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| 5 | %% The Web Animation Pilot is not a stealth sequel or a loosely connected continuation of the events of the webcomic, it follows its own continuity, as Tracy has clarified in several livestreams. Tropes like CharacterDevelopment or AmbiguousSituation or HollywoodHealing are speculation and should not be added to the main page. |
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| 11 | ''[[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/ Lackadaisy]]'' ([[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/lackadaisy/list?title_no=39790 Webtoons mirror]]) is a webcomic created by Tracy J. Butler, chronicling the exploits of a criminal crew in TheRoaringTwenties struggling to keep their speakeasy up and running. |
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| 13 | The place: [[UsefulNotes/StLouis St. Louis, Missouri.]] The time: 1927. The problem: With national prohibition laws in effect, the world of spirits and alcohol has been forced to move underground, starting a massive network of rum-running and speakeasies under the very noses of the authorities. One of the most successful of these speakeasies was the titular Lackadaisy, an exclusive club built within the limestone caverns beneath the unassuming Little Daisy Cafe and founded by one Atlas May, which may only be entered by those sporting Lackadaisy's unique Clubs lapel pin. For a while, Lackadaisy was ''the'' place to be for those wishing to partake in drink, but all this came crashing down when Atlas was violently murdered in 1926. Atlas' wife Mitzi May was left with the reins, but the controversy surrounding his death, including the rumor that Mitzi herself was involved, caused a sharp decline in both staffing and customers. Meanwhile, Lackadaisy's main rivals, the Marigolds gang, have started making their resurgence, aided by not only former Lackadaisy employees, but also several other unsavory characters who have no qualms getting their hands bloody. |
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| 15 | Amid all this is our LovableRogue protagonist Roark "Rocky" Rickaby, a jazz violinist turned whiskey and gin runner for Lackadaisy. He's a bit eccentric, to say the least. Wild escapades abound as Rocky struggles to do right by Mitzi, the only person 'kind' enough to give him a job in these tough times. Joining him on these less-than-legal adventures are his young cousin Calvin 'Freckle' [=McMurray=], a quiet, earnest youth rejected from the police force because of his, er, [[TheBerserker enthusiasm]], and longtime Lackadaisy 'employee' Viktor Vasko, a surly, grizzled one-eyed Slovak with [[HandicappedBadass bad knees]]. Rounding out the cast are Sedgewick 'Wick' Sable, mining magnate and Mitzi's current paramour; Ivy Pepper, Atlas's goddaughter and Lackadaisy hanger-on; Mordecai Heller, an overly bookish (and equally sociopathic) Marigold triggerman; and Dorian 'Zib' Zibowski, the sardonic saxophonist. |
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| 17 | Oh, and [[FunnyAnimal they're all anthropomorphic cats]]. But in spite of that fact, ''Lackadaisy'' is very much a tongue-in-cheek affair with a serious plot line and strong characterizations, accompanied by artwork of a high professional level, which has gotten more impressive throughout its run. |
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| 19 | The comic has received physical print publications, so far receiving two volumes as well as an art book featuring never before seen material titled ''Lackadaisy Essentials'', published by the Chicago-based Iron Circus Comics, with Volumes 1 and 2 also being published in Italy through [=ReNoir=] Comics. |
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| 21 | In March of 2020, Iron Circus launched a Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign to fund a online animated short to be produced by its newly founded animation branch, as well as the aforementioned ''Lackadaisy Essentials'', reaching its goal within six hours. Featuring the talents of several well-known voice actors, most notably Creator/MichaelKovach as Rocky and Creator/SungWonCho, aka WebVideo/ProZD, as Mordecai, it was eventually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vffu6FG4YP4 released]] on Youtube on March 29, 2023 under the title "Lackadaisy ({{Pilot}})" |
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| 23 | On July 25, 2023, Iron Circus launched a [[https://www.backerkit.com/c/iron-circus-comics/lackadaisy-bookset-and-plushes Backerkit campaign]] to provide funding for a five-episode first season of a full animated adaptation of the comic, with the season being fully funded within a week, tentatively set to start premiering in 2024. The campaign concluded on August 24, 2023, with $2,008,728 raised, with the promised stretch goals of including 3 mini-episodes, exclusive blu-rays and community plush polls. Since then, several vignettes have been published on the Lackadaisy Youtube channel, with the first mini-episode planned to come out in May 2024. |
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| 25 | Now has a [[Characters/{{Lackadaisy}} character page]]. Please put all character related tropes there. |
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| 28 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | !!The webcomic provides examples of: |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[folder:A-E]] |
| 33 | * TheAllegedCar: Rocky's car (though technically it belongs to Lackadaisy, Rocky is the one primarily depicted driving it, [[spoiler:besides, he lives in it anyway]]) is in pretty rough shape, sporting several bullet holes, is prone to stalls due to a worn-out clutch, and the interior is a mess. Not surprising, considering Rocky's haphazard, reckless nature, and the fact that [[spoiler:the car doubles as his home.]] |
| 34 | * AllThereInTheManual: Much of the back stories of the characters are only alluded to in the comic itself, while much more is elaborated on in supplementary material, such as Viktor serving in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, his partnership with Mordecai, etc.... |
| 35 | * AnyoneCanDie: [[WordOfGod Tracy]]'s[[invoked]] answered on her forum that ''yes'', one of the main characters will die. |
| 36 | * ArcSymbol: |
| 37 | ** ''Playing cards.'' The logo for the speakeasy is a club, and pictures in the gallery section of the site sometimes features cards. Later, a card game featuring the characters became available. |
| 38 | ** ''Rivers''. In volume 1, Rocky composes an ode to the Mississippi River. Captain Kehoe pilots a barge along the river. In volume 3, Mordecai suggests that the Savoys dispose of the bodies of Gracie's henchmen in the river. While reciting a spontaneous poem, Rocky appears as a skeleton submerged in a river. |
| 39 | ** ''Scars''. After the Arbogasts strike him with their vehicle, Rocky has a scar down the middle of his forehead. Serafine carves a scar into Mordecai's chest when he refuses to join the Maitre Carrefour cult. |
| 40 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Played to a T in this quote: |
| 41 | -->'''Lacy''': "Headlamps, Mr. Sable."\ |
| 42 | '''Wick''': "Right, where would I be without you, Miss Lacy?"\ |
| 43 | '''Lacy''': "Hopelessly trapped in the twisted wreckage of your car. Mangled limbs. Probably on fire... With your tax records all out of order." |
| 44 | * ArtEvolution: Not that it even needed it from the start, but as you progress through the comic you see the lighting becoming more expressive and detailed (thanks to computer rendering) and the bodies becoming more proportionate and closer to human body types. Now every frame looks like an authentic 1920s photograph. |
| 45 | ** From a more stylistic standpoint, at the start, the art was purely sepia, however as the story continues, and the art and shadowing improved, it starts involving more color. It's still generally sepia, but things such as blood get colored and the more stylized/supernatural things get color as well. And starting with Volume 3, the sepia aspect is mostly gone, with the art regularly employing color, though still very washed out. It doesn't look like old photos anymore, but its not fully colored either. |
| 46 | * ArtShift: "Expedition" depicts Viktor and Mordecai in human form instead of cat form. |
| 47 | * ArtisticAge: Don't be fooled by the big eyes and adorable faces, they just signify that Freckle and Ivy are the young''est'' of the cast -- they're both eighteen. It's not even that big of a gap to the ones who look more adult; Freckle's cousin Rocky is twenty-two. |
| 48 | * ArtisticLicenseMedicine: |
| 49 | ** After receiving a serious head injury, Rocky is strong enough to walk around St. Louis the following morning and clear-headed enough to carry out a bootlegging run with Freckle and Ivy the following night. In real life, Rocky would have been out of commission for ''much'' longer than one night. |
| 50 | ** Rocky leaves his stitched-up head injury unbandaged the next day and repeatedly gets it wet in the rain. In real life, both of these would be ''huge'' no-nos with a stitched-up laceration, as they would greatly increase the chances of an infection. |
| 51 | * ArtisticLicensePharmacology: When Mordecai unwittingly sips Rocky's "space coffee", he immediately experiences dilated pupils and hallucinations. In real life, orally-administered hallucinogens take several minutes to absorb and produce hallucinations. Also, Mordecai takes one sip of the "coffee" and immediately spits it out, meaning that he only swallowed a few drops of the liquid at best. Unless the liquid contained a ''massive'' amount of a hallucinogenic drug, Mordecai wouldn't have consumed enough of the active ingredient to experience effects. Then again, given the gags about his consumption of mind-altering amounts of sugar, it might actually ''be'' that strong just to beat Rocky's considerable tolerance to whatever's in it, but that just begs the question of how Rocky consumes anything that powerful and isn't dead. |
| 52 | * AsideGlance: Zib's response to Rocky being Rocky is an aside ''[[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=359 stare]]''. |
| 53 | * AuthorAvatar: Appears in a few "Chit-Chat Time" mini-comics interviewing some of the characters. Has been mistaken for [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=87 some kind of monkey]], [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=222 some kind of leprechaun]], [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=327 a disheveled pixie]], and [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=350 an undercover gremlin]]. |
| 54 | * BackingAwaySlowly: When going to Ivy's school Rocky starts to realize Ivy is upset with him and slides behind Calvin, and backing away slowly with his arms raised as she runs at them claiming that ''"Whatever I did it wasn't me!"'' before she launches herself at him and starts hitting him with a magazine. |
| 55 | * BadassCrew: Mordecai, Serafine, and Nico are each dangerous in their own right, but are even more formidable when acting as a team on behalf of Marigold. The trio kidnapped and murdered two lawyers in volume 1. In volume 2, they slaughter Gracie's henchmen, disable Gracie, and put the fear of God into Gracie's customers. |
| 56 | * BadassLongcoat: |
| 57 | ** Mordecai frequently sports one. |
| 58 | ** Also Freckle's [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=12 trenchcoat]]. |
| 59 | ** Panel seven of [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=118 this page]]. The shotguns certainly don't hurt. |
| 60 | * TheBigDamnKiss: Calvin and Ivy get a small one of these at the end of "Liason." |
| 61 | * BilingualBonus: |
| 62 | ** Rocky jokingly reading labels on whiskey bottles to Lackadaisy's patrons in [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=39 this strip]] : the names he gives out are, respectively, "disgusting brown gunk" or "rancid rat water". Which, from the sound of it, is what the booze tastes like. |
| 63 | ** Most of Mrs. Bapka's dialog is in Slovak. When translated into English, it can be a source of humor. For example, in a side comic in which Rocky is testing the characters' huggability, Mrs. Bapka hugs his face while asking, "Who are you?". |
| 64 | * BlackAndGrayMorality: ''Nobody'' in this story is blameless. The protagonists can be nice, they can be funny, and they are certainly usually better than the villains of the story, but let's get a few things straight: just about everyone in the story (including every protagonist) is a criminal of some description, and over half of them have killed. Even Freckle. ''[[AxCrazy Especially]]'' Freckle. |
| 65 | ** Even [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Bapka]] (Viktor's upstairs neighbor) [[WordOfGod is a hardened criminal]], who [[spoiler: [[FelonyMisdemeanor stuffed sardines down her kitchen drain before the widespread adaptation of garbage disposals]]]]. |
| 66 | ** Though we've yet to see Lacy mixed up in any wrongdoings, time will only tell if this remains the case. |
| 67 | * BlackComedy: A lot of it, especially in the side strips, which take this up to eleven. |
| 68 | * BlahBlahBlah: [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=10 Noise noise noise]]. |
| 69 | * BrickJoke: The first time we meet Mordecai, he's just [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=27 chopped someone up with a hatchet]]: |
| 70 | -->'''Serafine:''' De hatchet, cher. It was a joke. |
| 71 | -->'''Nico:''' We didn' tink you was really gone to use it. |
| 72 | ** Eight years and more than 100 strips later, we get [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=143 this exchange]]: |
| 73 | -->'''Nico:''' What's dis work we supposed to be doin' tonight? You got annuder hatchet job in store? |
| 74 | -->'''Mordecai:''' No. I've brought more precise instruments this time. |
| 75 | * BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Mordecai uses one to block most of a shotgun blast. |
| 76 | * BurialAtSea: After besieging Gracie Grombach's speakeasy, Nico wonders how the Marigold gang will dispose of his henchmen's dead bodies without the pig farmers' help. Mordecai suggests dumping the bodies in the river. |
