History Webcomic / RiceBoy

* ArtEvolution: Dahm improved his brush-drawn linework massively while making the comic. Compare [[http://www.rice-boy.com/see/index.php?c=005 T-O-E leaving Suntown]] with [[http://www.rice-boy.com/see/index.php?c=439 Rice Boy leaving Suntown]], 434 pages later.

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Played with. Over the years hundreds of people were declared to be the fulfiller until they finally found the right one. [[spoiler: In the end, both [[http://www.rice-boy.com/see/index.php?c=420 T-O-E and Rice Boy met the requirements to be Fulfiller]], but T-O-E is the one who dies first.]]

* FlatWhat: Rice Boy does this [[http://www.rice-boy.com/see/index.php?c=053 here.]] And [[http://www.rice-boy.com/see/index.php?c=212 here.]]

* StealthPun: [[http://www.rice-boy.com/see/index.php?c=353 Rise, boy.]]

* ArtEvolution: Dahm improved his brush-drawn linework massively while making the comic. Compare [[http://www.rice-boy.com/see/index.php?c=005 T-O-E leaving suntown]] with [[http://www.rice-boy.com/see/index.php?c=439 Rice Boy leaving Suntown]], 434 pages later.
%% * AncientKeeper: In the library of the Kingdom of Seen.

%% * BadassLongcoat: T-O-E.

* BeneathTheEarth: The Kingdom of Seen, well hidden beneath the ground, is a gateway between Overside and Underside, so can be considered a double example. Also, a HiddenElfVillage - if you get in there, they might never let you out.

%% * TheBlank: T-O-E.
%% * BountyHunter: Golgo.
%% * BreakTheCutie: Rice Boy. Gerund for some.

** Although, it should be remembered that Golgo [[spoiler: (aka Angel-Eye) used to be a searcher like T.O.E and Calabash. He's been around thousands of years, so she may not be his biological sister.]]

* FlatWorld: There are Overside and Underside. This story takes place mostly in the former.
* {{Foil}}: Calabash and T-O-E, to an extent. They have radically different personalities and outlooks, but are still friends and work towards a similar goal.

%% * HeterosexualLifePartners: Rice Boy and Gerund become this.

* ImmortalityImmorality: Not all immortal characters are immoral, but this is the effect that the Black Spirit has on people. Averted with Calabash and T-O-E, who still desperately cling to a failing moral compass.

* LordErrorProne: Yureg, the Prince of Satuar. His bumbling absentmindedness has to be seen to be believed. He also convinces himself that Rice Boy is a powerful wizard. His BeleagueredAssistant advises Rice Boy to get away as fast as possible.
* MechanicalLifeforms: The Machine Men. They can smoke, they grow as they age, and one of them nearly dies of ''poisoning''. ''Webcomic/OrderOfTales'' includes a story about them evolving into their metal form from rock material.

* NeverGetsDrunk: Calabash and T-O-E drink vodka and whiskey as if it was water. Cal says it's over 3000 years of building tolerance.

* WordsCanBreakMyBones: [[spoiler: A word uttered in the Trill language can ''literally'' do this.]]

* BadassAdorable: Admit it, Rice Boy's like [[Literature/TheLordofTheRings Frodo]], sweet-natured, cute, huggable and brave. Also Gerund.

** T.O.E, Calabash, and Golgo, all of them being immortal travelers who appear in legends and history books of various cultures.
** In a side story of their past, it mentions T.O.E becoming the king of a civilization while Calabash waited years for his return in tundra, right when ANOTHER hero of his own story was there.

* TVHeadRobot: T-O-E His head shows not-so-random images.

* WhiteGloves: T-O-E wears them. Here, they're straight-up Mickey Mouse gloves; later comics like ''Webcomic/OrderOfTales'' would depict them as more realistic leather gloves.

* WorldTree: Daughter, the oldest and strongest tree in the Heart of the Dorlish Wood, which holds the Tree Keeper's most valuable possession.

