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* ClassicalCyclops: A villainous sorcerer has a miniature cyclops as his familiar (which looks like the classical cyclops, but is about the size of a human child). The sorcerer does make it grow into the traditional giant size so it can fight Pepsia--but he transforms it into a "biclops" in the process, which has twice as many eyes and is therefore twice as dangerous. The biclops is still distinct from a regular giant because its eyes are arranged vertically, rather than horizontally.
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* ClassicalCyclops: A The villainous sorcerer Nightsorrow has a miniature cyclops as his familiar (which looks like the classical cyclops, but is about the size of a human child). The sorcerer does make it grow into the traditional giant size so it can fight Pepsia--but he transforms it into a "biclops" in the process, which has twice as many eyes and is therefore twice as dangerous. The biclops is still distinct from a regular giant because its eyes are arranged vertically, rather than horizontally.
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** Filby is introduced wearing a [[Manga/UruseiYatsura Lum]] T-shirt in modern day Manhattan.
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* TheCameo: "For Whom The Belt Goes" features cameos from characters of friends that [=McGuire=] knew at the time. Among them are Effknocka and Fuckforce from ''[=nockFORCE=]'' and the angry girl outside of the Olive Garden.
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* AnimalEyes: Mania (not the dog, but [[spoiler:Krphxyzwlps' human form]]) has slit eyes.
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* BrainyBaby: Pepsia rarely cried when she was a baby. Phobia claims that one of the few times she did, she expressed a philosophical problem, namely the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_argument dream argument]], in which you can never be sure all you experience is real, which terrified her. However, Phobia is an UnreliableExpositor and Pepsia doesn't buy it.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Krphxyzwlps herself started out as a MonsterOfTheWeek. She got a return appearance in "For Heifer in My Heart", more as a joke than anything else. Come Season 3, she's become an important character.
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* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Pepsia receives a few spankings from her mother when she's too much of a brat.
* DreadfulMusician: Pepsia and her horn causes a hungry lion to fall asleep.
* DreadfulMusician: Pepsia and her horn causes a hungry lion to fall asleep.
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* EternalRecurrence: The universe resets back to the beginning once every so often. Each iteration mostly repeats the previous iteration's events, but the iterations have gradually changed over time. TimeTravel mostly involves travelling to a different point in time of a future iteration. The TimePolice try to keep the iterations stable, but there have been slips. Two of them have made Phobia ImmuneToFate.
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* EternalRecurrence: The universe resets back to the beginning once every so often. Each iteration mostly repeats the previous iteration's events, but the iterations have gradually changed over time. TimeTravel mostly involves travelling traveling to a different point in time of a future iteration. The TimePolice try to keep the iterations stable, but there have been slips. Two of them have made Phobia ImmuneToFate.
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* TheExile: Phobia was banished from the all-female Amazon village due to wanting to raise her 'son' herself.
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* ImmuneToFate: In an older timeline, Phobia was eaten by a frog monster. Time travellers proceeded to grab and raise [[spoiler:her daughter, and her daughter]] couldn't resist making edits to the timeline, such as killing said frog when it was still a tadpole. Additionally, Nightsorrow, another time traveller, [[spoiler:sired another child with her]]. As a result, Phobia's fate was thrown off course, and [[spoiler:a pair of gods make plans to use her against Zeus's plans for Herakles, which would otherwise be guaranteed to succeed]] (at least, in the no-longer-canonical timeline).
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Phobia. [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-31 Lampshaded here]], but ultimately averted. Although while her hips are rather big, her chest is more realistically portioned.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Phobia. [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-31 Lampshaded here]], but ultimately averted. Although while her hips are rather big, her chest is more realistically portioned.
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* ImmuneToFate: In an older timeline, Phobia was eaten by a frog monster. Time travellers travelers proceeded to grab and raise [[spoiler:her daughter, and her daughter]] couldn't resist making edits to the timeline, such as killing said frog when it was still a tadpole. Additionally, Nightsorrow, another time traveller, traveler, [[spoiler:sired another child with her]]. As a result, Phobia's fate was thrown off course, and [[spoiler:a pair of gods make plans to use her against Zeus's plans for Herakles, which would otherwise be guaranteed to succeed]] (at least, in the no-longer-canonical timeline).
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Phobia. [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-31 Lampshaded here]], but ultimately averted. Although while her hips are rather big, her chest is more realistically portioned.timeline).
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Phobia. [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-31 Lampshaded here]], but ultimately averted. Although while her hips are rather big, her chest is more realistically portioned.
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* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:Philia]] claims to be the child of Phobia and Klepto from the future.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Phobia, Philia is your daughter.]]
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* LukeIAmYourFather: LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:Phobia, Philia is your daughter.]]
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* MeaningfulRename: The former Gastro changes her name to Pepsia after determining that she [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} wants to be a girl]].
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* NoIndoorVoice: Philia. '''[+++"I ''AM'' WHISPERING!"+++]''' [[labelnote:*]]not whispering at all[[/labelnote]]
* NonActionGuy: Klepto, made even worse due to his being around Phobia.
* NonActionGuy: Klepto, made even worse due to his being around Phobia.
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* ParadoxPerson: [[spoiler: Philia]] is worried about being this.
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* ProudWarriorRaceGirl: Phobia, naturally. "A warrior does '''not''' wash dishes."
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* ReallyGetsAround: Phobia claims that she doesn't know who Pepsia's real father is [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-10-15 because there's too many candidates.]]
** [[spoiler: She's at least lying about not knowing who the father is.]]
** [[spoiler: She's at least lying about not knowing who the father is.]]
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* RiddleOfTheSphinx: Parodied. Multiple times.
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* RiddleOfTheSphinx: Parodied. Multiple times.Parodied, multiple times. The sphinx can't very well eat travelers if they all know the answer to her one riddle.
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* SarcasmBlind: Klepto, [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-01-23 sometimes.]]
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* ServileSnarker: Klepto, with far more emphasis on the "snark" than the "serve".
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* SlippedTheRopes: Well, the handcuffes: [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-01-28 Phobia in the Mockinbirds dungeon.]]
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* SlippedTheRopes: Well, the handcuffes: handcuffs: [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-01-28 Phobia in the Mockinbirds dungeon.]]
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* SpoilerOpening: Appropriately, the "Opening Credits" show Mania a few episodes early.
* StalkerWithACrush: Nightsorrow to Phobia. "[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-06 But have you seen her ass?]]"
* StalkerWithACrush: Nightsorrow to Phobia. "[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-06 But have you seen her ass?]]"
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* SpoilerOpening: Appropriately, the "Opening Credits" for both Season 1 and Season 3 show Mania ([[spoiler:both the dog and the monster]]) a few episodes early.
* StalkerWithACrush: Nightsorrow to Phobia. "[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-06 But have you seen her ass?]]"early.
* StalkerWithACrush: Nightsorrow to Phobia. "[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-06 But have you seen her ass?]]"
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* TellMeAboutMyFather: Parodied, with Phobia telling Pepsia she was seduced by Zeus in the form of an animal, and the specific animal changes every time she tells the story. The "Handsome Giraffe" probably being the highlight.[[note]]And yes, there's RuleThirtyFour on this. You're welcome.[[/note]] Later, she claims that she doesn't know who Pepsia's father is... and even later, she accidentally lets it slip that she actually does know. [[spoiler:It's Lord Nightsorrow.]] Pepsia's not happy to find out she's been lied to all these years.
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* TellMeAboutMyFather: Parodied, with Phobia telling Pepsia she was seduced by Zeus in the form of an animal, and but the specific animal changes every time she tells the story. The "Handsome Giraffe" probably being the highlight.[[note]]And yes, there's RuleThirtyFour on this. You're welcome.[[/note]] Later, she claims that she doesn't know who Pepsia's father is... and even later, she accidentally lets it slip that she actually does know. [[spoiler:It's Lord Nightsorrow.]] Pepsia's not happy to find out she's been lied to all these years.
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* TimePolice: [[spoiler:Philia]]. First foreshadowed on [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-04 two]] [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-06 pages]], then shown in the [[LooseCanon dubiously canonical]] "badder comics" interlude, before finally showing up in the comic proper.
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* TooKinkyToTorture: Klepto
-->'''Phobia:''' You know, some people whip their slaves for less than that.\\
'''Klepto:''' Phobia, it has been my goal to be whipped by an Amazon since I was thirteen.
-->'''Phobia:''' You know, some people whip their slaves for less than that.\\
'''Klepto:''' Phobia, it has been my goal to be whipped by an Amazon since I was thirteen.
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* TheUnpronounceable: Krphxyzwlps. [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-08-21 A whole comic is solely about Phobia's efforts to pronounce it.]]
-->'''Phobia: ''[[Series/WheelOfFortune Buy some vowels!]]'''''
:: The about page now addresses this. It says it's pronounced as Ker-fixy-whelps. The z is silent.
-->'''Phobia: ''[[Series/WheelOfFortune Buy some vowels!]]'''''
:: The about page now addresses this. It says it's pronounced as Ker-fixy-whelps. The z is silent.
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* VerySpecialEpisode: Parodied in [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-04-20 a filler strip]].
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Krphxyzwlps can shapeshift into several separate creatures as long as they add up to her body mass.
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* VerySpecialEpisode: Parodied in [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-04-20 a filler strip]].
strip]], which covers a marijuana PSA. Notably, they don't actually ''condemn'' smoking marijuana overall, they simply say not to let minors start smoking it as it could affect their development.
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** Krphxyzwlps can shapeshift into several separate creatures as long as they add up to her body mass.
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* {{{Feghoot}}: "For Heifer in My Heart" follows reincarnations of Phobia and Pepsia in the Wild West. The pair later discover that Krphxyzwlps has reincarnated and followed them to the United States, but no one can understand her. When Pepsia prompts Phobia for their foe's MotiveRant, she shrugs, saying "it's all ''greek'' to me!".
