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'''''[http://www.jadephoenix.org/comingupviolet/index.php Coming Up Violet]''''' is a [[Furry Comic]] written and created by Brian Daniel and illustrated by Misty Caldwell (background art by Kevin), and the sequel to ''[[Fur Will Fly]]''. The comic also was a spinoff, switching the focus from Brad and his antics to Violet Oaks and her circle of friends in high school. 

A more consistent art style leads this comic to be better than the original graphically. It's also way more PC. However, the artist and the writer had a falling out leading to the comic being [[Orphaned Series|canceled]] and ''taken down''. The ''canceling'' didn't last long as the artist continued the comic on May 17th, 2010 with a new writer (Bombur). Looks like things turned out okay after all.

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* [[Art Evolution]]
* [[Barefoot Cartoon Animal]]s: All the characters except Brad and {{spoiler|Dawn}}.
* [[Batman in My Basement]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]
* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: [http://jadephoenix.org/comingupviolet/2009/08/17/coming-up-violet-18/ Lampshaded.]{{Dead link}}
* [[The Chessmaster]]:  {{spoiler|Abby}}
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Brad and his daughter.
* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: Why are we here? Brad doesn't know exactly, but he does know that he and Dawn are there for a purpose. 
* [[Cousin Oliver]]: Dawn is the second human in the comic and a rare example of this trope done well.
* [[The Dark Side]]
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: It's less of a defrosting and more of an {{spoiler|evaporation}}, but you get the general idea.
* [[Diary]]: The title character keeps one of these, and it's used as the intro for the comic proper.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The pretty boy [[Jerk Jock]] who spreads lies of memetic proportions about his and Violet's completely non-existent sexual escapades is on the school's lacrosse team.
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: {{spoiler|Abby doesn't like being [[Domestic Abuse|abused]].}}
* [[Domestic Abuse]]: Not the spouse-on-spouse kind, but still . . .
* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|Racquel and Wendyl}}
* [[Et Tu, Brute?]] 
* [[Everytown, America]] 
* [[Fan Service]]: Misty once drew <s>three</s> two of the male characters in swim trunks.
* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Dawn
* [[Furry Confusion]]: One of the filler comics showed that Melody owns two dogs.
* [[Gender Equals Breed]]: Slightly subverted in that ''every'' cross-species example seems to take after the mother, regardless of sex
* {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Man|The Girl Behind The Girl]]: Abby helps keep Racquel popular, in exchange for immunity from taunting by Racquel's group.}}
* [[Go-Go Enslavement]]: Page owns one of the classic examples of this trope for use in her and Brad's bedroom games.
** The roles latter get reversed between Brad and Page as to who's wearing it.
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: Violet has two of these, both modeled after the classic [[Warner Brothers]] versions of the trope.
* [[Good Samaritan]]: Violet is quickly becoming the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] [no pun intended] of this trope.
* [[Groin Attack]]: See "[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=29441 Wedgie Messiah]"
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Beatrice, Brad and Page's daughter, who has her mother's species and gender, and her father's . . . everything else.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Very much subverted with the school bullies.
* [[High School]]
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]
* [[Interspecies Romance]]
** Bat/Rhino
** Human/Mouse (yeah, they're still around)
** Cat/Squirrel/Bat/Chinchilla [[Love Dodecahedron]]
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Jerk Jock]]
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]
* [[Law of Disproportionate Response]]
* [[Like Father, Like Son|Like Father Like Daughter]]
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]
* [[Malicious Slander]]
* [[Maligned Mixed Marriage]]: Brad and Page, complete with the various difficulties of said trope. Most of those difficulties usually turn out to be trying to hide Brad's real identity (he's an alien from a [[Mirror Universe]]), while also resulting in a lot of [[Angst? What Angst?]] at the same time due to Brad's [[Cloudcuckoolander]] nature.
* [[Medium Awareness]]: In strip 231, posted on 8/30/2010, Brad contemplates why he and Dawn were sent to the comic's universe. In [https://web.archive.org/web/20110908051537/http://anivasion.deviantart.com/#/d2xm2ay the full version posted on Misty's DA profile] he concludes that not only is there a higher power guiding their lives but that there's a good chance that [[Real Life|the world]] is just a template with certain differences being like toys in a game of make believe, thus hanging a colossal lampshade on the entire writing process and fiction in general in the process.
* [[Naive Everygirl]]: {{spoiler|Oh so very much subverted ''and'' played straight with Abby.}}
* [[Neat Freak]]: Melody, who prefers to keep everything organized.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Skylar was perfectly happy pseudo-dating Melody, then his best friend Wendyl reminded him that he had originally started hanging out with her to get to her friend Violet.
* [[No Biochemical Barriers]]: Brad and Page's daughter
* [[Only One Name]]: Besides Brad's family there's also the background artist for the comic, Kevin. 
* [[Out-Gambitted]]
* [[Parental Substitute]]
* [[Promoted Fanboy|Promoted Fangirl]]: Misty Caldwell started out as a fan of the [[Fur Will Fly|original comic]] and is the illustrator; [[One of Us|she still claims to be a fan and dislikes spoilers]].
* [[Schedule Slip]]: Because of the details of Misty's work the comic usually doesn't get the chance to update.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The 2009 Halloween filler featured Melody and Violet as characters from [[Team Fortress 2]] [the Sniper and Scout respectively], which makes sense considering that [http://anivasion.deviantart.com/journal/28030719/ Misty is a fan]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Spin-Off]]: Of [[Fur Will Fly]].
* [[Squee]]
* [[Staying with Friends]]
* [[Straw Feminist]]: Subverted: Violet does not want to be the Wedgie Messiah.
* [[Studio Audience]]: [http://jadephoenix.org/comingupviolet/2009/10/01/coming-up-violet-60/ Played for laughs]{{Dead link}}. [[Laugh Track|Literally!]]
* [[Super OCD]]: Melody; it certainly doesn't help that she's a chinchilla.
* [[Third Person Person]]
* [[Triang Relations]]
* [[Uncanceled]]: It's aliiive! 
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Subverted: Skylar's step-dad really tries to be a good parent.

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