History Webcomic / Sinfest

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Seymour was abused, chased with fire, Bomf-ed, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2003-11-28 sneezed at by the Dragon]], tempted until his wire halo explodes (twice in a row), had it [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-01-11 set on fire]], The Devil [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-04-03 demonized]] him and Tangerine [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-07-10 demonized]] his ''hat''. And he not only deserved this treatment but directly brought on himself most of it.

** Baby Blue's method of choice for causing trouble. She always has the right thing to say or do to get under people's skin. Her favorite target is Seymour, not that he doesn't [[KickTheSonOfABitch deserve it]].

** The 2023 strips comparing illegal immigrants to literal alien invaders and how flaky liberals will get people killed by accepting them hits a bit of a snag in its messaging the longer it goes on, since the aliens are never actually shown doing anything besides walking around and assimilating pretty peacefully (uncharacteristically so for some of the aliens shown, like the [[Film/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]] and the villains from ''Film/MarsAttacks''). It also doesn't help its case that a later strip posed the question, "Where are all the ''good'' immigrants?" and then showed a bunch of other alien characters caught up in customs and legal immigration, the problem being that out of the four characters shown as "good immigrants", ''none'' of them immigrated legally or formally; [[Franchise/{{Dragonball}} Goku]], Franchise/{{Superman}}, and [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial ET]], simply crash-landed on Earth with no documentation and would legally be considered illegals, and the fourth, an alien from ''Franchise/ToyStory'', is just an Earth-made toy designed to look like an alien. As even another blow to the narrative, Goku even ''was'' originally sent to Earth to destroy it, but changed his ways and became its protector instead.

** The strip's entire assertion that transwomen can't be real women hits a bit of a snarl when you remember that [[BecomeARealBoy a large part of the fembots' character arc]] is that they, non-human machines desiged to look and programmed to act like women, ''can'' be real women if they believe they are, to the point that the Reality Zone transforms one into a real, flesh-and-blood human when she enters it. They seemed to catch on to this contradiction because, at some point during the "Anti-Woke" era, the strip pretty much completely gave up on the notion that the fembots were anything more than disposable machines that were only designed to look like people, to the point that almost all of them are now just the Devil's mindless minions and attempting to reprogram or liberate them is never mentioned again.

* BondageIsBad: The pre-September '11 Sinfest portrayed BDSM (as well as bisexuality and polyamory) as being satanic, the depraved ways of devil girls. However, this was part of the EvilIsCool and EvilIsFunny mood that the comic was running on those days. Post September '11 Sinfest still demonizes BDSM (because BDSM only exists because all men hate all women and also because trans women exist), but now on a much serious level. Besides BDSM itself being used as a metaphor for all kinds of evil, the comic now includes three deeply evil BDSM-themed characters, "Bondage guy", "Bondage" and "Domination". Unlike the devil himself, these three sadistic devils have so far show no redeeming qualities whatsoever and no goals or personality traits beyond their complete devotion to evil BDSM Patriarchy.

* BellyDancer: Monique dresses up as one a couple of times: once for a [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-08-25 Bollywood parody]] and while she was [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-11 cosplaying as a gypsy]].

* BloodBath: With the comic's antisemetic bent, there is a depiction of Blood Libel, wherein Jews use human blood for sinister purposes. [[https://sinfest.xyz/view.php?date=2024-02-05 Blood Has Been Spilled This Night]] features the Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu taking a bath in blood and drinking it in a wine glass.

** On a meta level, the entire Sisterhood retool and the "Patriarchy Blockers" used to facilitate it being written as a huge sendup to ''Film/TheMatrix'' is very ironic to people who are actually familiar with the movie, especially since it started being used to "awaken" characters to anti-transgender positions. The writers of ''The Matrix'' came out as transgender themselves years ago, and it's widely believed the entire movie itself was a huge allegory to a transgender person realizing and accepting that part of themselves. For another level of irony, this is pretty much the exact same reappropriation of the movie's "redpill" concept that right-wing extremists would use a few years after the comic did. Turns out [[invoked]]MisaimedFandom[[invoked]] creates some strange bedfellows.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In one Sunday strip, Baby Blue holds off [[spoiler:killing Criminy after she realizes just how happy her former lover, Fuchsia, is with him.]] Awwwwwwwww.

