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Torg

Torg

A Cloudcuckoolander who is an eager and well-meaning idiot most of the time, but has flashes of heroics. He's The Hero, at least a foolish version of one... until several years into the series, when he starts to Take A Level in Badass every few story arcs and thoroughly claims the title. He's still a goofy badass, though.

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• Big Eyes, Little Eyes: His eyes are bigger than those of the other characters. This fact is often pointed out. Including by him.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Torg's crush on Zoë, which has been going for at least eight years. He did however spit it out to a parallel earth Zoë; it didn't end well, and he doesn't want to put the home-dimension Zoë at risk. Given the survival/sanity records of his girlfriends, not spitting it out is fairly sensible.
  • He let her die! Even granted this wasn't his fault, and that he has now metabolized this fear into a damn good rationalization, it's a lovely little justification for this trope.
• Cartwright Curse:
  • He personally stakes his wife from a previous life, Valerie, due to her being a vampire that was endangering his friends.
  • He forms a relationship with an Alternate Self to Zoe in the Dimension of Lame, but she gets murdered by Horribus.
  • Him and Zoe are linked by fate, but thanks his previous failures as well as Yandere Oasis, they both avoid a relationship for some time. Zoe eventually even suffers brain death shortly after she experiences a Love Epiphany, but is thankfully brought Back from the Dead by Riff, albeit with the memories of the epiphany gone.
• Catchphrase: "WOH-PAH!" when doing martial arts; "I had a coupon."
• Cool Sword: He has a sword that is powered by drinking the blood of the innocent. When powered up, it grants him the skill of an expert swordsman, can talk, and even slay gods and demons.
• Crazy-Prepared: Emphasis on the "crazy". Emergency pants!
  • Starting to become a bit more sane, though. Nice contingency plan.
• Embarrassing First Name: "Torg". And he fully plans to carry on the tradition with any children of his own, even though he already anticipates complaining.
• Embarrassing Middle Name: "Sluggy". No wonder he doesn't mind his first name.
• Fair-Weather Friend: Aylee eventually comes to the conclusion that he only uses her when its convenient and always abandons her to suffer the instant he doesn't need her anymore.
• Genius Ditz: He frequently trades the Idiot Ball with Riff and does incredibly stupid things, like making a world ending Deal with the Devil for beer or blindly following directions to crash his car into a tree trunk. But he is also considered a very effective leader, with his 4U counterpart leading a successful revolt against 4U city, and the prime version initially taking charge of the war against Hereti Corp.
• Griefer: In the Years of Yarncraft arc, he eventually gets bored with playing the game in the normal way and starts deriving sadistic pleasure by ruining the game for everyone else. This ultimately results in the end of the arc, as each member of the main cast uninstalls their copy of the game in frustration.
• Heel Realization: Meeting Marco, a friendly spellcaster who turned out to be a zombie throws his abuse of Zombie Head On A Stick into perspective. While Jane, the person it was created from, was more or less an Asshole Victim, he realizes that he knows nothing of her history or who she was and that zombies are tormented souls, not playthings. After a night of thought, he decides to give her a Mercy Kill.
• The Hero: Especially after his levelling up in badass.
• Hidden Depths: Even early in the comic this page implied that either Torg had a deep secrets involving his past that resulted in stinted memories or he was just an idiot. The jury's still out on both ideas as Torg is an orphan with a intelligent streak, but acts goofy and often throws self-preservation to the wind.
  • In the anima arc, his anima (which seems to represent his soul) has two heads. They're mostly cheerful, but during brief serious moments, one head continues to remain blissfully cheerful while the other is more wary and justifiably suspecting of an upcoming danger. In essence, half of his soul is a happy goofball idiot but the other half is smarter and gets serious when he needs to.
• Iconic Outfit: His plaid shirts, to the point that alternate Torgs from other dimensions are often recognizable solely because they're wearing plaid. Even when they're fish.
• I Did What I Had to Do: More or less his reaction to ordering Hereti Corp headquarters destroyed, since while Hereti Corp itself is Evil, Inc., they also have plenty of innocent employees that have no idea what their employers are really doing.
• Kiss of Life: Attempts to use one to revive Gwynn when Marco succumbs to his curse and kills her. Due to Torg's incompetence, her ghost mistakes this for making out with her corpse, causing her to bring herself Back from the Dead out of sheer rage.
• Mad Artist: Occasionally, though not to the extent of his friend Bert.
• Master Swordsman: When his sword is powered up it makes him this.
• Morphic Resonance: Gwynn once cursed Torg by turning him into a donkey, but he still retained his haircut. In a realm of shadows, when Torg refused to face his fears, his appearance became demonic, but even then, he still had the same hairstyle.
• My Parents Are Dead: It is revealed that Torg's parents are dead (and that they made his middle name Sluggy).
• No One Gets Left Behind: Pulled this in the latest chapter, refusing to leave Sam if there was even the smallest chance he had survived.
• Norse by Norsewest: Describes himself as "mostly Viking", and was once let out of Guantanamo Bay after he broke the scale on their 'Caucasianometer'.
• Not-So-Innocent Whistle: During the Anima arc, Torg starts keeping secrets from Zoe, and his efforts to hide things from her results in his anima trying and failing to be non-chalant by doing exactly this.
• Only One Name: Played for Laughs in the "Torg Potter" stories, where he's mistaken for "Torg the Lastnameless One" (aka the epynomous Torg Potter). He does have a last name, but it's never revealed so nobody finds out he's the wrong person.
• Reincarnation: He is implied to be this to Lord Torgamus, the ruler of Mercia, a kingdom in the ancient past. Which is why a vampire named Valerie, who had once been said Lord's wife, took interest in him.
• Reincarnation Romance: In a previous life, he was married to a woman named Valerie. He died in a weapon accident. In her grief, Valerie accepted Lysinda's offer to become a vampire. When she and Torg meet eyes with one another for the first time in the current age, they fall in love with one another again instantly. Unfortunately, their relationship ends in tragedy with Torg being forced to stake her due to her attempts to harm his friends.
• Talking Weapon: See Cool Sword.
• Took a Level in Badass: During the That Which Redeems storyline.
  • Getting his hands on a kickass sword during the Stormbreaker arc may have helped.
• Unmoving Plaid: Torg's flannel shirts.

