History Webcomic / ThePropertyOfHate

** One of the characters Time is a rabbit representing the past, present and future. [[spoiler: He later sends Hero and RGB to the future to free one of the sun fragments from Lake Lacrimose.]]
* ArcVillain: The comic has several, all of them working for Hate. Click is actually the first of them that we meet and seemingly the most active, serving as one for the Market.

* BleakLevel: Upon getting through the crystals, [[spoiler:Hero and RGB make it to the place that should be a forest - only to find much widened Sandbar with bits of machinery and other bits scattered around.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The comic tends to do this every so often.

** Chapter 17 is also called Chiaroscuro, and it begins with [[spoiler:Hero and RGB finding the Sandbar having taken over the entire forest.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Several minor characters often come back later, often with significant results.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Quite a bit. Because the comic updates on Sundays, and Mod sometimes takes breaks in between to visit family or travel, fans are left hanging often.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: RGB's nightmares are always portrayed in dark, oppressive monochrome colours, befitting due to their theme being [[spoiler: his own death]].
** To highlight it's cold, stagnant nature, the House of Lead is portrayed in drab, dull greys in stark contrast to both RGB and Hero retaining their colours.

* EliteMook: Its implied that Fears and Griefs are this due to RGB's comments that the former don't normally appear near the Lake of Tears and his dread upon seeing the latter in the Plains of Doubt.

* EvilCounterpart: The House of Lead -introduced in Double Exposure- is one to the House of Paint. Unlike the House of Paint, the House of Lead is a grim looking grey house, simplistic, cold and clinical inside in stark contrast to warm-coloured and easily warpable by Hero's imagination interiors of the House of Paint.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The pictures of Hero's wall during ''Chapter 1: The Hook'' foreshadow the appearance of [[spoiler: The Idea, the House of Paint and the Tempers later on.]]

* IHaveNothingToSayToThat: RGB, upon receiving an... eloquent message from Hero via Assok.

** Visual details tend to showcase how The World of Make Believe workss or how it is affected by other characters. In "Double Exposure", the House of Lead's panels are formatted like a window, with the frame being smeared after RGB attempts to open the window and his [[OhCrap panicked realization]] that he needs to get the door.)

* BerserkButton: Do not, under any circumstances, steal a part of Hero. RGB will get ''very'' angry with you [[spoiler: as The Butterfly learns the hard way.]]

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The entire story is built on the premise that RGB and Hero must prevent the end of the world, with [[spoiler:several other heroes having tried and failed to do so. Come the events of "Casting" and it seems that Hate got impatient enough to just end it herself instead of waiting for the world to end.]]

* PrecisionFStrike: Done in a doubly literal sense [[http://tpoh.smackjeeves.com/comics/2044436/beat-page-150/ here]] by Melody, who can only speak in musical notes and symbols.

* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: [[spoiler: The scissors were already bad enough in the early chapters but become far creepier when it's revealed that they're weapons used by [[BigBad Hate]] to get rid of her enemies.]]

** For example: A sleeping RGB's speech bubble is blank white - it's ''white noise''.

** During Chapter 11: Page 192, RGB ''literally'' steals a kiss.

* InherentlyFunnyWords: During "POV", both Hero and RGB both burst out laughing after Assok says the following:
-->'''Assok'':"[[{{Portmanteau}} Blighterpoop]]."

A young girl is suddenly awoken by a [[TheDandy strange, dapperly dressed man]] who refers to himself simply as RGB. He is formal in speech and odd in the head, or in the CRT television set [[TVHeadRobot where his head should be]]. He asks her if she would like to become a hero, and though she [[JumpedAtTheCall answers with gusto]], she doesn't have any knowledge of what will be expected of her as she leaves her home for a world in the skies.

* CatharticCrying: Hero has a good cry in "Flood", encouraged by RGB who tells her not to keep it inside. After putting Hero to bed, when she sleepily calls him "dad", RGB [[spoiler: who was given a heart by Madras put in him, hides in the crying in the lower bunk to have a cry himself.]]

* FaceDoodling: Hero doodles a moustache and glasses on RGB's screen as he's unconscious.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: If you count getting shanked by a Fear, this has happened to Hero more than once.

* BaitandSwitch: Chapter 18's intro page [[spoiler: sets up the flashback to RGB's past. The chapter name itself even notes that it's "too soon for this part" before moving onto the actual intro page for Chapter 18: Dolly Zoom.]]

* BleakLevel: Upon getting through the crystals, [[spoiler:Hero and RGB make it to the Sandbar only to see it empty with bits of machinery and other bits scattered around.]]