| 77 | -->'''Mordecai:''' It's time to behave like civilized professionals. Let the currents and bottom-feeders do their part with discretion. Which is to say, you have two very large, perfectly serviceable rivers at your disposal. |
| 78 | * BuriedAlive: Viktor and Mordecai once used it for [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=117 interrogation]]. They likely killed the guy later, through [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill gun and grenade]]. |
| 79 | * CallBack: |
| 80 | ** In volume 1, Mordecai murders a man with a hatchet. At the end of volume 2, Nico asks Mordecai if he has another "hatchet job" in store that evening. |
| 81 | ** In volume 1, Viktor likens Mitzi to a bear trap. In "Lackadaisy Wisenheimer", Rocky inquires about some bear traps for sale at the Defiance General Store, saying that they remind him of someone dear to him. |
| 82 | ** In volume 2, Bobby tells Ivy that years before, Atlas, Viktor, and Mordecai bided their time at Defiance General, playing chess until it was time to besiege their rivals' cabin. "Lackadaisy Wisenheimer" includes a shot of Defiance General's front counter with chess pieces in the foreground. |
| 83 | * CastFullOfCrazy: Where do we start? Rocky was manic and reckless from the start, and his head injury in volume 2 has only exacerbated his mental instability. Freckle succumbs to murderous rage in dangerous situations. Mordecai is a sociopath who is devoid of warmth, empathy, or mercy. Serafine is another sociopath with a sadistic streak, and if she truly believes in Maitre Carrefour, is living in a fantasy world. Her brother Nico isn't much better. Wick is an insomniac who works too hard, drinks too much, and is haunted by [[ItMakesSenseInContext the ghost of a dead duck]]. |
| 84 | * CastOfSnowflakes: The cats are all very distinct despite being, well, cats. It's highlighted even more on the current [[https://lackadaisy.com/characters.php character page]], where each character is portrayed in a distinct, period-appropriate art style. |
| 85 | * CasualDangerDialogue: |
| 86 | ** Very pronounced when the Lackadaisy staff are [[spoiler:under attack from very angry pig farmers]]. |
| 87 | ** [[http://lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=86 "...so I was hoping after you punch me through a wall you could..."]] |
| 88 | ** "It's possible I've made the situation somewhat worse." Said while running for their lives through a cornfield from a hearse barreling down a hill at full speed. |
| 89 | * CerebusCallBack: Mordecai and the Savoys debut in the comic after Mordecai has dismembered a man with a hatchet. Readers assume that Mordecai murdered a rival bootlegger, and the scene is played for very dark laughs. Later, the comic reveals that Mordecai and the Savoys kidnapped an innocent lawyer who had no idea what he had done wrong and spent his final moments in terror and pain. |
| 90 | * CerebusSyndrome: The humor in this story has always been rather [[BlackComedy dark]], and it's always been violent and full of drama, but the first volume was much more comedic and had more emphasis placed on snarkiness and slapstick. Starting around the part where Mitzi steals a checking book from Wick, it's all downhill from there. After Rocky gets injured, things get real dark, ''real'' fast. |
| 91 | * ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: Rocky tends to pull these when people try to dig into his [[DarkAndTroubledPast past]]. |
| 92 | ** In "Hallelujah" when Zib asks Rocky how he got into the rum-running business, Rocky appears to begin answering, only for him to suddenly call attention to a broken string on his fiddle. |
| 93 | ** In "Look-see," when Calvin tries to question Rocky over the latter telling Ivy about "the past", Rocky only says that he thought he only ''dreamed'' telling Ivy before commenting on the "Beflowered Malafactors from the Crossroad" (Fish and Wes). |
| 94 | * ChildrenAreInnocent? [[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHAAA]]! [[HaHaHaNo No]]. ''[[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=27 No no no no no.]]'' |
| 95 | ** As if Rocky's ComedicSociopathy wasn't bad enough, according to [[AllThereInTheManual Tracy]] and [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=119 Bobby]], Mordecai started keeping books for grifters, loansharks, and other varied criminals in his ''pre-teens''. |
| 96 | * CigaretteOfAnxiety: Zib really, [[http://lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=49 really]] needs [[http://lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=56 a freakin' smoke]]. |
| 97 | * CoffinContraband: One of their former suppliers was an undertaker who smuggled booze in coffins. Possibly a reference to something that happened in real life. |
| 98 | * ColorCodedCharacters: In the color piece [[http://lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=217 Syncopators]], the band is this. |
| 99 | ** Zib (saxophone, clarinet): Red |
| 100 | ** Rocky (violin): Blue |
| 101 | ** Sy (trumpet): Green |
| 102 | ** Ben (double bass): Yellow |
| 103 | ** Mozzie (piano): Black |
| 104 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: Mordecai, in a [[http://lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=29 side comic]] where he tries unsuccessfully to "make eyes" at a woman nearby: |
| 105 | -->'''Viktor:''' Dark look like Valentino is different thing from dark look like, ehh, I vill like to murder your family...vith icepick, probably.\ |
| 106 | '''Mordecai:''' That wasn't remotely like the icepick look. |
| 107 | ** And [[http://lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=28 another one]]: |
| 108 | --->'''Viktor:''' You just shoot Sniffles??\ |
| 109 | '''Mordecai:''' That's "shot", Viktor. |
| 110 | * CompanionCube: Rocky's [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=368 Cactus Friend]], which he keeps around since Mitzi (wisely) rejected it. It’s a fairly creepy one that shows up in occasional side comics, and may or may not talk to Rocky when they’re alone. |
| 111 | * ConstructionZoneCalamity: |
| 112 | ** {{Downplayed}} and PlayedForDrama as Marigold Gang's ConsummateProfessional Mordecai armed with a [[{{Handguns}} pistol]] and Lackadaisy's ReluctantWarrior Freckle armed with a LittleUselessGun have a [[DarkenedBuildingShootout shootout]] in a maze of steel beams at Sable Stone and Quarry. Freckle has RoofHopping and impetuousness, while Mordecai has patience and accuracy in CountingBullets. Out of ammo and grazed by a ricochet, Freckle is only saved by the distraction of his cousin Rocky's ConstructionVehicleRampage. |
| 113 | ** That rampage then goes badly wrong when Rocky [[BlindShoulderToss blindly tosses]] a lit stick of dynamite that bounces off a water tower support, right back into the dynamite-filled steam shovel bucket he was riding in. Rocky hastily drops out of it in slapstick fashion, but the shovel heads straight to the water tower. Rocky narrowly avoids being run over as the shovel makes impact, the dynamite blows, and the explosion ruptures and knocks the WaterTowerDown, flooding the quarry. It does confound their Marigold Gang pursuers in equally comedic fashion just enough to aid Rocky and his runners' escape. |
| 114 | * CueTheFallingObject: Seen in over on the right side of [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=216 this mini comic]] as Viktor and Mordecai stand surrounded by a gang they just slaughtered, one of the bodies is slumping over. |
| 115 | * {{Cult}}: Serafine leads a cult that follows a corrupted form of Voodoo and worships the ''loa'' Maitre Carrefour. She invited Mordecai to join, and when he refused, she forcibly carved a Voodoo symbol into his chest. |
| 116 | * DangerTakesABackseat: Mordecai always has to do things the creepy way. |
| 117 | ** In an interesting near-subversion, Freckle actually noticed Mordecai before Mitzi got in. It's just that nobody pays attention to the soft-spoken little guy. |
| 118 | * DeadpanSnarker: A few characters (see character sheet) and Tracy Butler herself is one; her artist comments and answers to reader questions are filled with snarks to rival Zib's. |
| 119 | * DecadeThemedFilter: The comics filter the panels akin to authentic 1920s photographs. |
| 120 | * {{Deconstruction}}: Of 1920s speakeasy life. Those fun, lively speakeasies were stocked by bootleggers who engaged in bloodshed. The liquor at speakeasies was sometimes adulterated with poisonous substances which could sicken drinkers. |
| 121 | %%* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Part of the comic's charm. |
| 122 | %%* DesignStudentsOrgasm: Where to even start... |
| 123 | * DigYourOwnGrave: To a ''Chihuahua'' in [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=347 this side comic]]. |
| 124 | * DirtyCop: The two who picked up Zib took the money that he had just gotten from Mitzi, and joked about using it to gamble at the next horse race in front of him. |
| 125 | ** They get called on this by Dom Drago, though. [[spoiler:Not that his showing up portends good things in the future for Zib and the rest of our merry band...]] |
| 126 | * DramaticNecklaceRemoval: Sort of. Zib grabs Mitzi's pearl necklace, but when she pulls away, the necklace breaks and the pearls scatter everywhere. He didn't do this on purpose, however. |
| 127 | * DreamworksFace: Described by Tracy in ''[[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=333 Expressions]]'' as "The Smarm Brow," implying that there are several unnamed characters in other works that need their eyebrow privileges revoked. |
| 128 | -->'''Tracy:''' I can't think of a reason anyone who doesn't walk around in a smoking jacket with a pipe clenched in their teeth needs to make this face more than, say, 0.1% of the time...and yet it is ''everywhere. Always.'' |
| 129 | * DrivingQuestion: Who killed Atlas May, and why? |
| 130 | * DysfunctionalFamily: Oh boy, where to start...All is ''not'' well in the [=McMurray=]/Rickaby family. [[spoiler:Even before Rocky took the blame for....[[NoodleIncident something]] so bad that it caused him to be kicked out of the only place he truly considered home, there were still plenty of issues besetting them. Rocky's mother died at some point from tuberculosis, and Rocky mentions that his father is "working on the railroad" which pretty much is another way of saying he's [[DisappearedDad out of the picture]] and is unable or doesn't care enough to return home and take care of his son.]] As a result, Rocky's only real parental figure is his aunt Nina, a dour and oppressively devout Irish Catholic. On top of this is poor Calvin, Rocky's cousin and Nina's son, who, while at first seeming an earnest and timid kid just trying to get into the police force, has a rather...[[BewareTheNiceOnes violent]] side whenever he gets his hands on a [[GunNut gun,]] a trait that made him wash out of the police tryouts almost immediately. Still, despite all this, the family still seems to care about one another, with Nina allowing Rocky to hang out with Calvin and washing his clothes on request (if begrudgingly), showing that there is some silver lining behind all the trouble. |
| 131 | * DysfunctionJunction: Rocky's a rollercoaster of ups and downs. Freckle's a bundle of anxiety and vague and lingering dysphoria, with intermittent outbursts of…something. Mitzi's perhaps not dealing with the grieving process in the healthiest of fashions, or she's trying to evade it altogether. Not that he's ever been the most jovial of fellows, but Viktor is doing some wallowing lately. Elsa scarcely ventures outside. Wick and Zib seem to be looking for chemical solutions to melancholia. Mordecai's a sociopath with a gaping hole where his soul should be. |
| 132 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Wick and Mordecai both appear during the flashback in the second page of the comic. They formally join the cast in pages 13 and 27, respectively. |
| 133 | ** Asa Sweet has a ''very'' early cameo as well. He isn't formally introduced until about 3/4s of the way through the first volume, but if you look closely you can see him in the crowd attending Atlas May's funeral in the first few pages. |
| 134 | * EasilyForgiven: |
| 135 | ** Viktor regularly brutalizes Rocky, but Rocky continues to treat him as a friend and Mizti keeps him on staff. Viktor has also beaten up Ivy's boyfriends, and yet Ivy continues to be friends with him. |
| 136 | ** In a flashback, Mordecai shot his driver, Sniffles, because Sniffles' sinus problems got on his nerves. Mordecai never suffered repercussions for ''murdering a coworker in cold blood''. |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:F-J]] |
| 140 | * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: A flashback shows Viktor shoving an injured man into a fireplace and then using his body to light the puddles of moonshine he's using to burn the place down. |
| 141 | * AFatherToHisMen: Atlas is turning out to be dark subversion of this trope. According to Zib, Atlas had a habit of collecting strays and offering them work and relative safety as his employees. [[spoiler: (He helped to get Viktor a lawyer and shorter prison sentence after his arrest and basically paid off Mordecai's angry pursuers from New York and gave him the shirt off his back, literally)]]. However, as much he 'saved' his employees, Atlas did still indenture them into a life of violent crime. |
| 142 | * FedToPigs: One of the uses of the pig farm... |
| 143 | * {{Foreshadowing}} |
| 144 | ** After Rocky burns down the pig farmers' house, Freckle struggles to suppress his maniacal laughter. The laughter suggests that Freckle might have darker impulses that readers first thought. Later in chapter 1, Freckle's maniacal laughter returns when he kills three of the pig farmers. |
| 145 | ** In chapter 2, after Mordecai enters the Savoy's suite, Nico quickly slams the door shut. Readers [[{{Cult}} later]] [[CarvedMark see why]] the Savoys wanted to make sure he stayed in the suite. |
| 146 | * FourFingeredHands: In cat form, each character has three fingers and a thumb on each hand. |
