YMMV / PvP

• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Scott's Dad was probably the darkest horse to become as popular as he did with the fanbase, but his appearances stopped as his real-life descent into dementia got worse. ^note Save for a few strips explaining what had happened to him
  • Val Bronzebottom, a diminutive role-player who lives her life as if she were an actual dwarf battle maiden in a Fantasy RPG. She's even dating Skull, a proper fantasy troll.
    Skull: I brought you egg salad!
    Val: (gasp) Dwarves LOVE egg salad!
• Harsher in Hindsight: This comic became somewhat uncomfortable with the shutdown of Carbine Studios along with WildStar in 2018.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • An early strip has Skull take over from Robbie for a while, wearing his hat. After Robbie comes back, Skull refuses to give it back unless he's given another hat to replace it. "Make it a really cool hat". Description Cut to Skull wearing a fez. After all, fezzes are cool.
  • This was lampshaded in a 2011 strip where Skull gets out his old fez and announces that Matt Smith has made them cool again.
  • My Little Pony can't work as a comic? Are you sure?
• Les Yay:
  • Brent mistakes Jade and Miranda for this at Miranda's introduction to the comic.
  • Also occurs when Jade creates her own women's only magazine. See Thanks for the Mammary.
• Memetic Mutation: Batman's parents are DEEEEEAAAAD!
• The Scrappy: Skull's cousin Schecky. Lampshaded when he reappeared for Thanksgiving 2012, with a cartoony "Aww Hell! Shecky's Back!" title card.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Several of Kurtz' plots build up an impressive and possibly even grandiose story arc, only to fizzle out on a short anticlimax. Take for example Robbie's brewing company, Brent's deal with the devil, or the developer that tried to bribe them into giving a good review of his game, all plots which could have been fantastic if not for the fact that Kurtz apparently chickened out right when he got to the hook. Not to mention the possibility that Francis and Marcy had been drugged by Glamrock Games so they wouldn't spoil the (possibly) pre-arranged outcome of the gaming tournament in Vegas.

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