* CatharticCrying: After putting Hero to bed during "Flood", RGB starts [[spoiler: leaking rainbow fluid due to the effects of the heart Madras put in him, only to start crying in the lower bunk afterwards.]]

** Chapter 17 is also called Chiaroscuro, and it begins with [[spoiler:Hero and RGB finding the Sandbar completely devoid of trees.]]

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Quite a bit. Because the comic updates on Sundays, and Mod sometimes takes breaks in between to visit family or travel, many fans are left hanging.

* ContinuityNod: Upon being caught by RGB after climbing into the House of Lead through the window, RGB intends to throw her out of the window. Hero's response is to call him a stinkbutt blighterpoop, a reference to Assok saying the latter word after RGB and Hero's VolleyingInsults back in "POV".

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: [[http://rgb.thecomicseries.com/comics/128 Hero]], when she falls out of the tree and is apparently impaled on one of the branches. It turns out that the hole that she got from being [[ItMakesSenseInContext stabbed by a fear]] opened back up while she was arguing with RGB, so she's fine.]]

** "Arret" is the French word for stop, which can either refer to RGB and Hero stopping to take a break from their adventure or [[spoiler: RGB forced to stop being a Hero and recruit someone else to be the Hero in his stead.]]

* EvilCounterpart: The House of Lead -introduced in Double Exposure- is one to the House of Paint. Unlike the House of Paint, the House of Lead is a grim looking grey house with the insides being stylized as simplistic yet cold and clinic in stark contrast to Hero's imagination warping the House of Paint into a chaotic mess befitting of a young child.
* ExactWords: RGB once commented that nothing in the world was stronger than the trees, but once he and Hero come to the forest they planned to use for a shortcut, he comes to the sobering realization that ''nothing'' was indeed stronger and destroyed the forest wholesale.
* FaceDoodling: Of the moustache and glasses variety on RGB's screen.

** [[spoiler:During "Inbetweens", Time mentions that stories don't care who the hero is and that it needs a protagonist to exist. Later on in "Casting", RGB mentions that he had been recruiting heroes to keep the story going so that the world doesn't end and that he'd been relying on how the story doesn't care about heroes to keep this plan afloat.]]
** During "Cut in", the Guardians decide to throw the Idea out with one of the citizens remarking that if it's a good Idea, it'll float. A few pages later, the Idea becomes a fish and [[spoiler:several chapters later during "Casting", the Idea has become a boat that floats above the water, which ensures it really [[StealthPun was a good idea]].]]

* HurricaneOfPuns: [[http://rgb.thecomicseries.com/comics/53/ This page]], revolving around time.

* ICallItVera: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Hero notices that a lot of the objects in the Sands of Regret are vehicles, to which RGB responds by explaining this trope, namely how people will give their vehicles artificial names and personalities, which causes the vehicles to manifest in the realm; however, since their owners still do not consider them living beings in their own right, they never possess the ''will'' needed to truly exist within the realm, and break down in the Sands. It is implied that the vehicles ''do'' want to be alive, but since their owners never saw them as such, they're unfortunately doomed to break down again upon the sands.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: If you count getting shanked by a Fear, this has happened to the same character ''twice''.

* LiminalBeing: RGB, asked what neutral means, says it's when something is neither one thing nor another, or is between the two. [[note]] This is the literal meaning of Latin "neutrum" [[/note]]

* MeaningfulName: RGB means Red Green Blue after the additive color model used in the first color television broadcast, as well as the CRT and LCD monitors and TV sets that followed it.

** Click's entire screed against RGB in Target Audience hits very differently when the reader later learns that [[spoiler: he was the second hero after RGB himself and that RGB left him to die due to being unable to deal with Click's path to destruction.]] His accusations that RGB had several victims and him asking Hero what heroes do to monsters end up having far more basis than intial impressions would have you believe when its later revealed that [[spoiler:RGB was bringing in multiple heroes in order to delay the end of the world and Click is implied to have been quite violent as a Hero, showing no care for a Temper he trampled on and using one of it's shards as a makeshift knife.]]

** ''Chapter 25 has [[spoiler: RGB's clothes cut and is fighting Hate who uses a giant pair of scissors. She clearly intends to cut his story short.]]

-->'''Click''': Which is the greater crime - to destroy or to steal?
-->'''Market Guardian (Bird)''': What meaning has this?
-->'''Market Guardian (Horse)''': Speak.
-->'''Click''': You may have your justice but let me first have mine: Upon the one who stole my life - the man who murdered [[ThatManIsDead "Me"]]

%%-->'''Hero''': What were they like?
%%-->'''RGB''': Hm?
%%-->'''Hero''': [[spoiler: ...The other heroes?]]

