History Webcomic / SuicideForHire

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** Several to ''Franchise:ResidentEvil'' (the author is hopelessly in love with RE4).

* AdultsAreUseless - Why they haven't been caught yet.
* AGoodNameForARockBand - An occasional running gag.
* AndThisIsFor - Arcturus and Hunter's RoaringRampageOfRevenge on [[spoiler:Ty]]
* ArtEvolution - The author said in an interview that his drawing style changed so much that one of the earlier characters wasn't recognized when they returned later in the comic.
* ArtShift - Crudely-drawn cartoons are used in a recent flashback sequence to demonstrate how feebly the character is lying.
* AssholeVictim - Most of the people who hire them.

* AuthorTract - He ''[[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20060315.html really]]'' hates lying. (Link is to part of the second arc IN A ROW to contain an anti-lying AuthorTract.) Also the part with the pregnant woman they refuse to kill.

* AwesomeMcCoolname - The two main characters, as well as Hunter's occasional girlfriend, Chryseis North, though most of their clients have more mundane names (if named at all).

* BadassLongcoat - Both main characters.
* BerserkButton - Arcturus has several.

* BirthdayHater - Arcturus seems not to like his birthday, [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20110519.html trying to sneak out of the house to avoid his parents]].

* CatchPhrase - Hunter likes using "quityerbitchen" on Arcturus whenever he starts complaining.
* CarnivoreConfusion - LampShaded by the author in a side note for [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20070715.html a comic]] where Hunter and Arc were discussing milk. "You know of any species of wild animals that not only nurse after infancy, but from a source not even of its own species?" note: "To anal-retentive assholes like myself: you know what I mean. STFU."

* ConfusingMultipleNegatives - Apparently when Hunter was 13, his father tried to ensure that he would be straight using porn: "By the way, I don't not want you not watching not channel 169 when we're out of the house."
* CostumePorn - Arcturus and Hunter wear elaborate outfits, and [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20070321.html so does this girl, apparently]].
* CountryMatters - the end of the confrontation with the "Religious Wrong".
* CrapsackWorld - It seems that people only manage to succeed when they're complete assholes, not to mention that the police are apparently useless and clerks at gun shops barely check [=IDs=].
* CunningLikeAFox - Hunter.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon - The way most of their customers go down, which is why most of them try to chicken out halfway through.
* DepravedHomosexual - A waiter who threatened to stalk and rape Hunter in one arc. [[{{Irony}} Right after Hunter chews out a bunch of Westboro Baptist]] {{Expy}}s. It should be noted that the writer tries to make sure that the "Depraved" part of this character is not linked to the "Homosexual" part; while beating him up, Hunter explained that he understood that most homosexuals were not like this. Within the comic's universe Hunter was probably wrong: keep in mind that most of the straight characters in this comic are just as bad if not worse.
* DomesticAbuser - [[spoiler:Tybalt Montlet]] is an absolutely classical textbook example.
* DrivenToSuicide - well, look at the comic's title.
* EnemyWithout - It's unclear what exactly Xero is, but it is clear that he was formed from Arc's dark side and is practically a separate person.
* EvenEvilHasStandards - The boys apparently don't like to harm women unless they're clients. Under the rules of SFH, they don't accept clients under 16 and don't plan suicides that result in the deaths of a third party (they reject a pregnant customer because of those rules). Hunter also has a self-enforced guideline of only killing people who come to him to be killed. Unless they REALLY piss him off.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - Arc and Hunter deal in over the top [[KarmicDeath Karmic Deaths]] in the form of assisted suicide for those that wish to die.
* TheFaceless - Arcturus' parents, also Hunter's.
* FridgeLogic - In-universe example mixed with LampshadeHanging: [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20070221.html Xero explains.]] Presumably it's going to get explained eventually.

* GunTwirling - Hunter [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20060329.html does this]]. When Arcturus tells him to stop, he says he has it under control; and nearly shoots Codename Rudolph in the head just seconds after.

* GollumMadeMeDoIt - Xero apparently takes over to some extent when Arc is on the job, but it's unclear exactly how much of Arcturus' behavior is actually him and how much is Xero.

* GuiltyPleasures - Because of what it's about, few people will admit to reading it.
* HannibalLecture - Hunter sometimes does this to people who piss him off, while he's inflicting serious pain.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday - Hunter's explanation for his actions against the homophobic protestors. JustifiedTrope in that it's a conversation between two adolescent boys.

* HighTurnoverRate - One time Arcturus quits Suicide for Hire and gets a job at a ball park concession stand where the customers are particularly idiotic. He lasts four days longer than most people before snapping and trying to strangle someone.
* HumanResources - In one comic Hunter is doing a report on Utilitarianism and suggests that the penalty for offenses as minor as speeding should be to get ground up into protein shakes that are then fed to hobos who are then lured into a hospital so their organs can be harvested.