| 147 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Tracy herself. As evidenced by her 08/23/2010 journal entry on her deviantArt page, Tracy "unofficially adopted" her neighbor's cat Luca after she found the poor creature barely alive with several serious facial injuries and a myriad of infections. She took Luca to the vet to have him humanely euthanized, but then found it in her heart (and wallet) to pay for his many many surgeries, antibiotic treatments, and pain medication. The result: Luca is now living happily with Tracy as a sort of bizarre IRL counterpart to Viktor, as Luca lost an eye to infection and is generally chewed up body wise. |
| 148 | * FunnyAnimal: Everyone, but quite a few feline expressions are used (particularly with Ivy). |
| 149 | * FurriesAreEasierToDraw: A reason for why the cast are felines, according to Tracy. |
| 150 | ** Not that she [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=312 can't]] [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=218 draw]] [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=184 humans]]. [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=328 The cast as humans]] translate incredibly well. |
| 151 | ** And [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=307 normal animals]]. It's not so much "easier" as "zanier for cartoon TheRoaringTwenties antics". |
| 152 | ** [[invoked]] WordOfGod is that she also thought cartoony cat faces were more expressive. She may have a point as when she draws the cast as humans, she shows an inclination to do so with stunning realism. |
| 153 | *** Proof the cat faces are more expressive? Check out [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=333 "Lackadaisy Expressions"]] -- Tracy's attempt to deliver advice on drawing a multitude of facial expressions, filled with examples utilizing a number of the strip's characters. The range of expressions and emotions is absolutely astounding. |
| 154 | ** Not to mention the option of fluffing up a cat's tail if s/he's frightened by something, or moving the ears to show interest or displeasure. |
| 155 | * FurryConfusion: Averted. The only animals shown to be anthropomorphic are the cats, and there's never been a non-anthro cat. Likewise, other animals are never shown to be anthropomorphic. |
| 156 | ** [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=347 "Pets? Who said there were pets?]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial No one knows anything about any pets."]] |
| 157 | ** Tracy confirms that cats are basically just [[FurryLens stand-ins for humans]], and that as far as non-feline pets and animals, everything is the same as it would be normally. She also says that there won't be as much emphasis on this in the comics (other than the aforementioned pig farmers) so not to add ''another'' layer of absurdity to the series. In fact, when a fan asked for the cast's breeds, she only answered with "Cat". The closest would be Mordecai being a tuxedo cat as a pun on his attire. There's also speculation that Viktor is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_cat Siberian]] because of his huge size. |
| 158 | * GilliganCut: |
| 159 | -->'''Zib:''' Indeed. These arms weren't designed for manual labor. I'm afraid I'm relegated to the arts.\ |
| 160 | '''Rocky:''' [[RunningGag But you're less like spaghetti.]] Besides, shouldn't we revel in this opportunity to ''suffer'' for our ''art?''\ |
| 161 | '''Mitzi:''' Zib, go suffer for your art.\ |
| 162 | Cut to Rocky leading the band through the tunnels.\ |
| 163 | '''Zib:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Your enthusiasm for suffering is somewhat unsettling.]] |
| 164 | * GorgeousPeriodDress: Being TheRoaringTwenties, we get everything from flapper dresses, three-piece pinstripe suits and some fashion holdovers from TheGayNineties. Then there's Rocky's zoot suit... |
| 165 | * GrievousBottleyHarm: You can't have a story about bootleggers without this one. Viktor [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=120 shows us how it's done.]] |
| 166 | * HandbagOfHurt: After a tense meeting with Asa Sweet, Mitzi returns to her car, where Mordecai is waiting to speak with her. She smacks him in the face with her purse before she realizes who he is. |
| 167 | * HollywoodKiss: Averted. Mitzi and Wick try to have one, but Mitzi gets distracted by a picture of Atlas, and they both trip on floor olives. |
| 168 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Viktor and Ivy, respectively. |
| 169 | * HumanoidFemaleAnimal: The female cats have human-like head hair, and the males have only hints of hair. Justified; [[FridgeBrilliance short hair for men was the standard back then]]. |
| 170 | ** As Nico's head fur is longer than that of the other male cats, we can assume males would have equally human-like hair if they'd just grow it out. The boys have hair of varying lengths in [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=328 this]] side comic, for example. |
| 171 | ** It's not just the hair; Mitzi's facial features are notably less feline in appearance than any of the other characters'. |
| 172 | ** Recent pages has shown Rocky growing his hair out a little, ostensibly to hide the nasty scar he got from his encounter with the hearse. |
| 173 | * HypocriticalHumor: While Mordecai is trying to find the Savoys, who are staying in a hotel under assumed names: |
| 174 | -->'''Mordecai:''' Perhaps you'd know whom I was referring to if I described them as a pair of supposed siblings speaking a sort of Cajun-creole patois rife with francophone interjections and enough inter-dental fricative stops to stagger a New Yorker?\ |
| 175 | '''Concierge:''' ''[blank look]''\ |
| 176 | '''Mordecai:''' Yes, they are a bit difficult to understand. |
| 177 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every page is titled "Lackadaisy [[[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Something Multisyllabic]]]". "Sketchdumps" on the author's Deviant Art page are commonly labeled "Lackadaisy [[[AntiquatedLinguistics Crazy Old-Timey Slang Word]]]". |
| 178 | * ImprovisedArmour: Viktor uses car doors as a shield; nothing too ostentatious, that happens in real life as well. Mordecai also uses his accountant-esque suitcase as a shield at one point. |
| 179 | * ImprovisedWeapon: |
| 180 | ** Viktor, naturally, is the undisputed champion of this trope in the comic. He's knocked out someone with a car door, whacked people with heavy whisky bottles, and laid the smackdown on a rival gang with only a crowbar, for starters. |
| 181 | ** Mordecai comes in a close second -- he's thought quickly enough to kill someone with a fragmented wood bannister. |
| 182 | * IncendiaryExponent: One early sequence showcasing Rocky's "logic" lets you know exactly what kind of comic this is going to be. |
| 183 | * IndyPloy: |
| 184 | --> "''Always'' be prepared to improvise, Freckle. That's rule number one for jazz players and vigilantes alike." |
| 185 | * IntoxicationEnsues: |
| 186 | ** Viktor is injured during the pig farmers' siege of Lackadaisy. Dr. Quackenbush administers anesthesia to Viktor before tending to his wounds. Ivy finds Viktor unconscious with a big smile on his face. |
| 187 | ** In a side comic, Rocky replaces Mordecai's tea with his "special coffee". Mordecai's pupils dilate, and he recoils in horror when he sees giant microorganisms on the table. The last panel shows a terrified Mordecai curled up in a ball, surrounded by hallucinations of {{eldritch abomination}}s. |
| 188 | ** In a flashback, Mordecai sustains an injury and is taken to Elsa for treatment. He flatly refuses to let Elsa treat him, but consents once she injects him with morphine. The last frame shows Elsa holding a hypodermic needle, standing next to a sloshed Mordecai who has collapsed on an operating table. |
| 189 | ** In a side comic, Mordecai underestimated the strength of Bunny Hugs cocktails, got himself drunk, and fawned on Viktor. |
| 190 | * ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Ivy combines this with WrongInsultOffence during her confrontation with the Arbogasts in Defiance: |
| 191 | -->'''Bobby:''' It's one less of you high school jellybeans I have to worry about, slinking around here, trying to raid our stores.\ |
| 192 | '''Ivy:''' ''Hey!'' I'm in '''''college!''''' |
| 193 | * JugglingLoadedGuns[=/=]RecklessGunUsage: [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=19 In a background extra strip]], Rocky shoots himself in the ear when waving around his pistol, giving him the hole in the ear seen in the regular strip. |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | |
| 196 | [[folder:K-O]] |
| 197 | * KarmicButtMonkey: Mordecai Heller isn't much of a ButtMonkey... in canon. In the dubiously canon bonus strips, however, he suffers a ''lot'', both physically and in the form of losing [[TheComicallySerious his precious dignity]]. Since he's a borderline [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] ProfessionalKiller, it's hard to feel at all sorry for him. |
| 198 | * {{Kneecapping}}: Mordecai did this to Viktor in the recent past. |
| 199 | --> '''Mordecai:''' That is how one reasons with Viktor. |
| 200 | * KosherNostra: The best hitman in St. Louis is a dapper little Jew. (Going by the name Heller, presumably German Jewish, though it would be a stronger presumption if he was native to the Midwest, rather than New York.) |
| 201 | * KubrickStare: Considering that this is a cast of sociopaths, [[SociopathicHero heroic]], [[HeroicComedicSociopath comedic]], or those who are emphatically ''normal'', just about everyone gets a panel like this. [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=83 Even Ivy]]. |
| 202 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: Let's not sugarcoat it. The Lackadaisy gang may be funny and lovable, but they're still murdering, thieving bootleggers. However, compared to the Marigold Gang, whose ranks include [[TheSociopath Mordecai Heller]] (who, let's face it, is the worst of the bunch -- though it's worth noting he used to work for the former), they come off as much more sympathetic and easier to root for. |
| 203 | * LittleUselessGun: When the pig farmers attack the Lackadaisy gang is unarmed save for a small [[https://lackadaisy.com/comic.php?comicid=46 "pea shooter"]] stashed in Mitzi's garter, thanks to Mordecai looting the armory on his way out. However, Freckle still manages to kill [[https://lackadaisy.com/comic.php?comicid=49 one]] of their assailants with it, and immediately trades up for his victim's Tommy gun. |
| 204 | * LostInTheMaize: Subverted. [[spoiler:Rocky [[GenreSavvy attempts to use it as a means of escape]] when he and Ivy were found by the owners of some stashed liquor,]] but the corn was too low-grown to be of any use. |
| 205 | --> '''Rocky:''' "No! Why isn't this corn tall enough? This is terrible corn!" |
| 206 | * MassOhCrap: [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=145 Here]], twice. |
| 207 | --> '''The Band''': "You gave [Rocky] a gun?!" |
| 208 | ** She actually didn't, but Mitzi's flubbed explanation of Freckle didn't help matters. |
| 209 | --> '''The Band''': "You gave him a ''child'' with a gun?!" |
| 210 | * MatureAnimalStory: A webcomic about a bootlegging gang in Prohibition-era St. Louis, with plenty of gunfights, killings, and several sociopathic characters. There is painstaking attention to period-appropriate detail, with one exception: all the characters are anthropomorphic cats. |
| 211 | * MayDecemberRomance: Although Mitzi's age is unknown, and the art makes everyone look younger than they are, it's pretty clear that Atlas May was significantly older than his wife, Mitzi. |
| 212 | * MoeCouplet: [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Viktor and Ivy]], [[MoralityPet whose relationship is not romantic]] but definitely cute. [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=337 Discussed and practically lampshaded here]], especially in the last panel. |
| 213 | * MomentKiller: [[http://lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=102 Drunken Vergil]] ruins a sweet, sad moment between Zib and Mitzi. |
| 214 | * MrFanservice: Nicodeme has ''barely done anything in canon'' and the fangirls are all over him. His previous character profile claimed he enjoys "a sort of effortless popularity with the lady-types." |
| 215 | * NegatedMomentOfAwesome: Viktor when the pig farmers attack. He effortlessly dispatches one, but when he goes to deal with the rest, he encounters stairs, which he has trouble walking down because of his bad knees. |
| 216 | * NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters |
| 217 | * NoHonorAmongThieves: Several characters betray their former associates for personal gain. |
| 218 | ** Asa Sweet was a close friend of the Mays while Atlas was alive. After Atlas' death, he has no moral qualms about trying to destroy the Lackadaisy or putting Mitzi and her staff in danger. |
| 219 | ** Mordecai was devoted to Atlas and worked closely with Viktor. After Atlas' death, Mordecai kneecapped Viktor, defected to the Marigold gang, and stole weapons on behalf of Asa Sweet from the Lackadaisy armory. |
| 220 | * NoodleIncident: Used in a couple of [[http://tracyjb.deviantart.com/art/Lackadaisy-Chit-chat-59123905 gag]] [[http://tracyjb.deviantart.com/art/Lackadaisy-Euphemisms-139975448 comics]]. |
| 221 | ** Though the one about Viktor's eye has been answered, if you look [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=76 on the lower right here]], and then [[http://lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=121 officially in-comic]]. |
| 222 | * NotHelpingYourCase: [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=80 Mitzi here,]] dear God. |
| 223 | ** In the two side comics asking [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=337 Viktor and Ivy]], and [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=338 Viktor and Mordecai]], [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs what they think about their respective shippers]], Ivy and Mordecai's reactions probably [[ShipTease only serve to fan the flames]] ([[TeasingCreator likely deliberate on Tracy's part]]). Ivy handles it gracefully, and cheerfully goes over why she and Viktor couldn't work; which is quite convincing, except that in each panel she's being just as much of a CuddleBug as usual: Grabbing his face to demonstrate how grumpy he is, trying (unsuccessfully) to put her arms around him to demonstrate the "logistical problems", and wrapping herself in his coat while saying "I just keep him around on account of he's warm in winter". While Mordecai's priceless reaction suggests that maybe he [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lady_doth_protest_too_much,_methinks doth protest too much]]. |
