogue story, mostly to make it clear that she'd decided to put the town behind her), whereas '''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' is still going, so -- choose your own interpretation.

* LetsWaitAwhile: Marshall's attitude to Karen's constant badgering him for sex. Because AManIsNotAVirgin, some of the fanbase turned on him for not instantly sleeping with his severely messed up girlfriend simply because she wanted him to, to the point where a fanart comic depicted him as unwilling to have sex even when they were married.

* CanonWelding: ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'' shares a multiverse with T Campbell's other strips - cameos of alt-universe versions of characters from ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' and ''Webcomic/CoolCatStudio'' appear at various points.

* {{Crossover}}: Helen crosses over into the ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' 'verse [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02232010.shtml here]]. She narrowly avoids the [[LookBothWays standard Milholland crossover greeting]], and it all goes downhill from there. Some fans understandably viewed this as Helen being PutOnABus, but the writer of SomethingPositive [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp08092010.shtml later stated]] that Helen was a PennyAndAggie character and wouldn't be permanently joining his cast. But then, ''Penny and Aggie'' finished (with Helen appearing briefly in the epilogue story, mostly to make it clear that she'd decided to put the town behind her), whereas '''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' is still going, so -- choose your own interpretation.

'''''[[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/ Penny and Aggie]]''''' is a BettyAndVeronica pastiche with LesYay and a healthy dose of that Creator/TCampbell (of ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' fame) weirdness.

* AbusiveParents: The introduction to Charlotte's mother features her slapping her daughter across the face and berating her for doing a private interview with the police, rather than letting her do the talking. During Duane's interview with the cops, he raises his suspicions about such treatment as well, though after the conclusion of Missing Person, [[spoiler: Charlotte's serving out a prison sentence, which finally gets her away from her mother.]]
** Also Charisma, by making it clear multiple times that she resents being a mother and having very little care for her son's feelings, until she loudly declared that he was put on this earth to get in her way and slow her down. In public. In front of hundreds of people.

* ComingOutStory: Sara. Stan, Aggie, and especially Penny also all appear to be in the early coming-to-grips stages, [[FourLinesAllWaiting and have for quite some time]], although Aggie's moving faster than the others, even actually ''being out to someone'' ([[CampGay Fred]]).
* ComebackTomorrow: In one strip, Aggie held back a comeback deliberately so as not to start a fight with Penny...leading to her suddenly screaming it out at two completely unrelated people well after Penny had left.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Penny, while she certainly likes male attention, has trouble early on with actual intimacy.By the end of the comic, [[spoiler:she turns a shouting match with Aggie into violently passionate rage sex that demolishes a room and most of the girls' clothes. It's safe to say she's well past this trope now.]]

* FriendsWithBenefits: Stan and Brandi were this on and off for over a year, as were Stan and Cyndi until she started to show her colors.
** And more recently, [[spoiler: Stan and Lisa.]]
* FunbagAirbag: Aggie ran into Karen's breasts during "Dinner for Six"... and was worried because it turned her on a little bit. According to WordOfGod, the fans were meant to take this as the clincher as to whether she liked girls - see ShowDontTell

* KarmaHoudini: Meg and Samantha for their roles in Karen's schemes and Sam's role later in Cyndi's. Charlotte and Tharqa never faced direct consequences for a bomb scare attempt and a false rape accusation, though Charlotte's situation as a whole finally came to a head in "Cyndi and Charlotte". Stan and Cyndi, in different ways, finally got their comeuppance at the conclusion of "Mister Smiles" and "Missing Person", respectively.
** [[spoiler: Charlotte's mother]], as stated on the forums, [[spoiler: since Charlotte has no physical evidence of the abuse and her psychological state unfortunately damages any testimony she could make against her mother. Though one could argue that Ms. Simms is suffering in her own ways, she's still escaping justice.]]
** T later explained on the forums that while Tharqa didn't receive any direct punishment for the events in high school, her general attitude from those events shaped her into a rather miserable and unloved individual as an adult. [[spoiler: This is hinted at in the epilog as ''nobody'' wanted to talk to her at the reunion while she desperately sought attention.]]

* {{Crossover}}: Helen crosses over into the ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' 'verse [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02232010.shtml here]]. She narrowly avoids the [[LookBothWays standard Milholland crossover greeting]], and it all goes downhill from there. Some fans understandably viewed this as Helen being PutOnABus, but the writer of SomethingPositive [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp08092010.shtml later stated]] that Helen was a PennyAndAggie character and wouldn't be permanently joining his cast, so it looks like it's just a really long {{Crossover}} after all.

* CanonWelding: ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'' shares a multiverse with T Campbell's other strips - cameos of alt-universe versions of characters from ''Fans'' and ''Webcomic/CoolCatStudio'' appear at various points.