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* {{{Feghoot}}: {{Feghoot}}: "For Heifer in My Heart" follows reincarnations of Phobia and Pepsia in the Wild West. The pair later discover that Krphxyzwlps has reincarnated and followed them to the United States, but no one can understand her. When Pepsia prompts Phobia for their foe's MotiveRant, she shrugs, saying "it's all ''greek'' to me!".
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''[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php PepsiaPhobia]]'' (known as ''[=GastroPhobia=]'' for volumes 1-3) is a webcomic by Daisy [=McGuire=], about the Amazonian exile and single mom Phobia; her precocious scamp of a daughter, Pepsia; and her recently-acquired, listless slave Klepto. They have adventures in UsefulNotes/AncientGreece.
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''[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php PepsiaPhobia]]'' (known as ''[=GastroPhobia=]'' for volumes 1-3) is a webcomic by Daisy [=McGuire=], about the Amazonian exile and single mom Phobia; her precocious 8-year-old scamp of a daughter, Pepsia; and her recently-acquired, listless slave Klepto. They have adventures Together, they face monsters, mishaps, and mildly important sci-fi elements in the land of Inconsequentia, UsefulNotes/AncientGreece.
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* WaxingLyrical: With the exception of Volume 1, every "season" opens up with one or more of the cast members speaking the first three lines of "Everything's Gonna Be A-Okay" before it segues into the proper opening sequence. They're often done in plot-relevant scenes.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Phobia is an Amazon (the Greek myth version), with storylines being based off [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]] stories. Her brother Alcides is implied to be Hercules, as Alcides was Hercules' birth name. The first 12 chapters are very loosely based on the 12 Labors of Hercules. [[spoiler:The non-canon volume 4 seemed geared to put Alcides on the path to finally becoming Herakles, but it would be up to Athena and Ares to get Phobia to stop ''one'' of his trials.]]
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Phobia is an Amazon (the Greek myth version), with storylines being based off [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]] stories. Her brother Alcides is implied to be Hercules, as Alcides was Hercules' birth name. The first 12 chapters are very loosely based on the 12 Labors of Hercules. [[spoiler:The non-canon volume 4 seemed geared to put Alcides on the path to finally becoming Herakles, the mythological Hercules, but it would be up to Athena and Ares to get Phobia to stop ''one'' of his trials.trials to prevent him from becoming immortal.]]
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* SelfServingMemory: Nightsorrow remembers meeting Phobia by [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-09-11 saving her from a frog monster]]. While she says she's the one who saved him.
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* SelfServingMemory: Nightsorrow remembers meeting Phobia by [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-09-11 saving her from a frog monster]]. While monster]], while she says she's the one who saved him.
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* WholePlotReference: The events of Volume 1 are very loosely based on the 12 Labors of Hercules, with "Ready, Willing and a Bull" even ''setting up'' one of Herc's future trials at the end. Fittingly, the volume is retroactively referred to as ''The Twelve Trials of [=GastroPhobia=]''.
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* DisqualificationInducedVictory: Phobia and Klepto get into a heated cook-off in "The Heat Is On!", but while the latter can make actual food and invented an entire dish just for the competition, the former made a bowl of something that could barely be called food. Everything is setting up for her loss, but the judges decide ''she'' wins the competition--because Klepto is just a slave, so technically his accomplishments are his master's.
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* AffectionateParody: The entire Bambikles arc is a direct parody of ''Anime/RingingBell''. Bambikles' name is is an obvious parody of WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}.
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** The entire Bambikles arc is a direct parody of ''Anime/RingingBell''. Bambikles' name is is an obvious parody ofWesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}.WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}.
** "The Heat Is On!" has Phobia and Klepto facing off in an ''Series/IronChef'' pastiche called '''''Bronze''' Chef''.
** The entire Bambikles arc is a direct parody of ''Anime/RingingBell''. Bambikles' name is is an obvious parody of
** "The Heat Is On!" has Phobia and Klepto facing off in an ''Series/IronChef'' pastiche called '''''Bronze''' Chef''.
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* {{{Feghoot}}: "For Heifer in My Heart" follows reincarnations of Phobia and Pepsia in the Wild West. The pair later discover that Krphxyzwlps has reincarnated and followed them to the United States, but no one can understand her. When Pepsia prompts Phobia for their foe's MotiveRant, she shrugs, saying "it's all ''greek'' to me!".
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* AffectionateParody: The entire Bambikles arc is a direct parody of ''Anime/RingingBell''. Bambikles' name is is an obvious parody of WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}.
** In TheRant, [=McGuire=] explains that the "GAH-ROO!" cry that all monsters have came from the ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' episode "Tyrannosaurus Gadget".
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** The entire Bambikles arc is a direct parody of ''Anime/RingingBell''. Bambikles' name is is an obvious parody of WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}.
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** The Halloween special has Phobia and Mania encounter a [[Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault rock face with a suspiciously human-shaped hole cut into it]], with Mania even commenting that she felt like the hole was "made for her". It's not since it'd have to look like her true form, but points for trying.
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** The Halloween special has Phobia and Mania Krphxyzwlps encounter a [[Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault rock face with a suspiciously human-shaped hole cut into it]], with Mania Krphxyzwlps even commenting that she felt like the hole was "made for her". It's not since it'd have to look like her true form, but points for trying.
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* SequelHook: "Ready, Waiting, and a Bull" ends with the Minotaur stabbed and subdued, but still alive. Not wanting to take any chances, the Useless King sends him to Crete, where he lives out the rest of his days chained to the center of a sprawling maze...
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Volume 1 went through a lot of growing pains. The season mandatory opening sequence doesn't appear until six "episodes" in, Phobia and Pepsia's designs were completely different, and there's absolutely no [[spoiler:sci-fi]] hints present.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: What the Volume 4 previews end up being, due to the revision. Most of it would be accurate to the scrapped 2015-16 chapters, but only a few plot points remain the same at current.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Phobia is an Amazon (the Greek myth version), with storylines being based off [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]] stories. Her brother Alcides is implied to be Hercules, as Alcides was Hercules' birth name. The first 12 chapters are very loosely based on the 12 Labors of Hercules.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Phobia is an Amazon (the Greek myth version), with storylines being based off [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]] stories. Her brother Alcides is implied to be Hercules, as Alcides was Hercules' birth name. The first 12 chapters are very loosely based on the 12 Labors of Hercules. [[spoiler:The non-canon volume 4 seemed geared to put Alcides on the path to finally becoming Herakles, but it would be up to Athena and Ares to get Phobia to stop ''one'' of his trials.]]
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Volume 4's TimeSkip to five years later reflects the time between the end of Volume 3 (which ended around 2017) and the start of the revised Volume 4 (beginning in 2022). Pepsia's questioning of her gender identity and realizing she's a trans girl also reflects [=McGuire=] officially coming out during that time.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Volume 4's TimeSkip to five years later reflects the time between the end of Volume 3 (which ended around 2017) in 2015) and the start of the revised Volume 4 (beginning in 2022).2020). Pepsia's questioning of her gender identity and realizing she's a trans girl also reflects [=McGuire=] officially coming out during that time.
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* AnimalEyes: Mania (not the dog, but [[spoiler:Krphxyzwlps' human form]]) has slitted eyes.
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* AnimalEyes: Mania (not the dog, but [[spoiler:Krphxyzwlps' human form]]) has slitted eyes.slit eyes.
* AnimatedActors: The first volume's opening sequence portrayed this series akin to a live-action television show, giving the names of the actors who portrayed each of the principal cast members. Phobia and Pepsia are played by the mother-son duo Phoebe and Gaston Jones, Klepto is played by Nick Papadopoulos, and Mania is a dog named C. Gordon Hastings. So far, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness this is the only opening that has done this]], as even Season 3's opening lists the characters {{As Themselves}}.
* AnimatedActors: The first volume's opening sequence portrayed this series akin to a live-action television show, giving the names of the actors who portrayed each of the principal cast members. Phobia and Pepsia are played by the mother-son duo Phoebe and Gaston Jones, Klepto is played by Nick Papadopoulos, and Mania is a dog named C. Gordon Hastings. So far, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness this is the only opening that has done this]], as even Season 3's opening lists the characters {{As Themselves}}.
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** The scrapped Volume 4 opening changes this to be a little less triumphant, but still just as confident:
-->''When the skies are grey\\
And you've been led astray,\\
Please try not to dismay...\\
--Jump into the fray!\\
If you never delay and you don't do things halfway,\\
Everything's gonna be a-okay!''
-->''When the skies are grey\\
And you've been led astray,\\
Please try not to dismay...\\
--Jump into the fray!\\
If you never delay and you don't do things halfway,\\
Everything's gonna be a-okay!''
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Volume 4's TimeSkip to five years later reflects the time between the end of Volume 3 (which ended around 2017) and the start of the revised Volume 4 (beginning in 2022). Pepsia's transition also reflects [=McGuire=] officially coming out during that time.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Volume 4's TimeSkip to five years later reflects the time between the end of Volume 3 (which ended around 2017) and the start of the revised Volume 4 (beginning in 2022). Pepsia's transition questioning of her gender identity and realizing she's a trans girl also reflects [=McGuire=] officially coming out during that time.
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* BestialityIsDepraved: Played with and subverted in the decanonized timeline. As a teenager, Pepsia is dating Princess Starbutt the talking horse. Since she's sapient people consider it an acceptable case of InterspeciesRomance, but Sophia assumes she's a normal horse at first- apparently this practice is called "communing with Zeus" in Crete.
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* BestialityIsDepraved: Played with and subverted in the decanonized timeline. As a teenager, Pepsia is dating Princess Starbutt the talking horse. Since she's sapient people consider it an acceptable case of InterspeciesRomance, but Sophia assumes she's a normal horse at first- apparently first--apparently this practice is called "communing with Zeus" in Crete.