Riff

Riff Tubesox Wildenburg

A Mad Scientist who has been best friends with Torg since their middle school days, and has problems with women. He's The Smart Guy, with occasional forays into The Big Guy.

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• Badass Longcoat: Usually subverted by Riff, but played very much straight during the climax of "Dangerous Days Ahead".
  • Riff's little shopping trip in this strip hung a big honkin' lampshade on it.
• Batman Gambit: Riff pulls off an epic one at the end of 4U City Red.
• Brandishment Bluff: Uses this at 4U City on Rammer, an oftentimes Hero Antagonist.
• Catchphrase: "Let me check my notes"; "I'm on a budget here." ; "Dunno" (usually about relationship issues)
• Chick Magnet:
  • He has no problems attracting would be girlfriends. The real problem is getting him to settle down and marry one. The one time he thought he loved someone, she turned out to be a mole who had recently received orders to assassinate him.
  • In a more humorous sense, one of his inventions temporarily makes him into a literal baby chicken magnet.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: He has these moments. On one occasion he claimed that he had to be hero because he was "union."
• Commander Contrarian: After the Breaking the Fellowship and he is put in charge, he loses all qualms about getting his friends unnecessarily killed to show how much better Torg's leadership is than his own. His callous and impulsive actions eventually result in nearly the entire alliance against Hereti Corp dissolving.
• Commitment Issues: The very word horrifies him into a dazed trance. He is a Chick Magnet who has been through a lot of girlfriends, but he is terrified at the idea of settling down with one and getting married, for reasons most likely related to the trauma inflicted by his horrible mother. The one girlfriend he considered letting himself fall in love with, Sasha, turned out to be The Mole, with orders to kill him. He avoids Isabella in particular because an Alternate Universe version of her married an alternate him, and he is worried that he is literally fated to be with her.
• Despair Event Horizon/Wangst: His actions at the end of "758449" after discovering evidence that His Masterness may very well be his 4U counterpart. Which one it falls under is debatable.
  • He was already Wangsting when he got to 4U, because he felt responsible for Zoë's death, since he didn't know Oasis can create explosions with her mind, and assumed his experimental prototype was to blame.
• Disappeared Dad: A world traveler and archaeologist, Riff's father has been alluded to multiple times but had not made a speaking appearance on panel until May 14, 2013.
• Embarrassing First Name: Riffington
• Embarrassing Middle Name: His middle name, Tubesox.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: Played for Laughs in a stick figure comic, when he tries to defeat a very real Sufficiently Advanced Alien with a Puff of Logic by telling said alien that science disproves gods. The result is a Bolt of Divine Retribution.
• For Science!: Riff's Mad Science.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He makes mecha, dimensional transport devices, toasters that can launch toast through the ceiling, and a staple remover with a 100 foot range.
• Hereditary Curse:
  • He is an ordained, meaning that he bears a fragment of Kozoaku's soul. If at any point Kozoaku stole a piece of your soul, a piece of his is left in its place. If the victim has children, then the soul fragment will be passed on to their first born child. Riff's soul fragment is one of the oldest, and originated from his distant ancestor, Lord Symachus, the corrupt Mohkadun God of Justice. This soul fragment is eventually returned to K'Z'K.
  • Khronus punished Lord Symachus for his treachery by cursing him with blindness. Khronus also ensured that all of his descendants would carry this curse for all time, which is the reason Riff always wears sunglasses. Fortunately for Riff, the curse has been sufficiently diluted that he can see, his eyes are just extremely sensitive.
• Heroic BSoD: When he realizes that the dictator ruling the Alternate Universe he's in is his alternate self
  • Well, that's what he thought, at any rate. Turns out his tech was just stolen by HeretiCorp.
