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openDivine tech support Webcomic
The main character is "called" in a dream by the forces of good about incorrect billing information. Would this be Afterlife Bureaucracy or something else?
openExpressive body part? Webcomic
This is a weirdly specific question. One of the main characters in Headless Bliss is a humanoid who learns eventually that she is a character out of someone's unfinished story. At one point, she loses the end of her right index finger, but instead of nothing being there after, there's a black squiggle where the end of the finger should be. It occasionally forms words, such as here and here. Do we have a trope that covers this?
openA sequel that's more of a coda. Webcomic
Is there a trope name for story that's technically a sequel but really doesn't stand very strongly as a unique story? It's the case where the reader really has to have read the first installment in order for the sequel to make sense? Basically, the sequel is really more of an extended coda to the first installment.
openCo-ed living situations Webcomic
I'm trying to find a suitable trope for a detail in the webcomic Magellan. I'm just not sure how prevalent it is in any other medium. In it, the superpowered cadets have a co-ed living situation, which includes sharing not only their dorms, but also their showers with both sexes. It's partially to inoculate them to the uniforms they'll be wearing later on, since it's hard to be distracted by a boob window or a skimpy leotard when you've already seen that person naked for six years.
openBad Guy Kinda did Something "Good" by Accident Webcomic
I need help with an example for the Sandra on the Rocks character page, 'cuz it's kind of like a circle.
Sandra is the POV character who the readers are meant to sympathize with and root for because she's a nice gal type. Except she repeatedly cheated on her boyfriend, Pierre, without him knowing about it.
Eloise is an antagonist to Sandra, because it's one of those stories where the good guy always has what the bad guy wants and is seemingly better than them at everything. That includes Pierre, who just so happens to be Eloise's cousin and her secret crush.
So: After finding out about Sandra's infidelity, Eloise arranges it so Pierre finds out about it in order to break them up so she can have Pierre for herself. The plan works, causing Pierre to dump Sandra and Eloise hooks up with her cousin afterward.
This makes it seem that The Bad Guy Wins, except had Eloise not brought Sandra's cheating habits to Pierre's attention, they'd still be together and Sandra would've continued to cheat behind his back because she was never going to tell him about it. So Eloise sort of did Pierre a favor, albeit for selfish reasons.
How would you categorize that situation?
Edited by MiinUopenTradesnark, but what else? Webcomic
Panels 4 and 5 of this Ennui GO! strip are definitely Tradesnark™ (thanks, ~St Fan), but do they fit something else? It feels like a weird take on Saying Sound Effects Out Loud but I'm not sure that it really fits.
Edited by WillbyropenWhat's going on here? Webcomic
NOTE: Comics are NSFW, take care when checking links.
In Ennui GO!, Sarah has a number of strips where she takes something said by someone else and goes off on tangents of odd examples, such as here and here, which usually annoys whoever's around her. I'm almost certain we've got a trope for this, but I have no idea what it could be.
openDark Thoughts Webcomic
What would it be if a character briefly thinks about killing themselves, but doesn’t?
open"Stationary TARDIS"? Webcomic
Is there a trope for a magical location or building that features several time and/or space portals?
Like, a castle with several doors, and each door leads to a different era - or works as a portal to a different city, with the owner passing as a denizen of all of those cities?
resolved Preview genre fakeout Webcomic
The initial previews/shown premise for a webcomic presents it as one genre, like a family dramedy, by only describing a vague summary or the first few chapters, leaving out the rest of the premise.
Then when its officially released, it gives us the full synopsis. Giving away the comic’s actual genre. For example, a sci-fi adventure.
openFood that doesn't reduce hunger Webcomic
Do we have a food trope where the food tastes real but is not real and still leaves you hungry?
openobvious but not said Webcomic
when certain speech and action bubbles pop up that gives clues to what someone is doing but the comic doesnt actually say what they are doing, or some of the time, even cover up parts of the picture of what they are doing
openThe background is minimalistic or even blank. Webcomic
An example would be Rain (2010).
openLarge speech bubble, little text Webcomic
When a speech bubble is deliberately made much larger than the text it contains would require, with the text often rendered in a particularly small font, to indicate whispering and/or unemotional delivery.
Examples: https://kiwisbybeat.net/minus/part-111 (panel 7) https://kiwisbybeat.net/minus/part-120 (panel 6)
openNon-sequitur panels Webcomic
When two or more panels next to each other in a comic are completely unrelated, both visually and narratively. Similar to Big-Lipped Alligator Moment but on an even smaller, more specific, and less related level. Or like a cutaway gag but even more random.
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