| 224 | --->'''Mordecai:''' ''[staring at FourthWall in horror]'' What? ''[staring at Viktor in horror]'' ''What?'' ''[at FourthWall]'' '''WHAT?''' ''[to Viktor]'' I don't — '''WHAT?''' ''[to FourthWall]'' So it – it's funny, is it? It's a joke? It's a joke. Okay, I get it. We're laughing now. Oh, light-hearted whimsy. Ha ha ha '''''WHAT IS HAPPENING?''''' |
| 225 | * OffhandBackhand: Not exactly a backhand, but Viktor still pulls off something with the same sentiment. [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=88 When incapacitated]]. Poor Rocky just can't catch a break. |
| 226 | * OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs: Mordecai, Ivy, and Viktor were made aware they have shippers. Ivy took it [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=337 gracefully,]] Mordecai [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=338 not so much,]] and Viktor's reactions ranged from stoic silence (when paired with Ivy) to uproarious laughter (when paired with Mordecai). |
| 227 | ** When it was mentioned to Rocky that he might have fangirls, he was [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=336 thrilled.]] |
| 228 | * OldFashionedRowboatDate: Mitzi and Wick had one... sort of. And by 1920s standards, it was quite old-fashioned. |
| 229 | * OneHeadTaller: Nicodeme and Serafine. |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | [[folder:P-T]] |
| 233 | * PassThePopcorn: |
| 234 | ** What one young cat does after Mitzi and Wick [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=82 spill out of a photo booth]] due to an impromptu make-out session. |
| 235 | ** While the Pig Farmers are angrily recounting how Rocky burned down their home, Asa Sweet impassively eats Nut Zippers and offers one to Mordecai. |
| 236 | * PluckyComicRelief: Rocky and Freckle's wacky hijinks. |
| 237 | * PreViolenceLaughter: |
| 238 | ** In "Lackadaisy Scathefire" Rocky is giggling as he jogs towards a barn to burn it down. |
| 239 | ** In "Lackadaisy Doolally" Freckle starts laughing maniacally while staring at Avery's dropped submachine gun, before he scoops up the chopper to go gun down Avery's brothers. |
| 240 | * TheReveal: A minor one:[[spoiler: Rocky lives in his car, and took responsibility for some sort of [[NoodleIncident family tragedy]] that strained relations with his remaining family, got him kicked out of the house, and started his life of wandering.]] |
| 241 | * RhymesOnADime: Viktor and Ivy get into this, during an argument. |
| 242 | --> '''Viktor''': Chad vas... bad.\ |
| 243 | '''Ivy''': And Claude? Was that your work too?\ |
| 244 | '''Viktor''': Claude vas...\ |
| 245 | '''Ivy''': Let me guess -- flawed?\ |
| 246 | '''Viktor''': Yah. |
| 247 | ** [[SubvertedTrope Then subvert it:]] |
| 248 | ---> '''Ivy''': And Cecil? |
| 249 | --->'''Viktor''': Cecil vas, uhh... |
| 250 | --->'''Ivy''': Oh, don't bother answering that. Nothing rhymes with Cecil anyway. |
| 251 | --->'''Viktor''': Terrible name. And also he vas no good. |
| 252 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Ivy and Freckle as children. They might both qualify as adults too. |
| 253 | * RippingOffTheStringOfPearls: During an argument Zib grabs Mitzi's pearl necklace, and when Mitzi pulls away, the necklace breaks, and the pearls go everywhere. The necklace was a cherished gift from her late husband — the first thing he ever gave her, in fact — so she scrambles to pick them up before they roll away in the street; and when a hobo tries to steal one, she wrestles him so hard for it that she ends up kicking him in the chin. Early the next morning she can be seen at her desk trying to put the necklace back together, looking like she hasn't slept a wink. |
| 254 | %%* TheRoaringTwenties: Of course. |
| 255 | * RuleOfCool: |
| 256 | ** The artist has a penchant for drawing Wick dramatically brandishing a revolver. She admits that [[NonActionGuy he would have no idea how to use one]], but it makes him look debonair. |
| 257 | ** The same happens to Rocky, who, in an attempt to look "pretty dashing" [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=19 in one of the early comic previews]], promptly manages to shoot part of his ear off. |
| 258 | ** [[WordOfGod Tracey]] admits that although Zib plays both the saxophone and the clarinet in the band, he is never pictured with a clarinet due to his own ''vanity'' at playing the [[IncrediblyLamePun "sexyphone"]]. |
| 259 | ** Cast members sometimes wear zoot suits, despite those being slightly anachronistic. |
| 260 | * RuleOfThree: In "[[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=94 Lackadaisy Correspondence]]:" |
| 261 | -->'''Freckle''': "It's a three. It's my lucky number... I guess."\ |
| 262 | '''Nina''' (first horizontal panel): "Oh, is it then? Well, it's a good number."\ |
| 263 | '''Nina''' (second horizontal panel): "A ''holy'' number."\ |
| 264 | '''Freckle''' (third horizontal panel): *cringe* |
| 265 | * ScrapbookStory: Freckle has kept every letter his cousin has ever sent him-even the very few we're shown on [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=94 this page]] paint a very descriptive picture of what Rocky's been up to since he left home (and explains a few things about his shenanigans as an employee of the Lackadaisy speakeasy). |
| 266 | * SceneryPorn: Not just because settings are well rendered, but it's clear she put a great deal of research into it too. |
| 267 | * SkewedPriorities: Emery was absent during Rocky's attack on the pig farm because he was playing checkers and shooting squirrels with a neighbor. One of his brothers smacks him with a bucket and angrily asks why he didn't react to the sight of smoke nearby. |
| 268 | * SelfDeprecation: [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/howtodraw.php "For more lies and misinformation, read on to part 2."]] |
| 269 | ** [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/makingacomic.php Gawd, I'm such a hack.]] |
| 270 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Mordecai is prone to this every so often(see HypocriticalHumor above), being one of the most intelligent of the cast yet without the social skills needed to know/care that others (usually Viktor) might not understand the longer words. |
| 271 | * ShipTease: The artist made a few pages addressed to fans discussing the characters reactions to shippers. Specifically [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=337 Ivy and Viktor]] and [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=338 Viktor and Mordecai]]. |
| 272 | * ShirtlessScene: Oddly enough, any time any of the male characters take off their shirt to reveal their sleeveless undershirts, they gain +5 sex appeal, whether they be in ''cat'' or human form. |
| 273 | * ShownTheirWork: Just try to find a historical inaccuracy besides people being anthropomorphic animals (zoot suits being the [[RuleOfCool sole, and acknowledged by the author, exception]]). |
| 274 | ** It is virtually impossible to find a historical inaccuracy, unless the author draws attention to it specifically and explains the reason behind it. It turns out to be very, very minor. |
| 275 | ** Seriously, look at literally ''anything'' in the comic and try to see something that didn't look like lots of thought and knowledge was put into it. |
| 276 | * SlidingScaleOfAnimalCommunication: Level 1, the only talking animals in the setting are cats. Level 0 when one considers that the characters are canonically human. |
| 277 | * SorryOciffer: Zib starts trying to come up with an excuse for why he's laying across the sidewalk with a hip flask in hand, then gives up after stumbling on his words, downs the contents of the hip flask and mouths off to the officer instead. He is next seen beaten and in a jail cell, mumbling that if you're going to get arrested the least you can do is make sure you deserve it. |
| 278 | -->"See? Now there's no problem left. Except the proximity of your ugly face ''son''." |
| 279 | * SoundDefect: WordOfGod has it that [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=331 the sound of Viktor's fist hitting a face]]... is [[UnsoundEffect kind of bizarre]]. At least it is pre-{{canon}}. Or [[RuleOfFunny maybe just that once]]. |
| 280 | * SplashOfColor: A few of the side comics, such as "Shenanigans" and "Tannenbaum," have color added in a few panels. "Haymaker" and "Powder-keg" have blood drawn in red, contrasting the sepia in the rest of the panels. |
| 281 | %%* SpoofAesop: [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=94 "Truth is pain. 8C"]] |
| 282 | * StabTheSalad: |
| 283 | ** "[[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=77 WICK, IFOUNDYOURTIREIRON!!!]]" |
| 284 | ** "[[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=332 ...Now's a bad time.]]" |
| 285 | ** "[[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=13 Some thug brought this message for you.]]" |
| 286 | * StealthHiBye: Mordecai discovers the downside of doing this [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=72 here]]. |
| 287 | * StraightManAndWiseGuy: (Possibly non-canon but) in [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=398 this reply to a Tumblr query]], [[ComicallySerious Mordecai]] and [[PluckyComicRelief Rocky]]. |
| 288 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Not in the comic, but by the fans. During the page [[http://lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=124 Coercion]]: |
| 289 | --> '''Ivy''' (about Rocky): "Will he ever talk sense again?!" |
| 290 | ** In the forums immediately after: |
| 291 | ---> '''At least a dozen forum-goers''' (independent of each other): "He talked sense in the first place?" |
| 292 | * SuddenlyShouting: |
| 293 | ** "ASYMMETRY?" |
| 294 | ** "NO FUN FISH!" |
| 295 | * TakeThat |
| 296 | ** [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=333 The expressions tutorial]] would dissuade aspiring artists from relying on DullSurprise, [[{{Animesque}} anime]] [[CheekyMouth cues]], and "DreamWorksFace" (referred to as "The Smarm Brow") as regular crutches. |
| 297 | ** In that same section she mentions having eyebrow privileges taken away. Possibly a TakeThat at Tom Preston, who is know for odd usage of eyebrows in his comics, usually along with smarmy faces. |
| 298 | *** One section of that expressions tutorial looks like it's specifically referencing [[Webcomic/CtrlAltDel a certain famous webcomic]] notorious for its bland, generic expressions. |
| 299 | *** Another section of that expressions tutorial seems to be specifically referencing [[Webcomic/DominicDeegan another famous webcomic]] notorious for its use of CheekyMouth and snout shaped noses. |
| 300 | ** [[http://tracyjb.deviantart.com/#/d422uo7 Her most recent tutorial]] also shows a strong disdain to a [[Creator/RobLiefeld certain artist.]] |
| 301 | * TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Lackadaisy's bootleg liquor has been adulterated with harmful substances. In one scene, Mitzi samples a bottle of liquor, winces, and jokes that if it kills her customers, she can steal their belongings. Ivy finds a bottle of embalming fluid in the Arborgast's funeral home and asks if they're adulterating their liquor with it, adding that one of Lackadaisy's previous vendors did so. |
| 302 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: The female characters are drawn with humanoid, styled hair, but most of the males' fur is consistently the same length, like real cats. Possibly justified; see HumanoidFemaleAnimal above. |
| 303 | * [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Gun Always Works]]: [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=56 Zib demonstrates.]] Though it ''was'' established beforehand that he's quite inexperienced with firearms. |
| 304 | ** Given that the pistol in question was a .25 caliber Beretta (and his total lack of gun-kata), Zib could probably do more damage by throwing it rather than firing it. Freckle, on the other hand... |
| 305 | * TitleConfusion: More than a few people have referred to the comic as "Lackadaisy Cats." The comic's title is pretty clearly just "Lackadaisy," but "Cats" appears in the web address -- hence the confusion. |
| 306 | * ToiletHumor: When a fan asked Tracy what kind of eraser she used, they got [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=334 this.]] |
| 307 | * TwoGuysAndAGirl: |
| 308 | ** Rocky, Freckle, and Mitzi seemed to be the first characters thought of and designed. The initial proto-sketches and artwork were mostly images of the three of them getting into wacky criminal hijinks together. Though Tracey now admits it would be dreadfully out of character for Mitzi these days. |
| 309 | ** Lackadaisy's current bootlegging team consists of Rocky, Freckle, and Ivy. |
| 310 | ** A team consisting of Mordecai, Serafine, and Nico carries out dirty work for the Marigold gang. |
| 311 | * TwinThreesomeFantasy: Discussed by Mordecai and Joey, a speakeasy bartender. Or, rather, by Joey -- Mordecai just appreciates symmetry. |
| 312 | [[/folder]] |
| 313 | |
| 314 | [[folder:U-Z]] |
| 315 | |
| 316 | * UglyGuyHotWife: Highly subjective of course, but Elsa and Bobby are an example. |
| 317 | * UnkemptBeauty: Lacy. Observe: [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=76 regular, tidy Lacy]] versus [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=98 mussed hair Lacy]] (especially panels 8 & 14). |
| 318 | * TheUnreveal: Rocky and Zib's conversation in [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=30 Hallelujah: ]] |
| 319 | -->'''Zib:''' But before you hightail it out of here, humor me - just what made a lad like you volunteer to go running hooch around in the dead of night? |
| 320 | -->'''Rocky:''' ''Well,'' I -- oops. Did you see that? One of my strings is broken. |
| 321 | -->'''Zib:''' Alright. [[DeadpanSnarker I'm glad we]] [[SarcasmMode settled that.]] |
| 322 | * VisualPun: |
| 323 | ** Asa Sweet is an overweight feline who wields a great deal of power in the St. Louis crime world. He's literally and figuratively a ''fat cat''. |
