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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Celia, the main protagonist, as a fennec fox.]]
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4	''Addictive Science'' is an ongoing adventure, comedy, drama and science fiction webcomic written and drawn by Cervelet since 2009. It is hosted by Platform/KemonoCafe and can be found [[https://addictivescience.kemono.cafe/ here]].
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6	The comic features the adventures and misadventures of Celia, a mad scientist, and her roommate Lukas, a notable deadpan snarker who is also a ninja in his spare time. The cast is composed of quite a bunch of people, some humans, some not, and all subject to rampant experiments. It's mostly made for fun.
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9	!!''Addictive Science'' contains the following tropes:
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11	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Downplayed when Schmitt insists that magic and demons are just "natural phenomenons that science hasn't explained yet." Exaggerated when he flat out refuses to believe in the existence of centaurs and werewolves even after using DNA samples of both to transform Lukas.
12	--> '''Lukas:''' And you STILL don't believe in werewolves? Right.\
13	'''Schmitt:''' For some reason I shall study, I appear to be unable to hear you.
14	* ArborealAbode: Common in the magic world, explained by using magic to make the tree grow rooms and doors.
15	* BlackEyesOfEvil: Celia has this happen all the time when she's excited over something.
16	* BigFatFuture: During the events of a two-part story line the cast experiences a what-if scenario where Celia invents machines that automate everything and they all quickly become fat blobs that literally burst their homes due to their size.
17	--> '''Geenie:''' Oh I overfilled my house.\
18	'''Celia:''' Robots! Rebuild my house.
19	%%* BreakingTheFourthWall: Happens frequently.
20	* CallingYourAttacks: [[http://addictivescience.katbox.net/comic/saving-the-world-8/ "Lolfox Kick!"]]
21	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mark and Celia are this. They do a lot of weird things, and it works. Don't ask how. It doesn't make any sense.
22	* {{Crossover}}: With the cast of ''Webcomic/AtArmsLength''.
23	* CuteLittleFangs: Practically all the female characters when they have those mischievous grins.
24	* DeadpanSnarker: Lukas. He's one of the few practical people in the comic.
25	* EmbarrassingLastName: Celia Pichon prefers not to use her surname.
26	* FunctionalMagic: It's how they use portals to other worlds. So many portals.
27	* GenderBender: A regular effect of transformations, usually accompanied by a species TF, in most cases it gets reversed but there's been some exceptions.
28	** Mark turns into a foxgirl whenever he's doused in cold water, ala ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''.
29	** For a sizable stretch of the comic Lukas would temporarily change into a catgirl when exposed to magic, he hated it.
30	** At least one MIB agent decided to remain a foxgirl after being transformed one too many times.
31	** After Lukas and Moritz ("demondude") learn that they're distant cousins they do some [[https://addictivescience.kemono.cafe/comic/page1149/ family research]] and Lukas discovers that his great-grandfather's brother seemingly vanished into thin air while Moritz's great-grand'''mother''' popped out of a random portal. After figuring out the implications they resolve not to tell either of their families.
32	* GoofyFeatheredDinosaur: After turning into a velociraptor Celia is embarrassed to see that she has feathers.
33	* HerrDoktor: Schmitt. And also one of the more benign mad scientists in the neighborhood.
34	* KillerRabbit: Eegor, Schmitt's genetically engineered minion/monster/child? looks like a cute and fluffy fennec-taur who communicates in whistles. But he also [[BreathWeapon breathes]] [[https://addictivescience.kemono.cafe/comic/page0193/ fire]] and can [[SuperStrength toss a dumpster]].
35	* MadScientist: Celia. Obviously. As well as the entire Mad Science university she goes to apparently.
36	** Mark was in denial about it for a while because he wants to be a superhero, then Celia tricked him into taking the [[http://addictivescience.katbox.net/comic/school-5/ entry exam.]]
37	* MagicPants: Geenie has enchanted most of the main characters' clothes to [[https://addictivescience.kemono.cafe/comic/page0091/ resize themselves]] when they change sizes.
38	* TheMenInBlack: Played for humor, initially a bunch of seemingly identical agents named "Mr. Smith" who tried ineffectually to "classify" various experiments and other transformation accidents, only to get transformed en masse and crash a [[AirborneAircraftCarrier helicarrier.]] They've since acquired some unique agents; such as "Ms. Smith" who decided to remain a foxgirl instead of changing back to human, "rogue Smith" who tried to become a cigar-chomping badass, a giant robot bunny, and a hippogriff [[spoiler:who's also the Goddess of Awkwardness]]; though they're no less incompetent.
39	* MonochromaticEyes: Caroline, the scaredy-demon, has blank white eyes. Also Celia in some of her transformations.
