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3''[[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php Sequential Art]]'' [[labelnote:Before you click...]]The author produces a lot of pornographic works and other fanservicey stuff (''[[AuthorAppeal especially]]'' drawings of {{Amazonian Beaut|y}}ies), so the site is NSFW.[[/labelnote]] is a webcomic drawn by Phillip M. Jackson (a.k.a. Jolly Jack) about a group of unlikely housemates. Art is a chronically frustrated graphic designer (and the only human living in the house); Kat, a cat girl, is a fun-loving photographer; Pip, a penguin, is a stereotypical video-game geek who makes a living buying and selling items online, and Scarlet is a naïve and energetic squirrel girl whose erratic behaviour and short attention span mask her true intellect. Over time the household is expanded with Kat's adoption of a non-anthropomorphic platypus named Leonard, a mysterious infestation of Denizens, and the rescue of Scarlet's sisters(?) Amber, Jade and Violet.
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5''Sequential Art'' veers between cozy SliceOfLife moments and Art's role as a CosmicPlaything. Sometimes life is fairly ordinary -- Christmas shopping, computer problems, and things like that. Sometimes life is a little surreal... Art may end up playing the ''[[CaptainErsatz Realm of Lorecraft]]'' boardgame against a squirrel hivemind. And surprisingly frequently, life gets ''extremely'' surreal, such as the housemates' brief involvement in the secret global struggle between retardium-harvesting aliens and the merman who engineered the terrible secret behind 3D movies. No, really. Also features occasional appearances by [[AuthorAvatar the small, wisecracking hamster]] [[NoFourthWall who apparently draws the strip]].
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8!!''Sequential Art'' provides examples of:
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12[[folder:Tropes A to B]]
13* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Miss Strinpit is an extremely unpleasant person, capable of antagonizing anyone she meets, not just her students. She's so despised that upon her demise due to heart attack, the students merrily sing "Ding-Dong, the witch is dead". [[PreMortemOneLiner Kat summarizes her faults]] (which leads to Strinpit's fatal heart attack):
14-->'''Kat:''' You're a short, bad-tempered, condescending, evil, unfair and hateful '''Bully'''!
15* ACupAngst: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=576 Surprisingly, Kat.]] She's not exactly an A-cup though. If [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=858 this strip]] or [[http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/art/Hot-Kat-2013-386675203 this drawing of her]] are anything to go by she's far from it.
16* AdorableFluffyTail: While Christmas shopping with Kat Vance, Scarlet the squirrel girl feels something gripping her tail. It's a little girl, utterly charmed by the luxurious fluffiness of Scarlet's tail. Both the girl and Scarlet proclaim simultaneously: "I know what I want for Christmas!"
17* AdventuresInComaLand: One story arc is based on ''{{Franchise/Fallout}}'', and is revealed at the end to be the result of Pip suffering from asphyxiation from locking himself in a fridge because he'd been playing ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' to excess and thought a power outage was the end of the world.
18* AerosolSprayBackfire: Pip goes to kill a spider in the bathroom using aerosol deodorant and a cigarette lighter. He succeeds in torching the entire bathroom and singeing himself as well in strip #9. However, Pip only supplied the ignition source; moments before, Scarlet had used an aerosol can to drive that same spider out of the attic and into the bathroom in strip #462.
19* AesopAmnesia: It would appear that Pip failed to learn his lesson from last time when he [[spoiler: Lets Hilary stay at their place and hooks up with her again]], only to find out in the next strip that he's only doing that because [[spoiler: she's basically blackmailing him into letting her stay with them or else she'll have them arrested for destroying her house]], and he is clearly not as clueless about the situation as he was the first time.
20* AerosolFlamethrower: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=8 Pip's attempt to kill the shower spider.]]
21* TheAestheticsOfTechnology: Pip makes the mistake of stealing tech from the Denizens based on appearance.
22%%* AIIsACrapshoot: Oz.
23* AliensStealCattle: The Eldak designated "Gary" was assigned to harvest cow lips.
24-->'''"Gary":''' I am always assigned this task. I deem this: unfair.
25* AllMenArePerverts:
26** Pip certainly is. Art nine times out of ten is more of an AccidentalPervert.
27** And then there's [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=566 that tenth time]].
28* AllThereInTheManual: While 99% of what you need to know is in the comic, you'd never know that JJ's secretary and valet, Helga, is actually a valkyrie unless you visit his Platform/DeviantArt page.
29* AllUpToYou: Twice. Art even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it.
30-->[[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=504 "Why isn't it ever the people with resources that learn of the evil plan?!"]]
31* AlphaBitch: Hilary, Kat's rival since grade school.
32* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: The general reaction when [[spoiler:Kat accidentally gives her old SadistTeacher a fatal heart attack]]. Nearly everyone was singing ''[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead]]''.
33* ArbitrarySkepticism: For some reason, whenever Art tries to tell people what goes on in his house, describing the inhabitants makes people think that he's crazy... despite catgirls and other anthropomorphic creatures existing with no problem alongside humanity, as shown whenever Kat and Pip go outside and do things.
34* ArchEnemy: Jack.
35* ArtEvolution: Subtly Lampshaded. WordOfGod is, the artist didn't bother to create permanent references for characters and uses the latest strips instead, causing a drift over the years.
36* AssShove: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=259 "Where's your sword?"]]
37** [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1064 "Iwalklikethisnow! Noquestionsnoquestions!"]]
38* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=723 Once the Eldak realize their weapons can't kill Art, the next logical step is to run away.]] In their defense, they were trying to kill him because they thought he was a Walking Techbane, and... well, they're tech. Finding out that he's immune to their weapons and is coming right at them is grounds to run.
39* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=202 Scarlet exhibits this]] behaviour, she's really a good scientist, but lacks any concentration capacity.
40* AttentionWhore: Hilary. It's revealed that the reason why Hilary and Kat are having their feud is because, when they were kids, Kat had the same lunchbox as Hilary, and Hilary thought that would take attention away from her. Every fight they've had since then developed from that initial act of jealousy.
41* AuraVision: Vanity Thorn can see auras as well as ghosts.
42-->"Good call, [[Creator/BramStoker Stoker]]."
43* AuthorAppeal: Busty anthro women with thin waists.
44* AuthorAvatar: Mr. Jackson appears [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=194 as a hamster]]. [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/SAS_0046_Small.jpg Usually.]]
45** [[NoFourthWall Pip approves]] of the [[VictoriasSecretCompartment reason why]].
46* AuthorTract: A few minor barbs, rather than rants. (The author has other comic strips for his full-fledged rants.)
47* AwesomeButImpractical: Pip grabs a rather large gun because it looked dangerous. It actually ''is'' powerful as it was shown to blast off a door, but it's actually just a popcorn popper, and as such has a range measured in only a few centimeters.
48* BarefootCartoonAnimal: The animal characters.
49* BatmanGambit: The Think Tank pulls one on Pip in [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=564 their "Realm of Lorecraft" board game]].
50* BattleInTheRain: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=632 Kat Vs. Hilary]]
51* BeachEpisode: Sadly no. The Trope is just referenced and lampshaded [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=521 here]].
52* BeamOWar: A [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=325A tiny one]], but the effect is there.
53* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Inverted in two ways by Hilary: For starters, she's an AlphaBitch who frequently uses SleepingTheirWayToTheTop, while the "good" or at least guilty part of her [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1175 looks like half]] [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1176 a zombie abortion]].
54* BerserkButton: Pip really [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=428 doesn't like quick-time events.]]
55* BestialityIsDepraved: '''[[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=88 Pip!]]'''
56* BigEater: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=86 Scarlet]]
57* BigNo:
58** Pip, when [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=552 the comic store is burning down]].
59** [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1168 Kat]], upon seeing Hilary's LiteralSplitPersonality.
60* BigOlEyebrows: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=607 Art]]
61* BigRedButton: Admittedly, we can't tell what color it is, but it grabs [[StealthPun Scarlet's]] attention in the same matter and thus Kat has to [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=355 intervene to prevent potential disaster.]] Given it's an Emergency button, we can probably assume it's red.
62** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/SA_0742_small.jpg "I even held it down."]]
63* BigShutUp: Well, [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1171 at least a medium-sized one.]]