  • Only to find out later that it really WAS his alt self all along.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Toward the end of Chapter 71. Schlock gets himself killed via Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, but manages to strand Riff in a spaceship with no power... while his automated Kill Sat prepares to start vaporizing major cities. Riff rigs up steering by carving a hole in the side of the ship and sacrifices himself to save Los Angeles by blocking the beam.
• Jewish and Nerdy: He spends a lot of his time building various machines.
• The Lancer
• Mad Bomber: His plans always involve explosives.
• Mad Scientist: Big time.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: He specializes in weapons, but his projects have included computer graphics, AI, portals, and even happiness drugs.
• Properly Paranoid: ...Then again, both Aylee and Sam are members of extremely powerful species who do eat people (though Aylee has evolved beyond that need) and, at times, have become threats due to inability to fully resist their hunger. At the very least, the weapons and gadgets he made out of said paranoia have saved the group's bacon multiple times.
• Shoot the Dog: He doesn't take pride in it, but if push comes to shove, he is willing to sacrifice others to save the world.
• Sorry That I'm Dying: Schlock manages to corner him by trapping him on a space shuttle, setting off the self-destruct, and having an AI fire missiles at it. With all electronics damaged by an E.M.P. and of options, Riff gives an unheard apology to Torg for knocking him unconscious instead of talking things through in an earlier incident. He very narrowly survives in the middle of his apologies.
• The Spark of Genius: His inventions make sense to a very small group of people. Attempts to reproduce them without the direct involvement of Riff or brilliant scientists who have worked with him for years just don't work. Of course, this is mostly just because of Riff's horrible documentation, leaving out what he perceives to be "no brainers". Hereti Corp manages to get around this and develop a means of deciphering his work.
• Sunglasses at Night: He never takes his sunglasses off.
  • Hinted (as of Sept 14 2011) to have a reason other than Rule of Cool:
  Torg: If the nanites are perfect, why didn't they fix your eyes?
  • Later revealed to be a genetic condition of some sort that doctors don't even have a name for. His father has the same condition, but to a sufficiently lesser degree that he doesn't always wear his shades. This is ultimately revealed to be a Hereditary Curse from Khronus on his ancestor, Lord Symachus. The curse in question was intended to leave all of his descendants blind, but it has diluted over the generations to the point that Riff can see. His eyes simply happen to be very sensitive to light.
• Taking the Bullet: Schlock placed an AI in charge of his Kill Sat to automatically destroy any and all threats to himself, potentially even the entire world. The AI glitches and does in fact decide to destroy the world, starting with Los Angeles. Riff manages to pilot a shuttle with himself on it in front of the beam before it can expand enough, making it only banish himself.
• This Cannot Be!: Riff gets a brief closeup look through Kusari's mask and states with horror that what he saw was impossible.
• The Unfettered: When Hereti Corp abuses his inventions and he takes command of the war against them, he grows increasingly reckless, determined to stop them at all costs, and loses all qualms about getting his allies unnecessarily killed just to attack them more aggressively.
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: Vampires in general tend to succumb to evil. But Sam has largely managed to devote himself to staying good and being a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire, killing innocents more due to his own natural stupidity rather than vampyric malice. None of this dissuades Riff, who makes repeated attempts to stake Sam and prevent Torg from being friendly with him. He ultimately decides that while Sam needs to be stopped, he doesn't necessarily need to be killed, but his actions against Sam nevertheless result in the end of his friendship with Torg and Zoe.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Riff, the most badass member of the team, is mortally afraid of clowns (Yet still tries dressing as one to calm Aylee down to save his friends from vamps) - oh, and also is afraid of the department of motor vehicles.

Zoë

Zoë Bean

The Unlucky Everygirl that ends up constantly involved in everyone else's screwiness. While more capable than most, she's clearly the Butt-Monkey most of the time.

