Roxanne From Hell
is a gag webcomic by pixie_press.
Roxanne Stoker, a young demon child from Hell, must fit in with the human kids at her middle school. The webcomic follows the wacky situations she gets herself into; mostly caused by the dissonance in human vs. demon culture and the fact that Roxanne is just a (mischievous) kid.
Roxanne From Hell provides examples of:
- Bad Liar: Roxanne tells her teacher that she didn't fall off the monkey bars; Joey hit her in the mouth. She then digs herself deeper by saying that he only did that after she hit him, getting them both in trouble.
- Bat Out of Hell:
- Roxanne's father has a very bat-like face, and he is employed by Lucifer to torture souls in Hell.
- Roxanne to an extent. She looks very much like her father, but also has some of her mother's genes that make her look different.
- Camping Episode: Well, an arc to be exact. Camping Trip is a five part (plus an epilogue) arc where Roxanne goes camping with the ScoutScouts.
- Cannot Tell a Joke: Roxanne accidentally convinces her class that she eats children while making a joke.
- Coat Full of Contraband: Hal is shown dealing trading cards from the inside of his coat during recess.
- Cute Little Fangs: Justified. Roxanne is a demon from Hell (she resembles a bat most closely), but acts exactly like a mischievouso preteen, so her fangs just add to cuteness factor.
- Face of a Thug: Frank is a swell guy who doesn't hurt anyone except while torturing souls in Hell, but he accidentally terrifies customers while working as a car salesman with his black eyes and yellow irises.
- Fantastically Indifferent: Exaggerated. Almost all the humans notice that the Stokers are demons, but nobody really cares or questions it (except for that one girl on the camping trip). This is especially blatant with the conservative Catholic family living next door, who allow Roxanne (a demon child) to be their daughter's friend.
- Fantastic Racism: Downplayed.
- Demons and angels tend to dislike each other, but will work together if they really need to. There are also some demon/angel couples, like Jeff and his girlfriend.
- Demons also tend to dislike Christians. Justified, as they keep on trying to exorcise them.
- Female Angel, Male Demon: Jeff, a male demon, is dating a female angel.
- Flaming Hair: Roxanne's mother's hair gets set on fire when she's angry.
- Flaming Skulls: Roxanne speaks to one of her neighbors, who has a flaming skull for a head, in "Good Neighbors 1".
- Ghost Story: Played for laughs. Camping Trip Part 5 starts off with Roxanne telling her ScoutScouts troop about the "skinstealers" who move like they are "operated by a deranged puppeteer with Parkinson's disease" while they are all huddled around the campfire on a camping trip. Of course, absolutely nobody finds this even remotely scary.
- Going Native: In "Gone Native", Frank Stoker wonders whether he is assimilating too much by trying to get a human job, and his wife responds that it wouldn't matter because they're too far in.
- Literal-Minded: When Frank is told to trim the bushes a "bit", he ends up almost completely cutting it down. He seems to have interpreted that as leave a bit, instead of cut a bit.
- Really 700 Years Old: Downplayed and justified. Roxanne's parents look to be in their late twenties/early thirties, but are really 80-120 years old. The author says that they're "pretty new demons".
- Scout-Out: Roxanne wants to join the "ScoutScouts".
- Suspiciously Specific Denial:
- Roxanne tells her teacher that she "did not fall face-first off the monkey bars". You don't need to be a genius to figure out that she did in fact fall off the monkey bars.
- Ellen decides to randomly scream "I'm not kidnapping you!" while picking up Roxanne from school
- Totally Radical: A sign in the background of "Roxanne The Student 3" simply states "Bullying is wack".
- Writers Cannot Do Math: In a Q&A, Frank's age is given as 80-120ish. Later on, he describes himself as about nine times older than Romero, who is 19; making him about 171 years old.
- Young and in Charge: Romero has his own restaurant at the age of 19, which is considered absurdly young in demon years. Frank Stoker also applies for a job there, and is about nine times older than him.