64* BilingualBonus: From a [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=810 very foul-mouthed Roman legionnaire.]] [[labelnote:Panel 2 translation]]HOLY SHIT![[/labelnote]]
65* BlandNameProduct: [[Franchise/StarTrek Far Trek]], [=EBuy=] (eBay), Franchise/{{The M|atrix}}etrix, [[Franchise/TombRaider Temple Raider]], [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Realm of Lorecraft]], [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Nightlight]], and the list goes on.
66** Hello Pages deserves a mention.
67** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=735 Strip 735]] has four: [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Arkham Lockdown]], [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Contemporary Warfare 3]], [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyroam]], and [[VideoGame/SaintsRow Saints Boulevard 3]].
68* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=35 Kat had these when she was in primary school.]] Art describes an old yearbook photo as looking like "a bear trap with whiskers."
69-->'''Hilary:''' Doesn't that ''oil-derrick'' in her mouth make her look ''adorable''?!
70* BrainFreeze: Scarlet in [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=219 comic 219]].
71* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=94 Charcoal, dust, dusty charcoal...]]
72* BreadEggsMilkSquick: OZBASIC [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=502 mnemonics]].
73* BreakTheCutie: Pip seen [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=802 here]].
74* BreakTheHaughty: Hilary, Kat's arch-nemesis from grade school, downgraded from high-powered advertising executive to sitting in the unemployment office. Next to Pip, who wants to talk about her ''previous'' "career". [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=781 One has to ask, how much further down can she go?]] [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=782 Pretty damn far.]] [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=793 And]] [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=795 then]] '''[[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=800 brutally]]''' [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=801 subverted.]]
75* BreastExpansion: The squirrels advise Kat against eating the giant apples they've grown since they're full of muto juice, and the last time they had it tested on them caused [[https://www.deviantart.com/jollyjack/art/Test-Subjects-42656665 Amber to experience severe swelling for a while]]. This warning [[ACupAngst has the opposite effect from the one that they wanted,]][[spoiler: but the growth Kat undergoes is [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=577 not]] the effect she was hoping for.]]
76* BrickJoke:
77** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=398 Strip 398]] went from NoodleIncident to [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1021 Brick Joke]] 9 years later.
78** After the Denizens storyline, Pip scavenges some of their technology from the basement of the house and sells it on eBuy, and as a result, on strip 344, a couple of collectors get transported to the Gobi desert due to one of the pieces of technology being still functional. On strip 765, Pip gets his eBuy account cancelled on account of an outlandish claiming about those very memorabilia collectors being stranded in the desert and supposedly one having to eat the other.
79** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1 Art]] [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=519 using]] [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1000 Crtl+Z]].
80* BrokenRecord: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=222 Scarlet in this strip.]]
81* BrownNote: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=665 An image that combines all known fetishes]].
82* BulletholeDoor: Or at least a beamhole trapdoor.
83* {{Butterface}}: Dot, a mutant in a ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' world Pip ends up in, is a super curvy woman.... [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=963 with only one eye, hideously oversized brain, lipless mouth that can't close, and multiple prehensile tongues]].
84%%* ButtMonkey: Poor Leonard...
85* BuxomBeautyStandard:
86-->'''Kat:''' ''[looks at the picture Art is drawing]'' Are those her boobs, or did a couple of zepplins land on her chest?\
87'''Art:''' IT'S JUST A COMMISSION!
88[[/folder]]
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90[[folder:Tropes C to D]]
91* CallBack:
92** The [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1 very first strip]] and this [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=519 strip]] over five hundred strips later. And then another almost five hundred strips [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1000 later still]]...
93** And for a more literal CallBack, there's Crazy Boris, who may or may not also be Crazy Sven. And possibly [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=595 the guy on the box of crackers]].
94** The spider from all the way back in strip 7 makes a re-appearance during Scarlet's flashback, as well as somewhat justifying how Pip managed to blow up the bathroom with a deodorant flamethrower.
95** Another call back is in strip #765 regarding the Denizens' technology that Pip sold to the two nerds in strip #344. It teleported them to the middle of the Gobi desert in Mongolia, and one apparently [[ImAHumanitarian had to eat the other]].
96* CassandraTruth:
97** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=49 The intruder's female, she's a five foot tall squirrel-thing...]]
98** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=465 Once more]] when Kat gets kidnapped.
99** Collecting insurance when a penguin with a homemade flamethrower blows up the bathroom trying to kill spiders.
100** Emergency services outright disconnect the phone call when they learn that it's yet another insane story from the gang's house.
101* CasualDangerDialogue: In addition to the usual banter, sometimes somebody just can't work up the energy for panic anymore.
102--> '''Pip''' ''(face down on the floor in despair):'' I ''was'' going to stop [[MadScientist Scarlet and company]] from inadvertently building another doomsday device[...] Could you go and talk the squirrels down before they wipe us all from existence?
103* Catch22Dilemma:
104** When Pip first starts playing ''[[BlandNameProduct Legends of Lorecraft]]'' in panel 136, he starts as a Level 1 serf, and needs armor and a sword to go on treasure quests. However, armor and swords cost money, which is earned by obtaining treasures. Pip lampshades his dilemma nicely.
105** And the reason he's even in this mess? When he tried to join a PickUpGroup upon first spawning, he made the mistake of partying with a {{Griefer}}, a thief who stole all the gear that he originally spawned with. Real [=MMORPG=]s do not let characters go without weapons or armor, nor allow other players to take their only equipment for precisely this reason.
106* {{Catfight}}: Usually involves Kat and Hilary. [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=632 Latest example here]].
107* {{Catgirl}}: The appropriately named Kat (short for Kathleen).
108* CatsAreMean: Generally averted. [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=37 Sometimes]] invoked.
109* CatSmile: Kat gets one occasionally, particularly when feeling smug (or when brainwashed...).
110* CerebusSyndrome:
111** Downplayed. Several times the artist has taken a few months to do long arc stories involving the plucky characters combating dangerously powerful adversaries like the Denizens or Oz, only to have the conflict resolved and go right back to the "Gag-a-Day" format.
112** Played with in the case of the "retardium" arc: increasingly breathless revelations of a secret power struggle led the cast toward what seemed to be a moment of dramatic choice. Instead, Art realized both sides were idiots. So the gang went home and got back to the gag-a-day format.
113* CheekCopy: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=38 It's implied]] that Pip did this with Art's scanner.
114* ChekhovsGun:
115** The chip in the back of Art's neck, [[spoiler:which he [[MagicFeather only thinks]] is there]]. Probably.
116** Chekhov's [[spoiler:[[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=639 Pez Dispenser]]]] Gun!!
117** And then there's [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=637 Chekhov's Ghoul]]. Thought it was just a throw-away TakeThat at Creator/UweBoll? [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=650 Think again.]]
118* ChewBubblegum: Pip quotes the famous line before passing out weapons to rescue Kat.
119* TheChewToy: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=599 Poor Leonard.]] If anything non-lethal, but unpleasant can happen to him, it will. If it cannot, it happens anyway.
120* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: The 'anti-tech energy' [[spoiler: and the fake chip that counters it]].
121* ClothingDamage: It takes a little over [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=447 350 strips]] for Scarlet's only shirt to disintegrate after being caught on a doorknob.
122%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Scarlet
123* ClusterFBomb: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=13 Who says gamers are immature?]]
124* ColourfulThemeNaming: The [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=470 Squirrel]] [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=674 Girls]]: Amber[[note]]the one with the slicked-back hair and the small [[IdiotHair ahoge]] in front[[/note]], Scarlet[[note]]the one with messy bangs[[/note]], Jade[[note]]the one with the longest hair[[/note]] and Violet[[note]]the one with a similar hairstyle to Scarlet, but not ruffled[[/note]]. Which were derived from their [[YouAreNumberSix Subject Numbers]] -- [[LeetLingo 4M83R, 5C4RL37, J4D3 and V10L37]].
125* ComicallyMissingThePoint: in [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1223 1223]], Scarlet, while looking at a bag of mixed nuts, is told by "the internet" that she can't have nuts in November. Kat takes a beat to consider whether or not to correct her, and realises it's best left unsaid.
126* CompanionCube: The [[BlandNameProduct Buddy Brick]], [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=488 as seen here]].
