History Webcomic / TemplarArizona

%%* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Invoked. Ben runs up against this when he tries to read classic literature.

* PositiveDiscrimination: The Jakes are all horrible racist bastards--who strangely focus on the positive stereotypes associated with various ethnicities. "Africans = strong," "Asians = smart," etc. Their plan is to have as many children they can with a cross-section of all these groups to have a perfect hybrid race.

%%* KnifeNut: The Jakeskin, a whole cult of them

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The "Old School Moscowbilly Klezcore" of Templar's own Phineas Rage.

* [[IAteWhat I Ate What?]] Xenophage: Morally Indefensible Fine Dining.
--> "...Petrified deer penis, with sesame and lemon. Fruit bat consomme. Minerva's Shield... that's mostly pike livers, lark tongues, and some peacock brain... Stir-fried porpoise head. Honey-grilled panther with earwigs... and, of course, '''puppies'''. Whole and quarters. Braised, broiled, or grilled. In a delicate human milk sauce. '''Excellent.''' And '''especially''' divine, if I may say so. I find that canids are most ambrosial '''before''' they open their eyes."

%%* TheRainman: Gene, rock god with the mind of a five year old.

%%* {{Landlord}}: as yet unseen, Anthony the Super

* NakedOnArrival: Ben sleeps in the nude and the first time we see him, he's getting out of bed. Draw your own conclusions. He gets dressed as soon as he's up, though.

-->-- ''Templar Arizona, chapter one The Great Outdoors'

-->'''Scipio:''' That is absolutely the most evil thing I've ever seen you do
-->'''Reagan:''' Bullshit. I ate that panda.
-->'''Scipio:''' That was not a panda and you know that was not a panda.
-->'''Reagan:''' I dunno, tasted pretty cute.

%%* NakedOnArrival: Ben

** [[spoiler: Ben of all people who [[http://templaraz.com/2011/11/16/chapter-5-lit-page-128/ gauges out E.J.'s after E.J. pistol whips him.]] ]]

* AccidentalPervert
* ActualPacifist
* AffablyEvil[=/=]FauxAffablyEvil.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: "Templar Brownish"
* AnimalWrongsGroup
* AttentionWhore: Curio.
* BandOfBrothels: The Doves.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Reagan and Scipio.
** Or at least that's how most of the other characters perceive it; there is some WordOfGod against it.
* BerserkButton: Don't try to dilute Barney John's movement with [[http://templaraz.com/?p=1458 publicity]] [[http://templaraz.com/?p=1469 stunts]].

* BigFun: Also Reagan.
* BlackAndNerdy: Scipio

* BoisterousBruiser: Reagan
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: [[http://templaraz.com/2006/12/21/020x031/ Epiphany]], and [[http://templaraz.com/2008/08/15/030x095/ Antoinette]]. And while neither of them are his daughter Scipio has to deal with them both, poor bastard.
* BrutalHonesty: The Sincerists hat.
* CasaLaneParenting: How Gene is taking care of Zora
* CityOfAdventure
* ChekhovsGun
* ChekhovsArmoury
* ChildSoldiers: fought in Australia's guerilla war
* Myth/ClassicalMythology: There are a lot of background references to it if you pay attention.
* ComingOfAgeStory
* {{Costumer}}: Wickerheads, Pasttimes who consider themselves BornInTheWrongCentury,
* CountryMouse: Morgan
* CrazySurvivalist : The Jakes
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[http://templaraz.com?p=1379 Gene]]. Big time.
* {{Cult}}: A guide to Templar's various subcultures can be found [[http://ironcircus.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Templar_Subcultures here]].

* CuteAndPsycho: Curio displays some of this personality type.

* DecompressedComic
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Dr. Bash.
* DeadpanSnarker: Zebulon
* DesertPunk
* DirtyCommunists: Averted. Reclamation, Templar's resident communist movement, are portrayed in a cosistently even handed manner, at worst containing a few somewhat over-zealous (although consistently [[ActualPacifist non-violent]]) members.
* Myth/EgyptianMythology: Nile Revivalists
* MrFanservice
* EvilMatriarch: Feather
* EyesAlwaysShut: Moze
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: EJ]] gets one from [[spoiler: Ben]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all people.]]
* FantasyCounterpartCulture
* FictionalMedia
* {{Flashmob}}
* FieryRedhead: Subverted with Morgan, who is sweet enough to make sugar look just like salt.
* GentleGiant: Scipio who could also be considered a GeniusBruiser. Moze also qualifies.
* GeographicFlexibility
* GutFeeling: Flannery about Gordon.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Mesmer.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: The Elliotts.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Orpha.
* [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]]: The Coliseum (combined with Series/JudgeJudy)
* KavorkaMan: Moze

* KnifeNut: The Jakeskin, a whole cult of them
* {{Landlord}}: as yet unseen, Anthony the Super
* LargeHam: Regan ohsomuch. Also Orpha
* MamaBear: Feather towards Gene, also Reagan towards Zora.
* ManInAKilt: Scipio
* MeaningfulName: Several, but here's an example; Curio. She asks a lot of questions.

