History YMMV / TheTrenches

* WeirdAlEffect: Did ''you'' know Lawstar was [[WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}} based on a real series?]]

* HilariousInHindsight: The comic story on Lawstarr MMO (parody of {{BraveStarr}}) became hilarious when a space-themed MMO called VideoGame/WildStar was released in 2014.

* TheScrappy: Gwen is such a SmugSnake that she's roundly despised by some. It doesn't help that she replaced Marley, who, while not an EnsembleDarkhorse, was a somewhat popular character.
** Cora Possibly as well, given her self righteous nature and frequent insults and sniping against Isaac. Especially notable given that half the time her actions end up making things worse, and she seems to prefer blaming or yelling at Isaac to actually doing something like say admitting she was the mole or taking a principled stand. Not to mention badmouthing coworkers and the like.
*** Not to mention that now that Cora sees how bad Qs setup is apparently the whole for the customer thing doesn't matter, nope, time to lie to her coworkers and probably cover for all of Q's other shit too. She probably won't even get any kind of karmic payback or get called out on it either.
*** It continues http://www.trenchescomic.com/comic/post/scarcity1 (seriously, that looks like a genital hair on the half eaten pizza)
** Cora's become a massive [[UngratefulBastard ungrateful]] [[TookALevelInJerkass bitch]] in Season 3 and outright badmouths Q despite once calling him super nice.

*** To be fair, this could be CharacterDevelopment, just not in a positive direction.

** Also, initial preview art made the primary characters look to be the same tropes of Scott Kurtz' other comic, {{PVP Online}} (from which Gwen crossed over), With Q being Brent, Cora being Jade, Credenza being Cole, Marley being Francis and Isaac perhaps being Max Powers.

* {{Expy}}: Isaac's origin, personality and situation at first seemed to make him [[{{Community}} Jeff Winger]] in all but name.

* WeirdAlEffect: Did ''you'' know Lawstar was [[{{Bravestarr}} based on a real series?]]

** It doesn't help that he lives in his car, works with people who barely give him any respect.

** It doesn't help that he lives in his car, works with people who barely give him any respect. He's even considered suicide at one point.

*** Not to mention that now that Cora sees how bad Qs setup is apparently the whole for the customer thing doesn't matter, nope, time to lie to her coworkers and probably cover for all of Q's other shit too. She probably won't even get any kind of karmic payback or get called out on it either.

* DontExplainTheJoke: "___ reference." This punchline has been used three times. If you have to tell us what you're referencing, you're doing it wrong.

** Cora Possibly as well, given her self righteous nature and frequent insults and sniping against Isaac. Especially notable given that half the time her actions end up making things worse, and she seems to prefer blaming or yelling at Isaac to actually doing something like say admitting she was the mole or taking a principled stand. Not to mention badmouthing coworkers and the like.

** It doesn't help that he lives in his car, works with people who barely give him any respect.

** It doesn't help that he lives in his car, works with people who clearly hate him and works a job he hates.

* TheScrappy: Gwen is such a SmugSnake that she's roundly despised by some. It doesn't help that she replaced Marley, who, while not an EnsembleDarkhorse, was a somewhat popular character.

* * Is Cora a good person for standing up for the players, or a jerkass for breaking her NDA, violating the trust placed in her by the developers and probably hurting the game as a whole by driving away subscriptions with the Rollback leaks?

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Was Isaac's [[spoiler: framing of Marley]] a jerkass move done from purely selfish reasons, or was it a slightly [[GrayAndGreyMorality grey]] move done to punish the [[http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/transparency lazy tester]] who made the problem and [[http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/kismet save the job]] of someone who didn't deserve to be fired?

* TheScrappy: Gwen has appeared in only two strips as of yet, but is such a SmugSnake that she's roundly despised by some.

* JerkassWoobie: Isaac. Despite often being rude or pompous, it's pretty clear that life has been beating him down ''hard'' recently.