Line #5 Webcomic/BallerinaMafia


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3	''[[http://ballerinamafia.net/index.php Ballerina mafia]]'' is the spin off comic of ''Webcomic/{{Concession}}'' and features a gag a day format.
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5	!!Tropes:
6	* AprilFoolsPlot: Zoe and Ossian have a bit of a prank feud concerning this day. In 2010 Ossian apparently tattooed Marlon Brando on Zoe's back, in response he turned Ossian [[EasySexChange into a girl]] in [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20110401 2011]], and the [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20120401 next year]] Ossia made Zoe think he was a werewolf.
7	* AuthorAppeal: Much like with Concession, a lot of the later pages seem to be focused around his personal fetishes: crossdressing, hypnotism, sex changes, etc.
8	* BouquetToss: At [[http://ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20110928 Rick and Angie's]] wedding Matt tries to catch it, only for Joel to knock it away and tear it up.
9	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: In [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20101006 #11]] Immy and Shugwar discuss some of each other's annoying habits, like leaving dirty dog dishes out all night, or not cleaning up the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Shub-Niggurath sacrificial site]].
10	* CastIncest: Parodied in-universe in [[http://ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20110225 Concession Alternate Endings #2]] with Joel and Miranda's "actors".
11	* ComedicSociopathy: Shugwar, apparently based on Immy's friend who was the inspiration for Joel, is apparently a serial killer and cultist.
12	* EasySexChange: done as a AprilFoolsDay joke, though the character in question remained female for the rest of the comic, despite occasional attempts to get it reversed.
13	* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: The [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20110801 100th comic]], right after one where Immy and Shugwar mug a guy with a car full of cash, is drawn in detailed art and shows them living extravagantly until they burn the house down.
14	* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20130429 Subverted]]
15	* NoFourthWall: The comics with Webcomic/{{Concession}} characters have even less of one than the original comic. [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20110406 Example]]
16	** Apparently the city-wide spiritual awakening at the end of Concession was responsible.
17	* {{Metamorphosis}}: [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20140421 Immelmann's permanent transformation from wolfrabbit to velociraptor here.]]
18	* OneWingedAngel: Parodied in [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20121015 Final Form]].
19	* ScrewYourself: In the Mass Effect jokes arc [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20141124 Immy Shepard and her clone]]. [[spoiler: Especially in the related bonus panel.]]
20	* OurShowersAreDifferent: As displayed in [[http://ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20130128 "Showers of the Future"]]
21	* ShoutOut: [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20100927 To]] Creator/HPLovecraft's "Literature/TheRatsInTheWalls" (read the AltText in particular).
22	* SurpriseIncest: In the time travel arc, in Joel and Artie's temporal prank war Joel first became Artie's father, then turned him into a girl. [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20140203 And then]] they realized that Joel would have treated a female Artie completely differently and in the new timeline they were married.
23	* TalkLikeAPirate: The time-travelling pirate character talks like this.
24	* TimeTravel: Joel started wandering time for some reason in a TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}.
25	** WriteBackToTheFuture: Indirectly by posing for a photo with a note in his pocket saying [[http://ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20130812 "Artie Sucks"]] (the vote incentive showed "see you in 122 years" written on the side of the building. [[http://www.ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20131021 And more directly]], with a LampshadeHanging.
26	--> Mailman: "So this ancient letter was supposed to be delivered to this address at this exact date and time."
27	--> Artie: "You can do that?"
28	--> Mailman: "You can if the comic's joke depends on it."
29	** TimeCrash: His cross-time prank war with Artie ends up causing this after [[spoiler: he changes the past so Artie is first his son, and then a girl. That drastically changes many events in the Concession timeline causing a big mess where eventually Tyras is called in to make a new Ballerina Mafia timeline separate from Concession, in which it seems Joel didn't run off from Matt and go time traveling, and is a chick.]]
30	* UnexplainedRecovery: A one-shot character from ''Concession'' who took a crowbar to the brain shows up in BM alive and well, though his speaking like a GPS led some forum users to speculate he'd received some BackAlleySurgery.
31	* WebcomicTime: One night of Immy and his friends hanging out lasted for 13 weekly comics. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the bonus panel for the last comic, featuring Immy and his girlfriend Tsumi texting:
32	-->'''Tsumi:''' Have fun with your dork friends, baby?
33	-->'''Immy:''' I feel like this night has lasted three months...

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