** Slick, at his worst behavior.

** Lil'E, pretty much all the time, [[spoiler:until he loses his memory and he's no longer a JerkAss]].

** Also played straight when he though it would be funny to make a "catse" screen saver.

* ChewToy: Seymour in 2011 gets lots of screen time dedicated to making him suffer. Not that the fan base [[{{TheScrappy}} minds]].

--->'''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2017-02-11 Former Cellmate:''' Give me Daps.]]\\

* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: A LiteralMetaphor --[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-02-19 poor thing]].
* EroticEating: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-06-22 'Nique's method of inspiration]].

** Monique either has no intention of taking their relationship out of the friend zone or she [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2004-03-29 would]], but has a zero-tolerance policy for his horny clownades. But she's [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2003-01-16 jealous]]. During the "Loverboy" sequence she drives away a girl who was actually liked Slicky enough to laugh off his antics.

%%* HarmlessVillain: Little E definitely.
%%** However he is [[spoiler:the [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-10-16 son of the devil]]]]. So that could change.

* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Sam when watching [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-05-02 porn on the internet]].

** Absinthe as the naive maiden, who despises being D-man's booth babe, still conserves her mercy and sees being working for him in rose-colored glasses.
** Fuchsia as the mother, who was before in Absinthe's shoes, but grew out of being a succubus to pursue love but despise being out of that life, it left her quite messed up.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Fuchsia bounced back and forth between crushing on Criminy and actively helping Blue and the Devil antagonize Slick and Monique until her character development led her to pretty much stop being evil. {{Justified}} in that her romance with Criminy took time to develop.

%%* [[CueTheFlyingPigs Hell Freezes Over]]: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-12-24 Over there!]]

* HoistByHerOwnPetard: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-06-14 Criminy does this]] [[AccidentalInnuendo completely inadvertently]] to Baby Blue when she tries to play with him. Fuchsia's smug expression at the end indicates absolutely NoSympathy.

* HolyBurnsEvil: Not only is "Big D" repulsed by angel glitter and has angel-repellent but even some apparently mortal creatures [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2005-12-29 have such weakness]].

%%* HopeSpot in Slick and Monique's relationship: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-12-30 Monique and Slick]] [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu flip off]] TheDevil after he sends the troops in full-force to scare off their apparent budding love. (Too bad it didn't last... sigh...)

* HotLibrarian: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-04-09 Parodied in an episode of]] ``Sinfest Nights''. Fuchsia takes on the role of the librarian, with Criminy as the [[IgnoreTheFanservice flustered patron]].

** If Criminy had only been a notch-less Incorruptibly and Purely Pure, he might not have inadvertently broken Amber's heart in an early strip.

* TheInternetIsForPorn: Slick[[spoiler:'s SuperPoweredEvilSide]] and Squigley mostly are online because of this trope. Also, the Feminists try to put a stop on this teaching the porn harms and degrading factors this stuff have for women.

** Fuchsia spent much of her time torturing Seymour so that his already fanatical beliefs would turn him into a paranoid monster so that the devil could more easily influence him (not that they considered him a threat, but more as a toy or a joke), but she was so successful that when she tries to HeelFaceTurn, Seymour's fanatical paranoia prevents him from seeing that she's changing into something better while he's being [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] into something worse by said paranoia. Since Seymour USED to be a better character, Fuchsia sometimes believes that he is right to condemn (she IS one of the people who helped to corrupt him) as [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-19 we see here.]] Basically, her past actions are stopping her from turning completely through Seymour's paranoia. All is not lost as Cupid, literally shot love back into Seymour, so maybe he'll give her a chance.