* ICallItVera - Hunter's guns, "Bop" and "The Idiot Magnum".
* ItTastesLikeFeet - LampShaded in a non-food example. Hunter comments that a scorpion sting feels like someone put out a cigarette on his foot, and when Arc asks him how he knows what a cigarette burn feels like he uses Arc's cigarette to provide a comparison.
* KarmicDeath - Most of the deaths that Hunter and Arc arrange, such as a frat boy who [[spoiler:felt responsible for his friend's death by alcohol poisoning drinking methanol and then being set on fire.]]
* KillItWithFire- [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20050713.html After Hunters... alone time.]] The strip above also counts.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy - Autumn.
* MoralMyopia - [[spoiler: Xero points this out to Arcturus. To be specific he makes fun of the fact that he feels bad about helping a Terminal Cancer patient die but not feeling bad for killing a lot of stupid teenagers.]]

* MurderInc - Arc and Hunter are essentially a two person version of this who kill their clients.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning - Used only in the Frat Boy arc so far, as after his suicide, a detailed record of all the threats and harassment heaped upon him surface (and result in a heap of lawsuits between the two warring factions).
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead - Arc and [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20091212.html especially Hunter]] avert this with many of their clients. Hunter especially seems to think most of them deserved their gruesome fates.

* NonMammalMammaries - Some rather well-endowed avians are shown at various points.
* NotListeningToMeAreYou - On [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20060430.html one page]]:

* PizzaBoySpecialDelivery - [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20071209.html Altair]].
* PoliceAreUseless - They do ''try,'' but circumstances tend to conspire against them.
* PunnyName - There are a few, including Tybalt and Rosaline [[RomeoAndJuliet Montlet]]. Tybalt is a cat.

* RightBehindMe - A rather amusing part of one client's story.
* RunningGag - "NONREFUNDABLE!"
* ScheduleSlip - Hardly any update since November 2011

* SerialKiller - The rare form that gets their victims to seek them out.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness - A lot of the character dialog consists of this.
* ShoutOut - There's quite a few to the band Music/{{Megadeth}}.
* SingingInTheShower - Arcturus [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20060430.html sings]] "I'm So Cute" from Frank Zappa.
* StalkerWithACrush - Autumn came to Suicide for Hire after the guy she was stalking publicly discredited her, and the DepravedHomosexual waiter mentioned above threatens to stalk, rape and kill Hunter for rejecting his offer to hook up.
* StrawmanPolitical - The religous right tend to be depicted like this, such as in the "A Day in the Life" arc where Hunter tricked an anti-gay protest into admitting that not all of the bible applied to modern life, and [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20080323.html this strip]].

* StrictlyFormula - every arc ends with someone dying in a horrible manner.

* SuicideAsComedy - Not as often as might be expected, mostly just in one-shot comics.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction - {{Lampshade}}d during a very talkative fight scene with a sidenote reading "[[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20060312.html If you think this is too much dialogue per action scene, feel free to send e-complaints to shoveit@upyourass.com]]."
* TastesLikePurple - [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20050202.html here]]
* ThirtyMinutesOrItsFree - Hunter's friend Altair is a pizza delivery boy, and ensures he manages to keep to the time limit by getting Hunter to ride shotgun, [[{{BFG}} literally]].
* ThoseTwoBadGuys - The main characters.
* ToThePain - Hunter describes his plans for each client's death to them as they occur, usually in great detail.
* UnfortunateNames - One of their clients was named "Jeremy Laramie" (that wasn't why he wanted to die actually), and another one was a reindeer they referred to as "Codename Rudolph" who later turned out to be actually named Rudy.

* VillainProtagonist - Both of the main characters, though mostly Hunter.
* VisualPun - Autumn's KarmicDeath.[[spoiler: She told a number of lies to get the object of her affection. Her death? She was forced to spill her guts.]]

* WallOfText - Some of the clients just won't shut up. It does tend to flow better during an ArchiveBinge.

* WickedWeasel - The DepravedHomosexual waiter who harasses Hunter is [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20061001.html clearly some kind of mustelid]], though his exact species is unclear.
* WellIntentionedExtremist - Hunter, sometimes. Other times he drops the "Well Intentioned".
* WishFulfillment - Oh, don't even ''try'' to deny it.
* WondrousLadiesRoom - once Hunter remarks that a ladies room is "clean enough for neurosurgery".
* WouldntHitAGirl - Hunter claims that "I draw the line at the unwarranted violent abuse of the fairer sex". But that doesn't stop him from accepting female clients, or from carrying out the [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20051214.html most gruesome]] death seen so far on one of those clients. Evidently he doesn't consider his job "unwarranted".
* XMeetsY - Heathers meets Se7en.
* {{Yandere}} - Autumn is a classic example of the type.
* YouFailReligiousStudiesForEver - Hunter (and therefore, presumably, [[AuthorTract the author]]) seems to be talking about the entire Christian faith during his rant against the [[StrawmanPolitical religious right]]. Hunter later states that to be orthodox people need to follow the Bible to the letter... but forgets that the Bible acknowledges the Pope as the one who controls the Christian doctrine, and there are matters on which the Pope has permitted actions that would be forbidden if the Bible ''was'' followed perfectly. Once one acknowledges this, the whole argument collapses.
** Arguably, this is exactly what Hunter wanted to demonstrate all along. That anything based on Bible can be a subject of amendment to suit the needs of now, and that "it`s written in Bible" does not absolve the followers of faith from the burden of moral choice.

