Line #3 YMMV/IHateFairyland


1	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
2	** In the final few pages of the final issue, is Gert [[spoiler:saying "Fuck Fairyland" as a way of coping with how much her normal world life sucks and masking her desire to return? Or is it her realizing it doesn't matter if she's in the human world or Fairyland, life would still suck, just in different ways regardless?]]
3	** Similarly, is Gertrude trapped in Fairyland for 27 years because of her incompetence in comprehending its cryptic rules? Or has she been trapped there by [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Queen Cloudia and the Fairyland Council]] for their amusement?
4	* ClicheStorm: The series uses a lot of FracturedFairyTale and SubvertedKidsShow tropes, but doesn't really do anything new with them, with a standard UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist causing a typical [[GrossoutShow gross]] and [[BloodyHilarious gory]] SugarApocalypse already depicted in works like ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' and ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1''. The revival offers a twist on the matter with a version of Gert who's had to readjust to the real world after spending most of her life in the fantasy land, [[spoiler:and then squanders it when a child version of her kills the adult one and takes over as the main character]].
5	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Take the standard SugarApocalypse trope, make it even BloodierAndGorier in the most over-the-top fashion imaginable, and play it all up for ComedicSociopathy, and you have this series in a nutshell.
6	* DuelingWorks: Not exactly "dueling" since they're published by the same company, but it makes an interesting companion piece to ''ComicBook/{{Birthright}}''. They both [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstruct]] the "child lost in magical world" genre by showing the child grown to adulthood in the magical world, they're both violent and gory, and both feature highly morally ambiguous protagonists. However, while ''I Hate Fairyland'' is a BlackComedy set in a cartoonish CrapsaccharineWorld which the protagonist is trapped in and trying to escape, ''Birthright'' is a serious UrbanFantasy story set on Earth which the protagonist is trying to bring the magical world into.
7	* FridgeLogic:
8	** An example in issue #13. Larry dreams of what his life would be like without Gertrude and we see that she was his first assignment. But, in the dream Gertrude is killed by the portal in the floor and Happy is Larry's first assignment, instead. Except, that isn't possible. It could just be Larry combining recent events in his mind, but he was with Gertrude for 27 years when they met Happy. If Gertrude was killed by the portal in her floor, Happy couldn't have been Larry's replacement assignment, she wouldn't have been born, yet.
9	** Assuming time works the same on both sides. If it runs on YearInsideHourOutside rules, that would mean Happy was alive at around the same time, and that might explain Gert's lack of aging. She actually is, it's just so slow that she hasn't noticed.
10	** Another example is that in Issue #15, [[spoiler:Good Gert dies steps before her portal after getting stabbed by a lollipop. However, in Issue #4, after Gert got beaten by Happy, Larry manages to blow some sort of healing smoke on her and fully restored her. Why couldn't he just do that after Good Gert died?]]
11	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: [[spoiler:The decision to kill off Adult Gert in Issue #7 of the official 2022 {{Revival}} and replacing her with a [[FishOutOfTemporalWater time-displaced]] child version of herself has not been a popular one with most readers. Not only does this retroactively turn the original series into a case of ShootTheShaggyDog, the new Gert and her rudderless attempts to escape Fairyland while causing wanton mayhem in the process effectively squanders any and all plot developments set by the {{Revival}} in favor of [[StatusQuoIsGod sticking to the same status quo.]]]]
12	* JerkassWoobie:
13	** Gertrude is a violent, AxCrazy and hot-headed {{jerkass}} in many ways... but it's clear that her traumatic entry into Fairyland, the years stuck in the annoyingly saccharine world separated from her family, and her repeated failures have [[BreakTheCutie left its mark on her]].
14	** Larry as well. He's abrasive and not exactly helpful, but being stuck with Gert could not have been easy by any stretch of the imagination.
15	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Larry, Duncan and later Gertrude calling out the fairyland council for being [[{{Jerkass}} A-holes]] and [[ControlFreak Control freaks]].
16	%%* {{Squick}}: This series isn't exactly one for the faint of heart.

Context YMMV / IHateFairyland