%%** When [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-05-16 mistaken for Monique's retarded son]] by a security agent, Slick gets upset about ''son'' part, not the ''retarded''.

** Seymour, considered the biggest JerkAss in the comic, especially post 2010.
*** Until late 2011, when he proved that he could befriend a confused demon, and that he would not hurt Lil' Evil when the latter was down. Even further after his encounter with Cupid and became more friendly (and goofier).

** Seymour's words against Fuchsia. Calling her as a monster who should go back to the Hell she belongs is supposed to set him up as the {{Jerkass}} of the arc and make the reader root for the other party. But when said monster, instead of ignoring him or proving him wrong, enters into an UnstoppableRage, goes for the DisproportionateRetribution route and immediately tries to kill him, it makes the readers think he was actually right and Fuchsia's very poor anger management, added with the very poor value of life that ensues, makes her completely unsuited to live on Earth.
* {{JerkAssGod|s}}: Subverted; the only character that he's consistently a JerkAss to is the Devil. God's hand puppet mockery can come off this way occasionally, although it's mostly played for laughs and some of His "victims" actually find the caricature amusing.

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%% I think that the following entry on "Lighter and Softer" needs to be updated. The "recent" WAFFY romantic arc is probably from 2008, and it's now 2016.
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%% * LighterAndSofter: A recent romantic arc sealed the deal. Not that it's necessarily a bad or good thing.

** This is perhaps the basis of Slick and Monique's friendship. They gravitated toward one another out of loneliness and grown to be good friends as they accepted one another for how they are.

%%** The subject of a running gag, starting [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2004-08-17 here]]. Possibly the cutest was "[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-11-08 Emotopia]] needs [[{{UsefulNotes/BarackObama}} hope]]", but almost every character gets one, from planets that need [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2004-08-19 bacon]] to planets that need [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-08-17 health care]]. Even the artist himself gets [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-11-09 one]].

--->'''The Sisterhood:''' '''DIE.'''

** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-04-27 Good thing the River Lethe]] was near by, or else Slick might [[GoMadFromTheRevelation have had a problem there]].

* NoWomansLand: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-05-088 Slick tries to make on of these]] in response to the LadyLand the Feminists set up. Unfortunately most of the men who go in are lady-obsessed and as a result, hate the Men Only Space.

* OnePersonBirthdayParty: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-06-10 it's revealed]] that this was one of many BreakTheCutie moments for Lil' Evil throughout his life.

%%* Reality Ensues: Rather literally with the "Reality Zone."

* RecycledInSpace: A lot of one-page remake gags, like ''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-02-11 Booty and the Beast]]'' or ''[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-04-12 Steampunk Jesus]]''.
* RedOniBlueOni: Fuchsia the Devil Girl and Baby Blue the Devil Girl.

* SadisticChoice: She hasn't made it yet but [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0544 recent events imply]] that Fuchsia is going to have make a decision eventually.
** [[spoiler:And so [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-11-06 she did]].]]

* ScalesOfJustice: They've been known to appear, typically in relation with Xanthe Justice; like [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2018-09-06 here]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2018-09-09 here]].

* ShootTheShaggyDog: PlayedForLaughs in this strip where [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-04-29 Criminy is reading Tomey]]:

** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-08-11 The devil]] needs some peace and security to watch WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic. Careful that they don't just [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0508 take over]], though. Lastly, a Horse, a Unicorn, and a Pegasus all in the same panel, in [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-03-0523 Paradise.]]

* SickeninglySweethearts:
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-12-08 Ezekiel and Ariel]], a pair of little angels that also like harassing the Devil.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Despite the many ''many'' changes over the decades, Sinfest has generally fallen on the cynical side of this scale, though to what extent has varied in those decade. At the start, the comic sat at the cynical end, but slowly started moving towards the idealistic side thanks to an increasingly amount of strips meant to cute, heartwarming or emotional. This changed however with the coming of the Sisterhood Arc, which placed the strip very firmly back into the cynical side of the scale. And it's more or less stayed there ever since.

