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'''Cucumber:''' ''I haven't!'' }}
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And so begins Cucumber's quest.
'''''Cucumber Quest''''' is a
Has a slowly filling [[Cucumber Quest
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* [[Abusive Dad]]: implied with Cabbage. He certainly is a [[Jerkass|Jerkface]].
* [[Action Girl]]: Cucumber's little sister Almond takes swordplay lessons and eagerly volunteers to go on the quest in his place. She later pulls off a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment to save Cucumber.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Peridot and her name getting mispronounced.
* [[Big No]]: Cucumber delivers one as Sir Tomato brings his sword down on him.
* [[Blade
* [[Broke the Rating Scale]]: Cabbage's [[Jerkass|Jerkface]] is at least 6 stars out of 5.
** The Splashmaster's Attack is also like Cabbage's [[Jerkass|Jerkface]] stat.
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** Also Peridot, Almond, what little we've seen of Saturday, the two cake ladies, Saturday's butler...
** ...The Nightmare Knight...
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'''Splashmaster''': So?
'''NK''': '''So''', this isn't the princess. They're ''two different people.'' Surely even [[The Ditz|''you'']] can grasp this concept.
'''Splashmaster''': [[Crowning Moment of Funny|But queen just older fatter princess!]] }}
* [[Edible Theme Naming]]: Applies to every named character who lives in the Doughnut Kingdom, except for the Oracle. In a more specific example, Cordelia has a trio of goons named Bacon, Dame Lettuce, and Sir Tomato.
* [[Everything's Worse
** He's actually just doing his job as Gumdrop Forest's guardian (The Oracle's "private woods"), [[Beary Funny|doesn't like to hurt people, and is quite welcoming after finding out that Cuco is the legendary hero]].
* [[Evil Overlooker]]: Cordelia, Peridot, and the BLT Trio in the [http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/?webcomic_post=prologue prologue splash].
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* [[Heroic Lineage]]: For Cucumber, to be the Legendary Hero. ''[http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/?webcomic_post=page-32 "So it skips a generation here and there!"]''
* [[Idiot Ball]]: {{spoiler|Time will tell if Almond's decision to simply ''hand over the last Disaster Stone because she feels the quest wouldn't be epic enough if they didn't'' will be this or simply the [[Functional Genre Savvy|usual genre enforcement of the world]]. Or both.}}
* [[Insistent Terminology]]:
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* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro
* [[It's Up to You]]: As much as Cucumber attempts to avert this, no one will let him off the hook about this world-saving business.
* [[Jerkass|Jerk Face:]] Cabbage. In fact he seemed to have dumped all of his stat points into being a douche, [[Beyond the Impossible|as the number of stars doesn't even seem to fit in the stat box]].
* [[Joke Character]]: Bacon. His stats are all one star, and his description simply reads "We don't talk about Bacon."
* [[Know When to Fold'Em]]: Carrot argues this. Baguette quickly retorts that the monster he was faced with had neither claws nor ''teeth''.
* [[Level Ate]]: [http://gigidigi.tumblr.com/post/4952014795/welcome-to-the-doughnut-kingdom-this-is-cucumber The entire Doughnut Kingdom.]{{Dead link}}
* [[Little Bit Beastly]]: The main characters are all [[Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism|borderline examples]].
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Carrot and Parfait love each other. Tomato loves Parfait, and Lettuce loves Tomato.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Cosmo seems to be this.
* [[Medium Awareness]]
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* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: We don't talk about Bacon.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]:
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'''Cucumber:''' ''Cucumber.''
'''Dream Oracle:''' Camembert, that's what I said. }}
* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Cucumber. He's a [[Squishy Wizard]] who hasn't quite gotten the "wizard" part down yet.
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* [[Redhead in Green]]: Cucumber.
* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Cucumber thinks he's probably the least qualified person to save the world and wants to go to school. No one will have any of it.
* [[Role Playing Game Verse]]: All significant characters have stat distributions on the site's Character page and Gigi has released inventories for [http://gigidigi.tumblr.com/post/3652618661/as-it-turns-out-i-am-the-worst-sort-of-person Cucumber]{{Dead link}} and [http://gigidigi.tumblr.com/post/3693489075/actually-i-have-a-problem Almond]{{Dead link}} on her Tumblr. However, while the comic resembles an RPG in presentation and story, actual gameplay elements like stats or MP haven't made an appearance in the work itself.
* [[Rose-Haired Girl]]: Tartelette.
* [[Schizo-Tech]]:
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* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: "Puffington's Academy for the Magically Gifted and/or Incredibly Wealthy" would imply that to get in you need either magical skill or enough money for lack of skill to not matter.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]:
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** Baguette bakes bread and is cynical and brash while Tartelette bakes pastries and other sweets and is polite and pleasant.
* [[Show Within a Show]]: ''Punisher Pumice''.
* [[Similar Squad]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20151104092304/http://gigidigi.tumblr.com/post/7259953752/the-first-legendary-hero-gherkin-defeated-the Gherkin and Peanut], the original brother/sister pair who fought the Nightmare Knight, to Cucumber and Almond.
* [[Speech Impediment]]: Grizzlygum has a lisp.
* [[Squee]]- done by Queen Cordelia on page 118. It's surprisingly adorable after she had finished chewing out her henchmen and threatened to turn them into stone.
* [[Stating the Simple Solution]]: Cucumber suggests that he simply destroy the Disaster Stones instead of going on a long-winded quest. Cabbage panics and says it would make him the most boring legendary hero ever.
** Cucumber does this again when {{spoiler|he, Almond and Carrot are exploring Saturday's hideout for the Dream Sword and discover the last Disaster Stone. Cucumber considers holding onto it and not even bothering to grab the sword. Surprisingly, Carrot agrees with him, putting the safety of the kingdom over the adventure. Unsurprisingly, Almond finds that idea boring.}}
* [[Stay in
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Grizzlygum is a bear with no teeth, just gums. In short, he's a GUMMY bear.
* [[Taken for Granite]]: Peridot's specialty seems to be turning people into peridot.
* [[Talk to
* [[Tennis Boss]]: Peridot.
* [[Third Eye]]: The Dream Oracle has one that peeks through her turban.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Unusual Ears]]: The Dream Oracle's resemble membranous wings.
* [[Vague Age]]: [[Word of God]] on Cucumber's and Almond's ages:
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** We at least know that Cucumber is not 9. Because that's how old his father thinks he is.
* [[Valley Girl]]: Lettuce. [[Word of God|There's, like, something irritating about the way she talks.]]
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Baguette has a tic, man. Tartelette does too, hon. Lettuce, like, probably counts, too.
* [[Verbal Backspace]]: Cucumber does an impressive one while being introduced to Princess Nautilus:
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'''Princess Nautilus:''' ''(Gives him a Look of Death.)''
'''Cucumber:''' ...how about I call you Nautilus.
'''Princess Nautilus:''' That would be wonderful! ♥ }}
* [[Villainous Friendship]]: An apparent type I between Cordelia and Peridot.
* [[Wine Is Classy]]: Cordelia in [http://gigidigi.tumblr.com/post/4549186733/cat-planet this]{{Dead link}} bit of artwork.
* [[A Wizard Did It]]: [http://gigidigi.tumblr.com/post/12320870982/whurfbuilding How a flat planet physically works.]{{Dead link}}
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* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Tomato threatens Almond, saying he has no qualms about hitting a girl. [[Badass Adorable|Almond never gives him the chance]].
* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: Cuco would very much like to avert this trope by preventing the Nightmare Knight's summoning, but the enemy--and even some of his ''allies''--are determined to have it played straight.
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