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• Action Survivor: She doesn't have a magic sword like Torg, isn't an overarmed badass like Riff, and is definitely not a spellcaster like Gwynn. She is no more capable of fighting than the average person. But she still manages to survive very bad situations through ingenuity and a bit of luck.
• Back from the Dead: Thanks to Dr. Schlock's manipulations and Oasis's power, she suffers horrible burns. While the Nanites of 4U city are able to repair her body, her mind is completely destroyed, leaving her brain-dead. Riff managed to revive her by taking a snapshot from before the incident, effectively restoring her from a backup.
• Butt-Monkey: Usually ends up undergoing some ignominy (such as turning into a camel) even when she isn't involved in the latest escapade.
• The Chosen One: Zoë was foretold to be the "Storm Breaker," who will defeat the demon K'Z'K. It's 'She will bring about' the defeat of K'Z'K. Thanks to the end of bROKEN it seems that she's the catalyst that pushes Torg (and Chaz) closer and closer to the fight with K'Z'K. When Riff's father, a K'Z'K cultist, learns of her identity, he calls her Kozoaku's greatest weakness and tries to murder her for this reason. She eventually defeats K'Z'K by throwing a spell egg to leave him as Sealed Evil in a Can again. Unlike Wilcott Wilden, Tombsy thinks everyone overestimates her, since previous times she has defeated K'Z'K were through simple twists of dumb luck rather than any obvious talents or heroism.
• Fate Worse than Death:
  • Thought to be Killed Off for Real, Zoë is revealed to be alive...unconscious and permanently hooked up to life support. Her body is far too weak for morphine so she spends her conscious hours screaming in pain. The worst part? Her injures are so severe that her body will never heal. Technology in that city actually can heal her body, and has. Unfortunately, it didn't have a similar "snapshot" of her mind. She had a perfectly healthy body, but was left as a vegetable. She ultimately got better due to the results of Riff's amazing Batman Gambit. Of course she still had to find a way to explain her apparent death and two year absence.
  • K'Z'K plans to do this to her as revenge for her squishing his corporeal bug body. He intends to leave her alive as the Sole Survivor of her spark, making her experience the horror of losing her friends to a torturous death. And then he plans to do even worse.
• Femme Fatale: Pulled a convincing one to have a group work for the Crushestro alliance
• Foreshadowing: Way back when she was added as a character on a radio show, Zoe went by the alias "Leslie Bean." The way the character she played was described was to imply that she was a lesbian. Years later, it's revealed that, like the hosts from that show, the directors were making a joke about her last name - The Reveal of her last name was years before it was officially confirmed.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She seems to be getting upset with Noogy's attraction to Torg. She's also shown some signs of this before she realized (and then forgot) she was in love with Torg.
• Involuntary Shapeshifting: Her tendency to turn into a camel when a certain magic word is mentioned. How very shupid. *POOF*
• Living Emotional Crutch: Riff's father, Wilcott Wilden, believes that Torg can't live without her. Wanting to eliminate the threat she poses to K'Z'K, he tries to Mercy Kill Torg in addition to murdering Zoe for this reason.
• Love Epiphany: Has one while fighting the Yandere Oasis alongside Riff in his Mini-Mecha. She realizes that though Torg is a Manchild, he will courageously fight for those he loves, such as herself. She forgets this after dying and being brought Back from the Dead due to being restored from a backup taken before the said epiphany, but she eventually rediscovers it anyway.
• Not So Above It All: Zoë sometimes dives head-first into the weirdness eagerly.
• Only Sane Man: Most of the time, though she will occasionally prove Not So Above It All and also indulge in the craziness or petty violence of her peers.
• True Sight: During the "Anima" arc, the entire gang gets stuck in a world where the souls of all sapient creatures manifest an Empathy Pet called an anima. Zoe possesses the unique ability to detect the "bedeviled", who hide corrupted animas.
• What Does She See in Him?: Gwynn and Bun-bun's reactions to her relationship with Torg, since she is the Only Sane Woman and Torg is a Genius Ditz at best, and only when he's holding the Sanity Ball.

Gwynn

Gwynn

One of Riff's ex-girlfriends, who dabbles in magic and has her fate entwined with the sinister Book of E-Ville. Often, but not always, The Lancer.