Over the course of the story, Hero meets various beings both benevolent and malevolent and eventually comes to grips with the strange world she's now a part of. RGB of course grapples with a past he cannot remember, people who relationships vary from affable, rocky or hostile and a world to save. Both of them must deal with revelations of the story that they both partake in and do whatever they can to ensure that things end well for them both.

** [[http://rgb.thecomicseries.com/comics/40/ A chair]] inside the House of Paint here.

The journey across the clouds takes her to a world badly in need of a hero, where lies and fears are very real and very dangerous. The hero's courage helps her survive her first encounter with fear itself, but her very young age -- and RGB's refusal to explain anything -- make it a difficult and dangerous journey for her.

** Click's characterization goes far deeper once you read his debut chapters after learning that [[spoiler: he was the second hero after RGB himself and that RGB left him to die due to being unable to deal with Click's path to destruction.]]

%%* WhamLine: Quite a few.

%%** [[spoiler: '''Click''':[[ArmorPiercingQuestion What do heroes do to monsters?]]]]

** When RGB and Hero make it to Elastic Valley, the former tries to explain to the latter about Tempers but is cut off by [[NighmareFace TG]] before he can explain what happens when they're not fixed. A few chapters later, [[spoiler: RGB explains about a previous hero, Click and how he left him to die. As it turned out Click [[{{Pun}} lost his temper]] and was killed by a Grief.]]

** The phrase "We Split" is a phrase that shows up as early as [[https://jolleycomics.com/TPoH/Rushes/30"Rushes"]] and again during [[https://jolleycomics.com/TPoH/Dolly_Zoom/"Dolly Zoom"]]. If this [[https://modmad.tumblr.com/post/682137362132844544/just-to-let-you-know-the-tpoh-update-will official art]] of RGB and Negative is any indication, its likely that all of this may lead up to RGB and Negative splitting apart.

** The term 'Neutral' appears in the beginning of ''Chapter 14: Click.'' [[spoiler: Hero later uses that term to describe RGB when Click asks her to admit that RGB is evil.]]

** Page 295 has [[spoiler: Click's remaining eye falls onto a counter, setting up the possibility that someone will pick it up...]]
** If you look carefully during one of the panels in Page 313, you notice that [[spoiler: RGB's reflection in the crystal has a wrist despite having no wrists in his current form]]
** The Butterfly being [[spoiler: an antagonist who steals Hero's eyes after she decides to trust RGB]] is foreshadowed throughout the few interactions it has with Hero and when Time offhandedly mentions that Hero loses her eyes later on during her first meeting in him in "Inbetweens". During Hero's first encounter with the Butterfly, it shows up right after Hero bores the Idea to death and during their second, it perches itself on Hero's back and leaves in a huff. In both cases, the Butterfly tries to erode Hero's trust in RGB under the guise of "being wise".

* InherentlyFunnyWords: "[[{{Portmanteau}} Blighterpoop]]."

* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:RGB manifests one after being knocked out by a Grief, referred to as Negative RGB. It later appears as a hallucination during the Butterfly's appearance and later saves Hero later on.]]

%%* YouCannotKillAnIdea: Taken quite literally. The most Hero can do to is is bore it to death and even then, it still survives.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Played with. One of RGB's dreams is of a man doing a stand-up comedy routine about a visit to the doctor. The man keeps insinuating that something might be mentally unwell, but the doctor just dismisses his claims and gives him superficial solutions (i.e. stop looking at the mirror if you hate what you see in it, stand close to the radiator if your hands are shaking). It's all but stated that this is a situation that happened to RGB [[spoiler:when he was alive and human]], so it's also played for drama.

'''"Doctor Doctor:''' ''Then get out of my sight!''

* ICallItVera: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Hero notices that a lot of the objects in the Sands of Regret are vehicles, to which RGB responds by explaining this trope, namely how people will give their vehicles artificial names and personalities, which causes the vehicles to manifest in the realm; however, since their owners still do not consider them living beings in their own right, they never posses the ''will'' needed to truly exist within the realm, and break down in the Sands. It is implied that the vehicles ''do'' want to be alive, but since their owners never saw them as such, they're unfortunately doomed to break down again upon the sands.

** Many of RGB's color palettes are a reference to one thing or another, such as the purple coord being a reference to Music/PaulMcCartney's in ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' or his outfit in "Wardrobe" being based on The Dress (a meme concerning an argument on whether a dress was black and blue or gold and yellow).

** Many of RGB's color palettes are a reference to one thing or another, such as the purple coord being a reference to Music/PaulMcCartney's in ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine''.