127* ContemptCrossfire: Art is told to redo a drawing by both the marketing and censorship departments: one wanting more cleavage or the ad won't sell, one wanting less cleavage or the ad won't air.
128* CoolAndUnusualPunishment
129-->'''Jack:''' ''Dance, tubby! Dance or [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=23 ISSUE ONE GETS CREASED!]]''
130* CooldownHug: Art gets one from Kat, when's he's understandably upset with Scarlet after she [[spoiler:THREW HIM IN FRONT OF A DEATH RAY!]]
131* CosmicPlaything: Art's skill of collecting troubles and dangerous adventures is only outmatched by the Universe's eagerness to provide them.
132* CoversAlwaysLie: [[AuthorTract Mr. Jackson really gets on his soapbox]] [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=557 about this one.]]
133* CovertPervert:
134** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=567 Kat]]. This particular example is made extra funny by the fact that she wanted Art to draw a high fantasy version of her. Meaning she wanted to see how he was fantasizing about her. Another instance in which she goads Art into drawing a sexy elf for his Christmas cards. [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=933 She gets REALLY into it.]]
135** Scarlet and possibly her sisters seem to really enjoy the view [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=927 here]]. [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1078 He's still there]], cleaning, for three ''years'' InUniverse. And sporting the FrenchMaidOutfit for good measure.
136* CrazyPrepared: Pip's ready for the ZombieApocalypse.
137** [[http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/art/Doomsday-Jack-350258375 So is the author.]]
138* {{Crossover}}: Leonard gets [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/SAS_0049_Small.jpg zapped]] into sibling DadaComics strip ''Spider and Scorpion'' during the Jack and the Denizens arc.
139* CurseCutShort: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=61 "YOU UTTER B--" BING-BONG!]]
140* TheCutie: Scarlet (and her sisters, by association).
141* CuttingTheKnot: Pip once inherited a puzzle box from a dead relative who had been a jewel thief. The box contained a priceless diamond, but to get it, he had to solve the puzzle. Pip just dropped the box on the floor, smashing it open.
142* DarkIsNotEvil: The Denizens are pretty sinister looking things but they're pretty much harmless... [[spoiler: except for Jack]]
143* DarkSecret: While in strip 398, it looks like Art and Pip [[spoiler: may have [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=398 killed someone]], it's later revealed that [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1021 they instead buried a dressmaker's dummy]]. To be fair, this ''was'' covering up the fact that when they ''took'' the dummy, it accidentally kicked off a series of feminist riots that ''burned their college to the ground.'']]
144* DeepImmersionGaming: Often when the gang plays games (digital or otherwise), the strips show them being dressed in whatever gears their characters would have been wearing. How they appear during the short arc of ''Realm of Lorecraft'' tabletop session is one example, including Scarlet who imagines herself as the "battle cube".
145-->'''Pip:''' You can't play as the dice, you dink!
146* DefiantStrip: Pip has promised to sell a squirrel girl (namely Scarlet) to an online buyer named Eyurin for four thousand British pounds. When Pip can't locate Scarlet, and can't refund the money, Eyurin protests by stripping naked on the front lawn in strip #165. Even Pip's flatmates, Art and Kat, are horrified and squicked at this sight.
147* DefrostingIceQueen: Hilary, as of [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=784 this strip]], which also marks the first time she's seen with a smile of contentment rather than out of pleasure at someone's suffering. [[spoiler:Subverted later. HARD]]
148* DelayedReaction: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=784 Here]].
149* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Prepare for deadly laser death time... with LASERS!"
150* DetailHoggingCover: See CoversAlwaysLie
151* DisasterDominoes: From a [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1014 drunken prank]] to feminist protests to [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1018 riots and fires]]. So far so good.
152* DisembodiedEyebrows: Pretty much everyone who has eyebrows has had them floating off their head at one point or another.
153* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1209 Invoked in comic 1209]] as Art and Pip want to play a game to take their minds off of the news (specifically the 2022 invasion of Russia into Ukraine). The board game they pick up is called ''Supremacy'', all about nuking countries to win, and both agree, in clear discomfort, to find another game.
154* DistractedByTheSexy:
155** A drugged [[CatGirl Kat]] trying on a borrowed swimsuit that's way too big for her: it's threatening to fall off if she doesn't keep holding onto the garment. This distracts Art from thinking about how to escape [[spoiler:a RealityShow also serving as]] a prison [[spoiler:for those threatening to reveal a covert AlienInvasion]].
156--->'''Art:''' Yeah. '''''That's''''' helping my focus.
157** Very surprising, but it would seem even ''Scarlet'' can be [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=927 affected by this.]] However it's more likely that she wants [[spoiler:the Handsome Prince]] to stay longer, and to do so she increases the chores which he must do before leaving.
158* DisproportionateRetribution: The root cause of the 20+ year grudge between Kat and Hilary seems to have come from [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=778 Hilary feeling less special]] [[spoiler:because Kat also had a "Pink Pony" lunchbox]].
159* DoorDumb: Art tries to unjam a door to rescue Scarlet, only to find out [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=108 Scarlet herself is accidentally jamming the door]] by pushing instead of pulling.
160* DoubleEdgedAnswer: A [[AIIsACrapshoot psychotic AI]] gasses all personnel in a government facility. As Art, Pip, and Scarlet are sneaking in, [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=478 Pip uses a small mirror to see around a corner.]]
161-->'''Art:''' Well? Any security guards?\
162'''Pip:''' Uh, [[EverybodysDeadDave yes and no]].
163* DoubleEntendre: Kat claims that there's pee in her bag in [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=533 this strip.]] Turns out to be the [[UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} Wintendo Pee]].
164* DoubleTake: Art, when he [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=249 hears that Kat killed her former teacher]].
165* TheDreaded: Several, and they are quite understandable.
166** [[EldritchAbomination Jack]] is one for the entire cast; diminutive he may be, but his control over the denizens and the fact that he's taken out a country with them certainly makes him a force to be reckoned with. Despite his small stature, he can wield a chainsaw very menacingly.
167** Mrs. Strinpit for Kat; she was Kat's old [[TheBully bullying]] [[SternTeacher teacher]] from Middleschool, who'd give Kat detention for everything and continued to speak down to her even as an adult.
168** Rebecca Mace for Pip and Art; Rebecca is a mentally disturbed woman that Art and Pip pulled a prank on, she then found out who pranked her, found where they lived and hammered on their door and screamed for an entire night.
169** Pickles for Pip; an AnimalisticAbomination in the shape of a chihuahua from the game ''World of Lorecraft'', which turns its own insides out on a whim. It is specifically stated to be a "{{Hellhound}}".
170* DreamSequence: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=622 622]] to [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=634 634]]
171* DrosteImage: Pip meets the AuthorAvatar hamster in the [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=193 strip]] itself. He gives Pip a copy of his latest strip (which at the time was that very strip). Pip looks at the strip, which is about Pip looking at the strip, looking at the strip, looking at the strip and so on.
172-->'''Pip:''' Woah. Trippy.
173* DynamicEntry: Kat slams Hilary with a flying kick to the face for the above-mentioned lies she spread about Kat.
174[[/folder]]
175
176[[folder:Tropes E to F]]
177* EldritchAbomination:
178** ''Four'' live in the town's requisite HauntedHouse.
179** Also: the Denizens, creatures that evolved from [[spoiler:the shadow of a condemned criminal]]. Although the Denizens actually become rather cute after [[spoiler:their leader was incapacitated, leaving them to mill around the house aimlessly, watching soap operas and assist with random chores]].
180* EpicFail: The only way to describe [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=667 Art's attempt at wrapping a present]].
181* EpunymousTitle: It's a work of SequentialArt featuring a guy called Art.
182* EveryoneCanSeeIt: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=404 Say "yes, Ms. Thorn"]]... [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=748 Valentines]] sequence -- pleasant surprise, [[LuminescentBlush blush]], [[TwiceShy awkwardness]], {{facepalm}}.
183%%* EvilIsHammy: Jack.
184* EvilTwin: [[spoiler:[[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1169 Played]] [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1170 with.]]]]
185* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: SequentialArt refers to comics. Even more so, it's the story of a [[EpunymousTitle guy called Art]].
186** An ''artist'' named Art, no less.
187*** A sequential artist.