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• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: She frequently takes petty and/or impulsive actions that she comes to regret later:
  • She once made a Deal with the Devil to kill Riff out of revenge for their relationship, getting herself possessed and nearly causing The End of the World as We Know It. Notably, this one spiteful decision ruined her entire life, setting in stage inescapable consequences that stuck with her development for the rest of the strip’s history.
  • She once rendered Zoe permanently bald with Black Magic as punishment for biting her hair off after Gwynn turned Zoe into a camel. In order to undo the spell, she ended up having to make a Deal with the Devil and nearly lost her soul in the process.
  • She wore a cursed necklace on a whim, causing a Mental Time Travel "Freaky Friday" Flip.
  • When drunk, it is implied she might have a bit of a crush on Torg, but Torg's insensitivity drives her up a wall most of the time.
• Back from the Dead: Marco loses control to his curse and strangles her to death. Torg attempts CPR. Her ghost mistakes this for making out with her corpse, enraging her so much that she comes back to life just to give him a Groin Attack.
• Black Magic: Produces Hilarity Ensues more often than threatening The End of the World as We Know It. She has theorized that her magic is actually a shard of K'Z'K's power, which is ultimately confirmed.
• Blind Without 'Em: Possibly the biggest exhibitor of the trope in history and makes significant mistakes without her glasses. At one time, she decided to cure her eyesight with a spell, but grew too attached to the monkeys that were required as components to cast it. When her terrible eyesight becomes the biggest obstacle to saving a doomed village, she casts a far more dangerous spell to fix it.
• The Chosen One: She is a potential, meaning that, in theory at least, she has the capacity to strengthen and protect the Fate Web.
• Dark Magical Girl: Flirts with this trope but never fully commits.
• Deal with the Devil:
  • She makes one with K'Z'K to kill Riff, nearly causing the End of the World as We Know It.
  • In a fit of rage, she once rendered Zoe permanently bald with a curse. She came to regret it, but was unable to undo the curse herself. So she made another deal with some extremely powerful demonic soul merchants.
• Demonic Possession: Gets possessed by a demon named K'Z'K.
• Depower: She gained power thanks to the Book of E-ville, and by extension K'Z'K. When K'Z'K finally breaks free, she loses it.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Does this a lot. In fact, it's her biggest defining trait.
• Drowning My Sorrows: After Riff and Zoe seemingly get killed, she starts spending a lot of time drunk.
• The Empath: After inheriting a spellbook filled with empathic spells from a tragic love interest, she starts focusing her magic studies on them.
• Exotic Eye Designs: After casting a dangerous spell, she gains perfect eyesight and her pupils turn to diamonds, like Kron and King Farahn's symbol.
• Flat Character: Jane calls her this while giving her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, believing that Gwynn couldn't possibly have any magic, because magic requires spirituality to power it and Gwynn doesn't have any depth.
• Forced Transformation: The Dimension of Lame's version of her became a living mass of paper in the shape of a human, and that was due to the work of an innocent version of King Farahn. The main Gwynn is eventually changed as well to become his bride, a fact that she is less than comfortable with for more than one reason.
• Gold Digger: Torg is the one for whom she shows the most disgust, but she has shown an interest in him when he was driving a nice car and when he and Aylee acquired almost a million dollars.
• Groin Attack: Her favourite form of Disproportionate Retribution.
• Heroic BSoD: Happens here when she has an epiphany on her entire situation and how she fell right into K'Z'K's hands. The friends she made in the past, Scholar Socho and Kron, were doomed before she ever met them, and her actions had no impact beyond giving K'Z'K the opportunity for escape. Realizing that it was All for Nothing, she awaits her impending demise with both acceptance and despair.
• It's All About Me: She is extremely selfish, though she does at least feel guilty thinking about herself this way when Clonee seemingly goes on a rampage eating everyone.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's petty, self-centered, sardonic and has a tendency to do very nasty things to people for petty sleights, but also does care about her friends (especially Zoe) and is often genuinely apologetic for her actions when she crosses a line.