40	* MultiarmedAndDangerous: Lukas, after growing a second set of arms during the crossover with ''Webcomic/AtArmsLength'', displays remarkable quad-wielding sword skills.
41	* NerdGlasses: Mark wears these, and it makes sense. He's a super nerd. With glasses. He built a glove to control a submarine wirelessly, and he plays a lot of online games.
42	* {{Ninja}}: Lukas. He can do many cool things.
43	* NoFourthWall: In-universe. The fourth wall has been broken so many times it has degraded away completely.
44	* OddJobGods: [[https://addictivescience.kemono.cafe/comic/addictive-gods-2/ Whi’kka]], Goddess of Fluffy Foxes, whose worship is slowly growing as people get transformed into fox people. There’s also a God of IT who looks suspiciously like Mark. [[spoiler:And Clara turns out to be the Goddess of Awkwardness, and possibly Classification according to her cult in the MIB.]]
45	* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Throughout the entire comic, no matter what, every time someone becomes a kind of centaur, it's never a classic centaur. Usually.
46	* OurDemonsAreDifferent: In the magical world demon is a job rather than a species. Demons are granted immense RealityWarper powers for granting wishes, but they’re supposed to be [[JerkassGenie malicious]] about it, Catherine is very bad at that part.
47	* OurGeniesAreDifferent: Like demon, genie is a job not a species. Their purpose being to siphon off excess magic from the magical world by using it in the non-magical world.
48	* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Just like Our Centaurs are Different. There will NEVER be classic mermaids in the comic. NEVER!
49	%%* PaintingTheFourthWall: [[http://addictivescience.katbox.net/comic/15/ Seen here]] coupled with breaking it in the next panel. %%Links are not examples%%
50	* PlanetOfSteves: Most of the MIB go by "Smith", but they usually know which agent one is referring to anyways. The "rogue" Smith has revealed [[https://addictivescience.kemono.cafe/comic/supernatural-3/ his real name]], but it's a mouthful so he's normally just called Smith.
51	* RuleOfCute: Whenever someone is transformed into something small and cute, or in the case of Lukas in a few comics, a puppy-taur.
52	* RuleOfFunny: The whole comic. It's all supposed to be funny. Why else would it be called a comic if not to be funny?
53	* ScaledUp: Celia frequently transforms herself and her friends into dragons. Lukas has become a naga on occasion as well.
54	* SecondLawOfGenderBending: Depends on the character.
55	** PlayedStraight in the case of one MIB agent who has opted to remain an anthropomorphic vixen rather than turning back into a human man like the rest of the MIB.
56	** PlayedStraight by Konstantine, who barely seems to notice that his body is female, more that it's an appropriately-sized gerbil.
57	** ZigZagged in the case of Mark who defaults as human and male but changes into a vixen with some regularity and is quite comfortable with the form. On one occasion he even transformed himself simply because he felt like wearing his dress for Thanksgiving.
58	** {{Inverted}} with Lukas, who ''hates'' being genderbent.
59	** {{Averted}} with Schmitt, who didn't even seem to notice that he'd been genderbent until it was pointed out to him.
60	* ShapeshifterBaggage: Happens whenever someone becomes bigger or smaller. The mass it taken from someone else near by, and so two people are changed.
61	* ShapeshifterModeLock: A few characters have been subjected to permanent transformations that are nigh-impossible to reverse.
62	** A mad science accident transformed Vivian's head into a cat's head and made her virtually untouchable by magic or science. After a lot of effort Celia and Schmitt were able to change her head into a kitsune's, which can naturally shapeshift, but she's been a cat so long she defaults to that form.
63	** Mary and Andora intentionally locked themselves into fox-taur forms, and are distressed when the lock is temporarily suppressed.
64	** Clara was turned into an anthropomorphic hippogriff after reading a cursed book out loud, and nothing, not even forbidden magic, has been able to change her. [[spoiler:Possibly because she's a goddess now.]]
65	* {{Shapeshifting}}: Fairly obvious, since this also is a Transformation Comic.
66	* SnakePeople: Geenie is an example. She's a naga. With hair.
67	* TinyGuyHugeGirl: As other characters Konstantine's size (mouse-sized) are few and far between, this was inevitable when Konstantin started looking for a queen. [[spoiler: S/he ends up with Dominique, who towers over most of the cast]]
68	* TransformationComic: The entire thing is this! Come on! It's obvious from page one.
69	* TransformationRay: Celia LOVES using this as her primary method of changing everyone else. Such Zappy Fun!
70	* TheUnmasquedWorld: Despite the MIB's best efforts, super science and magic have become public knowledge thanks to one too many MassTransformation events.
71	* TheWoobie: Catherine. So many things have happened to her that she's frightened and scared of her own shadow half the time.

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