188* ExplodingCloset: Art gets buried by one in [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=142 this strip]].
189** Of course, [[KitchenSinkIncluded it includes the kitchen sink]].
190* ExplosiveOverclocking: "For the love of God, man! Shut it down! SHUT IT [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=90 DOW-]]
191* {{Expy}}: Many, usually BlandNameProduct-type expys, but special mention should go to the Eldaks, who are fairly obviously inspired by Series/DoctorWho's Daleks. They even use the same CatchPhrase: '''EXTERMINATE!''', and their name is an anagram of "Daleks."
192* EyeScream:
193** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=91 "There's a Shift key in my eye."]]
194** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=669 Scarlet doesn't like candy canes.]]
195*** Which leads to a [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=815 Brick Joke]]
196* FateWorseThanDeath: When Art, Kat, and Pip get captured by the "aliens", they beg not to be killed. Instead, they get put in a cast for a reality TV expy of ''Big Brother''. The trio immediately wished they had been killed instead.
197* FauxAffablyEvil: Jack and Oz are both extremely evil, but they're just so funny at the same time.
198* FlashbackTwist: Twice. Art asks Scarlet if the washing machine broke. Kat asks Scarlet if anyone messed with the Christmas lights.
199* FlashStep: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=355 Kat intervenes.]]
200* FluffyTheTerrible: Pickles the Dragon. Looks like a cute puppy/dragon hybrid right? It unleashes its "beast" side by [[spoiler:[[NightmareFuel TURNING ITSELF INSIDE OUT]]]]!
201* {{Foreshadowing}}: Most major arcs are derived from events in earlier strips. Sometimes this double-dips with BrickJoke, such as Pip getting his eBuy account suspended (leading to the Pip-Hilary arc) when buyers report his item got them stranded in the Mongolian desert.
202* FunetikAksent: Part of the writer's signature style is spelling random things phonetically.
203* FurryConfusion:
204** Leonard, a non-anthropormophic platypus kept as a pet by an anthropomorphic cat.
205** Scarlet makes a bird-targeting turret to get rid of the wild birds scaring her sisters. It immediately targets Pip (fortunately it was unloaded).
206* FurryReminder:
207** Kat deals with some birds that were annoying her and Art in a rather [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=889 species-characteristic manner]].
208** After Art buys a laser pointer, [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1074 she feels insulted that he'd think she'd do that]]. [[DitzyGenius Scarlet, on the other hand]]...
209[[/folder]]
210
211[[folder:Tropes G to H]]
212* GadgeteerGenius: [[GeniusDitz Scarlet.]] Managed to use household tools to build a working WaveMotionGun. Also her sisters managed to make a lawnmower escape the earth's atmosphere.
213** Its been argued that Scarlet might be a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass.
214** They've turned a [[BlandNameProduct Slanky]] into [[BeyondTheImpossible perpetual motion engine]].
215* GeniusDitz: Scarlet and her sisters. Scarlet can be [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=199 inventing an actual laser gun in one comic]], and be [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=184 completely hypnotized by a spinning washing machine]] in another.
216* {{GIRL}}: Invoked and averted [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=266 here]].
217* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Pip certainly seems to think so.
218** Then there's [[http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/art/She-fell-128064521 this]] non-canon fanservice-y accident. There was plenty of times it could've happened during [=DeCerto=] storyline. A pity it didn't.
219* GlasgowGrin: A variation. It's stated in Jack's official bio that his "mouth" is actually a crack in his face, meaning he's broken. This pretty much explains why he was the only Denizen who turned out to be evil.
220* GoingCommando: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=34 Strip 34]]
221* GoneHorriblyWrong: Art and Pip steal a dressmaker's dummy (one belonging to an objectophile who thought of it as a sentient being), sending photos of postcards as if the dummy were on vacation, culminating in sticking breasts on it. This infuriates the local StrawFeminist to the point of causing riots on campus, and then the dummy's owner recognizes them...
222* GroinAttack: Pip receives one [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=956 here]] due to a significant difference in size.
223* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Kat stays sober all year... until New Year's Eve, when she gets totally smashed. Her "New Year's Resolution" for several years now has been to "stop drinking so much alcohol during the holiday season".
224* HiveMind:
225** Again, Scarlet and her sisters. [[spoiler:The reason they're such ditzes most of the time is that each is one part out of a 4-part superintelligence.]] As seen when everyone plays the board version of ''Land of Lorecraft'': everyone against Pip, the squirrel sisters [[spoiler:manage to pull off a spectacular plan on Pip to allow Kat and Art to beat him unhindered. Which just goes to show, never challenge a bio-supercomputer to a [[TooDumbToLive strategy game]].]]
226--->'''Scarlet & her sisters:''' [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=561 ...we are legion!]]
227** The Denizens also seem to need a truly evil member of their species -- such as Jack -- to behave in any way malevolent.
228* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Jack.
229** Uwe'Boll... immensely.
230* {{Homage}}: The "[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Quinten R&D]]" arc.
231* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Pip and Fern in this "[[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=264 Victory Pose"]]
232* HumanResources: It turns out that the aliens are on earth to [[spoiler: harvest Retardium, an ambient energy naturally given off by the 'willfully ignorant'.]][[note]]that means 'stupid people', stupid[[/note]].
233** [[spoiler: James Cameron wants to stop them... because they are hogging all the people dumb enough to pay to see his movies.]]
234* HurlItIntoTheSun: [[spoiler:This is how the Eldak wants to kill Art, whom they believe is a ManOfKryptonite for them, after all their other methods fail to crack the Think Tank's safety bubble which is encasing Art at the time]].
235* HypocriticalHumor: Art of all people [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=607 cannot take characters with crazy eyebrows seriously]].
236** Also, Kat gets her hands on the Attacknoid's remote [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=822 here]].
237** Scarlet may be one of fiction's quintessential {{Genki Girl}}s, but she [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=880 can't stand it]] when a drugged up Kat starts talking a million words a minute.
238[[/folder]]
239
240[[folder:Tropes I to J]]
241* IAmLegion: Scarlet and the rest of the [[HiveMind Think Tank]] quartet. Partially subverted in that they are not willfully malevolent, but they are dangerously intelligent when in close proximity (they can weaponize practically anything they get their paws on), and it seems that they can only function as adults when they are in the same room. If any of the girls are even as far apart as being in different levels of the house, they devolve into spastic, ditzy {{Genki Girl}}s with random bouts of super-genius.
242* ICallItVera: While Art and Pip were in college, they chose to prank the fashion students by absconding one of their dressmaker dummies. Their victim was Rebecca Mace, who has a bizarre obsession with her dummy, to the point of conversing with it. When she discovers it gone, Rebecca goes unhinged, telling a classmate in strip #1015 "That dummy has a name. It's Vanessa."
243* IdeaBulb: Kat Vance has an incandescent bulb appear above her head in strip #649.
244* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=661 Here.]]
245* IKnowMortalKombat: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=322 Subverted]].
246* ImagineSpot: Now and then. [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=527 Strip 527]], for instance.
247* ImprobableWeaponUser: Scarlet threatens Jack with GrievousHarmWithABody using [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=312 Leonard]]
248* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: A [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=360 reciprocal example]]: while shopping for Christmas, Scarlet gets the attention of a little girl fascinated by her fluffy tail, and they BOTH want to take the other one home.
249* IncendiaryExponent: [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ezekiel Pretz]] doesn't stop trying to stab [[{{Catgirl}} Kat]] and [[PerkyGoth Vanity]] after he gets set on fire. [[spoiler: At least until his arm falls off.]]
250* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Scarlet and her sisters again. Even after the artist [[TamerAndChaster makes the comic tamer]], the most they ever wear are T-shirts (and shorts in public), and they have no qualms about removing them.
251* InnocentInnuendo:
252** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=338 "I know it's small, but we can still have some fun with it."]]
253** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=418 Ummm...yeah.]]
254** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=559 Don't touch Pip's bits without asking.]]
255* IronicEchoCut: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=302 Seen here.]]
256* ItMakesSenseInContext: [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=209 Art sucking up a spider crawling up his leg]], only for Kat to walk in and see him placing the handheld vacuum somewhere very delicate.
257* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: [[spoiler:The Infiltrators aren't actually evil; they came to Earth to harvest a type of energy emitted by humans in greater quantities than any other species in the universe. [[TakeThatUs It's called retardium and is generated by willful ignorance.]]]]
258* ItsBeenDone: [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1228 Scarlet's latest invention]] (which, for once, doesn't explode) is a piece of garment keeping your arms free while being warmer than a T-shirt. She calls it "''The Mono-Portal Torso Warmer''".
259-->'''Kat:''' That's a ''poncho''.\
260'''Scarlet:''' That... is ''such'' a good name!
261[[/folder]]
262
263[[folder:Tropes K to L]]
264* KarmaHoudini: A number of the more dangerous situations that the protagonists find themselves in can be traced back to Scarlet in one way or another, as well as more destructive actions such as when she activates a KillSat. These are typically never brought up again, presumably due to a combination of her cuteness and her essentially being socially and developmentally retarded.
265* KidsAreCruel: To Art at least. Timmy talks to Kat nicely and normally while, at the same time, barraging the poor sod with snowballs.
266* KillerRabbit: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=180 Leonard the platypus]], of all characters.
267* KillSat: Jack's favorite toy.
268* LargeHam: [[EvilIsHammy Jack.]]
269* LeetLingo: [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=444 Scarlet's lab number is #5C4RL37]], whiler her sisters also have the same naming convention; #4M83R (Amber), [=J4D3=] (Jade) and [=V10L37=] (Violet)
270* LetsGetDangerous: When the Villains come out to play: You got to get dangerous. ''[[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=293 PIP DANGEROUS!]]''
271* LimitedWardrobe:
272** Pip is by far the guiltiest, wearing his trademark sweater on the hottest day of summer; [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=156 he cools down with frozen food taped around him]].
273** At first, Scarlet is naked, only being covered by [[SceneryCensor objects and such in the panel]]. When she finally gets a (singular) shirt, she never changes it. Lampshaded in [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=102 strip 102]] when Art suggests she wash it, so she does -- without taking it off. Pip immediately senses the lewdness, but Art looks away in annoyance.
274* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy
275-->'''Art:''' ''[as the shower backs up and floods]'' [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=523 Damnit, which one of you drain-clogging furballs was in here last?]]
276* LivingCrashpad: Art "[[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=512 landed]] on something ''soft.''"
277* LivingShadow: The Denizens
278* LockAndLoadMontage
279* LogicBomb: Destroys WesternAnimation/WallE [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=594 in the Director's Cut]]
280* LookBehindYou: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=114 It doesn't work]].
281[[/folder]]
282
283[[folder:Tropes M to N]]
284* MacGyvering: Scarlet and her "sisters" worked in R&D. Thus, they used to build all sorts of [[MadScientist crazy stuff they invent]] as [[HiveMind Think Tank]]. One [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=198 request stated too vaguely]], one souvenir blaster, a handful of scavenged random parts -- and HilarityEnsues.
285* MadScientist: Think Tank.
286-->'''Scarlet:''' [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=540 Me and the girls can fix eet!]]\
287'''Art:''' D'you mean "fix" or "weaponise"?
288* MagicSkirt: ''[[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=630 Averted.]]''
289* MarshmallowHell:
290** Why the AuthorAvatar is a hamster.
291** Also, [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=311 look at that smug bastard Leonard here.]]
292** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=716 Here]], as well, although he's much less pleased with the situation.
293* MeatPuppet: OZBASIC does this briefly to convince Kat that [[spoiler: the guards he's just gassed to death have become zombies in order to get her to flee the room so her friends don't find her. In the next strip, he is shown manipulating two dead scientists into having a pretend tea party, as a little girl would with dolls.]]
294* MediumAwareness: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=101 Scarlet changes the comic to Widescreen.]]
295* MergingMachine: In strip #1151, British Prime Minister Johnson announces contagion restrictions that include a ban on gatherings of more than two people. The four squirrel girls panic at the thought of being separated, so they create the "Huddle-On Collider" to fuse themselves into a single entity. The result of this daffy device is the multi-limbed abomination that pursues Kat through the basement tunnels in strip #1157.
296* MergingMistake: When responses to the COVID-19 pandemic forbid gatherings of four or more people, the squirrels are terrified at the prospect of being separated, and design a machine to merge them into a single entity. The resulting combination of four, fanservicing furry girls is... [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1157 less appealing than one would expect]].
297* MillionMookMarch: The Denizens.
298** Now they all reside in the protagonists' basement.
299* MiniMecha: 4mb3r pilots one starting [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=703 here]].
300* MirrorReveal: When Art was passed out during holiday merriment, his two flatmates shaved his head in strip #122. A contrite Kat shows him the results in a mirror. Art is shocked at first, then displeased. Strangely, Art's huge eyebrows were left intact.
301* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: OZBASIC, as stated above, is an homage to [=GlaDOS=] and is to Kat what [=GlaDOS=] is to Chell.
302* MistakenForPedophile: "He asked if I know what a floppy dick is."
303** And the Candy Cane 2.0...
304* MsFanservice: "Quickly, Helga! To the web-cam!"
305* MundaneMadeAwesome: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=527 Salad]].
306* MundaneUtility:
307** Scarlet throwing up into the Denizens' wormhole.
308--->'''Pip:''' As a ''Far Trek'' fan, I have to say; I think that's a serious misuse of a worm-hole.
309** Pip uses a [[Franchise/StarWars TIE Interceptor]] to go grocery shopping.
310** The Denizens using a short-range raygun [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=481 to cook popcorn]].
311* MyGodYouAreSerious: When Pip and Hilary were working in a retail store, Hilary tells Pip to separate the summerwear and winterwear. He tells her he can't tell the difference, prompting Hilary to angrily ask if he seriously can't tell apart winter clothes from summer clothes. Pip simply gestures to his normal attire of pants and turtleneck sweater, which he wears everyday. Hilary {{Facepalm}}s, realizing he's serious.
312* NemesisAsCustomer: Achieved by proxy when AlphaBitch Hilary Locke visits ad studio Wiquid for a women's wear campaign. Once she discovers that Art works there, Hilary immediately goes into {{jerkass}} mode. It's not because she bears Art ill will; instead, she's aiming for her nemesis, Kat Vance, with whom Art shares a flat.
313* NerdGlasses: Pip wears a pair of goggles.
314* NerdHoard: Art goes to a Comics Convention in #196 and buys a movie prop SteamPunk DeathRay gun. He holds it aloft, and the other geeky conventioneers KneelBeforeZod. Five strips later, GeniusDitz Scarlet converts it into a ''working model''.
315* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Demon-summoning zombie pirate Ezekiel Pretz.
316* NobodyPoops: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=751 Discussed]] in regards to Franchise/MyLittlePony.
317* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=189 Mr. Funk Cho]][[note]]Famous cartoonist Frank Cho, whose AuthorAvatar is a chimpanzee[[/note]], [[Creator/JohnnyDepp Jimmy Dapp]], Creator/{{Sean Conn|ery}}olly.
318* NoodleIncident: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=398 "Do you think anyone will find her out here?"]]
319** Looks like we'll be getting [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1005 more detail soon]] - see BrickJoke.
320*** And as one ends, [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1041 another begins]].
321** [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1229 What did Art do with his hand?]]
322* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Kat stands up for herself against her [[SadistTeacher old teacher]] Mrs Strinpit after the woman tries treating her as she did when she was a little girl [[spoiler: The shock of someone standing up to her kills the woman.]]
323* NotSoAboveItAll: Hilary always acts like the perfect, dominating businesswoman. Well, almost always:
324--> '''Hilary''' ''(peering into the thrift store's bargain toy bin):'' Is that a 'Pink Pony' lunchbox?!
325* NotSoHarmlessVillain: In his initial appearances, Jack was a complete joke of a villain. [[spoiler:Then he almost nukes the world. ''Yikes''.]]
326* NotSoInnocentWhistle: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=282 Scarlet]] whistles after she [[spoiler:accidentally gives Jack the technology for a powerful ray gun.]]
327* NumberOfTheBeast: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=666 Lampshaded]], or something, by the AuthorAvatar himself in the 666th strip. It even has a WebOriginal/{{ZALGO}} reference.
