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* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: The fate of {{spoiler|Earth, obviously}}.
* [[Evil Genius]]: Waldo "D.R." Dobbs. As his best bud puts it,
{{quote| '''Quinch:''' He has an I.Q. of 280 and he blows things up and I respect him totally.}}
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: The title of every story. "D.R. & Quinch Get Drafted"? Guess what happens. "D.R. & Quinch Go to Hollywood"? Guess where they're headed.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Our starring duo in a nutshell.
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* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: Waldo's pompadour would rightfully categorize him with the other [[delinquents]] and [[Anti-Hero|anti-heroes]].
* [[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.}}
{{quote| '''Pulger:''' It's an old trick, but it just might work.}}
* [[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."
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* [[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.
{{quote| '''Judge Thorkwung:''' Ernest Errol Quinch and Waldo Dobbs, also known as "D.R." or "Diminished Responsibility", you are charged with arson, kidnapping, theft, grievous wounding, possession of unlawful atomic weapons, taking and driving away, conspiracy to overthrow the government, coveting thy neighbour's ox, graverobbing, torture, criminal libel, blackmail, polluting the environment, shoplifting, 714 separate driving offenses, forging sacred relics, [[Noodle Incident|transmuting]] base metal into gold, [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|genocide]], [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|spitting]], and thirty-two offenses [[Take Our Word for It|so unusual and horrible]] they do not have names.}}
* [[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}}.
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* [[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]].
{{quote| '''Waldo "D.R." Dobbs:''' I have no idea how I came to be in this incredibly strange, confusing situation. Actually, it has nothing to do with the following totally awesome story and I'd advise you to forget it, man.}}
* [[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."
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* [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche]]: "D.R. & Quinch Go to Hollywood" Because the characters {{spoiler|indirectly destroyed Earth}} before, the Hollywood they end up going to is actually a planet ''named'' "Hollywood" where the principal economy of the entire planet is the entertainment industry, and every resident alien is a caricature of a legendary Hollywood personality.
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Many of the descriptions whichever character is narrating the story gives for things. For example,
{{quote| '''Waldo "D.R." Dobbs:''' A Hatchway in the craft opened with this sound which was just like, y'know, the sound of a hatchway opening."}}
** 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.
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* [[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.
{{quote| '''Waldo "D.R." Dobbs:''' But, like, soft, man... What's all this light that through yonder window breaks?}}
* [[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."
{{quote| {{spoiler|"Before closing, I would like to make clear that nobody has forced me to write this letter, even if at a later date I claim they did. And, like, under no circumstances whatsoever was I held upside-down over a pterano-gator-infested water-hole until I agreed to sign it." Followed by the kid's signature, written upside down}}}}
* [[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."
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* [[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.]
{{quote| '''D.R.:''' Pulger, that gun is made out of soap, man!<br />
'''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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