• Just a Stupid Accent: When she and a Queen of Mohkadun experience a Mental Time Travel "Freaky Friday" Flip, they end up in places with different languages, without the usual Aliens Speaking English in play. While her speech patterns are inflexible, the Queen does an excellent job of picking up English. Gwynn on the other hand is portrayed with terrible English grammar to indicate how bad she is at speaking the Mohkadun language.
• The Load: Possibly even the The Millstone. A lot of the problems the cast have had to deal with all came about as a result of her own impulsive and overly vindictive behavior. She is also ignorant of all non-fashion related fields to the point that she doesn't even know about modern plumbing.
• Madness Mantra: She repeatedly states "I have no choice!" when out of other options to avenge Marco before using a Dangerous Forbidden Technique.
• MacGuffin Girl: Eventually becomes this. As she is linked by soul to the Book of Eville and KZK’s power, her very existence means there’s always a chance for KZK can come back, and worse Farahn - the spirit trapped in the Book - is obsessed with her for entirely different reasons. Several arcs are thus based largely around keeping Gwynn away from cultists or demons or Farahn, or other threats meaning to seize her, or rescuing her if that fails.
• Powers via Possession: This turns out to have been the nature of her magic all along. When K'Z'K is finally free, her powers are gone.
• Reincarnation: She doesn't know for sure, but she has some mysterious connection to Queen Siphaniana that K'Z'K was able to hijack, and speculates that she might be Queen Siphaniana's reincarnation. Queen Siphaniana's husband, King Farahn himself, believes the same, and gives her K'Z'K's power for this very reason. According to Basphomy, she isn't, her powerful connection to Queen Siphaniana is purely a result of the cursed necklace they both wore, which K'Z'K amplified. One of her actual previous incarnations was Allie Bookbinder, the daughter of the man who created the Book of E'ville used to seal Kozoaku.
• Revenge Before Reason:
  • She once summoned a world ending demon just to get revenge on Riff for cheating on her.
  • Torg stupidly obeys his malfunctioning mobile's instructions to drive into a tree. Gwynn uses magic at the last second to teleport them to elsewhere. Torg chastises her for using K'Z'K's power, reassuring her that he would have swerved out of the way at the last second. When Gwynn's malfunctioning mobile destroys the steering wheel and brakes, they start crashing into another tree. She refuses his pleas for her to use magic just to spite him.
• Scary Shiny Glasses
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She develops a romantic interest in Kron, a noble demigod, and later Marco, a friendly spellcaster, for this very reason. Both of them ultimately prove to be doomed.
• Skewed Priorities: After getting grazed by a bullet, the idea of a permanent scar on her face gets a much bigger reaction out of her than the possibility of losing an eye or being paralysed.
• Spell My Name With An S: "Gwen", goodness knows why.
• Sprint Shoes: Inherits them from Marco, allowing her to use Super-Speed.
• Stepford Smiler: Gwynn gets stranded in a location under a dreadful curse. The curse magnifies hate, killing anyone who cannot keep control of their tempers, burning out their souls, and turning them into monsters. After learning this, Gwynn - who is known for her temper - is forced to put on a happy facade.
• Thinking Out Loud: After discovering Dunuloa's stash of spell eggs, Gwynn talks to herself about the fact that one of them probably contains a suitable spell for dealing with K'Z'K. K'Z'K proceeds to grab her and Lampshade how speaking your plans out loud is a bad idea.
• Tsundere: Type A.
• Voodoo Doll: After being enraged by Riff cheating on her, she tortures him with one of these.
• With Friends Like These...: She's accidentally AND intentionally caused a lot of problems for the cast with her magic, she's petty and vindictive, she's tried to kill some of them in the past (Riff by demon-summoning, and Torg via a fork to the head), and she's a very unpleasant person a lot of the time. It's a wonder how she's still part of their circle.
• Woman Scorned: After Riff tries to cheat on her, she starts dabbling into Black Magic and torments Riff with hexes. Eventually, she even tries to kill him by summoning a demon and almost ends up causing The End of the World as We Know It.

