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{{quote| '''Almond:''' Awesome! I've always wanted to fight a real monster.<br />
'''Cucumber:''' ''I haven't!'' }}
 
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And so begins Cucumber's quest.
 
'''''Cucumber Quest''''' is a newweb webcomiccomic by Gigi Digi of ''[[Hiimdaisy]]'' fame, and so far reads like a [[Affectionate Parody|snarky love letter]] to classic SNES-era video games, presented with a ''[[Paper Mario]]''-style sense of humor. It can be read [http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/ here.] Starting in 2011, it has not updated since 2017, but is still on the live web as of December 2020.
 
Has a slowly filling [[Cucumber Quest (Webcomic)/Characters|character sheet]].
 
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=== ''Cucumber Quest'' demonstrates examples of: ===
* [[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 Onon a Stick]]: Carrot had one...before he ran off in terror away from a harmless monster.
* [[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...
{{quote| '''NK''': This is the queen.<br />
'''Splashmaster''': So?<br />
'''NK''': '''So''', this isn't the princess. They're ''two different people.'' Surely even [[The Ditz|''you'']] can grasp this concept.<br />
'''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 Withwith Bears]]: A bear attacks Carrot when the baker sisters ask him to retrieve some special sugar. His name is Grizzlygum, and he has no teeth or claws.
** 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]]:
{{quote| '''Nautilus:''' It's not a ''cell phone'', Cucumber. It's a ''Royal Instrument of Summoning'' that's been passed down through my ''family'' for ''generations.''}}
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro -PAY"|It Is Pronounced Peri-DOH]]
* [[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]]
{{quote| '''Almond:''' We haven't had a decent fight this whole chapter! Put up your dukes, Grandpa!}}
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: We don't talk about Bacon.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]:
{{quote| '''Dream Oracle:''' Listen, Zucchini--<br />
'''Cucumber:''' ''Cucumber.''<br />
'''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]]:
{{quote| ''[[Word of God|Well…the people of Dreamside have television, electric lighting and space travel, but they’re still fighting with swords. I probably decided on this because I’ve always liked cartoons and comics that blend old-timey fantasy stuff with modern technology for the sake of humor or whimsy or whatever.]]''}}
* [[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 Thethe Kitchen]]: "When's the last time you ever heard of a little sister becoming a legendary hero?"
* [[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 Thethe Fist]]: Tomato wastes his time boasting at Almond. She takes the opportunity to whack him in the face.
* [[Tennis Boss]]: Peridot.
* [[Third Eye]]: The Dream Oracle has one that peeks through her turban.
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Cucumber appears to do this when given a new wand, but he probably knew how to cast spells beforehand but didn't have the chance to.bord
* [[Unusual Ears]]: The Dream Oracle's resemble membranous wings.
* [[Vague Age]]: [[Word of God]] on Cucumber's and Almond's ages:
{{quote| ''Cucumber and Almond are just Kids. Almond is a Slightly Younger Kid.''}}
** 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:
{{quote| '''Cucumber:''' Oh, or how about I call you [[Innocent Innuendo|Nautie]] for sh--<br />
'''Princess Nautilus:''' ''(Gives him a Look of Death.)''<br />
'''Cucumber:''' ...how about I call you Nautilus.<br />
'''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}}
{{quote| ''Wizards, wizards, wizards, wizards, wizards, wizards, wizards, w''}}
* [[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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