* MyBelovedSmother: Gene's mom Feather
* NakedOnArrival: Ben
* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The "Old School Moscowbilly Klezcore" of Templar's own Phineas Rage
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Epiphany, and Feather when she's talking to Ben
** She does it a little too well and Ben suspects she doesn't like him.

* ProfessionalSlacker: Mesmer.
* QuickNip: "The State v. Regan Mancuso exhibit A"
* TheRainman: Gene, rock god with the mind of a five year old.
* RefugeInAudacity: [[http://templaraz.com/2011/10/04/chapter-5-lit-page-126/ this]]. Although since it EJ we're dealing with it may be a case of TooDumbToLive instead.

** Subverted in that Scipio is actually a GentleGiant as mentioned above

* ShellShockedVeteran: The aforementioned ChildSoldier.

* SocialDarwinist: the aforementioned Jakes have some interesting ideas about the future of humanity.
* TheUnfavorite: Marcus, with Gene as Feather's favorite son, much to Marcus's dismay.
* TooDumbToLive: EJ Elliot [[spoiler: apparently literally at the end of "Lit"]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: What happened to the river?
** [[http://templaraz.com/?p=73 "All th' water's behind a dam in California."]] Come to think of it, though, this trope is pretty thoroughly ''averted'': much of the town's history concerns a long-running feud between rival whoremongers, which would constitute a dark secret in most other places, but in Templar, it's just some stuff that happened.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Invoked. Ben runs up against this when he tries to read classic literature.
* UnfazedEveryman: Ben.
* UnusualEuphemism: Mariah Girls, wet houses

* TheStoic: Gene and Scipio, though they are, on rare occasion, known to lose their shit.
* TheUnfavorite: Marcus
* TheWildWest
* WackyWaysideTribe: The subcultures, ye gods the subcultures, so far appearing more in the intermissions than in the normal comic.
* WebcomicTime: The whole of the comic is set to be one year in Templar
* WeirdnessMagnet: The whole damn town, but Ben seems to have a concentrated dose of it.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: sums up Curio and Tuesday's "rival/frenemy" relationship

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[[caption-width:369:Reagan recommends the scientific method]]

* [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]]: The Coliseum (combined with JudgeJudy)

* JerrySpringer: The Coliseum (combined with JudgeJudy)

* ClassicalMythology: There are a lot of background references to it if you pay attention.

* EgyptianMythology: Nile Revivalists

[[WordOfGod Self described]] as an exercise in decompressed storytelling, it has an in-comic timeline of less than a month not including the flashbacks and the intermissions that take place at unspecified times in the {{Canon}}. The comic is available for free online and print editions that can be bought direct from Spike and, for now, through Diamond publishing. ''Templar Arizona'' has won Web Cartoonist Choice Awards for Character Design and Character Writing. [[http://www.stormingthetower.com/2009/02/spikes-templar-arizona.html this]]is a recent review of the comic

[[WordOfGod Self described]] as an exercise in decompressed storytelling, it has an in-comic timeline of less than a month not including the flashbacks and the intermissions that take place at unspecified times in the {{Canon}}. The comic is available for free online and print editions that can be bought direct from Spike and, for now, through Diamond publishing. ''TemplarArizona'' has won Web Cartoonist Choice Awards for Character Design and Character Writing. [[http://www.stormingthetower.com/2009/02/spikes-templar-arizona.html this]]is a recent review of the comic

!!This comic shows examples of:

* BigBeautifulWoman: [[http://templaraz.com/?p=1406 Reagan]].

* AffablyEvil[=/=]FauxAffablyEvil: Your Mileage May Vary as to which Feather is.

* {{Cult}}: A guide to Templar's various subcultures can be found [[http://ironcircus.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Templar_Subcultures here]]. YourMileageMayVary as to which are cults and which are not.

* MeaningfulName