Bun-Bun

Bun-bun/Sluggy, God of Power

A miniature talking and very evil lop-eared bunny which might be the most dangerous force in the universe. Very violent and short-tempered, though perfectly controlled if he needs to be. Quite possibly the smallest Big Guy ever to reach his level of badassitude. Eventually revealed to be the Mohkadun god of power.

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• Amnesiac God: Bun-bun has a mysterious past that he himself can remember little of, thanks to the fact that he got into a fight with his future self and got hit hard in the head. Some details of his past are finally revealed in later stories:
  • When Gwynn experiences a Mental Time Travel "Freaky Friday" Flip and ends up in an ancient civilization with statues dedicated to their gods, one of them resembles Bun-bun, who is eventually confirmed to be their God of Power, Sluggy. Because of his amnesia Bun-bun has thus far had little access to his god magic, such as Voluntary Shapeshifting, but he is incredibly tough and has survived things he really shouldn't have.
  • When the Wayang Kulit confronted Bun-bun with his greatest fear, they showed him the death of his mother. And now, the weapon that did it has resurfaced.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Of power and strength. During the Holiday Wars arc, he briefly became the personification of several major holidays, which warped reality in various ways, such as replacing Thanksgiving turkeys with rabbits.
• Arch-Enemy: With Santa, against whom he carries an ancient grudge and wants to see dead.
• The Big Guy: In a small package he may be. But, Bun-bun packs a wallop that's well above his weight-class. And, he has claws on four paws, a flick-knife, a flame-thrower if he can get it, a Blood Knight attitude... and teeth.
• Can't Get in Trouble for Nuthin': Bun-bun can escape punishment, and get Torg in trouble, by wearing a Torg costume.
• Catchphrase: "Time to die, Nerd-Boy!" and similar, along with his switchblade's distinctive 'ka-click!' sound effect.
• Character Tic: His habit of cleaning himself whenever he gets bored with a conversation with anyone.
• Chef of Iron: He occasionally kills his enemies by cooking them.
• The Chosen One: Though not stated to be a "potential", he is at the center of Tempest's plan to gather all of them and oppose K'Z'K. And possibly to destroy the world.
• De-power: Implied. He was once a god, and has survived things that really should have killed him, but hasn't demonstrated any obvious magical power outside the ancient past.
• The Exile:
  • Along with every single one of the other Mohkadun gods, Khronus casts him out. In his case, he is literally and quite unceremoniously given the boot, aimed at The Krig just to add insult to injury.
  • He has been thrown into Timeless Space. Twice.
• Fluffy the Terrible: "Bun-bun" doesn't exactly scream "run for the hills" until you get to know him a bit.
• Freudian Excuse: Bun-bun's mother was butchered right in front of him, and he was unable to protect or control her. This is why Bun-bun shuts everyone out. He strikes everyone out of anger for his failure to do anything about it.
• Hammerspace: Where he keeps his switchblade. On one occasion he Lampshades it, when fighting against Oasis who also carries a limitless supply of weaponry.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: When he's not an outright antagonist.
• Implacable Man: So far, he's been eaten alive, blown up so hard it destroyed the building he was standing in, thrown out of the time stream itself twice, and burned to a crisp. After that last one, he threw the animal services guy who tried to put him down out a window and is back at full strength, though it did take some time for his fur to grow back (and as he showed Zoë, his face under his fur still has burn scars).
• Interspecies Romance: Is somewhat disturbingly attracted to human women.
  • There was also that bit with him and the sugarplum fairy.
• I Was Just Passing Through: In the beginning, Bun-bun only ever helped for violent fun, or because his own selfish motivations coincided, and would gladly abandon the heroes to their doom the moment it was convenient. But as time goes on, his alleged motivations seem more and more like an excuse. In time, he eventually becomes a full fledged, if rather mean part of the team.
• Karma Houdini: None of the main cast is strong or brave enough to attempt to punish Bun-bun for his many crimes.
• Killer Rabbit: Literally.
• Mad Libs Catch Phrase: He's called other characters 'Nerd-X' or 'X-Boy', such as in Oceans Unmoving calling Crazy Carver 'Nerd-Goat' and Calix 'Leaf-Boy'.
• Malicious Misnaming: Almost always refers to Torg as 'Nerd-Boy' (though he has used his real name a handful of times). Also often refers to Zoë and indeed any woman as 'toots'.
• Mysterious Past: There's still a lot we don't know about Bun-bun's origins. All we know is that he originally came from a far earlier century, he was feuding with Santa back then as well, and his actions in his original era necessitated the use of the first Deus Ex Ovum and his original ejection from time. It isn't until the Mohkadun arc that his story is finally revealed.
• Older Than They Look: Speculated in-universe and ultimately confirmed. Basphomy's conversation with Mrs. Claus regarding the second Deus Ex Ovum suggests that the point in time that Bun-bun was originally thrown out of was centuries ago, and that he ended up in the modern era due to returning to a different point in time when he left Timeless Space the first time. There's also a statue that looks very much like him in the ancient kingdom of Mokhadun that seems to be the God of Power, Sluggy.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Thanks to a Stable Time Loop, Gwynn, in Queen Siphaniana's body, recognizes Sluggy as Bun-bun and calls him by that name. Uncle Time is quick to pick it up, since it makes him sound adorably harmless. By the present era, thanks to amnesia, Bun-bun remembers little of his past, or the fact that he was ever called anything other than Bun-bun.
• Other Me Annoys Me: At one point, Bun-bun gets trapped in Timeless Space. Though suffering from amnesia, he vaguely remembers that he has been trapped there before and searches for his past self to see how he got out. Knowing that he would suspect any rabbit claiming to be his future self to be part of a set-up, he doesn't reveal himself to his younger self, pretending to be a robot. His younger self causes him so much trouble, that Bun-bun finds it difficult to avoid killing him, which would obviously be bad and ends up causing the amnesia he was struck with in the first place. When he finally gets what he wants and is free of Timeless Space, he beats his younger self up out of frustration and admits that anyone can only stand him so long.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: His approach to telemarketers.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: If Bun-bun tells you to let him sleep, them you let him sleep!
• Refuge in Audacity: Bun-bun's attitude, e.g. in one early strip, his "pirate crew" (consisting of Kiki and a little girl) is drowning, so after musing that he can't really be a pirate captain without a crew... he throws his hat away and rows off to start a black market drugs ring in Tijuana instead.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Why many people tend to (terminally) underestimate him.
• The Scream: When Bun-bun finds out his collection of Baywatch tapes has been magnetically erased. What's really hilarious/terrifying about this is the implication of what he's going to do to the other main characters once he catches them.
• Sentimental Drunk: When drunk, Bun-bun is quite friendly, which surprises people who are used to his generally hateful and violent demeanor.
• Spell My Name With An S: Because the comic usually uses all caps, people tend to assume his name is capitalised as "Bun-Bun". Things like sub-chapter titles reveal it's actually "Bun-bun".
• Super-Speed: Even without holiday powers, his speed is incredible, possibly due to what little is left of his divinity. With holiday powers, he can produce Time Stands Still.
• Talking Animal: Death threats, insults and sexual innuendo count as "talking", right?
• Token Evil Teammate: Ohhhh yeah.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Alfalfa Hay.
• Worf Effect: His very few defeats were caused mainly by this trope.

