1 | ''[[http://www.tru-lifeadventures.com TRU-Life Adventures]]'' is a long-running webcomic set primarily at a toy store. The characters regularly deal with all the hazards that come from working retail: bad customers, worse management, an epic time-travel war that threatens to destroy reality. So yeah, things can get a little strange. |
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4 | !!Tropes featured: |
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6 | * ArtEvolution |
7 | * TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Jack]] |
8 | * BiggerOnTheInside: Toymania itself, [[spoiler:as long as one counts the exit nook as interior space but not exterior]]. |
9 | ** Invoked by Jack upon seeing MediaNotes/JennyEverywhere's home. [[spoiler:It's not, they just crawled into a cardboard box she was using as a focus for her teleporter beam.]] |
10 | * BlackAndNerdy: Hatch is a freelance artist with a webcomic who hosts a regular bad movie night. |
11 | * CloudCuckooLander:Jack |
12 | * CommunityThreateningConstruction: The lower-middle-class Abrams was slated to be redeveloped as low-income apartment complexes. |
13 | * CrossOver: Two, to be precise. One with The Tao Of Geek, and another, much earlier, with A Better Life Than This |
14 | * FictionalCounterpart: Star*Squad takes the place of most ''Franchise/StarTrek'' or ''Franchise/StarWars'' references. |
15 | ** Ditto Hyperforce and the SuperHero universe of your choice. |
16 | ** Toymania=Toys R Us. |
17 | * FirstGirlWins: Averted. Darby is the third female to appear in the strip, after Stephanie and Kendall. |
18 | * FunWithAcronyms: The good guy time travelers are the Time Line Authority. The bad guy time travelers are the Chronal Hierarchy: Advanced Operations Syndicate. |
19 | ** CARD unit--Controlled Applications of Reality Distortion |
20 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Jack spends a week claiming to see the audience. [[spoiler: He never actually looks directly as us, however.]] |
21 | * MacGuffin: the Bleak Diamond. |
22 | * NiceToTheWaiter: Even when the waiter doesn't deserve it. Also, Darby once left a date early when the guy she was out with wasn't. |
23 | * MetaOrigin: Anyone exposed to the timestream gets superpowers. |
24 | * OfficeRomance: Bob and Darby. Averted with Neal and Ellen, who would certainly like to were it not for their job's rather specific rules. |
25 | * OnlySaneMan: Everyone gets moments like this, with Bert, Stephanie, and Kendall having the most legitimate claims. |
26 | * ScheduleSlip: The cartoonist used to have trouble maintaining a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule. Then he signed on for the [[http://www.crowncommission.com/dailygrind/ Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge]], and hasn't missed a Monday-thru-Friday update since 2005. |
27 | * ShoutOut: Several webcomic characters have popped up as customers. Others have appeared as toys. |
28 | * SoulSuckingRetailJob: Pretty much limited to Edith, although certain other characters may have their moments. |
29 | * TakeThat: Derek, the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, doesn't think much of Twilight. |
30 | * UnsatisfiableCustomer: Many of them. |
31 | * WeirdnessCensor: The CARD Unit has this as one of its features. |
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