328[[/folder]]
329
330[[folder:Tropes O to P]]
331* ObliviousToLove: Art and Kat to each other. Even being pincushioned with Cupid's arrows leaves no reaction.
332--> '''Cupid:''' "[[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=827 God damn it! What the f**k is wrong with you two!?"]]
333* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Art and Pip in [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1204 Comic 1204]], where they both make a DoubleEntendre about breasts and legs, with the final panel showing a confused kid who doesn't get the joke, and their mother phoning the "internet police", clearly to complain about the joke.
334* OddlyVisibleEyebrows: Art's eyebrows can be seen through his mage bandanna [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=560 in]] [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=561 these]] [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=562 strips.]] [[{{Hypocrite}} Yet he feels]] {{Narm}} when he sees [[Series/{{Heroes}} Sylar]] on [=TV=]...
335** [[http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/art/Transparent-Hair-296638516 Lampshaded]] by the artist.
336* OhCrap: Jack gets a spectacular one at the end of his story arc.
337** Kat after her and Vanity's ordeal with the Eldritch Horrors, when she realized that through it all, she forgot to take pictures of the whole thing.
338** Pip when Kat showed him that [[spoiler: Hilary had been lying to him the whole time and never cared about him in the slightest]].
339** Art says this verbatim during the Quinten story arc when [[spoiler: he realizes that OZBASIC is trying to up-link to Jack's KillSat.]]
340* OnlySaneMan: Art.
341* OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe: Art and Kat trapped in a closet. [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=300 BROOM HANDLE!]] And in the next comic: "Well, then stop rubbing your arse against me!"
342* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Ms. B transforms Hilary into a dragon mount. To combat them Liam transforms ''Kat'' into a dragon as well.
343* ParentalSubstitute: Kat and Art could very well be this to the Think Tank. Also, Pip plays the part of being the resident AloofBigBrother with a side of {{Jerkass}}.
344* PercussiveMaintenance: Done to Scarlet in one of the Christmas lead up pages [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=222 Jingle Bells indeed]]
345* PerpetualExpression: Pip's face rarely changes thanks to his OpaqueLenses and unnoticeably small mouth. That definitely doesn't mean he doesn't emote.
346* PerkyGoth: Vanity Thorn, an old friend of Kat's. [[MustHaveCaffeine It's the coffee]]. [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=406 "From introvert to extrovert in one cup!"]]
347* PettyChildhoodGrudge: The reason Hilary hates Kat and seeks to bully and demean her at every opportunity, is that [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=778 Kat too had a Pink Pony lunchbox as a child]].
348* PimpedOutCar: Art's scooter thanks to Scarlet. Seen [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=826 here]].
349* PitySex: Hilary's [[BreakTheHaughty fall]] culminates in no less. [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=782 With the worst person possible, naturally.]] [[spoiler:But it all turns out to be false]].
350* PornCreatorGoingMainstream:
351** Art draws explicit material for a commission in one strip.
352** Also, Hilary, a former porn star.
353* PornStash:
354-->'''Art:''' Have you been using my laptop again?\
355'''Kat:''' I like the way that folder is marked [[SexualEuphemism "reference material"]].
356* PoweredArmor:
357** Scarlet and her sisters make a suit in [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=582 this strip]] to fight a giant bug. Or rather were intending to make a HumongousMecha, made a [[UnitConfusion scaling error]], then liked it and made more "Soopa Soots".
358** ...[[ZigZaggingTrope but later]] built [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=703 one]] MiniMecha anyway -- [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=709 as a carrier]] for them. ''{{A|irborneAircraftCarrier}}erospace'' carrier.
359* PowerGlows: "Why do these mystical tomes have to be so bright?!"
360* PreAsskickingOneLiner: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=869 "Technical difficulties will continue."]] And then subverted, as no asskicking occurs, with the foes being too shaken by this display of badassery.
361* PreExplosionGlow: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=90 BOOM!]]
362** The above link is also an example of ExplosiveInstrumentation.
363* PunctuatedForEmphasis: [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1143 She. Is. Bad. For. You.]]
364* PuppyDogEyes:
365** Despite being a cat girl, Kat does this [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=275 pretty well.]]
366** The [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=586 giant ladybug]] is good at it too.
367* PureIsNotGood: [[spoiler:The personification of Hilary's happiness]] loves everything due to its nature as a being of pure happiness. Art proves that it is an always-cheerful sociopath by asking if it likes to set fires and it replies that fire is awesome.
368[[/folder]]
369
370[[folder:Tropes Q to S]]
371* PressXToNotDie: [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=428 Pip ''really'' dislikes the trope]], considering it to be lazy game design.
372* RapidHairGrowth: Art was shaved bald as an Easter prank. He pours a bottle of hair restorer on his dome in strip #132 and waits. No further hair appears on his head, but he does almost instantly push out a Russian czar beard. Next, in strip #133, Scarlet the squirrel-girl lost all her head fur to bubblegum. She ''drinks'' Art's bottle of hair restorer. The result is she gets her head fur back, plus ''triples'' her body fur.
373* RealLifeWritesThePlot: After the faux Narnia arc and [[spoiler:the destruction of Hilary's house, she ends up living with Art and Kat]] with the plan of having the denizens rebuild.... Then the COVID-19 pandemic happened and suddenly [[spoiler:Hilary is cooped up with the gang much longer than anyone anticipated, much to Kat's dismay.]]
374* RevengeByProxy: Hilary.
375* RevengePornBlackmail: Hillary Locke visits Art's workplace as a client, seeking an ad campaign for ladies' lingerie. When she discovers that Art is flatmates with Kat Vance, Hillary goes maximum bitchy, poo-pooing every proposal Art submits. Fortunately, Pip recognizes Hillary's name, and discovers her IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney income: posing for lurid stag mags, which have made their way onto the internet. A DownplayedTrope, as Art merely seeks to have Hillary behave like a normal client to keep her lurid past secret, though Kat wants her to wear her panties on her head all day.
376* RightInFrontOfMe: Pip ends up insulting what he thinks is Hilary's dragon mount, [[spoiler:in reality, Ms. B turned her into a dragon.]]
377* SadistTeacher: Ms. Strinpit - possibly only towards Kat and the kids in her last school, judging by how she gave Hilary the easiest questions while giving Kat detention for answering questions right while telling her she was wrong (Then giving her even more detention for using a calculator to prove she was right). More like EvilTeacher, really.
378* SarcasmBlind: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=804 Do not suggest]] to the Think Tank that they build something dangerous, even as a joke.
379* SarcasticClapping: Once Art and Pop have purged the stupid drugs out of chicken guy and he frantically announces that the aliens are controlling them Pip retorts with this while Art just stands with an expression that screams "Gee, no shit."
380* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=646 Yoink!]]
381* SayItWithHearts: [[HiveMind Think Tank]] finally notices the [[AlienInvasion Flying Trashcans]]:
382-->'''Squirrel Girls:''' ♥ ♥ '''''[[MadScientist Field test!]]''''' ♥ ♥
383* SceneryCensor: Scarlet originally ran around the house naked. Kat eventually got her a jumper. Her sisters wear shirts from their old science lab. They're still one awkward pose away from falling out of them.
384* ScoobyStack: The squirrel girls express their fear of open spaces by hugging a doorway in a [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=490 Stack.]]
385* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Art, as Kat finds out while watching a slasher with him and Pip.
386* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Art's arguably justified reaction to learning that James Cameron [[spoiler: is actually a merman at war with ugly but affable reality-show-hosting aliens over 'retardium', a precious energy source derived from human brains when they're... idling]].
387* SequentialArtist: Considering the title, it's not a surprise that this is Art's occupation.
388* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness:
389** Employed by Pip at one point to trick Scarlet into going through with one of his crazy schemes.
390** He does it again, this time to sell "an exquisite example of early-nineties cult decoration" -- which is a singing electric sunflower.
391* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Vanity mistakes Art and Kat for couple. Kat says Art is just a friend. [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=405 Sure...]]
392** Newer material reinforces that [[WillTheyOrWontThey they might be more than friends]].
393* ShipperOnDeck: Vanity for [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=404 Art and Kat.]]
394* ShipTease: Sequential Art doesn't do it nearly as much as other webcomics but every so often the readers will be teased with a little moment between Art and Kat. Some of them are about as subtle as a brick to the head. From [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=748 anonymous Valentine's Day cards]] to [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=754 finding the perfect mattress]].
