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* Seems like a trap right now. Christian sends Ethan on a wild goose chase, and Lilah returns to see no Ethan. And therefore, the comic stays serious.

== The recent is a step towards a total [[Retool]] that removes the [[Two Gamers On a Couch]] elements. ==

== The recent is a step towards a total [[Retool]] that removes the [[Two Gamers on a Couch]] elements. ==

Zeke is down, Lilah is gone, and Ethan seems set up for the fall of a lifetime (which, if a mental breakdown gets included, also prevents Zeke from returning). That would eliminate the generic [[Snarky Non Human Sidekick]], [[Gamer Chick]], and [[The Ditz|Ditz]] protagonist all in one fell swoop, while also removing two of the big elements that causes [[Hilarity Ensues|random hilarity to ensue.]] (Ethan ''is'' the [[Weirdness Magnet]] of the story, after all.) The comic has also been spending more time on Lucas recently, giving him the sort of focus that is usually reserved for Ethan, almost as if to groom him as the central protagonist. Where Buckley intends to go with this? Who knows.

Zeke is down, Lilah is gone, and Ethan seems set up for the fall of a lifetime (which, if a mental breakdown gets included, also prevents Zeke from returning). That would eliminate the generic [[Snarky Non-Human Sidekick]], [[Gamer Chick]], and [[The Ditz|Ditz]] protagonist all in one fell swoop, while also removing two of the big elements that causes [[Hilarity Ensues|random hilarity to ensue.]] (Ethan ''is'' the [[Weirdness Magnet]] of the story, after all.) The comic has also been spending more time on Lucas recently, giving him the sort of focus that is usually reserved for Ethan, almost as if to groom him as the central protagonist. Where Buckley intends to go with this? Who knows.

* Alternatively, Ethan and Lilah are now happily married and owners of a game shop. Seeing as their marriage was the last time we saw them, they probably now live [[Happily Ever After]]. The rest of the comic is now one-shots and Choose-Your-Own Adventures.

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Since the person who usually suffers from Zalgo infection is Lilah, she must have made a deal with some ungodly terror to have another baby and/or help Ethan become successful. The happy B^U, B^D is just a facade she puts up to keep Ethan happy, or he's just [[Too Dumb to Live|too dumb to notice anything strange is going on.]]

* Actually, this "Zalgo" is just [[Memetic Mutation|something that the internet came up with.]]

** So [[American Gods ~~(Literature)~~|The Internet]] is some ungodly terror. [[Completely Missing the Point|How does that change anything?]]

** So [[American Gods|The Internet]] is some ungodly terror. [[Completely Missing the Point|How does that change anything?]]

== Ethan is a [[Girl Genius|Spark]] ==

Might explain why he's able to build so many technological marvels (like a functional robot out of X-Boxes), why he's mentally unstable, and why he's able to get people to hang around him [[Zero Punctuation|when any sane person would be checking for rooms to rent in one hand and slamming the idiot's face in a drawer with the other]].

* I think he fits the [[Genius: The Transgression ~~(Tabletop Game)~~|Genius]] mold better... Lilah and Lucas are Beholden, the only reasons they hang around him. Zeke is a Wonder, whose interactions with normal people gave him a number of (personality) Flaws, as what happens with everything he creates when someone else gets a hold of it. Ethan may have been [[Reality Warper|Unmada]] for quite some time- has anyone ever won an argument with him?

* I think he fits the [[Genius: The Transgression|Genius]] mold better... Lilah and Lucas are Beholden, the only reasons they hang around him. Zeke is a Wonder, whose interactions with normal people gave him a number of (personality) Flaws, as what happens with everything he creates when someone else gets a hold of it. Ethan may have been [[Reality Warper|Unmada]] for quite some time- has anyone ever won an argument with him?

** Either works. I just don't know Genius, but I do know [[Girl Genius]].

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* [[Word Salad|Chef Brian]] and [[Talkative Loon|French wrench guy]], AKA the [[Dada Comic|Wacky Monkey Cheeze duo]]: An innocent pizza delivery guy and a maintenance man respectively who stumbled into the situation and are very, very freaked out over what they've gotten themselves into. They've barricaded themselves in the attic (hence why they're there yet don't interact with the others), and although they've escaped Ethan's attention they're driving themselves insane with stress. -OR- They are voices in Ethan's head and/or Ethan's (extremely stupid) [[Split Personality|alternate personalities.]]

** The [[Grim Reaper]], enabling [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|alcohol bottle]], and the [[Talking Animal|rude rabbit]] with cigar ([http://www.zazzle.com/cigar_punk_bunny_tshirt-235862873140492621 who looks suspiciously like this guy]) are hallucinations.

* [[Robot Buddy|Zeke]] and <s> [[~~Wall~~ E|EVE]] [[Fan Nickname|Nambla]] </s> Embla: Really tall lamps whose humanoid shape is enough to convince Ethan that they're actual robots.

* [[Robot Buddy|Zeke]] and <s> [[WALL-E|EVE]] [[Fan Nickname|Nambla]] </s> Embla: Really tall lamps whose humanoid shape is enough to convince Ethan that they're actual robots.

** What about the four gamers?

*** They're alternate personalities, but they're so weak they only manifest as random bursts of violence (for instance, if One shows up Ethan will randomly throw things; if Two or more shows up it's as if he's fighting himself for a few seconds).

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== The world will end before anyone says anything about [[Ctrl Alt Del]] that isn't motivated by [[Hate Dumb]] ==

== The world will end before anyone says anything about [[Ctrl+Alt+Del]] that isn't motivated by [[Hate Dumb]] ==

Bet you ten dollars(USD).