* BisexualLoveTriangle: Quadrangle? But it's forming in the revised Volume 4. Sophia has a crush on the newly out and proud Pepsia, who had an on-again-off-again thing with Starbutt, but is also crushing hard on local hoodlum Metro.
* CharacterFocus: [=McGuire=]'s intentions for the revised Volume 4 is to put more focus on Pepsia, as it touches on her adolescence and growing independence from Phobia.
* OldFriendNewGender: How Pepsia reintroduces herself to Sophia at the end of "Pepsia". Sophia isn't shocked or confused--rather, she ''very'' much likes the new her.
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* OurHeroIsDead: She got better.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Volume 4's TimeSkip to five years later reflects the time between the end of Volume 3 (which ended around 2017) and the start of the revised Volume 4 (beginning in 2022). Pepsia's transition also reflects [=McGuire=] officially coming out during that time.
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** The artwork contains numerous nods to Creator/OsamuTezuka. Trivia's character design resembles Saphire, Ornitho ''is'' Duke Red, the Bambikles story has several panel layouts that reference the original ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' manga and the Dine & Dash story has a gang of bank robbers who combine into a giant centipede, similar to Gadem from ''Manga/AstroBoy''.
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** The artwork contains numerous nods to Creator/OsamuTezuka. Trivia's character design resembles Saphire, [[Manga/PrincessKnight Sapphire]], Ornitho ''is'' Duke Red, the Bambikles story has several panel layouts that reference the original ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' manga and the Dine & Dash story has a gang of bank robbers who combine into a giant centipede, similar to Gadem from ''Manga/AstroBoy''.
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** In the 2020 Christmas special, Pepsia and Phobia are "[[Literature/TheElfOnTheShelf Shelf Elves]]" who monitor kids for Santa. It's a bit of a TakeThat as well, since Phobia calls her job being a "glorified nanny cam" and the outfits are based off of Blythe dolls instead of the Elves on Shelves (because, in the author's words, the latter just look blander).
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** In the 2020 Christmas special, Pepsia and Phobia are "[[Literature/TheElfOnTheShelf Shelf Elves]]" "Shelf Elves" a la ''The Elf on the Shelf'' who monitor kids for Santa. It's a bit of a TakeThat as well, since Phobia calls her job being a "glorified nanny cam" and the outfits are based off of Blythe dolls instead of the Elves on Shelves (because, in the author's words, the latter just look blander).
** Volume 4's title references ''Series/QueerAsFolkUK''.
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** During Pepsia's intervention, Sophia asks if the former wants to be a ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonsAdventures'' character. When asked why, it's because her FourthWallObserver antics are getting just as heavy handed as that of the other cartoon.
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** During Pepsia's intervention, Sophia asks if the former wants to be a ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonsAdventures'' ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' character. When asked why, it's because her FourthWallObserver antics are getting just as heavy handed as that of the other cartoon.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In Volume 4, Pepsia gains a crush on Metro, a bully who politically vandalizes buildings. Notably he's ''much'' meaner to Pepsia when he mistook her for a boy, but has an equally as big crush on her when she states otherwise.
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** In the 2020 Christmas special, Pepsia and Phobia are "[[Literature/TheElfOnTheShelf Shelf Elves]]" who monitor kids for Santa. It's a bit of a TakeThat as well, since Phobia calls her job being a "glorified nanny cam" and the outfits are based off of Blythe dolls instead of the Elves on Shelves (because, in the author's words, the latter just look blander).
** The Halloween special has Phobia and Mania encounter a [[Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault rock face with a suspiciously human-shaped hole cut into it]], with Mania even commenting that she felt like the hole was "made for her". It's not since it'd have to look like her true form, but points for trying.
** The Halloween special has Phobia and Mania encounter a [[Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault rock face with a suspiciously human-shaped hole cut into it]], with Mania even commenting that she felt like the hole was "made for her". It's not since it'd have to look like her true form, but points for trying.
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** During Pepsia's intervention, Sophia asks if the former wants to be a ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonsAdventures'' character. When asked why, it's because her FourthWallObserver antics are getting just as heavy handed as that of the other cartoon.
** During Pepsia's intervention, Sophia asks if the former wants to be a ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonsAdventures'' character. When asked why, it's because her FourthWallObserver antics are getting just as heavy handed as that of the other cartoon.
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''[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php PepsiaPhobia]]'' is a webcomic by Daisy [=McGuire=], about the Amazonian exile and single mom Phobia; her precocious scamp of a daughter, Pepsia; and her recently-acquired, listless slave Klepto. They have adventures in UsefulNotes/AncientGreece.
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''[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php PepsiaPhobia]]'' (known as ''[=GastroPhobia=]'' for volumes 1-3) is a webcomic by Daisy [=McGuire=], about the Amazonian exile and single mom Phobia; her precocious scamp of a daughter, Pepsia; and her recently-acquired, listless slave Klepto. They have adventures in UsefulNotes/AncientGreece.
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* NotSoDifferent: Parodied; Pneuma tries to invoke this, but can't think of any ways that she and Phobia are alike.
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Parodied; Pneuma tries to invoke do this, but can't think of any ways that she and Phobia are alike.
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* FootPopping: Phobia while kissing Hydro in the [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-10-16 "four kinds of love"]] panel.
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* FootPopping: Phobia while kissing Hydro in the [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-10-16 [[http://gastrophobia.com/comix/trivial-trivia-4-loves "four kinds of love"]] panel.
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** An example is the filler strip [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-10-16 "Trivial Trivia!"]], which explains the philosophical concept of the four types of love.
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** An example is the filler strip [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-10-16 [[http://gastrophobia.com/comix/trivial-trivia-4-loves "Trivial Trivia!"]], which explains the philosophical concept of the four types of love.
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* BrainyBaby: Pepsia rarely cried when she was a baby. Phobia claims that one of the few times she did, he expressed a philosophical problem, namely the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_argument dream argument]], in which you can never be sure all you experience is real, which terrified her. However, Phobia is an UnreliableExpositor and Pepsia doesn't buy it.
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* BrainyBaby: Pepsia rarely cried when she was a baby. Phobia claims that one of the few times she did, he she expressed a philosophical problem, namely the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_argument dream argument]], in which you can never be sure all you experience is real, which terrified her. However, Phobia is an UnreliableExpositor and Pepsia doesn't buy it.
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* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Pepsia receives a few spankings from her mother when he's too much of a brat.
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* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Pepsia receives a few spankings from her mother when he's she's too much of a brat.
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** This turns out correct.
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** This turns out to be correct.
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* LethalChef: Phobia. She's apparently managed to keep herself and Pepsia from dying for the last seven years, but Pepsia has no idea that the squirrel his mother is using is out of place, and the best the judges can say for Phobia's dish is that she was "[[DamnedByFaintPraise generous with the salt]]".
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* LethalChef: Phobia. She's apparently managed to keep herself and Pepsia from dying for the last seven years, but Pepsia has no idea that the squirrel his her mother is using is out of place, and the best the judges can say for Phobia's dish is that she was "[[DamnedByFaintPraise generous with the salt]]".
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** In the Season 2 intro, Phobia is told by Hyppolyta to [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-03-12 give baby Pepsia to the Gargareans if not to the father.]] The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargareans Gargareans]] were a male tribe in Greek mythology that had worked out a deal with the Amazonians to keep all the male babies, while the Amazonians raised their female babies in return.
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** In the Season 2 intro, Phobia is told by Hyppolyta to [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-03-12 com/comix/season-02-intro/ give baby Pepsia to the Gargareans if not to the father.]] The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargareans Gargareans]] were a male tribe in Greek mythology that had worked out a deal with the Amazonians to keep all the male babies, while the Amazonians raised their female babies in return.
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* MeaningfulRename: The former Gastro changes her name to Pepsia after determining that she [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} wants to be a girl]].
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* BestialityIsDepraved: Played with and subverted in the decanonized timeline. As a teenager, Gastro is dating Princess Starbutt the talking horse. Since she's sapient people consider it an acceptable case of InterspeciesRomance, but Sophia assumes she's a normal horse at first- apparently this practice is called "communing with Zeus" in Crete.
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* BestialityIsDepraved: Played with and subverted in the decanonized timeline. As a teenager, Gastro Pepsia is dating Princess Starbutt the talking horse. Since she's sapient people consider it an acceptable case of InterspeciesRomance, but Sophia assumes she's a normal horse at first- apparently this practice is called "communing with Zeus" in Crete.
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* BrainyBaby: Pepsia rarely cried when he was a baby. Phobia claims that one of the few times he did, he expressed a philosophical problem, namely the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_argument dream argument]], in which you can never be sure all you experience is real, which terrified him. However, Phobia is an UnreliableExpositor and Pepsia doesn't buy it.
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* BrainyBaby: Pepsia rarely cried when he she was a baby. Phobia claims that one of the few times he she did, he expressed a philosophical problem, namely the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_argument dream argument]], in which you can never be sure all you experience is real, which terrified him.her. However, Phobia is an UnreliableExpositor and Pepsia doesn't buy it.
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* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Pepsia receives a few spankings from his mother when he's too much of a brat.
* DreadfulMusician: Pepsia and his horn causes a hungry lion to fall asleep.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Apparently Pepsia is feminine enough that Sophia always assumed he was a girl, and Phobia implies that Sophia isn't the only one to assume that.
* DreadfulMusician: Pepsia and his horn causes a hungry lion to fall asleep.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Apparently Pepsia is feminine enough that Sophia always assumed he was a girl, and Phobia implies that Sophia isn't the only one to assume that.
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* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Pepsia receives a few spankings from his her mother when he's too much of a brat.
