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Hey, man, let me tell you about something that's, like, [[Totally Radical|totally amazing]]...

 

 

 

 

In what can best be described as "[[Rule of Funny]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[For the Evulz]]," ''D.R. & Quinch'' tells the [[Rule of Three|totally amazing]] story of one [[Magnificent Bastard|Waldo "D.R." Dobbs]] (the "D.R." stands for "Diminished Responsibility"), a skinny, lanky, teenage [[Delinquents|delinquent]] who boasts a genius IQ, enjoys acts of extreme violence and destruction, and looks like a cross between [[Gremlins|a gremlin]] [[X Meets Y|and]] [[Marvel Universe|a skrull]] with a [[Good Hair, Evil Hair|pompadour]], and Dobbs' best friend [[Dumb Muscle|Ernest Erroll Quinch]], a large, purple-skinned [[The Brute|brute]] who is [[The Quiet One|much, much quieter than Dobbs]] as he prefers writing to talking. Together, these two [[Comedic Sociopathy|deeply sociopathic]], [[Faux Affably Evil|evilly affable]], [[Omnicidal Maniac|omnicidal maniacs]] do as they please, and what pleases them usually involves death and destruction on a tremendous scale; it helps that, in their part of the Milky Way, [[Nuke'Em|nuclear warheads]] are [[Talks Like a Simile|as easily obtainable as a handgun in the]] [[Deep South]].

Along with their two occasional companions (and, presumably, only other friends in the galaxy, besides each other) Crazy Chryssie (D.R.'s equally violent girlfriend) and Pulger (a [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|war veteran]] who is always prepared for combat, just in case [[The Vietnam War|Charlie]] launches a sneak attack), the [[Delinquents|delinquent]] duo have been on a handful of adventures in which they influence all of human evolution (including, very fittingly, the Survival of the Fittest) and a lot of Earth's history, get drafted by the army to fight in a war similar to [[The Vietnam War]], and even making a [[Cult Classic|cult film]].

 

 

 

 

 

''S'right!''

 

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* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]: Just the eponymous main characters though.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Even after Quinch shows Chrysoprasia what a real monster her boyfriend, Waldo, is really like, she just commits herself to being as evil as he is, transforming herself into "Crazy Chryssie" in the process, and insists that she's now more compatible with D.R. than ever.

* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: The fate of {{spoiler|Earth, obviously}}.

* [[Evil Genius]]: Waldo "D.R." Dobbs. As his best bud puts it,

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Our starring duo in a nutshell.

* [[For the Evulz]]

* [[Great Escape]]: Pulger's master plan to escape from the penal stockade on Ghoyogia. The plan consists of {{spoiler|a bar of soap that was molded to look like a gun, half a pound of plastic explosive that was molded to look like a bar of soap, a hidden escape tunnel, and Pulger in drag. What's going to happen is Pulger will blow up the explosive, then after the guards come to investigate, they'll confuse Pulger in the dress for an actual woman and immediately fall in love with him at which time he'll brandish the "gun" and force the guards into the escape tunnel and hide them there and refuse to tell anyone where the guards went until they agree to let him go.}}

* [[Historical In-Joke]]: D.R. & Quinch's first adventure ever is based entirely on how they influenced Earth's history and development as part of an elaborate revenge scheme against their college [[Dean Bitterman|dean]].

* [[Humans Are Morons]]: Plays a large role in "D.R. & Quinch Have Fun on Earth." When humans finally discover the alien life and society the title character's corner of the galaxy, they're given a civic reception at "The League of Disadvantaged Planets' Charity Hall" because everyone thinks they're "mindless lifeforms."

* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: Former screenwriter-turned-[[Crazy Homeless People|crazy homeless person]] Torquetto "T.J." Jubbli, as he is explaining his plans to return to Hollywood with a new script; at which point D.R. & Quinch steal his script and head out to Hollywood to make the movie themselves. The trope is ultimately subverted, however, when {{spoiler|our two protagonists returned to the very spot where they first met the screenwriter four weeks later, who immediately [[Not Quite Dead|snaps back into consciousness]] and finishes the sentence he began a month earlier from the exact point where he left off.}}

* [[List of Transgressions]]: "D.R & Quinch Go Straight'' begins with Judge Thorkwung reading all the criminal charges the two [[Villain Protagonist|Villain Protagonists]] are being accused of.

* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: While D.R. was romantically involved with Chrysoprasia {{spoiler|before she snapped}}, he was much less willing to commit acts of violence.

* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Chrysoprasia's reaction upon finding out what the ''[[Omnicidal Maniac|real]]'' Waldo Dobbs is actually like, and thus {{spoiler|inspiring her transformation into Crazy Chryssie}}.

* [[Mumbling Brando]]: There's a Marlon Brando caricature in "D.R. & Quinch Go to Hollywood." The fact that he's [[The Unintelligible]] isn't really much of a surprise.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Subverted for as far as legal rights can go. The story "D.R. & Quinch Go to Hollywood" consists of several alien characters who look like caricatures of various Hollywood legends; the main one, based on Marlon Brando, is always called "Marlon."

* [[Noodle Incident]]: The beginning of "D.R. & Quinch Get Drafted!" This is immediately [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].

* [[Nuke'Em]]: For whatever reason, D.R. & Quinch have no problem acquiring these and have no qualms with using them for any purpose.

* [[Pen Name]]: For the first strip, [[Alan Moore]] gave the writing credit to one of his main characters, "E.E. Quinch."

* [[The Quiet One]]: Quinch. ''S'right!''

* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Many of the descriptions whichever character is narrating the story gives for things. For example,

** The {{spoiler|eventual, easily foreseeable, violent climax at Massacre House}} becomes known as {{spoiler|"The Massacre House Massacre"}} in the media.

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Pulger. He did some fighting the Slime Jungle Wars on the planet Ghoyogia and is now completely crazy and beyond reform.

** ''Everyone'' admitted to Massacre House counts, really.

* [[Short Runners]]: Only six adventures were written by [[Alan Moore]] in the span of two years.

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Seeing how, Waldo Dobbs, has a a 280 I.Q., it doesn't come as much of a surprise that he says an occasional "sophisticated" word here and there mixed in with his more usual lexicon that's based around more [[Totally Radical]] words (i.e. Asking for [[The Judge|The Judge's]] '''appellation''', rather than his '''name''').

** His recitations of Shakespeare sound like something translated into a foreign language through Babblefish and then back into English.

* [[Standing Between the Enemies]]: When the entire gang caught between the enemy Ghoyogian Army and their own Space Marines platoon {{spoiler|with whom they're in trouble for creating a friendly fire incident with a tactical nuke}}. Waldo attempts one plea for sanity by stepping up to "cry out at the horror and injustice of war..." It doesn't work.

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: The ending narration to "D.R. & Quinch Get Back to Nature."

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Pretty much everyone who isn't D.R. or Quinch, [[Played for Laughs]].

* [[Totally Radical]]: Both title characters are likely to describe just about anything with a two-word phrase based on an adverb such as, "totally," "incredibly," "unbelievably," or "extremely" compounded with an adjective like, "amazing," "awesome," "incredible," "unbelievable," "extreme," or "stupid."

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: And not just one, either.

* [[Weapon for Intimidation]]: Pulger once carved a (fake) phaser rifle out of a bar of soap as part of a prison escape attempt. When in traveling the tunnels burrowed out by a species known only as the "Snufflegruffs". When one of them shows up and turns out to be incredibly dangerous, Pulger makes [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bDUK5U-yua8/SvnbQFsZE1I/AAAAAAAAAEw/k1SUQC6-drE/s1600-h/D.R.+%26+Quinch+-+Fleetway+Definitive+Edition+-+048.jpg his best attempt at this.]

'''Pulger:''' Yeah, [[Comically Missing the Point|but]] ''[[Comically Missing the Point|he]]'' [[Comically Missing the Point|doesn't know that!]] }}

** And then he does it yet again with [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bDUK5U-yua8/SvneeYxjzAI/AAAAAAAAAFo/kbE6rtogzr0/s1600-h/D.R.+%26+Quinch+-+Fleetway+Definitive+Edition+-+051.jpg what's left of the soap gun] in the following installment.

 

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