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  • Angst? What Angst?: It's remarkable how much everyone takes minus's deeds in stride most of the time, until you realize that the reason nobody gets upset is probably because, well, why would minus want them to be upset?
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Several, especially the Larry strips, which come out of nowhere and don't have any relevance to the story, at least until the very end when he becomes the last living human being.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: Though not to Family Guy levels, some strips manage to be so horrifying and lacking good taste they loop back to being hilarious. A good example: minus casually flinging a house out of the way.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The webcomic is apparently popular in Japan, enough that Ryan Armand drew a few extra strips in manga style with all the text in Japanese, which is not translated anywhere on the website.
  • Memetic Psychopath: minus is often described as some kind of cruel god who will inflict a horrible fate on anyone for minor slights against her, in large part due to Characterization Marches On since she does act much more vindictive in the earliest strips. Even then, it’s because she doesn’t know better rather than any intentional malice. Once she hangs around the green-haired girl, she becomes much less vindictive, and occasionally even notices when her powers backfire terribly, and makes the effort to fix it (like when she does the “saw a woman in half” trick, for example).
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • This strip starts out rather innocuously, with minus popping balloons with her powers. However, when she gets scolded by the man selling the balloons after she pops all of his balloons, she turns him into a balloon and then he gets popped.
    • This strip features minus grabbing a star from the sky, being inspired by a comment from the green-haired girl. Since stars are large, burning balls of gas, minus nearly makes her friend disintegrate, complete with skeleton. Thankfully, she could reverse time to prevent that from happening.
    • While the star incident was probably accidental on behalf of minus not knowing what was going to happen, there was nothing accidental about this. minus rather bloodily splits a woman in half as part of a magic show. When she pieces her back together, she is still dead and probably would've stayed that way if the paramedics hadn't come and minus had revived her.
  • One-Scene Wonder: Larry. Well, technically a two-scene wonder, but his second appearance is in the second-to-last strip. Whenever he appears, he steals the show by managing to be completely unharmed in the face of danger, especially in his final appearance where he is revealed to be the last living person on Earth.
  • The Scrappy: A couple of characters likely qualify:
    • The white-haired girl, mostly for being obsessed with girly things, and even more clueless than minus. She is also indirectly responsible for The End of the World as We Know It. Even in-universe, people find her annoying.
    • The red-haired ghost. Like most characters, she is a Foil to minus, in her case showing exactly how irritating minus would be if she were knowingly a Jerkass rather than just one because of her general ignorance. Just like the white-haired girl, she is also responsible for the aforementioned spoiler. However, she is Rescued from the Scrappy Heap starting in strip #116, when she gets reincarnated into a green-haired girl who isn't deliberately mean, at least of what we see of her (though she tackles a person due to vengeance).
    • minus's perpetually offscreen mother does not start out as this trope, but falls headfirst into it as soon as the readers think that she has gone too far in yelling at her, namely, in this strip where, after yelling at minus, she slams the door in her face. It's really the fact that she is an authority figure that makes her this trope, as some of her behavior is borderline abusive.
  • Tear Jerker: Some of the strips may be this, though it might as well overlap with Nightmare Fuel and Heartwarming Moments - you'll have to use your Fridge Logic there:
    • This strip, where one of minus's classmates gets sent back in time and lives a long life, with minus sending her back to the present as an old woman to say goodbye, as she wants to live the rest of her life in the past. Though this decision could've been reversed judging by the last panel, where we see her original self playing with the other children.
    • The strip about the meteor is kind of tearjerking, if you take the time to think about what would happen if minus didn't hit the meteor away. The expressions of the people...
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Despite the rampant silliness, bright colors, and cartoonish style, plenty of strips are outright disturbing, but sometimes it's subtle. Adults tend to find minus a lot more disturbing than children. The author specifically never said anything about the target demographic, so...
    • Exhibit A: In this strip, minus is casually talking to the ghost of a young girl. It seems kid-friendly until you realize the ghost is telling an amusing anecdote about how she died.
    • Exhibit B. In this strip, minus casually rather bloodily rips a woman in half and puts her back together as part of a magic show. The worse part? If the paramedics and the woman not coming back to consciousness right away until minus intervenes are anything to go by, minus accidentally killed her in the process.
    • There is also some light swearing and tobacco use, which is quite jarring considering how late into the comic it appears.

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