* DreadfulMusician: Pepsia andhis her horn causes a hungry lion to fall asleep.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Apparently Pepsia is feminine enough that Sophia always assumedhe she was a girl, and Phobia implies that Sophia isn't the only one to assume that.
* DreadfulMusician: Pepsia and
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Apparently Pepsia is feminine enough that Sophia always assumed
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* TheExile: Phobia was banished from the all-female Amazon village due to wanting to raise her son herself.
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* TheExile: Phobia was banished from the all-female Amazon village due to wanting to raise her son 'son' herself.
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* ImmuneToFate: In an older timeline, Phobia was eaten by a frog monster. Time travellers proceeded to grab and raise [[spoiler:her daughter, and her daughter]] couldn't resist making edits to the timeline, such as killing said frog when it was still a tadpole. Additionally, Nightsorrow, another time traveller, [[spoiler:sired a son with her]]. As a result, Phobia's fate was thrown off course, and [[spoiler:a pair of gods make plans to use her against Zeus's plans for Herakles, which would otherwise be guaranteed to succeed]] (at least, in the no-longer-canonical timeline).
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* ImmuneToFate: In an older timeline, Phobia was eaten by a frog monster. Time travellers proceeded to grab and raise [[spoiler:her daughter, and her daughter]] couldn't resist making edits to the timeline, such as killing said frog when it was still a tadpole. Additionally, Nightsorrow, another time traveller, [[spoiler:sired a son another child with her]]. As a result, Phobia's fate was thrown off course, and [[spoiler:a pair of gods make plans to use her against Zeus's plans for Herakles, which would otherwise be guaranteed to succeed]] (at least, in the no-longer-canonical timeline).
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** In the old canon, Pepsia forms a relationship with Princess Starbutt, a magical talking horse.horse.
** [[spoiler: Phobia and Mania end up getting together after both of them break up with klepto sequentially.]]
** [[spoiler: Phobia and Mania end up getting together after both of them break up with klepto sequentially.]]
** [[spoiler: She's at least lying about not knowing who the father is.]]
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* TellMeAboutMyFather: Parodied, with Phobia telling Pepsia she was seduced by Zeus in the form of an animal, and the specific animal changes every time she tells the story. The "Handsome Giraffe" probably being the highlight.[[note]]And yes, there's RuleThirtyFour on this. You're welcome.[[/note]] Later, she claims that she doesn't know who Pepsia's father is... and even later, she accidentally lets it slip that she actually does know. [[spoiler:It's Lord Nightsorrow.]] Pepsia's not happy to find out he's been lied to all these years.
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* TellMeAboutMyFather: Parodied, with Phobia telling Pepsia she was seduced by Zeus in the form of an animal, and the specific animal changes every time she tells the story. The "Handsome Giraffe" probably being the highlight.[[note]]And yes, there's RuleThirtyFour on this. You're welcome.[[/note]] Later, she claims that she doesn't know who Pepsia's father is... and even later, she accidentally lets it slip that she actually does know. [[spoiler:It's Lord Nightsorrow.]] Pepsia's not happy to find out he's she's been lied to all these years.
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->'''Q: Isn't your comic, in fact, historically ''in''accurate?'''\\
A: Look, 1400 BC was a really long time ago. Our historical and archaeological records of that time are dodgy at best and laughable at worst. You'll just have to take my word that this comic is the 100% true portrayal of what really happened.\\
Anyway, this comic is no less historically accurate than other serious illustrated documentaries like ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' or ''ComicBook/{{Groo|TheWanderer}}''.
-->-- [[http://gastrophobia.com/about.php The FAQ page]]
''[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php PepsiaPhobia]]'' is a webcomic by Daisy [=McGuire=], about the Amazonian exile and single mom Phobia; her precocious scamp of a daughter, Pepsia; and her recently-acquired, listless slave Klepto. They have adventures in UsefulNotes/AncientGreece.
The comic is a series of short stories; while there is continuity, there's little in the way of overarching plot.
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!!''[=PepsiaPhobia=]'' provides examples of:
%%* ActionMom: Phobia
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: At the bottom of the [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2008-09-03 2008-09-03 strip.]]
-->'''Phobia:''' No feeble foe can flee from the fantastic force of the fearless phobia's fusillade!
* AerithAndBob: There's Phobia, Mania, Klepto,... then there's Kelly.
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%%* AmbiguouslyBrown: The Amazonians.
* AnachronismStew: Banks, dining-and-dashing, EyeBeams, and XP in UsefulNotes/AncientGreece. Also, the [[http://gastrophobia.com/pix/extras/mapofancientgreece.gif map of Greece]] [[PlayedForLaughs is actually a recolored map of Texas]]. At least some of this is due to time travelers messing with the timeline.
* AnimalEyes: Mania (not the dog, but [[spoiler:Krphxyzwlps' human form]]) has slitted eyes.
%%* {{Animesque}}: Slightly.
* TheAristocrats: Not the best joke to tell in front of your mother.
-->'''Klepto:''' Gastro, look what you've done to your poor mother's spanking hand!
* ArtShift: The chapter "[=KleptoMania=]", which is from [[OurMonstersAreWeird Krphxyzwlps]]' point of view, has all characters drawn as silhouettes with occasional facial features.
%%* BareYourMidriff: Philia
%%* BedsheetGhost: Aunt Pneuma
* BestialityIsDepraved: Played with and subverted in the decanonized timeline. As a teenager, Gastro is dating Princess Starbutt the talking horse. Since she's sapient people consider it an acceptable case of InterspeciesRomance, but Sophia assumes she's a normal horse at first- apparently this practice is called "communing with Zeus" in Crete.
%%* BigCreepyCrawlies: Krphxyzwlps
* BiggerOnTheInside: Hydro the Healer's hut. Looks like a minuscule shack on the outside, but contains not only a large room but also a huge aquarium.
* BookDumb: What the example under {{Foreshadowing}} below was implied to be at the time; Philia gives off a vibe of not being all that bright, at the best of times.
* BrainyBaby: Pepsia rarely cried when he was a baby. Phobia claims that one of the few times he did, he expressed a philosophical problem, namely the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_argument dream argument]], in which you can never be sure all you experience is real, which terrified him. However, Phobia is an UnreliableExpositor and Pepsia doesn't buy it.
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: "That sexy barbarian lady escaped! Not only is she clever, she's a powerhouse!"
* ButterflyOfDoom: Filby chastises Nightsorrow for this after he confesses to sleeping with Phobia not long after they ended up in ancient Greece.
-->'''Filby:''' What is ''wrong'' with you?! We travel back in time and you step on like a billion butterflies!\\
'''Nightsorrow:''' I did a lot more than ''step'' on that butterfly, [[LampShadedDoubleEntendre if you know what I mean.]]
* CerebusSyndrome: While the tone remains light, the comic has progressively become a lot more plot-focused, especially since the start of Season 3.
* ChekhovsGunman: Krphxyzwlps herself started out as a MonsterOfTheWeek. She got a return appearance in "For Heifer in My Heart", more as a joke than anything else. Come Season 3, she's become an important character.
* ClassicalCyclops: A villainous sorcerer has a miniature cyclops as his familiar (which looks like the classical cyclops, but is about the size of a human child). The sorcerer does make it grow into the traditional giant size so it can fight Pepsia--but he transforms it into a "biclops" in the process, which has twice as many eyes and is therefore twice as dangerous. The biclops is still distinct from a regular giant because its eyes are arranged vertically, rather than horizontally.
* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the AltText of [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-01-10 the 2011-01-10 comic.]] (In this case, it was obviously done on purpose to invoke the animated trope.)
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: One color per chapter.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: On the topic of slavery. Phobia and Pepsia own a slave named Klepto, but [[spoiler: later try setting him free.]] This is also PlayedForLaughs when [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-01-27 Helen knows that there's a problem]] with [[spoiler: Klepto getting repossessed by the government]], but doesn't know what, thinking the worst part of it is having to do your own laundry for a month.
* DireBeast: [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-09-11 The flashback of Phobia and Lord Nightsorrow's first meeting]] involves a dire-frog (looking rather like a frog-man).
* DisproportionateRetribution: After Helen offends Phobia and Klepto, he threatens to spit in any pizza she orders from them. She responds by siccing her health inspector of a husband on Klepto and Phobia's restaurant, causing them significant problems.
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Pepsia receives a few spankings from his mother when he's too much of a brat.
* DreadfulMusician: Pepsia and his horn causes a hungry lion to fall asleep.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Apparently Pepsia is feminine enough that Sophia always assumed he was a girl, and Phobia implies that Sophia isn't the only one to assume that.
** This turns out correct.
* EternalRecurrence: The universe resets back to the beginning once every so often. Each iteration mostly repeats the previous iteration's events, but the iterations have gradually changed over time. TimeTravel mostly involves travelling to a different point in time of a future iteration. The TimePolice try to keep the iterations stable, but there have been slips. Two of them have made Phobia ImmuneToFate.
* EvilSorcerer: Lord Nightsorrow's name and general behaviour seem to aim at this trope. However, he's not very villainous and mostly wants to get back to his own era or hook up with Phobia.
* EyeScream: Phobia vanquishes Cosmo's "Biclops" form by slashing both his eyes with her sword.
* TheExile: Phobia was banished from the all-female Amazon village due to wanting to raise her son herself.
%%* EyeBeams: Bambikles
%%* FaceFault: Used straight, invoked, and ''weaponized''.
* FacePalm:
** When Filby does, it's with appropriate unsound effect: [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-06 FACEPALM]]
** [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2015-07-10 The goddess Athena has an epic one]] from Ares likening his portfolio with hers.
* FanDisservice: {{Averted|Trope}} in Chapter 2:
-->''Originally I planned to draw this scene with Pepsia wearing a {{loin cloth}}, but I decided to spare everyone that sight.''