395** AnchoredShip: On the other hand, [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=827 as we can see]], it's not going anywhere any time soon.
396* ShoutOut: References turn up from time to time. Usually ranging from [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]] and [[ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} Dilbert and Wally]] [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=318 watching an orbital cannon]] demolish a building with the Webcomic/PvP logo and vaporize [[Webcomic/PennyArcade Gabe]].
397** And note the [[Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen village sign]] in [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=17 this]] strip.
398** The lab the squirrels are originally from, along with the AI that controls the whole thing, bear an uncanny resemblance to VideoGame/{{Portal}}.
399*** [[CompanionCube Buddy Brick.]]
400** During a [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=410 photo shoot]], Kat and Vanity stay at the [[Film/TheShining Overlook Hotel]].
401** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=610 "Tomb"?]]
402** Combination Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration and [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]] in [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=530 this strip]].
403** And then there was [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=678 Minecraft]].
404** The Martian Invasion story arc has [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=711 one to]] Series/DoctorWho. The Eldak are basically expies of the Daleks, their very name is an anagram of the infamous pepper-pots and they use the Dalek's CatchPhrase, "Exterminate!". Then [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=712 another]] to Franchise/StarWars when Pip finds some TIE Interceptors to [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=719 play with]]. And it starts off with one to ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds1898'' when the aliens land on [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=696 Horsell Common]].
405** The SubliminalMessaging Pip [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=738 encounters while Christmas shopping]] includes a directive to [[Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye kill the phonies]].
406** Pip the penguin apparently has an [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=743 Uncle Feathers]] who was a career criminal. Sure enough, his last name turns out to be [[WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit McGraw]].
407** [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=612 The storyline]] about [[Videogame/AloneInTheDark1992 DeCerto manor and immortal pirate]].
408*** The investigation crew includes guys named [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} Pete, Ray, Winston and Egg]].
409** Speaking of that trio who ain't afraid of no ghosts, the squirrel-girls have made [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1166 a proton pack]].
410** [[Webcomic/PvP Skull]] serves as a Random Encounter in Realm of Lorecraft.
411** It may just be ArtEvolution (no pun intended) but Art's eyebrows get [[VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor larger and squarer]] after awhile...
412** On [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=142 page 142]], a Series/{{D|octorWho}}alek can be found at the bottom of the fourth panel.
413** And on [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=808 page 808]], the characters inadvertently send a bolt of lightning back in time to [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 Hill Valley, CA on November 12, 1955]].
414** Comic 831 appears to start a story arc in vein of ''Film/TheyLive''.
415** A subtle one in comic 834: the website address is a reference to Hudson's "ultimate badass" speech in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', and who's on the webcam? James Cameron wearing the armor from said film.
416** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=846 Art, Kat, and Pip are forced to participate]] in an Expy of ''Series/BigBrother'', which [[GeniusBonus appropriately enough]] is shot in the [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Hotel]] [[Creator/GeorgeOrwell Orwell]].
417** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=896 896]] begins a story that's a pastiche of [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]].
418** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=940 Mr. Jackson gives his malfunctioning computer]] [[Series/FawltyTowers a damn good thrashing.]]
419** A ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' parody runs from [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=941 941]] until 980.
420*** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=946 And within that:]] [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 "The maniacs. They blew it up."]]
421*** And Pip encounters a [[Film/{{Total Recall|1990}} woman with three breasts]].
422*** Pip gives the [[IncrediblyLamePun Brotherhood of Squeal]] the door code to Vault 111: [[Film/{{Spaceballs}} One two three four five]].
423** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=988 988]] & [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=989 989]] introduce next-door neighbors, GenderFlip parodies of [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger & Jessica Rabbit]]. Jessica resembles a stereotypical male biker.
424** In [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1157 1157]], the squirrels transform themselves into an unholy amalgamate that bears a suspicious resemblance to [[VideoGame/Inside2016 the Huddle]] and the device they created to merge themselves is called the [[IncrediblyLamePun Huddle-On Collider]].
425*** [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1166 The Neutrino Wand]] used to split them up again is clearly based off of a [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} proton pack.]]
426** The story beginning with [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=741 741]] has the same set-up as "Button, Button", the short story that became the film ''Film/TheBox''.
427* SickeninglySweethearts: [[spoiler: [[{{Geek}} Pip]] and [[SitcomArchNemesis Hilary]]]], [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=785 of all people.]]
428-->'''Kat:''' ''(seeing the two kiss)'' *urp*... Oh God... For the love of all that is good and holy, ''don't'' do that again.
429** Kat seems to be [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1087 blocking]] [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1088 that]] [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1089 out.]]
430* SideStoryBonusArt: [[http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/gallery/24659192 The gallery]] on Platform/DeviantArt -- enjoy {{fanservice}}, {{trolling|Creator}}, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs trollservice]]...
431* SignificantAnagram: Eldak --> Series/{{D|octorWho}}alek
432* SkinnyDipping: [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=459 Scarlet does this]] after escaping the lab pf her captors because she wanted to catch fish. [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=460 It gets her washed upstream]].
433* SimilarItemConfusion: Strip #130 has Kat ask Pip to retrieve shears, so as to cut away bubblegum from Scarlet's fur. Pip brings large hedge clippers, at which Kat scolds, "Barber not gardening, you little cretin." Poor Scarlet nearly panics.
434* SlapSlapKiss: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=633 After around 600 comics of basically hating each other...]] Turns out to be AllJustADream. Kat was {{Squick}}ed afterwards.
435* SleepCute: After being bored to sleep by the ''Metrix'' Trilogy, Kat falls asleep onto Art's shoulder. And [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=214 keeps falling]].
436* SmallRoleBigImpact: Crazy Sven, the cab driver who brought Art home from an also-crazy village in the earliest days of the strip, is also notable for introducing ''Jack'' to the story by giving him to the heroes.
437* SmoochOfVictory: Art saves Kat from the Denizens. She rewards him, but the conditions weren't [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=331 quite ideal]].
438* SnowballFight
439* SpeakInUnison: What the Think Tank do whenever they synchronize.
440* SpeakOfTheDevil: Pip at least believes this is the case.
441--> [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1004 Don't say that name (Rebecca Mace)! You'll summon her!]]
442* SpeechBubblesInterruption: Scarlet does this when Pip discovers her for the first time.
443* SpitTake: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=876 This guy]] when he sees that James Cameron [[spoiler:is a mermaid, with a seashell bra and everything.]]
444* SpeaksInBinary: [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=493 When Scarlet and her sisters reuniteas the Think Tank]], this is what they do.
445* SpookySilentLibrary: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=297 Under the House.]]
446* {{Squee}}: Kat's reaction to her first Royalty Check.
447* [[BunnyEarsLawyer Squirrelly Ears Lawyer]]: Scarlet and her sisters.
448* StarfishLanguage: Unsurprisingly, the four {{Eldritch Abomination}}s speak in {{Black|Speech}} [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=650 Scribbles]].
449* StealthInsult: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=176 Inverted]] when Art gives Kat a ''Stealth Compliment''.
450* StopHavingFunGuys: In-universe -- Art gets [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=535 very annoyed]] Kat's having fun with her new [[UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} Wintendo]] system. He gets over it. We think.
451* StrawFan: Both in the comic and in the various AuthorTract images and journals the writer posts. Usually stuffed with sawdust [[BeautyEqualsGoodness made from ugly sticks]] just so you don't miss who's supposed to be wrong.
452** Well, to be fair, [[http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/gallery/24659172#/d51adal he admits he has the same sort of weaknesses]].
453* StrawFeminist: Art and Pip stick a set of rubber breasts onto Vanessa, Rebecca's favourite dressmakers dummy, and send her a postcard saying it "got them for its new man" in what a few students realize is clearly a prank. One female student immediately takes this to its illogical conclusion that it's an example of misogynistic ideology and starts a protest demanding the ones who sent the postcards to be expelled, leading to a full blown riot that destroys parts of the campus.
454* {{Stripperiffic}}: Lampshaded by Kat.
455** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=447 If Scarlet is anything to go by]] then the squirrel sisters go around wearing nothing but their T-shirts and panties.