Kiki

Kiki

Riff's pet talking ferret, who has a habit of being easily distracted and naively willing to touch anything shiny. Kind-hearted, but very foolish, and quite clearly the Team Pet.

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• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: She's a ferret. What do you expect?
• Catchphrase: "Stay good {NAME}, stay good!"
• Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs: Don't feed the ferret these. Just. Don't.
• Frisky Ferret: Extremely hyperactive.
• Genki Girl: Hell, yeah.
• Talking Animal: And, singing. And, dancing.
• What Does This Button Do?: If she asks this or comments on all the pretty buttons and the flashing lights, duck for cover.

Aylee

Aylee

Fish out of water shapeshifting alien, that came from an early parody of Alien and Star Trek and stuck around. Reserve Big Guy, Lancer, Team Pet varying depending on her form(occasionally changes forms involuntarily to adapt to her environment) and the other characters present. Is personality wise a kind of Genius Ditz due to balance between her naivety and her predatory cunning.

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• Alien Blood: In her first form, it's revealed that she has orange juice for blood, and apparently it's the pulpy kind. Though this has probably changed along with her change in forms.
• Amusing Alien: Her alien and carnivorous nature are most frequently a source of comedy in the comic, even after she gets used to Earth.
• Dead All Along: One of her forms was, for all intents and purposes, undead, but she grew out of it with her next form.
• Demonic Possession: As of the Immortal King arc, Aylee is secretly possessed by a demon and has been for an indeterminate period of time.
• Extreme Omnivore: Her red dragon form, which ate just about everything but what would traditionally be considered food.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: Two notable forms Aylee has used.
• Goal-Oriented Evolution: Her various transformations serve to counter any one particularly severe threat to her that she's faced recently. Attacked by nanites? Evolve a biological EMP ability. Incapacitated by cold? Develop a superheated "dragon" form. Facing onset of natural death as part of her reproductive cycle? Incorporate necromantic wards to bind her soul to her body. Having her mind interfered with by Telepathy? Grow a helmet that makes her Immune to Mind Control. Eventually she changes into a very human-like form, apparently deciding that the biggest threat to her life is her inhuman appearance that causes humans to fear her. Note that she has no conscious control of these changes.
• Healing Factor: In her initial "Xenomorph" form, she can recover from any injury that doesn't immediately kill her.
• Humanity Ensues: As of her transformation in 2007, she's still covered in green scales, but she's roughly humanoid, has hair on her head, and can be passed off as human with sufficient makeup. When she reappears in 2020 her new form initially appears even closer, appearing entirely normal except for a small point in her upper lip that suggests her initial serrated jaw. Subverted when shortly thereafter it turns out that her torso is now covered in a tough carapace and her limbs can now retract into it like a turtle's, and she no longer has hair.
• I'm a Humanitarian: When she was introduced, she ate an entire spaceship crew, minus Torg and Riff. After she wound up on Earth, she kept eating people, although it wasn't treated as seriously as it probably should have been. She eventually kicked the habit, and the forms she has adopted after that have tended to be herbivorous or similar.
• Involuntary Shapeshifting: She tends to shift forms to adapt to her environment, but has absolutely no control over it.
• Samus Is a Girl: Her initial form lacked even Tertiary Sexual Characteristics (as have most of the others), so it was kind of Ambiguous Gender at first. Cleared up pretty quickly after she got a speaking part.
• Shock and Awe: One of her shapes has this in the form of a EMP blast.
• The Voiceless: After bROKEN, she was stuck recovering from a neck injury delivered by Oasis. She recovers from this at some point during the time skip.