* FlatEarthAtheist: Nightsorrow is an atheist, in a world where both magic and gods are real. While he himself has admittedly never had any experience with the gods, that doesn't stop Pepsia and Phobia from treating his beliefs as silly superstitions.
* FlatWhat: Phobia gives one when Philia tells her that [[spoiler:she is Klepto and Phobia's daughter ''from the future'']].
* FootPopping: Phobia while kissing Hydro in the [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-10-16 "four kinds of love"]] panel.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
-->'''Phobia:''' Philia, how do you stay so young-looking?\\
'''Philia: Well, ''GEE'', maybe it's because I'm 22!'''\\
'''Phobia:''' Eight years ago, you told me you were 20...?\\
'''Philia: Then I'm 28, SHEESH! Why is this so HARD for you?!'''
* {{Gasp}}: Rather frequent, and usually quite exaggerated. For example, [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-02-20 a threefer when the Mockinbirds' source of power gets destroyed.]]
* GenericGraffiti: Only visible in a [[http://gastrophobia.tumblr.com/post/74167701158/heres-a-close-up-of-todays-update-so-you-can-see close-up of a panel]] provided by the artist. Is actually more [[http://www.pompeiana.org/resources/ancient/graffiti%20from%20pompeii.htm historically accurate]] than it seems--ignoring the Simpsons reference.
%%* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Again, Krphxyzwlps.
%%* GoshDangItToHeck: Well, initially.
* GhostlyGoals: Subverted: when Phobia accomplishes Pneuma's "goals", she disappears to go haunt Phobia's brother.
* GreenRocks: What Chronologium amounts to. Beyond allowing time travel, eating a block of the stuff 10 years ago gave Krphxyzwlps her shapeshifting power.
* HartmanHips: Phobia. Don't mock the size of her legs, though...
* HashHouseLingo:
-->'''Phobia:''' [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2015-02-04 Klepto, 3 harpy necks, release the Kraken and wreck'em!]]\\
'''Klepto:''' I don't know what that means!
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Invoked -- "To ''kill'' a monster, you must ''become'' a monster."
* HonestAxe: Referenced when Mim retrieves Phobia's sword from the lake.
* HumanSacrifice: Pepsia narrowly escape from this at the paws of the cultist bears.
* HypnoticEyes: Hydro, the Healer, has the ability to charm those who look into his eyes, though it doesn't work on everyone.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** Philia is good for this:
--->'''Philia: [++DON'T YELL OR YOU'LL CAUSE A ''CAVE-IN!!''++]'''
** In the "Ready, Willing, and a Bull" story, Phobia and Pepsia try to get to Klepto to steal from the Minotaur in an attempt to distract it after learning he's a pretty good thief and this conversation occurs:
--->'''Pepsia:''' Um, Klepto can steal that pendant on his neck?\\
'''Klepto:''' Nuh-Uh. [[AgainstMyReligion That's against my code]]. I come from a long line of noble thieves who only steal for personal gain.\\
'''Pepsia:''' [[LampshadeHanging That doesn't sound very noble to me]].\\
'''Klepto:''' Nobility has many faces.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Inverted; [[spoiler:it ends up saving Phobia's life]].
* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Phobia angrily states [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-05-22 "I'm a warrior, not a scholar!"]] when called on the fact that she's illiterate.
* ImmuneToFate: In an older timeline, Phobia was eaten by a frog monster. Time travellers proceeded to grab and raise [[spoiler:her daughter, and her daughter]] couldn't resist making edits to the timeline, such as killing said frog when it was still a tadpole. Additionally, Nightsorrow, another time traveller, [[spoiler:sired a son with her]]. As a result, Phobia's fate was thrown off course, and [[spoiler:a pair of gods make plans to use her against Zeus's plans for Herakles, which would otherwise be guaranteed to succeed]] (at least, in the no-longer-canonical timeline).
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Phobia. [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-31 Lampshaded here]], but ultimately averted. Although while her hips are rather big, her chest is more realistically portioned.
* InfiniteCanvas: Commented on and averted in a strip where Phobia falls down a hole.
* InterspeciesRomance:
** Klepto is in a relationship with Krphxyzwlps/Mania. She is capable of VoluntaryShapeshifting, and usually uses a human female form, but in her natural form, she is a male centipoidal netherbeast, an exotic subspecies of dragon.
** Pepsia forms a relationship with Princess Starbutt, a magical talking horse.
* JerkassGods: This ''is'' loosely based on Greek Mythology after all, so the decanonised volume which heavily featured them played into it.
** Zeus drives Herakles mad and makes him slaughter his family, seemingly for fun.
** Ares, being the WarGod, naturally enjoys creating wars.
* KickTheDog: That's how you know that Hydro the Healer is a [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-04-11 "bad dude".]]
* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:Philia]] claims to be the child of Phobia and Klepto from the future.
* LampshadeHanging: [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-04-01 "Check it out, those guys are fortuitously discussing subject matter pertinent to our current task."]]
* LethalChef: Phobia. She's apparently managed to keep herself and Pepsia from dying for the last seven years, but Pepsia has no idea that the squirrel his mother is using is out of place, and the best the judges can say for Phobia's dish is that she was "[[DamnedByFaintPraise generous with the salt]]".
* LowerDeckEpisode: The appropriately-named chapter "Not Everything's About Phobia".
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Phobia, Philia is your daughter.]]
* MamaBear: Seen [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-09-28 toward the end of the Nightsorrow arc.]]
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Phobia is an aggressive ActionGirl hunter who loves meat so much she considers any food without it to be utter crap. Klepto is a NonActionGuy and an experienced cook whose meals usually don't contain much meat. [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-11-17 When they're out drinking]], she and Philia make fun of him for choosing a drink as girly as Beijing Peach.
* MasculineLinesFeminineCurves: Accentuated in the "[[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-05-19 How to draw]] ''[[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-05-20 GastroPhobia]]''" [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-05-24 filler strips]].
* MeaningfulName:
** The thieving slave is named Klepto.
** The ghost Pneuma's name means "spirit" in Greek.
** The healer Hydro keeps a huge aquarium in his shack and wanted to turn Phobia into a mermaid for some reason.
* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: She forms a romantic relationship with Klepto, but breaks up with him because he laughed at her over a probably exaggerated story involving Phobia's apparent mother.
* NeverMyFault: Played for laughs. Nightsorrow always blames Phobia for anything that goes wrong and involves her even if it was entirely his fault, saying that she betrayed him.
* NoIndoorVoice: Philia. '''[+++"I ''AM'' WHISPERING!"+++]''' [[labelnote:*]]not whispering at all[[/labelnote]]
* NonActionGuy: Klepto, made even worse due to his being around Phobia.
* NotSoDifferent: Parodied; Pneuma tries to invoke this, but can't think of any ways that she and Phobia are alike.
* OhMyGods: The names of Greek gods are often said in vain. Hell, even the trope name is said in [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2008-10-24 one strip.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The Mockingbird princess' Southern US accent comes and goes.
* OrwellianRetcon: Parts of Chapter 9 were redone because the author was unsatisfied with them. This included renaming the substance that allows time travel from "Samsonite" to "Chronologium".
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: When Philia and [[spoiler:Philia from an alternate timeline (started by Lord Nightsorrow's manipulation)]] meet each other, [[SarcasmMode they immediately hit off pretty well]].
-->'''Philia: ''WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME EARLIER AND SAVE ME SOME STRESS YOU STUPID BITCH?'''''\\
[[spoiler:'''Philia-from-the-Future:''']] (''thoughts'') ''Gods'' I hate myself.
* OurGodsAreDifferent:
** There are normal gods, which include the Greek and Mayan pantheons, as well as at least one netherbeast god.
** There is an older class of deities called the Titans.
** The Old Ones are the most powerful beings known, to which even the gods pale in comparison. Their motives are beyond the understanding of lesser beings and they are believed to originate from a previous iteration of the universe.
* OurHeroIsDead: She got better.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: Krphxyzwlps, a giant sapient centipede with the ability to shapeshift into anything with the same body mass, including several separate creatures.
* ParadoxPerson: [[spoiler: Philia]] is worried about being this.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Phobia to Mania, while covering her with a tablecloth, after the later shapeshifted from a deer to a naked human.
* PrecisionFStrike: Implied by a [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-11-23 "censored"]] bubble.
* ProudWarriorRaceGirl: Phobia, naturally. "A warrior does '''not''' wash dishes."
* PublicDomainCharacter: Phobia is an Amazon (the Greek myth version), with storylines being based off [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]] stories. Her brother Alcides is implied to be Hercules, as Alcides was Hercules' birth name. The first 12 chapters are very loosely based on the 12 Labors of Hercules.
%%* {{Pun}}s:
%%** Many of the chapter titles.
%%** "Dotted Lion"
* ReallyGetsAround: Phobia claims that she doesn't know who Pepsia's real father is [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-10-15 because there's too many candidates.]]
%%* RedOniBlueOni:
%%** Phobia and Pepsia.
%%** Sometimes also Phobia and Klepto, when he behaves less obtusely.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: Amusingly, the Sphinx is apparently played by an "actress", namely Saphire from ''Manga/PrincessKnight''.
* RiddleOfTheSphinx: Parodied. Multiple times.
* RiddlingSphinx: A sphinx is repeatedly humiliated because she only knows [[RiddleOfTheSphinx the one riddle]], and [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-03-09 everyone]], even [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-03-06 the little kid]], knows the answer already.
* SarcasmBlind: Klepto, [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-01-23 sometimes.]]
* SdrawkcabName: The god of the [[Franchise/CareBears cultist bears]] is "Tolaerac".
* SecurityCling: Though she'd probably deny it, [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-01-14 Phobia did jump into Klepto's arms]] when startled by Princess Mim metamorphosing.