456** Art also has an ImagineSpot of such outfit that pretty much consists of The ThongOfShielding in [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=566 this strip.]]
457** Kat ends up doing the exact same thing, unfortunately for her [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=570 it doesn't quite translate when she tries to put it down on paper.]]
458* StuffBlowingUp: Most of the Think Tank's inventions lead to this.
459-->'''Kat:''' [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=675 STOP BUILDING]] [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=677 THINGS THAT EXPLODE!]]
460* StunnedSilence: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=209 VERY awkward moment here...]]
461* StupidityInducingAttack: It was what [[spoiler: is keeping all the cast members of the reality TV show the three protagonists were thrown into from leaving. It turned out the aliens had injected something into the water that makes the victims stupid then discredit them on national TV as the victims are people who have found them out and could potentially blow their cover. Unfortunately for Art and Pip, Kat also falls victim to this...]].
462* SubliminalSeduction: Played with [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=738 here]]. Technically, [[RefugeInAudacity this isn't subliminal]].
463* SuperDeformed: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=525 In Scarlet's imagination, anyway.]]
464* SupervillainLair: Again, Under the House in the form of an ElaborateUndergroundBase.
465* SwallowedWhole: Scarlet and a couple trick-or-treaters got eaten by a giant bug, she used her suit's air tank to [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=589 blow it up]].
466[[/folder]]
467
468[[folder:Tropes T to V]]
469%%* TakeOffYourClothes: Scarlet and her sisters after leaving the lab.
470* TakeThat:
471** Creator/UweBoll is ragged on in at least two comics; see below.
472** [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Nightlight]] gets one as well, when Pip is disgusted with how the movie got Scarlet and her sisters to think that all vampires are hot, sparkly, and nonthreatening. He promptly treats them to Oldman's version of ''Dracula''.
473** Of course aside from a story arc in vein of ''Film/TheyLive'', [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=833 this]].
474** The newsreel title for UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson reads: "Dropped Trifle."
475** One about the many Disney remakes:
476--->'''Pip:''' It was made by the {{mockbuster}} studio "The Asylum". I lump all their films together.\
477'''Hilary:''' "Mock-Buster"?\
478'''Pip:''' A film created to exploit the publicity of ''another'' major movie with a similar title or subject.\
479'''Hilary:''' oh.\
480''[beat panel]''\
481'''Hilary:''' Are ''Disney'' now in the mockbuster business?\
482'''Pip:''' Actually... now that you mention it...
483* TeachersUnfavoriteStudent: When Kat Vance takes an assignment to photograph students at Devlin Academy, she learns that the headmistress there is Miss Strinpit in strip #238. In strip #242, Kat spells out to her boss just how miserable Strinpit made her junior years. Strinpit is still a blocky, humorless witch when Wentworth and Vance arrive for the shoot.
484* TeamPet: Leonard
485* TearApartTugOfWar: Kat Vance and Hilary Locke get into a fight over a nice tank top, beginning in strip #113. A tug-o'-war concludes the drama by strip #117, resulting in the garment being ripped in two. Suddenly, neither female wants it, especially when a store security man insists upon payment.
486* TearsOfRemorse
487* TenderTears
488* ThatCameOutWrong: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=24 On every level imaginable here.]]
489* ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet: Art [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=266 convinced Pip]] the girl he meets on "Realm of Lorecraft" is really a guy. Turns out she actually is a girl -- and for extra fun, is every bit as bimbo-tastic as her character's design.
490* ThisExplainsSoMuch: Art's reaction when Pip reveals his uncle, who he admired and wanted to go into the same line of work, was a career criminal.
491* ThisIsUnforgivable
492-->'''Pip:''' They made Scarlet cry. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis They. Must.]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Pay.]]''
493* [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Gun Always Works]]: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=294 Well, it was a fake gun to begin with.]]
494* TokenHuman: Art, though other humans do show up in small roles.
495* {{Transplant}}: Kat and Vanity were characters from a superhero comic Jackson had done years prior.
496* UnpleasableFanbase: In-Universe example, [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=83 poor poor Art.]]
497* UnresolvedSexualTension: Whenever Art and Kat are together they're either LikeAnOldMarriedCouple or ShipTease happens. EveryoneCanSeeIt, [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1082 even the squirrelgirls.]]
498** Lampshaded painfully [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=748 here.]]
499*** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=827 Not even Cupid can fix it!]]
500* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler: In the aforementioned DreamSequence, Hilary [[http://collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=629 convinces a guy that Kat is really a post-op named Kevin.]] The guy, who was interested in Kat, {{squick}}s hard. Hilary is doing that [[ForTheEvulz just to ruin Kat's evening.]]]]
501* UnsoundEffect: [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1189 Hat!]]
502* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Pip, he once sold Scarlet on Ebuy just because he didn't want "negative feedback".
503* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Scarlet takes the fact that [[spoiler:the Denizens have a trans-dimensional wardrobe]] remarkably well.
504** Later Art and Pip [[spoiler:exit the very same trans-dimensional wardrobe]] where the sight of [[spoiler:Kat and Hilary completely nude, fighting over a curtain for modesty's sake, and screaming insults at one another]] only invokes mild indifference.
505--->'''Art:''' Huh.\
506'''Pip:''' At least they're not breathing fire.
507* UnwantedAssistance: [[invoked]]
508** The squirrels all like to "improve" things the cast uses around the house. We'll start with the black-hole lawnmower as an example. See also StuffBlowingUp above on Kat's reaction to their mad science.
509** When the squirrels develop battle-suits, they end up using the headgear's simple viewing-system to overcome their agoraphobia. The HUD analyze nearby objects and provides a threat level and primary cause of threat. So we see things like Kat: 10% (Claws) or Denizen: 50% (Legion) or Scarlet: 2% (''Ally'').
510* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Neither Art nor Pip had the slightest idea that slapping obviously fake breasts on a dummy as a joke could lead to mass riots.
511* VictoriasSecretCompartment: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=194 Helga]]
512** In case you were wondering exactly ''why'' PMJ's AuthorAvatar is a hamster...
513* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When the Eldak's best attack simply reverts Art back to his normal, slim self, they instantly believe that he's invincible and panic.]]
514* VillainousLegacy: The first two major arcs have an intriguing example of a ''recursive'' legacy. [[spoiler: OZBASIC in the final stages of its gambit hacks Jack's leftover Kill Sat and intends to use it. Except that same Kill Sat comes from designs Jack got from Scarlet's handiwork, which means that OZBASIC was hacking into a derivative of Quinten technology]].
515[[/folder]]
516
517[[folder:Tropes W to Z]]
518* WalkingTechbane: Art, [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=435 and any other artists]]. At least until getting the chip. This became the focal point for on entire story arc... [[spoiler:complete with a Series/{{D|octorWho}}alek {{expy}} race out to kill him because of it.]]
519* WeaksauceWeakness: Scarlet's sisters were brainwashed into having a crippling phobia of the outdoors [[spoiler:to prevent them from ever running away like Scarlet did.]] Of course, this being [[MadScientist Think Tank]], the limitation was eventually circumvented by [[spoiler:tinkering up opaque visors that show everything without depth perception]].
520* WeirdnessMagnet: Lampshaded when [[spoiler:the cast are inadvertently drawn into a plot involving alien infiltrators]].
521-->'''Kat:''' [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=838 How do we keep attracting this kind of crap?]]
522* WetwareCPU: Amber, Jade, Violet, and Scarlet formed a four-part organic supercomputer at Quinten R&D.
523* WhamEpisode: For [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=782 Pip]], anyway. Holy crap.
524* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes
525* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
526-->'''[[AIIsACrapshoot OZBASIC]]:''' [[AC:You have served your purpose. [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=508 Prepare]] for [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment deathly laser death time..... WITH LASERS!]]]]
527* YourHeadASplode: [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=665 Here.]] [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=594 And here]]
528* YourVampiresSuck: "Oh '''hell''' no! I will NOT have one of cinema's greatest monsters belittled by hair-product-obsessed pretty boys. Not while my movie selection still stands! [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=657 Oldman! You are needed!]]"
529* YuriFan: Pip once tried to trick Kat and Scarlet into kissing under the mistletoe to catch on camera.
530[[/folder]]

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