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* [[Double Standard]]: Erin's reason for why a ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMO]] wouldn't work, because girl gamers would all want to be [[Space Marines]], which are [[One-Gender Race|male-only]] in that setting.

* [[Everything's Worse with Bears]]: Subverted with Charles, who works with Erin. He gets offended when she plays ''[[Naughty Bear]]'', saying that having a bear protagonist killing other bears is discriminatory garbage.

'''Erin:''' (Don't laugh. Don't laugh. Don't laugh.) }}

* [[Feathered Fiend]]: [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/7921-Critical-Miss-24 Seagullus], scourge of the kitchen table!

* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: Erin wants to show people that, even though she reviews games for a living, she has "life skills". She does this by [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/8037-Critical-Miss-30 helping an old lady cross the street]. By repeatedly suplexing her.

* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]

* [[It Got Worse]]: [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9166-Critical-Miss-Dark-Souls Dark] [[Dark Souls|Souls]]

* [[I Was Young and I Needed The Money]]: ''[[The Darkness]]'' apparently [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9401-The-Darkness took a roll] playing a Naughty Tentacle in an old [[H-game]].

* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Inverted with ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'''s Shao Khan. You're not going out dressed like that, [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/8836-Critical-Miss-Mortal-Kombat young lady!] [[Stripperiffic|Take some clothes off!]]

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: The life of [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/7560-Critical-Miss-1 a videogames journalist].

** As a background detail [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/8093-Critical-Miss-34 here]: "Critical Moss: The worst webcomic in the entire fucking world."

** The last statistic in [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/8624-Critical-Miss-The-Numbers-Mason this strip].

* [[Speechbubbles Interruption]]: Erin [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/7560-Critical-Miss-1 gets distracted from her moping].

** Revisited [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/8833-Critical-Miss-001 here], with a [[Steampunk]] bent.

** Erin decides to ignore her hallucination of [[The Legend of Zelda|Link]], so [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/8994-Critical-Miss-Stowaways-9 he brings out the big guns]:

'''Navi:''' [[Stop Helping Me!|HEY!]] [[Most Annoying Sound|LISTEN!]] }}

* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: "You just got [[Mario]] sucked into a black hole, a gateway to the dark void between realities, where he will be tortured ''forever''. That is not helping. That is the '''''opposite of helping'''''."