| 324 | ** While inside Gracie's pool hall, Mordecai locates Gracie's hidden speakeasy when he noticed smoke escaping from behind a picture of two cabaret girls. The girls in the picture were literally and figuratively ''smoking hot''. |
| 325 | ** In "Lackadaisy Preview 0029", Mordecai is wearing a tuxedo, which is fitting because he's a ''tuxedo cat''. |
| 326 | * VitriolicBestBuds: The former dynamic duo of Viktor and Mordecai; while not exactly 'best buds', both had a tentative respect for each other's existence. Considering the kind of people [[SociopathicHero Viktor]] and [[FourEyesZeroSoul Mordecai]] are, a vague kinda-you-sorta respect is probably the closest thing to 'friendship' either one is capable of. |
| 327 | ** The two actually spent time together out of work, if [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=327 this mini-comic]] can be trusted. |
| 328 | --->'''Mordecai''': "''Wha'' was I saying? Oh, Viktor. Right. Viktor. Viktor's ''greeaat''." |
| 329 | * WaterTowerDown: Rocky blindly tosses a lit stick of dynamite that bounces off a water tower support and, through a series of slapstick incidents, causes a shovel to hit the water tower and an explosion to knock it down. It manages to confuse Rocky and his cousin's Marigold Gang pursuers. |
| 330 | * WeAreStrugglingTogether: The thugs working for the Marigold gang are constantly at each other's throats. Wes punched Fish after Fish called him "Weaselface". Serafine forcibly carved a Voodoo symbol into Mordecai's chest, and readers can safely assume that Mordecai is plotting revenge. Not only that, but "Illumination" implies that his loyalty to Asa Sweet is showing to not be as solid as originally thought, given that instead of just killing Gracie, he instead brings him to a secluded location to question him as to ''why'' Marigold is cleaning house. |
| 331 | * WebcomicTime: This is due in large part to the [[ArtEvolution excessive amount of work]] that goes into the comic as time goes on, plus some ScheduleSlip now and then. To list: |
| 332 | ** In at least one case, a span of six years equated to ''two days'' in-story. |
| 333 | ** A keen-eyed viewer would notice that the events of Volumes 1 and 2 lasted around ''10'' days, as shown with the start of the comic (2006) referencing the Charles Lindbergh's Atlantic flight (21 May 1927) and [[https://lackadaisy.com/comic.php?comicid=146 this page posted on 2016]] near the end of Volume 2 shows that the date didn't even ''reach'' June 1927. This means that it took ''a decade to cover just 10 days''. |
| 334 | * WhatDidIDoLastNight: Q: "Did Zib and Mitzi's gang have some wild adventures back in the day?" A: "[[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=353 They don't remember]]." |
| 335 | * WorldOfFunnyAnimals: With bootleg liquor. And car chases. And guns. |
| 336 | * WrongInsultOffence: Combined this with ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne during Ivy's confrontation with the Arbogasts in Defiance: |
| 337 | -->'''Bobby:''' It's one less of you high school jellybeans I have to worry about, slinking around here, trying to raid our stores.\ |
| 338 | '''Ivy:''' ''Hey!'' I'm in '''''college!''''' |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | !!The animated pilot provides examples of: |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[folder:A-L]] |
| 344 | * TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Lackadaisy's doors in the {{Bookends}}, its stage in the opening, its cars and guns are CGI features in an otherwise consciously {{Retraux}} hand-drawn universe. |
| 345 | * ATeamFiring: A lot of bullets are spent, on both sides, but nobody seems to hit anyone. Even all the dynamite thrown by Rocky causes nothing but property damage. The only significant injury anyone receives is when Mordecai grazes Freckle with a ricochet. Notably the characters all take immediately take cover when under fire, but the usefulness of this varies by the direction of fire (Freckle shoots alongside the side of the Marigold car, which the characters dodge but the bullets should have gone through the door.) |
| 346 | * ActingOutADaydream: The show begins as the curtain rises on a violin-accompanied PurpleProse poem by speakeasy violinist Rocky, who recites an ode to the Mississippi River on a golden ArtDeco bridge with a treble staff for a deck, while his violin emits sparkles, and glowing daisies fill the sky. As he finishes, these filigrees fade away, and fellow runner Ivy waves a flashlight in his startled face and mockingly imitates him, to scold him for being off in his own head, rather than acting as team lookout. |
| 347 | --> '''Ivy:''' Ahem! *melodramatically spinning* It's abundantly clear / *flatly* You forgot us down here. |
| 348 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: Mr. Sweet, Mordecai's boss, finds it hysterical that a cold hardened professional would call him and ask for a ride, and asks "what am I, your dad?" He proceeds to layer on some 20's Dad-isms for extra effect. |
| 349 | * AdaptationDistillation: Several elements from the comic's run have been condensed into the pilot's twenty-seven minute runtime, like specific exchanges of dialogue and characters present or alluded to. |
| 350 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: While still endearingly polite and soft-spoken, Freckle is much more vocal about his disapproval of Rocky's antics. |
| 351 | * AffablyEvil: Nico never loses his easygoing smirk or friendly tone, even when greeting Ivy three seconds before trying to shoot her. |
| 352 | * AffectionateNickname: |
| 353 | ** While talking to Ivy, Rocky refers to Freckle as "Baby-Face" as the latter makes a suitably infantile expression. |
| 354 | ** While talking to Freckle, Rocky - likely in jest - refers to Ivy as "Hotsy-Totsy", though the level of affection is arguable, as she rolls her eyes at his comment. |
| 355 | ** While tempting his cousin Freckle into the role of their CaperCrew's gunsel, Rocky calls him "Torpedo Boy," "torpedo" being period-accurate slang for a {{Hired Gun|s}}. |
| 356 | ** After finding Lackadaisy's car undefended, Serafine refers to the whiskey within as "Mes Amis" (French for "My friends"). |
| 357 | ** Nico and Serafine both refer to Mordecai as "Cher" (French for "Dear") at least once each. |
| 358 | ** While fleeing the quarry, Ivy refers to Rocky as "Mudbug" due to her finding him face-first in the giant mud pit that resulted when he accidentally blew up a water tower. |
| 359 | * AllThereInTheManual: To learn more about the characters, [[https://lackadaisy.com/ Lackadaisy.com]] for bios, a gallery of bonus semi-canon and gag strips, and questions on the author's tumblr for a straight line to the WordOfGod. |
| 360 | * AllThereInTheStinger: The first of two stingers begins as a seemingly comic opportunity to witness Mordecai humiliated over the phone by his superior for his and the Savoys failures, but it takes a very dark turn when Mordecai and Sweet agree its "time to tie up some [[SequelHook loose ends]]". |
| 361 | * AloofLeaderAffableSubordinate: The Marigold gang's ConsummateProfessional Mordecai suffers the company of his underlings, genial AffablyEvil {{Blood Knight}}s Nico and Serafine Savoy, who spend a CarChaseShootOut laughing, joking, and having the time of their lives while he sourly complains about being roped into unnecessary work due to their unseemly zeal. |
| 362 | -->'''Mordecai:''' Let's not prolong this. This is a trifling matter. We have other business to tend to.\ |
| 363 | '''Nico:''' Yeah, but none of it near as fun as ''this'' gon' be! |
| 364 | * AlternateContinuity: The Pilot provides an alternative introduction to the world and its characters while also serving as a standalone story. In this canon, Rocky, Freckle and Ivy are already actively working together on gin runs, the Funeral Home has already signed on to deal with Lackadaisy, and Rocky's feud with the hillbillies is traded for a CarChase shootout with Mordecai and the Savoys; the events also occur much later than where the comic currently is date-wise. The actual series will be a more direct adaptation of the comic with some minor changes and AdaptationExpansion. |
| 365 | * AnalogyBackfire: As Freckle grouses about the presumed sacrilege of the graveyard run, Rocky tries to reassure his cousin by comparing their antics to the murders committed by William Burke and William Hare a century prior, but Freckle points out a flaw in this example. |
| 366 | --> '''Rocky:''' Hundred years past, Burke and Hare got up to much worse, and things turned out just fine for them.\ |
| 367 | '''Freckle:''' D- didn't they ge- hang 'em?\ |
| 368 | '''Rocky:''' Details, Freckle. Details. |
| 369 | * AnimatedAdaptation: Of the [[https://lackadaisy.com/comic.php webcomic]] of the same name, which went on hiatus as the planned short blew so far past its Kickstarter goals that a full-length {{Pilot}} went into production. |
| 370 | * AngryAnimalisticGrowl: |
| 371 | ** When Rocky inadvertently starts swishing his tail in Freckle's face the second time, Freckle responds with a small, buzzing noise akin to the kind of "growl" you might hear from an angry housecat. |
| 372 | ** Freckle lets out a feral, pantherine growl at Ivy after she asks him if he's ok. Though in his defense, it was a knee-jerk reaction and not deliberate anger. |
| 373 | ** Viktor gives a low, rolling growl to a few Lackadaisy patrons when Mitzi asks him to smile. |
| 374 | ** Freckle growls at Ivy ''again'' shortly after Viktor's growl, though this time it's a more feline growl made in response to her offering him a glass of [[GargleBlaster Sunset Rose Cocktail]] after she herself had [[SpitTake spat it out]] immediately prior. |
| 375 | * ArtDeco: The era's bold, angular geometric motifs feature on the Lackadaisy Speakeasy logo, the bridge and buildings of Rocky's FantasySequence, some of Mitzi's office decor, typefaces in and out of universe, and vintage ad-inspired character art sprinkled throughout the bulletin boards in the credits. |
| 376 | * AsideGlance: While Serafine is telling Mordecai "What happened to you dat made you hate fun?", Nico gives the camera an [[FascinatingEyebrow incredulous]] "Is this guy for real?" kind of look. |
| 377 | * AspectRatioSwitch: The moment the Lackadaisy trio realize they're in danger, the rest of the episode is screened with black bars on top and bottom like a cinematic movie. It gets thinner as Mordecai lines up to shoot [[spoiler:Ivy]], then goes away when he relents. |
| 378 | * TheBait: DoubleSubverted. Marigold driver Nico [[DiscussedTrope presumes]] that Rocky has [[OutsideRide climbed]] onto Lackadaisy car's trunk to bait them into a confrontation, when Rocky was knocked out on accident. |
| 379 | * BanteringBaddieBuddies: Marigold Gang's Nico and Serafine, SiblingsInCrime, tease and crack jokes at each other even after narrowly avoiding a Tommy Gun barrage that's blown their windshield during a CarChaseShootout, while they were both in the ''front seat.'' |
| 380 | --> '''Nico:''' Hoo! *Begins to cough while Serafine laughs* I think I [[SwallowedAFly swallowed a bug]].\ |
| 381 | '''Serafine:''' *smiling* You got a big fat ''bebette'' for dinner? No fair!\ |
| 382 | '''Nico:''' *coughs, spits in his hand, and grins, showing her his palm.* Naw, jus' more [[SoftGlass glass!]]\ |
| 383 | '''Both:''' *Laugh raucously* |
| 384 | * TheBard: Rocky is Lackadaisy's house band violinist turned booze runner, prone to bouts of string-accompanied poetry. |
| 385 | * TheBartender: {{Discussed}} and {{Subverted}}. Former tough Viktor's manning the bar at the Lackadaisy speakeasy, but his dour, grim demeanor doesn't help much with that. He patently refuses to play the role of confidante despite Mitzi's pleas, scowling and growling so the patrons are spooked, and even his attempt at ObsessiveCompulsiveBarkeeping results in shattered glass. |
| 386 | * BeleagueredBoss: Marigold Gang ProfessionalKiller Mordecai Heller is saddled with a pair of thrill-seeking {{Overzealous Underling}}s in SiblingsInCrime Nico and Serafine, who refuse to heed his (admittedly contemptuous) advice, largely ignore his orders, and accuse him both of ConflictingLoyalties and hating fun. TheStinger has him sourly informing his superior that their sidetracking into a CarChaseShootout has resulted in a totaled car and muddied, sodden gang members |
| 387 | * TheBerserker: Thanks to deliberate provocation from Rocky with a tommygun, Freckle goes into a [[LaughingMad cackling]] trigger-happy frenzy and lays waste to the Marigold vehicle. He comes down from it after they crash their car, but not before reflexively clawing holes in the upholstery. |
| 388 | --> '''Freckle:''' *strained* '''Sorry!''' ''Sorry.'' I didn’t mean to. It’s just that there’s a ho- a fire. A ''burning'' '''hot''' fire i- in, uh. [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject In the e-engine compartment!]] |
| 389 | * BigDamnHeroes: DoubleSubverted. When Nico and Serafine are seconds away from stealing the surviving whiskey and discovering Ivy hidden under the car, and Mordecai is advancing on a bullet-grazed, unarmed Freckle he has dead to rights, Rocky turns the tide and saves Freckle and Ivy by way of riding in the bucket of a commandeered [[ConstructionVehicleRampage steam shovel]] and using a cache of dynamite as [[MadBomber bombs]], all the while laughing and screaming an impromptu poem about a circus train and its FightingClown. Then he accidently drops a lit stick of dynamite in the bucket just as it hits the quarry's water tower. However accidental, the resulting explosive flooding does provide cover for their escape. |
| 390 | * TheBigGuy: |
| 391 | ** {{Inverted}} with the diminutive, baby-faced Freckle, whom his cousin Rocky claims "provides the muscle." Much to Freckle's horror, he doesn't just mean heavy lifting, as he presents Freckle with a tommygun stored in his [[SenselessViolins violin case]], exploiting Freckle's tendency to become TheBerserker around guns, thereafter pressganging him into the role of team heavy. |
| 392 | ** Subverted on Marigold's side, as Nico is the largest, but shoots a comparatively tiny revolver, and serves as the driver during the chase scene, while his lithe sister Serafine shoots a [[{{BFG}} Browning Automatic Rifle]] ''from the hip'', and uses it near constantly. |
| 393 | * BigNo: |