* DialogueReversal:

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The 'vaguely-defined' prophecy is fulfilled and Spatch is defeated. But T.O.E. [[TheHeroDies is stabbed by Golgo]] for the last time while trying to save Rice Boy. Rice Boy and Gerund return to Rice Boy's home and will get to live HappilyEverAfter, but both are deeply shaken by everything that's happened.]]
%% * TheBlank: T.O.E.

* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: It turns out T.O.E. is one of these, suffering a bout of WhoWantsToLiveForever.]]

* DramaticIrony: In Memoar, the garden of memories, T.O.E. purposefully induces in himself a flashback to the White Beast snatching his little brother (just like it snatched Gerund's brother), which seems to be a very traumatic memory. This is after the reader has learned that [[spoiler: the White Beast does '''not''' harm those it takes, bringing them to the heir of Ridrom - guardians of the very prophecy T.O.E. is working to fulfill - as apprentices]].

* SacrificialLamb: Calabash is killed by their employer for stopping his search. It fuels T.O.E.'s [[WhoWantsToLiveForever depression]], who nevertheless continues the quest.

* ShockAndAwe: T.O.E. can make sparks with his fingers, which he uses in combat and to [[FingersnapLighter light fires]]. And only him (and maybe his brothers) - no other Machine Men have this power.

* StarfishLanguage: The language of Ridrom's prophecy, which took even him years to understand somewhat. [[spoiler: It;s the divine speech of the three avatars]].

* TVHeadRobot: T.O.E. His head shows not-so-random images.

%% * TheChooserOfTheOne: T.O.E.'s role.

* EldritchAbomination: Father Dimmon, former ruler of the Lonely Land, whose hands are nailed to the ground.
--> '''[[HulkSpeak GIVE.]]'''
--> '''BREAK.'''

* FantasticDrug: The Black Drink or Black Spirit. The nice [[WhoWantsToLiveForever (?)]] thing about it is that it makes you immortal (and, apparently, tastes good), but is horribly addictive. As you DescentIntoAddiction, you will be more [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide and more ruthless, amoral and generally evil]].

* GodBeforeDogma: T-O-E's theological position.

-->'''Rice Boy''': You aren't very helpful, Bor.
-->'''Bor the Very Large''': Uh-huh, well -- you aren't very large.

* LordErrorProne: Yureg, the Prince of Satuar. His bumbling absentmindedness has to be seen to be believed.

* NeverGetsDrunk: Calabash and T-O-E drink vodka and whiskey as if it was water.

%% * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld

* SceneryPorn: Sometimes it seems like the comic is nothing but excuses to draw more weird landscapes.
* ShockAndAwe: T.O.E. And only him (and maybe his brothers) - no other Machine Men have this power.

%% * TheStoic: T-O-E.

* TerminallyDependentSociety: The people of Whetton were utterly dependent on the Tree of Thought. When it died, they attacked another city for its tree.
%% * ThereIsAnother

* KnifeNut: [[http://www.rice-boy.com/see/index.php?c=074 T-O-E vs. Golgo.]]

* BilingualBonus: Evan Dahm's constructed language of [[FanNickname Seen-Script]] is present in places all over the Overworld, and gives those who can read it extra little insights into the world.

%% * AGodAmI: Spatch, though in his case it's more A ChosenOne Am I.

* HorseOfADifferentColor: The Frog-men use giant lizards, and Maquěn has a horse-like creature that's able to contract its entire body into its cubical head.

%% * MessianicArchetype: The Fulfiller of Ridrom's prophecy.

* PinballProtagonist: Rice Boy, per WordOfGod ( http://riceboycomic.tumblr.com/ ).

* PoisonedWeapons: T-O-E's knife. [[spoiler: It backfires on him, though it is implied that it was intended to end his own life.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gortch, the late father of [[VillainWithGoodPublicity King Spatch]].

* SupportingLeader: T-O-E. regards himself as TheChooserOfTheOne, a mentor and helper in general to the real hero, the Fulfiller. [[spoiler: Or so he thinks.]]

* WhiteGloves: T-O-E. wears them. Also wears a BadassLongcoat in a world where most inhabitants either don't wear anything at all or fantasy garb (in ''Order of Tales'').