* SelfServingMemory: Nightsorrow remembers meeting Phobia by [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-09-11 saving her from a frog monster]]. While she says she's the one who saved him.
* ServileSnarker: Klepto, with far more emphasis on the "snark" than the "serve".
%%* ShaggyDogStory
%%* ShapedLikeItself: "Trivial Trivia!"
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-01-15 Seen between]] [[ShipTease Phobia and Klepto]].
* ShipTease: Phobia and Klepto get a [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-06-03 subtle]] [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-06-05 one]] in the main storyline. It's telling that they always seem to hit it off [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-10-29 in the AU]] [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-10-01 stories]]. Eventually, the comic stops teasing and says outright that [[spoiler:they've been dating for months]] and that's why [[spoiler:Phobia wants to set him free.]]
* ShoutOut:
** Some character designs -- female ones more often -- resemble those of ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' quite a bit.
** The artwork contains numerous nods to Creator/OsamuTezuka. Trivia's character design resembles Saphire, Ornitho ''is'' Duke Red, the Bambikles story has several panel layouts that reference the original ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' manga and the Dine & Dash story has a gang of bank robbers who combine into a giant centipede, similar to Gadem from ''Manga/AstroBoy''.
** [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Eeyore]] takes a beating from a minotaur.
** [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Bluto]] [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-10-22 makes a cameo]], followed [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-11-11 a few pages later]] by "the cow from ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie''".
** The entire Bambikles arc is a direct parody of ''Anime/RingingBell''.
** The owl in the Bambikles arc looks like Bubo from the original ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'', and is named Archimedes after the owl in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone''.
** [[Webcomic/HarkAVagrant Katie Beaton's Fat Pony]] makes [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-06-12 a cameo in the background]].
** Nightsorrow's "Wizard's Tower" is Gargamel's house from ''Franchise/TheSmurfs''.
** "[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-12-01 Horsefield]]" parodies the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strips.
** The "Unbearable" storyline puts up [[Franchise/CareBears cultist bears]] against [[Franchise/MyLittlePony talking ponies]].
** A more specific shout-out to ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' with Pepsia writing a letter to "Dear Princess Starbutt".
** In a lot of the short, pun-based comics, the pun-naming style and flip-take pattern are a shout-out to ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' (confirmed in the AltText).
* ShownTheirWork: Despite the comic being a massive AnachronismStew, the artist clearly knows a lot about UsefulNotes/AncientGreece.
** An example is the filler strip [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-10-16 "Trivial Trivia!"]], which explains the philosophical concept of the four types of love.
** In the Season 2 intro, Phobia is told by Hyppolyta to [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-03-12 give baby Pepsia to the Gargareans if not to the father.]] The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargareans Gargareans]] were a male tribe in Greek mythology that had worked out a deal with the Amazonians to keep all the male babies, while the Amazonians raised their female babies in return.
* SlippedTheRopes: Well, the handcuffes: [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-01-28 Phobia in the Mockinbirds dungeon.]]
* SpeechBubblesInterruption: [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-06-15 Pepsia to Phobia:]]
-->'''Phobia:''' A warrior does not recite po--\\
'''Pepsia:''' We accept!
* SplashOfColor: The page where Phobia meets again with her brother Alcides is in black and white, save for [[spoiler:the blood covering Alcides/Herakles]].
* SpoilerOpening: Appropriately, the "Opening Credits" show Mania a few episodes early.
* StalkerWithACrush: Nightsorrow to Phobia. "[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-06 But have you seen her ass?]]"
* StupidestThingIveEverHeard: [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-06-12 "None shall pass, for this bridge leads to the Magical Land of the Pretty Ponies."]]
* TakeOffYourClothes: In the [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-31 2009-08-31 strip]], Filby asks Phobia to take off her belt. She doesn't take it well.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: Parodied, with Phobia telling Pepsia she was seduced by Zeus in the form of an animal, and the specific animal changes every time she tells the story. The "Handsome Giraffe" probably being the highlight.[[note]]And yes, there's RuleThirtyFour on this. You're welcome.[[/note]] Later, she claims that she doesn't know who Pepsia's father is... and even later, she accidentally lets it slip that she actually does know. [[spoiler:It's Lord Nightsorrow.]] Pepsia's not happy to find out he's been lied to all these years.
* ThemeNaming: Many of the names come from prefixes/suffixes of Greek origin.
* TimePolice: [[spoiler:Philia]]. First foreshadowed on [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-04 two]] [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-06 pages]], then shown in the [[LooseCanon dubiously canonical]] "badder comics" interlude, before finally showing up in the comic proper.
* TitleDrop: Happens twice in "Not Everything's About Phobia", with {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s in the AltText.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Klepto
-->'''Phobia:''' You know, some people whip their slaves for less than that.\\
'''Klepto:''' Phobia, it has been my goal to be whipped by an Amazon since I was thirteen.
* TitleSequence: You heard right. There are ''title sequences'' for a webcomic. One for every season.
-->''[[ThemeTune Apparently, I've worn out my stay\\
But I don't care what other people say\\
Everything's gonna be a-okay!\\
It's a brand new day, and there are monsters to slay\\
So get outta my way, or you're gonna pay!\\
Do whatever you may, but there ain't no time to play\\
Everything's gonna be a-okay]]!''
* TranquilFury:
-->'''Phobia:''' (''smiling'') And if you ever endanger my son again, I'll have to cut out one of your kidneys and force-feed it to you.
* TranslationConvention: Lampshaded for a punchline in the [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-11 2010-08-11 strip]].
* UndeadAuthor: Played gleefully straight in [[spoiler:"The Hole Story".]]
* TheUnpronounceable: Krphxyzwlps. [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-08-21 A whole comic is solely about Phobia's efforts to pronounce it.]]
-->'''Phobia: ''[[Series/WheelOfFortune Buy some vowels!]]'''''
:: The about page now adresses this. It says it's pronounced as Ker-fixy-whelps. The z is silent.
* UnreliableNarrator: Phobia has a tendency to tell tall tales about herself.
* UnsoundEffect: "[[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-10-16 Make-out sounds!]]"
* VerySpecialEpisode: Parodied in [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-04-20 a filler strip]].
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Krphxyzwlps can shapeshift into several separate creatures as long as they add up to her body mass.
%%** The Mockingbirds.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Sophia's reaction to learning Princess Starbutt's name is to say her parents ought to be arrested.
* WritingForTheTrade: The cartoonist admitted as such.
----
->'''Q: Isn't your comic, in fact, historically ''in''accurate?'''\\
A: Look, 1400 BC was a really long time ago. Our historical and archaeological records of that time are dodgy at best and laughable at worst. You'll just have to take my word that this comic is the 100% true portrayal of what really happened.\\
Anyway, this comic is no less historically accurate than other serious illustrated documentaries like ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' or ''ComicBook/{{Groo|TheWanderer}}''.
-->-- [[http://gastrophobia.com/about.php The FAQ page]]
''[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php PepsiaPhobia]]'' is a webcomic by Daisy [=McGuire=], about the Amazonian exile and single mom Phobia; her precocious scamp of a daughter, Pepsia; and her recently-acquired, listless slave Klepto. They have adventures in UsefulNotes/AncientGreece.
The comic is a series of short stories; while there is continuity, there's little in the way of overarching plot.
----
!!''[=PepsiaPhobia=]'' provides examples of:
%%* ActionMom: Phobia
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: At the bottom of the [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2008-09-03 2008-09-03 strip.]]
-->'''Phobia:''' No feeble foe can flee from the fantastic force of the fearless phobia's fusillade!
* AerithAndBob: There's Phobia, Mania, Klepto,... then there's Kelly.
%%* AltText
%%* AmbiguouslyBrown: The Amazonians.
* AnachronismStew: Banks, dining-and-dashing, EyeBeams, and XP in UsefulNotes/AncientGreece. Also, the [[http://gastrophobia.com/pix/extras/mapofancientgreece.gif map of Greece]] [[PlayedForLaughs is actually a recolored map of Texas]]. At least some of this is due to time travelers messing with the timeline.
* AnimalEyes: Mania (not the dog, but [[spoiler:Krphxyzwlps' human form]]) has slitted eyes.
%%* {{Animesque}}: Slightly.
* TheAristocrats: Not the best joke to tell in front of your mother.
-->'''Klepto:''' Gastro, look what you've done to your poor mother's spanking hand!
* ArtShift: The chapter "[=KleptoMania=]", which is from [[OurMonstersAreWeird Krphxyzwlps]]' point of view, has all characters drawn as silhouettes with occasional facial features.
%%* BareYourMidriff: Philia
%%* BedsheetGhost: Aunt Pneuma
* BestialityIsDepraved: Played with and subverted in the decanonized timeline. As a teenager, Gastro is dating Princess Starbutt the talking horse. Since she's sapient people consider it an acceptable case of InterspeciesRomance, but Sophia assumes she's a normal horse at first- apparently this practice is called "communing with Zeus" in Crete.
%%* BigCreepyCrawlies: Krphxyzwlps
* BiggerOnTheInside: Hydro the Healer's hut. Looks like a minuscule shack on the outside, but contains not only a large room but also a huge aquarium.
* BookDumb: What the example under {{Foreshadowing}} below was implied to be at the time; Philia gives off a vibe of not being all that bright, at the best of times.
* BrainyBaby: Pepsia rarely cried when he was a baby. Phobia claims that one of the few times he did, he expressed a philosophical problem, namely the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_argument dream argument]], in which you can never be sure all you experience is real, which terrified him. However, Phobia is an UnreliableExpositor and Pepsia doesn't buy it.
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: "That sexy barbarian lady escaped! Not only is she clever, she's a powerhouse!"
* ButterflyOfDoom: Filby chastises Nightsorrow for this after he confesses to sleeping with Phobia not long after they ended up in ancient Greece.