| 394 | ** Rocky does two during the car chase, one when Serafine shoots out the latch on their car's trunk, and again when she hits one of the bottles, causing its (former) contents to run out of the hole. |
| 395 | ** Freckle's RapidFireNo ends with one of these. |
| 396 | * BlindShoulderToss: |
| 397 | ** When Rocky is digging around in the back of Lackadaisy's car in search for a certain something, he tosses everything he gets his paws on over his shoulder, including the ever-creepy [[FreezeFrameBonus Cactus Friend]]. |
| 398 | ** When Nico nearly swallows a piece of glass, he promptly sets it aside upon identifying it. |
| 399 | ** At least half the dynamite Rocky throws out of a steam shovel bucket is done without the slightest care for where it lands, which is exactly how one stick [[DeconstructedTrope comes back at him]] by way of bouncing off a water tower leg, necessitating a hasty leap from the dynamite-filled bucket, just before the shovel hits the tower. |
| 400 | ** Mitzi does this with the cork from a bottle she'd opened. |
| 401 | ** Inverted when Rocky takes his hat from Freckle, despite never looking at him the entire time. |
| 402 | * BloodKnight: Marigold Gang's HiredGuns Nico and Serafine relish a good fight and gleefully anticipate and laugh their way through a CarChaseShootout with the whiskey runners horning in on Marigold's territory. |
| 403 | --> '''Nicodeme''': Looks like we got some ''live'' ones tonight!\ |
| 404 | '''Serafine''': Yeah, ''c'est bon.'' The chase is the best part! |
| 405 | * BookcasePassage: Speakeasy Proprietrix Mitzi May is shown pushing a tall, bookshelf-sized glassware cabinet inward like a door to exit the Little Daisy Cafe and enter a small underground [[SecretUndergroundPassage foyer]] where a doorman guards the entrance to the Lackadaisy Speakeasy. |
| 406 | * {{Bookends}}: Multiple sets. |
| 407 | ** Barring {{The Stinger}}s, the story opens and closes on Lackadaisy Speakeasy's doors and stage, preceding and following characters' glamourous {{Fantasy Sequence}}s. It begins on Lackadaisy's doors opening to reveal its empty stage, with the curtain rising on violinist Rocky performing a glittery, golden, lavishly staged DisneyAcidSequence, eventually revealed as his DaydreamSurprise while neglecting lookout duties on a bridge. It ends with the band beginning to play as Lackadaisy's owner Mitzi shuts her eyes, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane envisions]] her husband's hand on her shoulder, then opens them to real they've filled with stars. A wash of glitter reveals her gold-hued fantasy of the stage and speakeasy filled with people, and the camera pulls out until the speakeasy doors shut. |
| 408 | ** {{The Stinger}}s also mirror the opening in different ways. The first has sparks from Asa Sweet's cigar float downward during a FadeToBlack to the sounds of smouldering ash, while the earliest moments of the opening have glowing dust motes floating into a darkened frame as a distant train horn blows. The second, a double-still of a horrified Wick Sable, mirrors the [[DecadeThemedFilter sepia-tint]] and faux-scratched film initially seen on the Lackadaisy stage before color [[PicturePerfectPresentation fades in]] and the curtain rises on Rocky. |
| 409 | * BottomlessMagazines: |
| 410 | ** Played straight for Serafine's rifle, which is fired full-auto for almost the entire pilot without running dry, despite having a pitiful 20-round magazine. In fact, during the cemetery scene alone, she clearly fires ''way'' more than 20 rounds without ever reloading, and if she ''does'' reload at any point, we're never privy to it. |
| 411 | ** Averted for both Freckle's Thompson and the tiny pistol he digs out of their seat, which both run out of ammo relatively fast. |
| 412 | ** Unknown for Mordecai's pistol and Nico's revolver, which are never fired enough times to deplete their ammo to begin with. |
| 413 | * BrickJoke: A FreezeFrameBonus shows a sign outside the quarry (before Rocky, Freckle and Ivy smash through it) that says 'Sable Stone & Quarry Inc'. Later in the pilot, Wick is disturbed to hear of Rocky using dynamite in a quarry, while Rocky eventually refers to him as '''Mr. Sable''', revealing that he owns the place. At the ''very'' end, there's a double-still of Wick discovering the copious damage done to his property, utterly horrified. |
| 414 | * BriefAccentImitation: While moving the Canadian Whiskey to the car, Freckle gets spooked by the hooting of an owl, prompting Rocky to [[{{Troll}} jestingly]] claim that they're disturbing the ghosts of the dead, going on to loudly tell the 'spirits' (read: the owl, [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere which promptly takes off in fright]]), in a hilariously thick Irish accent, that they're powerless to stop the pair. |
| 415 | --> '''Freckle:''' ''(Hears the owl hooting and gasps.)'' What was that? Did you hear something?\ |
| 416 | '''Rocky:''' It's all these unresting spirits. We're trespassin' on their turf. ''[To owl:]'' BUT THERE'S NAUGHT YE C'N DO ABOUT IT, YE FEISTY DEVILS! |
| 417 | * BrotherSisterTeam: Marigold Gang's HiredGuns are Louisiana Cajuns Nico and Serafine, genial, chatty {{Blood Knight}}s who love chasing down whiskey runners that encroach on Marigold's turf. They are also shown to be really close as Nico dives to save his sister from one of Rocky's dynamite sticks. |
| 418 | * TheCaper: The plot revolves around a CaperCrew of {{Venturous Smuggler}}s executing a whiskey run for Lackadaisy Speakeasy, with several complications presenting themselves. Firstly, their funeral home supplier operates via CoffinContraband which they must dig up on the outskirts of a cemetary after decoding an obituary's CypherLanguage. Secondly, they're operating in the territory of rival Marigold Gang and ''[[HeistClash poaching]]'' that supplier, necessitating stealth and discretion to avoid getting caught on enemy turf. Thirdly, they fail rather spectacularly at that last part, and find themselves on the wrong end of a CarChaseShootout with Marigold's top three HiredGuns. |
| 419 | * CaperCrew: RagtagBunchOfMisfits they may be, but Lackadaisy's trio of booze-runners manages to just scrape by |
| 420 | ** TheLeader and senior booze-runner is Rocky, flighty and prone to exploiting his two NewMeat compatriots for labor, but nonetheless a canny improvisor and TheScrounger, good for finding what his fellows need just when they need it, especially weapons. |
| 421 | ** The [[TheBigGuy muscle]] and team gunner is his babyfaced young cousin Freckle, TheDragAlong who becomes TheBerserker when given a gun. |
| 422 | ** The GetawayDriver is Ivy, a self-taught driver and amateur WrenchWench who's inexperience actually serves her, since when she DrivesLikeCrazy it throws their pursuers for a loop. |
| 423 | * CarChaseShootOut: The Lackadaisy booze runners turn their panicked flight from Marigold Gang's trigger-happy HiredGuns into a fairer fight once TheBerserker Freckle assembles the Tommygun hidden in his cousin's [[SenselessViolins violin case]], making short work of Marigold's windshield and defeating Marigold's driver Nico's ramming attempt. With Rocky maneuvering the dissociated Freckle to the side window and telling GetawayDriver Ivy to DodgeByBraking, Freckle's next barrage sideswipes Marigold's car to PopTheTires. |
| 424 | * CarFu: |
| 425 | ** {{Subverted}}. Marigold driver Nico tries to ram the Lackadaisy car while Rocky is precariously [[OutsideRide perched]] on its unlatching trunk, but is forced to back off thanks to Freckle appearing at the rear window with a tommygun to blow out their windshield. |
| 426 | * CatsHateWater: When faced with a sudden tsunami from a ruptured water tower, ConsummateProfessional Mordecai, heretofore TheStraightMan and thoroughly above the hijinks surrounding him, gives a comically extreme FurryReminder complete with goggle-eyed hissing, rearing backward and rigidly pressing against a shed to avoid the waves. |
| 427 | ** PlayedWith though, as the comic makes it very clear that he’s just obsessive-compulsive about cleanliness and order. |
| 428 | * CaughtMonologuing: {{Implied}}. During Rocky's self-indulgent workshopping of his lengthy PurpleProse poetry when he's ''supposed'' to be on lookout duty, he [[SuddenlyShouting yells]] loud enough for his voice to ''audibly echo'' ("To challenge titans come before!") while playing a loud flourish, just as a car can [[FreezeFrameBonus be seen]] and heard passing under the bridge. If the Marigold enforcers weren't already patrolling the cemetary, Rocky's resonant bellowing as they drove by just provided incentive to do so, with the headlamps off. |
| 429 | * CheshireCatGrin: As TheTrickster of the cast, an uncannily overbroad grin is Rocky's signature expression, and can be seen both on the Youtube thumbnail, and as a cheerier, sketchy disembodied expression preceding TheStinger. |
| 430 | * ClocksOfControl: ConsummateProfessional Marigold triggerman Mordecai has a SignatureSoundEffect of a ticking clock that cues when he scans his surroundings or focuses his aim on a target when wielding his pistol. (This is implicitly from a [[AudioDiegesis pocketwatch]], the chain of which can be seen on his vest front.) |
| 431 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Lead runner Rocky is a wistful, romantic musician who gets lost in his own head and sees the world through a tinted lens of poetic beauty and is prone to speak in impromptu poem. He also becomes a [[ThrowDownTheBomblet dynamite-hurling]] maniac during his ConstructionVehicleRampage, ''also'' an impromptu poetry rehearsal. |
| 432 | --> '''Rocky:''' *gesturing with ''lit'' dynamite* Come gather, gather all around.\ |
| 433 | * A gunshot ricochets off his perch*\ |
| 434 | '''Rocky:''' *Screaming while hurling the dynamite* See them rain their fire ''down!'' AHAHAHAHA! |
| 435 | * CoffinContraband: The Lackadaisy runners are on a late night mission to the outskirts of a cemetery to dig up a coffin full of Canadian whiskey. (Their funeral home supplier posted an obituary in CypherLanguage as a map to its location) |
| 436 | * ColdSniper: In contrast to his comrades, the trigger happy and boisterous Savoys, Mordecai is a cold and sardonic professional who approaches each of his shots with ruthless efficiency. [[spoiler: He only hesitates to shoot Ivy, and ultimately lets her go.]] |
| 437 | * CommanderContrarian: [[TheHighwayman Highwaymen]] Nico and Serafine treat their superior Mordecai as a mere obstacle to the exciting parts of their job, and most of their interactions are suspiciously astute [[DiscussedTrope rejoinders]] that serve to challenge his authority and steamroll him into letting them do what they want anyway. |
| 438 | --> '''Mordecai''': *As Serafine fires on a shed* This is going to take longer if you scatter them.\ |
| 439 | '''Serafine''': *As Nico rolls his eyes* What happened to you dat made you hate fun? |
| 440 | * ConcealmentEqualsCover: Played straight during the car chase. As Freckle opens up on the Marigold team's car with a tommy gun, and all three duck below the door line for cover, the doors take bullet holes, the windshield and windows are all shattered, and the right-rear tire is shredded, but none of the Marigold torpedoes are hit. |
| 441 | * ConflictingLoyalties: When Mordecai shows reluctance to join the CarChaseShootout, his underling Serafine lightly accuses him of getting sentimental on the job, which he proceeds to prove wrong by shooting at Rocky. But when he ''finally'' lines up another, better shot at Lackdaisy's rear window and locks eyes with a frightened getaway driver Ivy, [[spoiler: he doesn't take the shot.]] |
| 442 | * ConstructionVehicleRampage: Rocky's contribution to the quarry fight is to commandeer a steam shovel, put a sack full of dynamite into the bucket, jam the controls, then climb up in the bucket and start randomly [[ThrowDownTheBomblet lobbing]] lit sticks onto the ground below. Unfortunately, his rampage is cut short after one of those sticks ends up bouncing back into the dynamite-filled bucket, just as the steam shovel heads toward the quarry water tower. |
| 443 | * ConstructionZoneCalamity: The steam shovel, explosives, and the wrecked water tower force every participant to either flee or brace the torrent of mud and water. The final stinger shows that the quarry is effectively ruined. |
| 444 | * ConsummateProfessional: As Marigold Gang's triggerman, Mordecai Heller's reputation as a serious, straight-laced ProfessionalKiller precedes him. If only he weren't stuck as TheStraightMan and CommanderContrarian to "profoundly unprofessional" {{Blood Knight}}s Nico and Serafine, a pair of {{Overzealous Underling}}s who sidetrack him into an unnecessary CarChaseShootout in the name of "fun." |
| 445 | * CoolCar: By dint of merely existing in TheRoaringTwenties, the cars are cool by association. The Lackadaisy runners' Fordor is modeled after an ([[https://lackadaisycats.tumblr.com/post/713889318440255488/could-1920s-cars-go-as-fast-as-showed-in-the admittedly]] ''slightly'' anachronistic) 1928 Ford Model A while the Marigold Gang rides in a 1927 Cadillac Series 314A Though Marigold's is appropriately swankier and has more horsepower, they're both considered classics. |
| 446 | * CountingBullets: Mordecai verbally whispers a count of the latter three shots of Freckle's six-round pocket-pistol, (implying a mental count beforehand) ''and'' [[ReconstructedTrope waits]] for the sound of Freckle dry firing before grazing him with [[ImprobableAimingSkills a ricochet]]. He very well could've killed him if not for Rocky's timely arrival. |
| 447 | * CrazyEnoughToWork: Rocky's steam shovel rampage indirectly saves Ivy and Freckle from their respective demises by being so grand and distracting that the Marigold trio immediately turn their attention toward him, allowing Ivy and Freckle to repair their car in [[StuffBlowingUp (relative)]] peace. Heck, if not for the water tower, Rocky very likely could've killed - or at least routed - the Marigold trio. |
| 448 | * DeathGlare: After the Lackadaisy crew crashes their car into a shed, and a slightly less sane Rocky cackles off into the night, Ivy asks Freckle - who is currently in his [[TheBerserker Berserker]] state - if they're safe. His "response" is a downright feral glare, albeit one driven more by instinctive rage than conscious anger. |
