Broken Plot Device: Difference between revisions

* [[Brand X]]: "[[World of Warcraft|Realm of Warquest]]". [[Warhammer 40,000|Warmillenium 40k]].

* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Max is full of this.

* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Sylver.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Lizardbeth, all the way.

* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Not so much. Max escaped with no trouble, and freed the villain's main target while she was at it. ''Offscreen''.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Max.

* [[Death Trap]]: Of the [[Gas Chamber]] sort. As per the trope, easily escapable.

* [[Extreme Melee Revenge]]: Sid, in his El Rey persona, gives a mugger a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]... while the guy is begging for mercy.

* [[Female Gaze]]: Er... More like "Homosexual Male Gaze". Sid repeatedly caught Zig staring at his butt. Zig was clueless.

* [[Friendship Moment]]: Averted. Sylver apparently is too wrapped up in posturing and ego to realize what Sid's trying to tell him.

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Zig makes [[Robot Buddy|robots]], a [[Clothes Make the Superman|combat-ready suit of technologically advanced armor]], and a [[What Were You Thinking?|nuclear-powered, self regulated hoodie]]. And those are just the things we've seen.

** As of now, he also completed a working Portalgun.

* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: Phil, mostly because he is a very, very bad ninja.

* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: Sunny is described by the other characters as being "chubby" and "shaped like a football." While she may be a bit heavy for her (below-average) height, it's all in her bust and hips.

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Dr. Washe kidnaps Max to get back at Zig who beat him in a [[Pokémon]] competition. Zig was there because he's a bit of a dork. Dr. Washe was there to get back at kids for destroying the arcades of the doctor's youth. As Max puts it, "oh my god, you're the lamest villain ever!" After his plan is thwarted and he's in tears, he's placated by an offer of a game of Skee-ball.

* [[Jerkass]]: Sylver. He's in a relationship with a girl he doesn't seem to care about because he was threatened with physical harm if he ''didn't'' date her. Plus he thinks cheating on her (if he could actually ''get'' another date) to "not count"... because she's a fat chick.

* [[Ley Line]]: The Byron Factory apartment complex is built on top of one.

* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Lizardbeth.

* [[Must Have Nicotine]]: Max.

* [[The Not-Secret]]: It was made fairly clear that Sid and Max knew Zig was in the closet. Apparently, they thought it was cute, or were at least waiting for him to talk about it.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Inix is stated in her bio to be hundreds of years old.

* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Subverted so very hard by this comic, with Liz (who's cute), Zig, and Inix. [[Ms. Fanservice|Rowr]].

* [[Robot Buddy]]: Rex the cyber-apatosaurus was supposed to be one. He's still a bit buggy, starting from "massive egotism", to "hitting on every girl on sight", "cringing in terror at being touched", and currently "hitting on ''[[Single-Target Sexuality|Sid]] and [[Ho Yay|drawing him naked]]''". He's getting a bit better as Zig recodes him again and again.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Zig's powered armor, according to [[Geek|Paper]], looks more like ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' than a [[Battlestar Galactica Classic|Cylon]].

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Zig, yet again.

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Sylver. He's a jerk who thinks he's God's gift to ''everything''. And so far shows little to no actual competence. When things go sour - [[Hoist by His Own Petard|often by his own actions]] - he typically responds by slouching off and angrily demanding "why can't everything be ''cool''?"

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Take a good look at the outfit Inix wears in earlier strips.

* [[The Snark Knight]]: Max...at least so far.

* [[Theme Naming]]: Dr. Washe's minions are named Rock, Paper, and Scissors.

** Now they're planning something big concerning Torgie the frog totem.

* [[Unknown Rival]]: Dr. Washe to Zig. Later becomes known. [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|Still isn't that dangerous]].

* [[Voice with an Internet Connection]]: Rex recently had a Wi-Fi chip installed. The [[Anything That Moves|horny]] little [[Cute Kids And Robots|robot]] now has full access to the web.