-->'''Filby:''' What is ''wrong'' with you?! We travel back in time and you step on like a billion butterflies!\\
'''Nightsorrow:''' I did a lot more than ''step'' on that butterfly, [[LampShadedDoubleEntendre if you know what I mean.]]
* CerebusSyndrome: While the tone remains light, the comic has progressively become a lot more plot-focused, especially since the start of Season 3.
* ChekhovsGunman: Krphxyzwlps herself started out as a MonsterOfTheWeek. She got a return appearance in "For Heifer in My Heart", more as a joke than anything else. Come Season 3, she's become an important character.
* ClassicalCyclops: A villainous sorcerer has a miniature cyclops as his familiar (which looks like the classical cyclops, but is about the size of a human child). The sorcerer does make it grow into the traditional giant size so it can fight Pepsia--but he transforms it into a "biclops" in the process, which has twice as many eyes and is therefore twice as dangerous. The biclops is still distinct from a regular giant because its eyes are arranged vertically, rather than horizontally.
* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the AltText of [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-01-10 the 2011-01-10 comic.]] (In this case, it was obviously done on purpose to invoke the animated trope.)
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: One color per chapter.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: On the topic of slavery. Phobia and Pepsia own a slave named Klepto, but [[spoiler: later try setting him free.]] This is also PlayedForLaughs when [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-01-27 Helen knows that there's a problem]] with [[spoiler: Klepto getting repossessed by the government]], but doesn't know what, thinking the worst part of it is having to do your own laundry for a month.
* DireBeast: [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-09-11 The flashback of Phobia and Lord Nightsorrow's first meeting]] involves a dire-frog (looking rather like a frog-man).
* DisproportionateRetribution: After Helen offends Phobia and Klepto, he threatens to spit in any pizza she orders from them. She responds by siccing her health inspector of a husband on Klepto and Phobia's restaurant, causing them significant problems.
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Pepsia receives a few spankings from his mother when he's too much of a brat.
* DreadfulMusician: Pepsia and his horn causes a hungry lion to fall asleep.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Apparently Pepsia is feminine enough that Sophia always assumed he was a girl, and Phobia implies that Sophia isn't the only one to assume that.
** This turns out correct.
* EternalRecurrence: The universe resets back to the beginning once every so often. Each iteration mostly repeats the previous iteration's events, but the iterations have gradually changed over time. TimeTravel mostly involves travelling to a different point in time of a future iteration. The TimePolice try to keep the iterations stable, but there have been slips. Two of them have made Phobia ImmuneToFate.
* EvilSorcerer: Lord Nightsorrow's name and general behaviour seem to aim at this trope. However, he's not very villainous and mostly wants to get back to his own era or hook up with Phobia.
* EyeScream: Phobia vanquishes Cosmo's "Biclops" form by slashing both his eyes with her sword.
* TheExile: Phobia was banished from the all-female Amazon village due to wanting to raise her son herself.
%%* EyeBeams: Bambikles
%%* FaceFault: Used straight, invoked, and ''weaponized''.
* FacePalm:
** When Filby does, it's with appropriate unsound effect: [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-06 FACEPALM]]
** [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2015-07-10 The goddess Athena has an epic one]] from Ares likening his portfolio with hers.
* FanDisservice: {{Averted|Trope}} in Chapter 2:
-->''Originally I planned to draw this scene with Pepsia wearing a {{loin cloth}}, but I decided to spare everyone that sight.''
* FlatEarthAtheist: Nightsorrow is an atheist, in a world where both magic and gods are real. While he himself has admittedly never had any experience with the gods, that doesn't stop Pepsia and Phobia from treating his beliefs as silly superstitions.
* FlatWhat: Phobia gives one when Philia tells her that [[spoiler:she is Klepto and Phobia's daughter ''from the future'']].
* FootPopping: Phobia while kissing Hydro in the [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-10-16 "four kinds of love"]] panel.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
-->'''Phobia:''' Philia, how do you stay so young-looking?\\
'''Philia: Well, ''GEE'', maybe it's because I'm 22!'''\\
'''Phobia:''' Eight years ago, you told me you were 20...?\\
'''Philia: Then I'm 28, SHEESH! Why is this so HARD for you?!'''
* {{Gasp}}: Rather frequent, and usually quite exaggerated. For example, [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-02-20 a threefer when the Mockinbirds' source of power gets destroyed.]]
* GenericGraffiti: Only visible in a [[http://gastrophobia.tumblr.com/post/74167701158/heres-a-close-up-of-todays-update-so-you-can-see close-up of a panel]] provided by the artist. Is actually more [[http://www.pompeiana.org/resources/ancient/graffiti%20from%20pompeii.htm historically accurate]] than it seems--ignoring the Simpsons reference.
%%* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Again, Krphxyzwlps.
%%* GoshDangItToHeck: Well, initially.
* GhostlyGoals: Subverted: when Phobia accomplishes Pneuma's "goals", she disappears to go haunt Phobia's brother.
* GreenRocks: What Chronologium amounts to. Beyond allowing time travel, eating a block of the stuff 10 years ago gave Krphxyzwlps her shapeshifting power.
* HartmanHips: Phobia. Don't mock the size of her legs, though...
* HashHouseLingo:
-->'''Phobia:''' [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2015-02-04 Klepto, 3 harpy necks, release the Kraken and wreck'em!]]\\
'''Klepto:''' I don't know what that means!
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Invoked -- "To ''kill'' a monster, you must ''become'' a monster."
* HonestAxe: Referenced when Mim retrieves Phobia's sword from the lake.
* HumanSacrifice: Pepsia narrowly escape from this at the paws of the cultist bears.
* HypnoticEyes: Hydro, the Healer, has the ability to charm those who look into his eyes, though it doesn't work on everyone.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** Philia is good for this:
--->'''Philia: [++DON'T YELL OR YOU'LL CAUSE A ''CAVE-IN!!''++]'''
** In the "Ready, Willing, and a Bull" story, Phobia and Pepsia try to get to Klepto to steal from the Minotaur in an attempt to distract it after learning he's a pretty good thief and this conversation occurs:
--->'''Pepsia:''' Um, Klepto can steal that pendant on his neck?\\
'''Klepto:''' Nuh-Uh. [[AgainstMyReligion That's against my code]]. I come from a long line of noble thieves who only steal for personal gain.\\
'''Pepsia:''' [[LampshadeHanging That doesn't sound very noble to me]].\\
'''Klepto:''' Nobility has many faces.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Inverted; [[spoiler:it ends up saving Phobia's life]].
* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Phobia angrily states [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-05-22 "I'm a warrior, not a scholar!"]] when called on the fact that she's illiterate.
* ImmuneToFate: In an older timeline, Phobia was eaten by a frog monster. Time travellers proceeded to grab and raise [[spoiler:her daughter, and her daughter]] couldn't resist making edits to the timeline, such as killing said frog when it was still a tadpole. Additionally, Nightsorrow, another time traveller, [[spoiler:sired a son with her]]. As a result, Phobia's fate was thrown off course, and [[spoiler:a pair of gods make plans to use her against Zeus's plans for Herakles, which would otherwise be guaranteed to succeed]] (at least, in the no-longer-canonical timeline).
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Phobia. [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-31 Lampshaded here]], but ultimately averted. Although while her hips are rather big, her chest is more realistically portioned.
* InfiniteCanvas: Commented on and averted in a strip where Phobia falls down a hole.
* InterspeciesRomance:
** Klepto is in a relationship with Krphxyzwlps/Mania. She is capable of VoluntaryShapeshifting, and usually uses a human female form, but in her natural form, she is a male centipoidal netherbeast, an exotic subspecies of dragon.
** Pepsia forms a relationship with Princess Starbutt, a magical talking horse.
* JerkassGods: This ''is'' loosely based on Greek Mythology after all, so the decanonised volume which heavily featured them played into it.
** Zeus drives Herakles mad and makes him slaughter his family, seemingly for fun.
** Ares, being the WarGod, naturally enjoys creating wars.
* KickTheDog: That's how you know that Hydro the Healer is a [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-04-11 "bad dude".]]
* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:Philia]] claims to be the child of Phobia and Klepto from the future.
* LampshadeHanging: [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-04-01 "Check it out, those guys are fortuitously discussing subject matter pertinent to our current task."]]
* LethalChef: Phobia. She's apparently managed to keep herself and Pepsia from dying for the last seven years, but Pepsia has no idea that the squirrel his mother is using is out of place, and the best the judges can say for Phobia's dish is that she was "[[DamnedByFaintPraise generous with the salt]]".
* LowerDeckEpisode: The appropriately-named chapter "Not Everything's About Phobia".
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Phobia, Philia is your daughter.]]
* MamaBear: Seen [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-09-28 toward the end of the Nightsorrow arc.]]
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Phobia is an aggressive ActionGirl hunter who loves meat so much she considers any food without it to be utter crap. Klepto is a NonActionGuy and an experienced cook whose meals usually don't contain much meat. [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-11-17 When they're out drinking]], she and Philia make fun of him for choosing a drink as girly as Beijing Peach.
* MasculineLinesFeminineCurves: Accentuated in the "[[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-05-19 How to draw]] ''[[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-05-20 GastroPhobia]]''" [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-05-24 filler strips]].
* MeaningfulName:
** The thieving slave is named Klepto.
** The ghost Pneuma's name means "spirit" in Greek.
** The healer Hydro keeps a huge aquarium in his shack and wanted to turn Phobia into a mermaid for some reason.
* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: She forms a romantic relationship with Klepto, but breaks up with him because he laughed at her over a probably exaggerated story involving Phobia's apparent mother.
* NeverMyFault: Played for laughs. Nightsorrow always blames Phobia for anything that goes wrong and involves her even if it was entirely his fault, saying that she betrayed him.