| 449 | * DodgeByBraking: At Rocky's command, Ivy brakes their car while evading the Marigolds' car. Notably, this isn't so they'd fly past the Lackadaisys' car, but to force the two cars to run side-by-side, allowing Freckle, whom Rocky had moved to the side window, to rake the Marigolds' car with his tommygun, ultimately shredding one of the tires and forcing the Cadillac into a ditch. |
| 450 | * EpicFail: Rocky's absurd attempt at a BigDamnHeroes moment does save his friends' lives, but he almost blows himself up, blows up the steam shovel, blows up a water tower, and causes an impromptu tsunami that completely wrecks the quarry. The events of the short also leave the Lackadaisy team with only ''three'' surviving Canadian whiskey bottles to sell out of several dozen. |
| 451 | * EscapeRouteSurprise: Lackadaisy driver Ivy, trapped in a garage and about to be discovered by gun-toting mercenary Serafine, bolts for the nearest side door, only to find Serafine's brother Nico right behind it. He offers a smug "Hi." before she slams it shut, puts two bullets in the door where she was, then kicks it open. |
| 452 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Mordecai has no qualms with chasing and killing Rocky and Freckle, but ultimately lets Ivy live. |
| 453 | * EvilSoundsDeep: |
| 454 | ** While he's not "evil" per se, Freckle's [[TheBerserker dark side]] has a noticeably more aggressive voice, which is best shown when, after he accidentally scares Ivy, he apologizes to her in both voices one after the other. |
| 455 | ** Asa Sweet, Mordecai’s boss and the leader of the Marigold gang, has a deep rolling voice to complement his stature and authoritative presence. |
| 456 | * EyebrowsBurnedOff: Averted. When the Lackadaisy trio flee the quarry, Rocky half-jokingly asks if his BigOlEyebrows are intact, which Ivy verifies. |
| 457 | --> '''Rocky:''' Are my eyebrows still on?\ |
| 458 | '''Ivy:''' ''[Concerned]'' Uh... Yep.\ |
| 459 | '''Rocky:''' ''[Whisper-shout]'' Aces! |
| 460 | * FirstEpisodeTwist: The suppliers who provided the fake obituary for the whisky’s location aren’t just selling to Lackadaisy, but to Marigold as well, and by double-dealing they’ve all inadvertently crossed Mordecai and his boss, with some vague but ominous repercussions on the horizon. |
| 461 | * FiveSecondForeshadowing: |
| 462 | ** In the cemetery, the arrival of Marigold's car is hinted at a few seconds earlier when the car's darkened silhouette [[FailedASpotCheck appears]] in front of Lackadaisy's car. |
| 463 | ** In the quarry, Rocky discovers an unattended steam shovel and a massive cache of dynamite right before using it to rescue Ivy and Freckle from Marigold. |
| 464 | ** When Rocky imagines (hallucinates?) the explosives shed as being a circus tent, the unseen barker shouting "Watch the world's most idiotic stuntman ride an elephant through a flaming gauntlet of-" references Rocky's near-future rampage. [[note]]World's most idiotic stuntman -> Rocky, elephant -> Steam Shovel, flaming gauntlet -> repeated explosions.[[/note]] |
| 465 | ** As Rocky's manic, carnival-themed pseudo-poem reaches the "you can brandish up your whip and chair" line, a water tower can be seen in the background. Right as he finishes said "poem", a carelessly thrown explosive bounces off said water tower and comes back at him, cutting his rampage short there and then. |
| 466 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: During Rocky's poem at the beginning of the pilot, a car can be seen travelling under the bridge. Said car later [[FailedASpotCheck appears]] in front of Lackadaisy's car as they're loading their [[CoffinContraband purloined whiskey]] into their trunk. |
| 467 | * FreezeFrameBonus: |
| 468 | ** The fake obituary is basically impossible to read in time before the scene changes. If one pauses the video, they can read the unfortunate tale of how the recently deceased was untangled from the steel propeller of a steamboat, all a lie of course. |
| 469 | ** Rocky's failed cactus gift for Mitzi (which was first seen in a one-off [[https://lackadaisy.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=368 comic]] and later in the main [[https://lackadaisy.com/comic.php?comicid=127 comic]]) makes a cameo in the short. The disturbing cactus can be seen briefly, while Rocky is digging around in the car for a gun. |
| 470 | ** When taking his first shot, Mordecai’s glasses show Rocky, showing who he intends to kill. [[spoiler: Ivy gets the same treatment before he lets her go.]] |
| 471 | * FromDressToDressing: Ivy tears the sleeves off her jacket and blouse to use for her makeshift repair work on their getaway vehicle's engine. |
| 472 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: During the "train jumpscare" bit, as Rocky and Freckle simply [[OhCrap freak out]] in the foreground, Ivy [[SurpriseJump leaps into the air]] in the background, and likely could've had an even bigger reaction if she wasn't carrying two shovels, a violin, and the latter's bow. |
| 473 | * FurryReminder: In addition to the common sights like ear movements and tail floofs, the pilot gives us plenty of more overt moments: |
| 474 | ** After the main trio uncover the coffin full of whisky, when Rocky (seemingly unknowingly) starts swishing his tail in Freckle's face, the latter bats at it like a cat, even making a perturbed meow. And when an incidental change of position causes Rocky to let off, Freckle looks at him with a suitably feline "how dare you" kind of look while holding his hands (paws?) close to his chest like he's about to "bat" Rocky in the face. |
| 475 | ** As they're carrying said coffin to their car, each individual swish of Rocky's big, fluffy tail is realistically audible. |
| 476 | ** Immediately after the above, the untimely [[JumpScare passing]] of a train causes Ivy to leap four ''feet'' into the air, not unlike a [[SurpriseJump frightened housecat]]. |
| 477 | ** As they're loading the whisky into their car's trunk, Rocky "swishes" Freckle again, though as the latter has an armload of bottles, his only response is to wave off Rocky's tail like a bug while growling to himself. |
| 478 | ** When Rocky, in an attempt to locate a stray bottle, tries to slip under Freckle, the two get into a brief cat-fight (no, not a CatFight, an actual brawl) that's only halted when Ivy notices that their "spotlight" is [[OhCrap another car]]. |
| 479 | ** At the quarry, Mordecai reacts to an impromptu tsunami[[note]]Long story short, Rocky blew up a water tower[[/note]] by hissing at it before taking cover behind a shed. |
| 480 | *** Mordecai also does a little tail flip every time he doesn't land a shot as successfully as he wanted, and his ears twitch when he's annoyed. |
| 481 | ** After Ivy does a SpitTake, then offers her drink to Freckle, he responds with a short chirp, then steps back with a low growl, which the captions refer to as "cat trill" and "upset cat trill", respectively. |
| 482 | * GargleBlaster: The "Sunset Rose Cocktail" is this, judging by Ivy's reaction - as is the Canadian whiskey it contains. |
| 483 | * AGlassInTheHand: |
| 484 | ** Played straight when Viktor accidentally crushes a glass he was [[ObsessiveCompulsiveBarkeeping trying to clean]] after Mitzi tries to get him to lighten up. |
| 485 | ** Downplayed when Mitzi and Ivy (attempt to) taste their newly-acquired whisky, as their "reactions" are accompanied by a subtle cracking sound that makes it seem like they're crushing their glasses without completely destroying them. |
| 486 | * GoshDangItToHeck: |
| 487 | ** After the "train jumpscare", the first thing anyone says afterwards is a relieved "Beggorah!" from Rocky, "Begorrah" being an Irish amalgam of "By God". |
| 488 | ** Ivy uses a few era-appropriate euphemisms like "Holy Simolean!" and "Raspberries!" |
| 489 | * GratuitousFrench: Serafine uses both "C'est bon" (It's good) and "Allons" (Lets go) near the end of the cemetery scene, "Bonsoir, mes amis" (Good evening, my friends) after discovering the presumed unattended whiskey[[note]]Unbeknownst to her, Ivy cowered under the car instead of fleeing.[[/note]], and both she and Nico call Mordecai "Cher" (Dear) at different points. |
| 490 | * GunNut: |
| 491 | ** Serafine spends most of the pilot firing a Browning Automatic Rifle[[note]]Unfortunately, it's unknown whether it's Boudreaux due to the lack of any carvings on the foregrip, though this could just be due to the art style.[[/note]] from the hip, and is almost never seen without it. Even when Nico tackles her away from imminent death, she manages to hold onto her gun, and is later seen with it slung over her shoulder during the stinger. |
| 492 | ** While he's still apprehensive about it, Freckle still has his "other side", and it's because of "Gunsel Freckle" (via a fully-loaded tommy-gun) that Marigold's car is disabled. |
| 493 | * HadTheSillyThingInReverse: Double Subverted, as Lackadaisy's car had to be in reverse to begin with to evade Marigold's car, but then spends the entire first half of the subsequent chase still in reverse. Made worse by the fact that it's ''Ivy'' that's driving, despite never properly learning how to. |
| 494 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: A literal example (albeit with dynamite and not a petard) gets zig-zagged near the end of Rocky's ConstructionVehicleRampage. First, a stick of dynamite Rocky threw bounces off a water tower and lands in the cache of dynamite below him, which he avoids by bailing out. Then, the still-running steam shovel nearly runs him over, before getting caught under said water tower. Finally, when the dynamite detonates, the blast breaches the tower and causes the water to come down on top of Rocky like a [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom makeshift tsunami]], which hits him full-force, but he keeps himself from being washed into the quarry proper by grabbing one of the tower's concrete foundation pedestals. |
| 495 | * HurricaneOfEuphemisms: During the chase when Rocky’s trying to get Ivy to turn left. [[DownplayedTrope Slightly downplayed]] in that he prefaces his desire with what he means to say, and one of the expressions actually contains the ''word'' "left". |
| 496 | -->'''Rocky:''' Turn here! Make a left!\ |
| 497 | '''Ivy:''' What? What turn?\ |
| 498 | '''Rocky:''' (''grabs Ivy’s shoulder and points with his other hand'') Hang a Louie!\ |
| 499 | '''Ivy:''' (''shakes him off'') Let go!\ |
| 500 | '''Rocky:''' Left hook! ''Sinister! '''Port!!'''''\ |
| 501 | '''Ivy:''' (''indicating the lack of valid turnings'') There’s no left here! |
| 502 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: When Ivy's attempt at tasting the newly-christened "Sunset Rose Cocktail" is denied by Viktor (what with her being underaged and all), Ivy uses the chaos that was their efforts in retrieving it (and the fact that she is missing both jacket sleeves and one sleeve from the shirt under it) as reason for her to have it anyway. |
| 503 | * InstantlyProvenWrong: |
| 504 | ** At the speakeasy, when Rocky mentions out that "the car is fine", then Ivy chirps "[she] fixed it!", the camera cuts to said car in the Little Daisy garage... which promptly ''collapses entirely'', with a small fire starting in the engine compartment a mere instant before the camera cuts away. [[note]]In Ivy's defense, she was likely referring to when she patched up the radiator with her sleeves.[[/note]] |
| 505 | ** Shortly thereafter, when Rocky points out that his violin survived their "adventure" unscathed, one string promptly snaps. |
| 506 | * ItTastesLikeFeet: When Zib tastes the drink brought back by Rocky and the gang, he says it's better than radiator fluid. Mitzi May claims it might start your engine but also says it's better than being shot. Wick compares it to coffin varnish. [[note]] However this is an uncommon era-appropriate slang for really bad alcohol, so it's possibly used this way.[[/note]] |
| 507 | * JumpScare: While the main trio are hauling a coffin full of whisky to their car, they're [[OhCrap frightened]] by the untimely passing of a train hurtling by on the trestle above them. |
| 508 | * JuxtaposedHalvesShot: Downplayed, in that there's only one person and no clear dividing line, but when Rocky hands Freckle the disassembled pieces of a tommy-gun, the right (viewer's left) side of freckle's face shows the apprehensive uncertainty of his normal self, while the left (viewer's right) side shows the angry snarl of his "gunsel" self. |
| 509 | * LargeHam: Rocky, in true fashion, bombastically recites some form of poetry (that he may've made up there and then) during his MadBomber moment. |
| 510 | --> ''The sudden circus comes to town!'' |
| 511 | -->''The behemoth and the top-hat clown!'' |
| 512 | -->''Come gather, gather all around.'' |
| 513 | -->''See them rain their fire down!'' |
| 514 | -->''You can brandish up your whip and chair,'' |
| 515 | -->''But the circus train's a blazin' tear!'' |
| 516 | -->''Said the clown with daring air,'' |
| 517 | -->''We'll make our three rings '''ANYWHERE!!''''' |
| 518 | * LaughingAtYourOwnJokes: As Freckle is griping about the presumed sacrilege of digging up the coffin and supposedly cheesing off spirits in the process, Rocky tries to set his mind at ease with a bit of wordplay on spirits, chuckling slightly at his own wordplay. |
| 519 | --> '''Freckle:''' (''while lugging the coffin along'') This is why you don’t go rilin’ up spirits, and diggin’ up graves, and sacrilegin’, and-\ |
| 520 | '''Rocky:''' Settle down, cousin. The ''spirits'' are all bottled up. (''chuckles'') |
| 521 | * LaughingMad: |
| 522 | ** While wielding a tommy-gun, Freckle starts laughing wildly as his GunNut side takes over. |
| 523 | ** After the Lackadaisy team crashes into the quarry, Rocky spends the first half of the scene cackling and snickering insanely as he darts around, looking for some kind of weapon. After finding an unattended steam shovel (basically the precursor to the modern excavator), then eyeing a cache of explosives, he ''really'' goes off the deep end. |
| 524 | * {{Leitmotif}}: Mordecai gets a ticking clock whenever he's taking aim at someone. |
| 525 | * LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: J.J. plays a LosingHorns sting and/or Taps at "appropriate" points. Much to the chagrin of the other Lackadaisy members, who promptly chastise him. |