* {{Squee}}: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-12-25 Apparently Satan likes]] WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.
* StalkerWithACrush: Fuchsia becomes one for a while after she starts to become enamored of Criminy.

* StorefrontTelevisionDisplay: Sinfest loves to have characters walk past rows of televisions displaying whatever Tatsuya currently has issues with.

* TakingTheBullet: [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-02-19 Crimey]] for Fuchsia, although I think Cupid was aiming for him.

* TookALevelInBadass: It looked as if Criminy was about to kill Seymour.
** Even more so now that he is going into the very maw of Hell itself for Fuchsia. Go get her Criminy!!
*** Now, even after suffering a long fall, he's managed to fight off a winged pitchfork from hell [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-09-26 with a freakin shovel.]]
*** And then [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-10-03 uses same flying pitchfork to make his getaway]]. "Punch it, forky!"

* VaginaDentata: The Fan Girl has been making comics about this, she even made them detachable.
* VillainousCrush: Fuchsia to Criminy. Starts her development into an AntiVillain.

%%* TheVoiceless: Buddha.
%%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-01-05 Or is he?]]
%%*** Which is weird, because he started out having a voice when he was introduced.

* WellIntentionedExtremist:
** For all his JerkAss KnightTemplar behavior, Seymour ''does'' mean well. Unfortunately his methods are fundamentalist and do not allow for differing points of view.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The strip zig-zags this with the fembots in a somewhat disturbing way. They were first introduced during the feminist era as a sign of women's objectification who the Sisterhood were determined to reprogram for their own ends. There were several who broke free of their initial programming and even received a BecomeARealBoy storyline. But at some point during the "Anti-Woke" era, the strip suddenly dropped the whole idea of them being humanlike like a rock, to the point that they're now almost exclusively portrayed as the mindless underlings of the Devil whose existences don't matter, and the idea of attempting to reprogram or liberate them is never brought up again. To illustrate the contrast in how this trope was portrayed with the fembots: The strip in 2014 where the Patriarchy sends an assassin fembot to kill a fembot who went rogue and decided to take the "Kill All Men" motto seriously (then detonates the assassin fembot when she refuses) was portrayed as a heinous act on par with murder. The strip in 2020 where Hekate euthanizes the three fembots she took in because they "went Woke" and started using straw!progressive language was portrayed as, at worst, a difficult but justified ShootTheDog moment.

** Baby Blue pulls up [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-09-25 Little Evil's entry on Wickedpedia.]]

* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: A TV does this after seppuku.

* {{Yandere}}: Fuchsia seems to be one given what she says in [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-07-12 this comic]]. She has since gotten better. Possibly Baby Blue in a DepravedBisexual example.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre:

* YuriFan: Slick and Squigley, which, in Slick's case, allowed him to come to terms with losing Monique.

Before the mask came off fully in late 2023/early 2024, it had been a political webcomic for some years, with "political" increasingly meaning things like "the queers are trying to shove foam dicks into our kids' faces while wearing only a pink speedo two sizes too small, nipple rings and a shit-eating grin, and going "Bonerrr, bonerrr""; a reader who retweeted that strip later killed a shopkeeper for flying a rainbow flag. Outside of its target demographic, the general opinion has been that it's not a good read, [[SoBadItsGood even for its strangeness]]: watching an author use a "illegal immigrants are [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorphs]]" metaphor and a "[[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic face coverings]] are [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong facehuggers]]" metaphor [[MixedMetaphor at the same time]] and get something like "[[{{Metaphorgotten}} mask mandates are illegal immigrants raping women]]" was weird in theory, but just depressing in practice.