* NoIndoorVoice: Philia. '''[+++"I ''AM'' WHISPERING!"+++]''' [[labelnote:*]]not whispering at all[[/labelnote]]
* NonActionGuy: Klepto, made even worse due to his being around Phobia.
* NotSoDifferent: Parodied; Pneuma tries to invoke this, but can't think of any ways that she and Phobia are alike.
* OhMyGods: The names of Greek gods are often said in vain. Hell, even the trope name is said in [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2008-10-24 one strip.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The Mockingbird princess' Southern US accent comes and goes.
* OrwellianRetcon: Parts of Chapter 9 were redone because the author was unsatisfied with them. This included renaming the substance that allows time travel from "Samsonite" to "Chronologium".
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: When Philia and [[spoiler:Philia from an alternate timeline (started by Lord Nightsorrow's manipulation)]] meet each other, [[SarcasmMode they immediately hit off pretty well]].
-->'''Philia: ''WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME EARLIER AND SAVE ME SOME STRESS YOU STUPID BITCH?'''''\\
[[spoiler:'''Philia-from-the-Future:''']] (''thoughts'') ''Gods'' I hate myself.
* OurGodsAreDifferent:
** There are normal gods, which include the Greek and Mayan pantheons, as well as at least one netherbeast god.
** There is an older class of deities called the Titans.
** The Old Ones are the most powerful beings known, to which even the gods pale in comparison. Their motives are beyond the understanding of lesser beings and they are believed to originate from a previous iteration of the universe.
* OurHeroIsDead: She got better.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: Krphxyzwlps, a giant sapient centipede with the ability to shapeshift into anything with the same body mass, including several separate creatures.
* ParadoxPerson: [[spoiler: Philia]] is worried about being this.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Phobia to Mania, while covering her with a tablecloth, after the later shapeshifted from a deer to a naked human.
* PrecisionFStrike: Implied by a [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-11-23 "censored"]] bubble.
* ProudWarriorRaceGirl: Phobia, naturally. "A warrior does '''not''' wash dishes."
* PublicDomainCharacter: Phobia is an Amazon (the Greek myth version), with storylines being based off [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]] stories. Her brother Alcides is implied to be Hercules, as Alcides was Hercules' birth name. The first 12 chapters are very loosely based on the 12 Labors of Hercules.
%%* {{Pun}}s:
%%** Many of the chapter titles.
%%** "Dotted Lion"
* ReallyGetsAround: Phobia claims that she doesn't know who Pepsia's real father is [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-10-15 because there's too many candidates.]]
%%* RedOniBlueOni:
%%** Phobia and Pepsia.
%%** Sometimes also Phobia and Klepto, when he behaves less obtusely.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: Amusingly, the Sphinx is apparently played by an "actress", namely Saphire from ''Manga/PrincessKnight''.
* RiddleOfTheSphinx: Parodied. Multiple times.
* RiddlingSphinx: A sphinx is repeatedly humiliated because she only knows [[RiddleOfTheSphinx the one riddle]], and [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-03-09 everyone]], even [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-03-06 the little kid]], knows the answer already.
* SarcasmBlind: Klepto, [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-01-23 sometimes.]]
* SdrawkcabName: The god of the [[Franchise/CareBears cultist bears]] is "Tolaerac".
* SecurityCling: Though she'd probably deny it, [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-01-14 Phobia did jump into Klepto's arms]] when startled by Princess Mim metamorphosing.
* SelfServingMemory: Nightsorrow remembers meeting Phobia by [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-09-11 saving her from a frog monster]]. While she says she's the one who saved him.
* ServileSnarker: Klepto, with far more emphasis on the "snark" than the "serve".
%%* ShaggyDogStory
%%* ShapedLikeItself: "Trivial Trivia!"
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-01-15 Seen between]] [[ShipTease Phobia and Klepto]].
* ShipTease: Phobia and Klepto get a [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-06-03 subtle]] [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-06-05 one]] in the main storyline. It's telling that they always seem to hit it off [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-10-29 in the AU]] [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-10-01 stories]]. Eventually, the comic stops teasing and says outright that [[spoiler:they've been dating for months]] and that's why [[spoiler:Phobia wants to set him free.]]
* ShoutOut:
** Some character designs -- female ones more often -- resemble those of ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' quite a bit.
** The artwork contains numerous nods to Creator/OsamuTezuka. Trivia's character design resembles Saphire, Ornitho ''is'' Duke Red, the Bambikles story has several panel layouts that reference the original ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' manga and the Dine & Dash story has a gang of bank robbers who combine into a giant centipede, similar to Gadem from ''Manga/AstroBoy''.
** [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Eeyore]] takes a beating from a minotaur.
** [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Bluto]] [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-10-22 makes a cameo]], followed [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-11-11 a few pages later]] by "the cow from ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie''".
** The entire Bambikles arc is a direct parody of ''Anime/RingingBell''.
** The owl in the Bambikles arc looks like Bubo from the original ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'', and is named Archimedes after the owl in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone''.
** [[Webcomic/HarkAVagrant Katie Beaton's Fat Pony]] makes [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-06-12 a cameo in the background]].
** Nightsorrow's "Wizard's Tower" is Gargamel's house from ''Franchise/TheSmurfs''.
** "[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2011-12-01 Horsefield]]" parodies the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strips.
** The "Unbearable" storyline puts up [[Franchise/CareBears cultist bears]] against [[Franchise/MyLittlePony talking ponies]].
** A more specific shout-out to ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' with Pepsia writing a letter to "Dear Princess Starbutt".
** In a lot of the short, pun-based comics, the pun-naming style and flip-take pattern are a shout-out to ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' (confirmed in the AltText).
* ShownTheirWork: Despite the comic being a massive AnachronismStew, the artist clearly knows a lot about UsefulNotes/AncientGreece.
** An example is the filler strip [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-10-16 "Trivial Trivia!"]], which explains the philosophical concept of the four types of love.
** In the Season 2 intro, Phobia is told by Hyppolyta to [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-03-12 give baby Pepsia to the Gargareans if not to the father.]] The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargareans Gargareans]] were a male tribe in Greek mythology that had worked out a deal with the Amazonians to keep all the male babies, while the Amazonians raised their female babies in return.
* SlippedTheRopes: Well, the handcuffes: [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-01-28 Phobia in the Mockinbirds dungeon.]]
* SpeechBubblesInterruption: [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-06-15 Pepsia to Phobia:]]
-->'''Phobia:''' A warrior does not recite po--\\
'''Pepsia:''' We accept!
* SplashOfColor: The page where Phobia meets again with her brother Alcides is in black and white, save for [[spoiler:the blood covering Alcides/Herakles]].
* SpoilerOpening: Appropriately, the "Opening Credits" show Mania a few episodes early.
* StalkerWithACrush: Nightsorrow to Phobia. "[[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-06 But have you seen her ass?]]"
* StupidestThingIveEverHeard: [[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-06-12 "None shall pass, for this bridge leads to the Magical Land of the Pretty Ponies."]]
* TakeOffYourClothes: In the [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-31 2009-08-31 strip]], Filby asks Phobia to take off her belt. She doesn't take it well.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: Parodied, with Phobia telling Pepsia she was seduced by Zeus in the form of an animal, and the specific animal changes every time she tells the story. The "Handsome Giraffe" probably being the highlight.[[note]]And yes, there's RuleThirtyFour on this. You're welcome.[[/note]] Later, she claims that she doesn't know who Pepsia's father is... and even later, she accidentally lets it slip that she actually does know. [[spoiler:It's Lord Nightsorrow.]] Pepsia's not happy to find out he's been lied to all these years.
* ThemeNaming: Many of the names come from prefixes/suffixes of Greek origin.
* TimePolice: [[spoiler:Philia]]. First foreshadowed on [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-04 two]] [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-06 pages]], then shown in the [[LooseCanon dubiously canonical]] "badder comics" interlude, before finally showing up in the comic proper.
* TitleDrop: Happens twice in "Not Everything's About Phobia", with {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s in the AltText.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Klepto
-->'''Phobia:''' You know, some people whip their slaves for less than that.\\
'''Klepto:''' Phobia, it has been my goal to be whipped by an Amazon since I was thirteen.
* TitleSequence: You heard right. There are ''title sequences'' for a webcomic. One for every season.
-->''[[ThemeTune Apparently, I've worn out my stay\\
But I don't care what other people say\\
Everything's gonna be a-okay!\\
It's a brand new day, and there are monsters to slay\\
So get outta my way, or you're gonna pay!\\
Do whatever you may, but there ain't no time to play\\
Everything's gonna be a-okay]]!''
* TranquilFury:
-->'''Phobia:''' (''smiling'') And if you ever endanger my son again, I'll have to cut out one of your kidneys and force-feed it to you.
* TranslationConvention: Lampshaded for a punchline in the [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2010-08-11 2010-08-11 strip]].
* UndeadAuthor: Played gleefully straight in [[spoiler:"The Hole Story".]]
* TheUnpronounceable: Krphxyzwlps. [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-08-21 A whole comic is solely about Phobia's efforts to pronounce it.]]
-->'''Phobia: ''[[Series/WheelOfFortune Buy some vowels!]]'''''
:: The about page now adresses this. It says it's pronounced as Ker-fixy-whelps. The z is silent.
* UnreliableNarrator: Phobia has a tendency to tell tall tales about herself.
* UnsoundEffect: "[[http://www.gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2013-10-16 Make-out sounds!]]"
* VerySpecialEpisode: Parodied in [[http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-04-20 a filler strip]].
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Krphxyzwlps can shapeshift into several separate creatures as long as they add up to her body mass.
%%** The Mockingbirds.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Sophia's reaction to learning Princess Starbutt's name is to say her parents ought to be arrested.
* WritingForTheTrade: The cartoonist admitted as such.
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