| 526 | * LetMeGetThisStraight: Not quite said word for word by Asa Sweet when Mordecai calls him in the stinger, though it still fits the trope. |
| 527 | -->'''Sweet:''' Let me see if I have this right. Ruthless, infamous hatchet man Mordecai Heller is calling me to… ask for a ride?\ |
| 528 | '''Mordecai:''' … Yes. |
| 529 | * LittleUselessGun: After Freckle empties the drum of his Thompson, he and Ivy look for any spare weapons to defend themselves from the Marigold members. Finding only a small pocket pistol that was wedged into the seat. |
| 530 | -->'''Ivy''': Well, I guess that's a gun. |
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| 532 | |
| 533 | [[folder:M-Y]] |
| 534 | * MadBomber: Rocky becomes this during the quarry fight, blindly lobbing sticks of dynamite from the bucket of a steam-shovel, and only stopping when his own idiocy causes one stick to bounce off a water tower and land in the bucket, causing the improvised siege engine to effectively self-destruct. |
| 535 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In the end, as Ms. Mitzi begins to reminisce, we see a ghostly figure of her deceased husband appear behind her and place a comforting hand on her shoulder. Is it wishful thinking on her part, or her dead husband secretly reassuring her? |
| 536 | * MoreDakka: Serafine and Freckle make use of a Browning Automatic Rifle and Thompson Submachine Gun respectively, both weapons that can let out a lot of lead. |
| 537 | * NoSell: While Mitzi, Zib, and Ivy react with disgust at the nigh-unpalatable whisky the main trio brought in, Wick seemingly doesn't react at all, even treating it like a proper [[SommelierSpeak tasting]] that ultimately leads to him declaring that the aftertaste originated from ''[[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink coffin varnish]]'' without a hint of negativity. |
| 538 | * OhCrap: Even discounting the myriad of times the cast's fur bristles when faced with minor spooks, there are still tons of moments that truly frighten them. And while they're likely too numerous to find ''every'' instance, most of them are listed below, grouped by scene: |
| 539 | ** Cemetery: Freckle after hearing the hooting of an owl; said owl after Rocky scares it off with a loud [[BriefAccentImitation Irish]] brogue; Rocky when Freckle wishes his mother (whom Rocky calls a "force of nature") was there to halt their grave-robbing; the Lackadaisy trio when [[JumpScare a train passes by]]; Ivy when she realizes that the light that allowed Rocky to find a stray whiskey bottle came from the Marigold trio's car and not her flashlight; the Lackadaisy trio as they attempt to flee a gun-toting Serafine; and the Lackadaisy trio again when they see the Marigolds' car coming after them following an initial "confoundment". |
| 540 | ** Road: Freckle when Rocky shoves a half-built tommy-gun into the former's arms; Rocky ''four times in a row'' when Serafine's continued shots break the latch on the Lackadaisy car's trunk, after Marigold's car rear-ending Lackadaisy's car throws him onto the latter's trunk, when he realizes at least one bottle had been hit, and when Nico tries to crush him with another rear-ending; and Nico and Serafine ''twice'' when "[[GunNut Torpedo]] Freckle" first brings the freshly-assembled gun to bear on the former's windshield, then rakes the side of their car with a volley that ultimately shreds one of their tires. |
| 541 | ** Quarry: Ivy after "Torpedo Freckle" shoots a feral DeathGlare at her; "normal" Freckle after realizing he'd just scared Ivy; Freckle and Ivy (repeatedly) as the Marigold trio attack them; Freckle, Ivy, and the Marigold trio during Rocky's ConstructionVehicleRampage; Serafine when a lit stick of dynamite Rocky threw lands at her feet; Nico moments before tackling her away from said dynamite; Rocky when another stick bounces off a water tower and lands back in the steam shovel bucket he was standing over; ''all six of them'' when the entire cache of dynamite in said bucket going of all at once demolishes said water tower, unleashing a torrent of water across the entire quarry; and Freckle as he hurls a (thankfully unlit) stick of dynamite out their car's window after Rocky brazenly slaps it onto the former's chest. |
| 542 | ** Speakeasy: A trio of unnamed patrons when Viktor's attempt at smiling comes of as an angry growl; Mitzi, Zib, and Ivy when they (attempt to) taste the whiskey the main trio brought in; Ivy and Freckle when Rocky reveals the "incidences" that constituted the quarry scene; Wick when Rocky mentions "dynamite and heavy machinery"; and Freckle when Wick asks Rocky to elaborate upon the latter's mention of "dynamite and machinery". |
| 543 | * SurpriseJump: Ivy leaps into the air after being [[JumpScare startled]] by a passing train. |
| 544 | * OhNoNotAgain: After Freckle rescues Ivy, she asks him what the source of the BadVibrations and repeated explosions are, to which he simply responds with a tired "Rocky." As if on cue, Rocky's purloined steam shovel promptly trundles by, the man himself still cackling like a madman from atop the bucket. |
| 545 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Nico is all smiles and nonchalance, even during a car chase and subsequent gunfight with Lackadaisy. When he sees Serafine ''directly'' in danger thanks to a dynamite-chucking Rocky, however, he shouts her name in audible panic before tackling her out of harm's way. |
| 546 | * PercussiveTherapy: Dowplayed. When Ivy's car stalls after crashing into a shed, then refuses to restart, her frustrated "Raspberries!" is accompanied by her hitting the steering wheel. |
| 547 | * PerpetualFrowner: Viktor wears a permanent scowl 24/7. When he tries to smile, it gets worse. |
| 548 | * PyrrhicVictory: The trio survives their battle with the Marigold gang, but their car is badly damaged, as is their haul of bottled spirits, and any drinks they do salvage are all tainted by being stored in a coffin and taste disgusting. |
| 549 | * RapidFireNo: Freckle reacts this way when he hears Ivy’s screams of fright and turns to see Nico kicking in the door to where Ivy had been trying to restart the car. |
| 550 | -->'''Freckle:''' No! ''No no no no no! [[BigNo NO!!]]'' (''starts shooting in Nico’s direction'') |
| 551 | * {{Retraux}}: Deliberately preserves LineBoil and painstakingly reinserts visible construction lines over digital paint to evoke the hand-made, [[StylisticSuck low-budget]] look of Disney's [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation xerography animated]] films produced in TheSixties and TheSeventies. |
| 552 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: While they're already red to begin with, Freckle's eyes are normally drawn as flat discs, but grow wider with black pupils when his GunNut side is out. |
| 553 | * RhymesOnADime: |
| 554 | ** Rocky does this twice; first during the opening poem, and again during his MadBomber moment. |
| 555 | ** After his first poem, Ivy mockingly chimes in with a melodramatic "It's abundantly clear, you forgot us down here." |
| 556 | * RobbingTheDead: We open the short on the Lackadaisy crew unearthing a coffin, given directions from their Funeral Home supplier in the form of a fake obituary. They express concerns that they might have to apologize to the family of a disinterred corpse if they've gotten it wrong. |
| 557 | * SenselessViolins: Rocky hides Freckle's Tommy gun in his violin case, stashing his violin under his coat instead (where it gets "slightly" damaged.) |
| 558 | * ShownTheirWork: |
| 559 | ** One for the animators: Near the beginning, when you see a car pass under the bridge, if you pause at just the right moment, you can actually make out Nico in the driver's seat, with the biggest hint being his burly, white-furred arm appearing as a small white line along the bottom of the window. |
| 560 | ** When Mitzi reads a news report to (a picture of) Atlas, the report talks about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadora_Duncan the death of Isadora Duncan]], which happened on 14 September 1927. The means that the events of the pilot takes place during the latter half of September 1927. |
| 561 | -->''Done in by a scarf. The comic end that makes the tragedy, doesn't it?'' |
| 562 | * SlasherSmile: Rocky’s expression as he steers the car towards the sign to Sable’s Quarry. |
| 563 | * SoftGlass: In spite of so many car windows being shot out during the chase, neither the Lackadaisy crew nor the Marigolds appear to have been injured by any of the shards. Not even Freckle, whose clinging to the open door during the getaway must have brought his arm into contact with the shattered door window, nor Nicodeme who actually got part of his windscreen ''in his mouth'' (see SwallowedAFly). |
| 564 | * SommelierSpeak: |
| 565 | ** After apparently being unaffected by the "less palatable" elements of the Lackadaisy's newest acquisition, Wick then subsequently uses a downplayed form of this to deduce the origin of the aftertaste. |
| 566 | ---> '''Wick:''' Hm. Crisp, full-bodied, um, reminiscent of oak wood... Coffin varnish! |
| 567 | ** While she could just be trying to save face after an unintended SpitTake, Ivy describes it as having a "sophisticated flavor" before offering it to Freckle, who [[FurryReminder growls]] at the notion. |
| 568 | * StealthPun: |
| 569 | ** While dragging a coffin full of whisky to their car, Freckle complains about "rilin' up spirits" (read: ghosts), to which Rocky stating "the spirits are all bottled up" references the aforementioned whisky. |
| 570 | ** A twofer when one of their whisky bottles "escapes". First, Rocky uses "the spirits are afoot", which normally refers to ghosts, to refer to the stray bottle, then when Freckle accidentally grabs Rocky's actual foot, the latter is quick to lampshade this fact. |
| 571 | * StealthyColossus: Rocky's steam shovel gets remarkably close to the gunfight before the first explosion gives him away. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], unlike their modern counterparts, steam shovels from the era were rather quiet. |
| 572 | * TheStinger: Mordecai dials up Asa Sweet and lets him know about Lackadaisy's increasing activity. Recognizing that their antics could bring down a lot of heat, especially with the Feds in town, Mr. Sweet resolves to "[[DeadlyEuphemism tie up some loose ends]]." |
| 573 | * SuddenlyShouting: |
| 574 | ** Rocky bellows in an exaggerated [[BriefAccentImitation Irish brogue]] to scare away the owl that has his skittish Irish Catholic cousin spooked during a whiskey run in a dark cemetery. |
| 575 | ** He does it again minutes later with an exclamation of "Begorra!" when they're startled by a train. |
| 576 | * SwallowedAFly: Subverted. Nico ''thinks'' this happens when Freckle shoots out his windshield, but it turns out to be a [[SoftGlass piece of glass]], which he promptly discards. |
| 577 | --> '''Nico:''' [coughs] I think I swallowed a bug.\ |
| 578 | '''Serafine:''' You got a big, fat bebette for dinner? No fair.\ |
| 579 | '''Nico:''' [coughs and spits] Naw. Just more glass. [laughs] |
| 580 | * TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: As is standard for something set during prohibition, the "Canadian whisky" the crew digs up apparently has an aftertaste that Wick describes as "coffin varnish". |
| 581 | * ThereWasADoor: Two examples back-to-back: |
| 582 | ** When the Lackadaisy crew first reach the quarry, they're initially on-course for the entrance, only to turn toward the "Sable Stone and Quarry" sign ''right next to it''.[[note]]Knowing Rocky and his dislike for Wick, not to mention the manic grin he gives before veering, he likely did this on purpose.[[/note]] |
| 583 | ** Mere seconds after demolishing the sign (and the fence it was attached to), Ivy crashes their car into a shed in which the only available entrance isn't even on the same wall as the one the car hits. |
| 584 | * ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: Given a twist in the end credits. |
| 585 | -->''The stories, institutions, and characters in this talkie are fictional. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Any resemblance to cats living or dead is entirely purposeful.'' |
| 586 | * TwitchyEye: |
| 587 | ** Freckle, fearful of his [[GunNut other side]], gets one when Rocky gives him the partially-dismantled components of a tommy-gun. |
| 588 | ** As the Lackadaisy trio are leaving the quarry, Rocky slaps a (thankfully unlit) stick of dynamite onto Freckle's chest, to which Freckle responds by [[OhCrap frantically]] throwing it out his window as if it was about to explode at that very second, then gives this look as he tries to calm down. |
| 589 | ** Mitzi's [[OhCrap "reaction"]] to a shot of [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink tainted]] whiskey includes a small eye-twitch. |
| 590 | * UnusualEuphemism: Downplayed, in that they're only unusual from a modern standpoint, but [[ShownTheirWork were quite common in the era portrayed]]: |
| 591 | ** Rocky breathes a relieved "Begorrah!" after the train jumpscare. |
| 592 | ** Ivy shouts "Holy Simolean!" when Serafine shoots out the former's back windshield. |
| 593 | ** Ivy exclaims "Raspberries!" when their car, which had stalled after crashing into a shed, refuses to restart, necessitating the use of a hand crank. |
| 594 | ** Ivy used "Skedaddle" (synonym for "leave") when the trio flee the quarry. |
| 595 | ** Rocky whisper-shouts "Aces!" under his breath when Ivy verifies the continued existence of [[SkewedPriorities his eyebrows]] after his ConstructionVehicleRampage goes awry. |
| 596 | * WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Several of the cast catch a case of this during moments of panic and alarm. |
| 597 | * YourMom: A subtle example, while Freckle and Rocky are moving the coffin. |
| 598 | --> '''Freckle''': I wish my mom was here.\ |
| 599 | '''Rocky:''' What? Blasphemy! That force of nature, she'd stop us dead!\ |
| 600 | '''Freckle:''' I know.\ |
| 601 | (…)\ |
| 602 | ''(a train blasts its horn as it passes on a nearby bridge, startling them and Ivy)''\ |
| 603 | '''Rocky:''' (laughing nervously) Begorrah! For a moment there, I thought it WAS your mom! |
| 604 | [[/folder]] |
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