** This actually induces a bit of ValuesDissonance within the comic as well. For example, no one was especially upset when a girl claimed to have had sex on her grandmother's gravestone, but they were all absolutely ''scandalized'' to find out that the event never actually happened. Granted, this came out during a massive reveal of how much she'd been lying, but the fact still holds that within the comic, dishonesty is apparently worse than desecration.

** This actually induces a bit of ValuesDissonance within the comic as well. For example, no one was especially upset when a girl claimed to have had sex on her grandmother's gravestone, but they were all absolutely ''scandalized'' when to find out that the event never actually happened. Granted, this came out during a massive reveal of how much she'd been lying, but the fact still holds that within the comic, dishonesty is apparently worse than desecration.

** This actually induces a bit of ValuesDissonance within the comic as well. For example, no one was especially upset when a girl claimed to have had sex on her grandmother's gravestone, but they were all absolutely ''scandalized'' when it came out that the event never actually happened. Granted, this came out during a massive reveal of how much she'd been lying, but the fact still holds that within the comic, dishonesty is apparently worse than desecration.

** This actually induces a bit of ValuesDissonance within the comic as well. For example, no one was especially upset when a girl claimed to have had sex on her grandmother's gravestone, but they were all absolutely ''scandalized'' when it came out that the event never actually happened. Granted, this came out during a massive reveal of how much she'd been lying, but the fact still holds that dishonesty is apparently worse than desecration.

** This actually induces a bit of ValuesDissonance within the comic as well. For example, no one was especially upset when a girl claimed to have had sex on her grandmother's gravestone, but they were all absolutely ''scandalized'' when it came out the event never actually happened. Granted, this came out during a massive reveal of how much she'd been lying, but the fact still holds that lying is apparently worse than desecration.

** This actually induces a bit of ValuesDissonance within the comic as well. No one was especially upset when a girl claimed to have had sex on her grandmother's gravestone, but they were all absolutely ''scandalized'' that the event never actually happened. Granted, this came out during a massive reveal of how much she'd been lying, but the fact still holds that lying is apparently worse than desecration.

* RefugeInAudacity - It's a strip about people whose job is ''suicide assistance''. It runs on this trope.

* DepravedHomosexual - A waiter who threatened to stalk and rape Hunter in one arc. It should be noted that the writer tries to make sure that the "Depraved" part of this character is not linked to the "Homosexual" part; while beating him up, Hunter explained that he understood that most homosexuals were not like this. Within the comic's universe Hunter was probably wrong: keep in mind that most of the straight characters in this comic are just as bad if not worse.

** Also the choice of some FunnyAnimal species, such as Hunter's former priest Jethro being [[{{Irony}} a]] [[TheSevenDeadlySins sloth]].

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'''Tropes:'''

* AteHisGun - Hunter [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20080511.html shows you what not to do.]]

* DomesticAbuser - [[spoiler: Tybalt Montlet]] is an absolutely classical textbook example.

* YouFailReligiousStudiesForEver - Hunter (and therefore, presumably, [[AuthorTract the author]]) seems to be talking about the entire Christian faith during his rant against the [[StrawmanPolitical religious right]]. Hunter later states that to be orthodox people need to follow the Bible to the letter... But forgets that the Bible acknowledges the Pope as the one who controls the Christian doctrine, and there are matters on which the Pope has permitted actions that would be forbidden if the Bible ''was'' followed perfectly. Once one acknowledges this, the whole argument collapses.
* YourHeadASplode - Hunter's "Idiot Magnum" has this effect on people, as do shotguns in the mouth.

-->'''Arcturus''': *Sight* So good to know I'm cared about...

* BirthdayHater - Arcturus seems not to like his birthday, [[http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20110519.html trying to sneak out of the house to avoid his parents]].

-->'''Arcturus''': I set the bathroom on fire an cut open the couch to hide my secret heroin stash,

** It should also be noted that what the Pope has to say on the subject of what is and is not moral is only half applicable, as one has to remember that a good chunk of perfectly normal Christians think the pope is nothing but a old guy with a funny hat.
*** In other words, one imperfect mortal man elected by other imperfect mortal men can say "The book that outlines what is right and wrong is itself wrong." This makes a slightly different but still valid argument on why what the bible says means nothing.

* SeriesHiatus - No update since November 2011, expect for one filler strip in March

* YourHeadASplode - Hunter's "Idiot Magnum" has this effect on people, as do shotguns in the mouth.