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The first few chapters deal with Keti settling in at the dojo, making friends (and enemies) among her classmates. Then the plot threads begin to weave, intrigue and theft creep in, some of the [[Backstory]] is acknowledged and her Primary Protagonist Syndrome starts to make itself felt...
There is an update-for-donations side comic called [https://web.archive.org/web/20130731051608/http://www.footloosecomic.com/cherry/cherry_main.php?page=1 Cherry] that follows the origin of Steve, the crossdressing magical 'girl'.
Not to be confused with the movie ''[[Footloose]]''.
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* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Even ''[[Wholesome Crossdresser|Cherry]]'' has his moments.
** {{spoiler|Apparently this even applies to women who are using magic to look like men, as Daniel recalls An sticking around in the men's changeroom, despite not changing at the same time as the rest of the guys.}}
* [[All There in the Manual]]: invoked in-story and the manual in question is [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=66 remarkably specific]{{Dead link}}
{{quote|'''Keti''': "Where did they get a photo of me from?"}}
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Sparkle.
* [[Always Someone Better]]: Dan used to be first in his class in Indiscriminate Whacking until An came along. Now he's second, and ''hates'' it. However, he just can't seem to [[Always Second Best|ever beat An]]... A one-sided rivalry, as An doesn't really seem to feel the same way Daniel does about it.
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: Although color strips are rare some faeries [https://web.archive.org/web/20120817063310/http://www.footloosecomic.com/cherry/cherry_main.php?page=52 actually] have green or blue skin.
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: The entire class of The School of Overrated Destructive Metal Robots qualifies.
* [[Aside Glance]]
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* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: One of Flibbage's favorite methods of dealing with people, and one of the many spells protecting [[Sword of Plot Advancement|The Sword of Slayskull]].
* [[Beta Couple]]: Jin and Cherry.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Don't get Jin angry at you. I repeat, ''[http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=211 do not get Jin angry at you]''.{{Dead link}}
* [[Bifauxnen]]
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: [[Alpha Bitch|Sparkle]], upon first meeting Keti. Daniel ''did'' try and warn her though...
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* [[The Call Knows Where You Live]]: The story finds Keti, despite her mother's efforts to hide her in the mortal realm.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: [[Funny Schizophrenia|Multiple Generic-induced Sanity Dysfunction]] is mentioned in several pieces of literature that Keti reads, while [[Sword of Plot Advancement|The Sword of Slayskull]] is mentioned when Keti's family first arrives at the Dojo and in the tavern before the fight between An and Daniel. It's this latter conversation that clues the faerie pirates into where the Sword is kept and some of the defenses.
* [[Chekhov's Exhibit]]: The Sword of Slayskull goes one step further in being a gun by the elaborate protection set up around it at the dojo (and the James Bond-esque [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=248 heist]{{Dead link}} enacted by Kitty and the Pirates to steal it).
* [[Closet Key]] {{spoiler|An, for Keti, with the added bonus of awakening her nymph heritage, as well.}}
* [[Combat Stilettos]]: The basis of the martial art in which Keti and Jin are training. It's called... Kung Shoe. 1st kata: [[Groin Attack|Groin Attacks]] with pointy heels.
* [[Cool Loser]]: Everyone seems quite dismissive of Kung Shoe except Flibbage and the Queen (who uses them as bodyguards) but their instructor Prada-sensei was the only teacher hired based on actual competence. The others were hired primarily because it was safer than letting them run around loose.
* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: Keti and the other hybrid weres.
** [http://footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=373 Though lately]{{Dead link}} [[Slasher Smile|it's been decidedly less cute]].
* [[Damsel in Distress]]
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|Keti's elf side.}} Which makes sense, as the Fey are aware of the Plot.
* [[Dark Action Girl|Dark Action Mom]]: Dee West, Jin and Daniel's werewolf mother.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Daniel.
* [[Different As Night and Day]]: [[Genki Girl|Jin]] and [[Deadpan Snarker|Daniel]] rather nicely illustrate this twin trope (which is flipped when [[
{{quote|'''Daniel:''' I seek refuge in ennui and sarcasm. Jin just goes to the happy place in her head.}}
** An and Kitty are a much darker take on this trope.
* [[Doctor Jekyll and Mister Jack Daniels]]: The half-were twins [[Genki Girl|Jin]] and [[Deadpan Snarker|Daniel]] flip-flop their personalities when they get drunk. Cue Daniel launching [[Glomp|glomps]] on Keti and Jin being sarcastic.▼
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: {{spoiler|Lars}} is unceremoniously and permanently turned into a terrier, {{spoiler|then killed setting off a trap for the pirates}}.
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|Dropped A Bridget On Her]]: {{spoiler|An, on Keti... who is shocked to discover she's still attracted to her.}}
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Jin and Keti at [http://footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=229 times]{{Dead link}}
* [[Extranormal Institute]]: The Dojo clearly qualifies.
* [[Face Palm]]
* [[Floating Advice Reminder]]: Dan and Jin become these for Keti, popping [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=92 up]{{Dead link}} [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=222 at]{{Dead link}} [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=260 odd]{{Dead link}} [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=333 times]{{Dead link}} to make a running commentary on what's going on, even when she's inside her own [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=403 head!]{{Dead link}} The people around her tend to take note of her odd behavior when this happens...
* [[Frame Break]]: There's a spell that lets one fire cannonballs through the sides of panels.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Jin, especially after she's had sufficient caffeine and sugar.
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* [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]]: Loads and loads. Keti is half human, a quarter nymph and a quarter werewolf, while Liame is half human and half imp. Other Fey hybrids exist, but the risk of mental instability rises the more species are involved.
* [[Healing Factor]]: Werewolves and half-weres have this. Jin is at one point injured by a [[Humongous Mecha]], and is up the next day, though still covered with bruises.
* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Both Yakky (Keti's father) and J (Jin and Daniel's father) [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=23 fit]{{Dead link}} this description rather well:
{{quote|'''Daniel:'''That's simple, my mother is a violent, touchy, manipulative bitch who would rather eat ground glass than show any sign of affection.
'''Keti:''' Mine too! And I bet your dad is passive, hen-pecked, and spends most of his time apologizing for her? }}
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* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Each chapter of ''Cherry'' - not counting the prologue - is a reference to a song [[David Bowie]] has performed.
* [[Instant Runes]]
* [[If It's You It's Okay]]: {{spoiler|Keti regarding An, after she is revealed to be female.}} Although it could be argued that {{spoiler|Keti's}} sexuality hasn't been established either way - and indeed, at the end of the Emerald City arc, Iordan seems to have [https://web.archive.org/web/20120115022324/http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=440 the idea] that ''she's'' the rule and ''he's'' the exception - her anguish over liking {{spoiler|a now FEMALE An}} at least indicates that she is not comfortable with the idea of being attracted to another female. She seems to at one [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=328 point]{{Dead link}} reach a sense of acceptance, just in time to witness {{spoiler|the growing attraction between An and Daniel}}. Possibly related to [[Even the Girls Want Her]].
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* [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]]: Keti's occasional conversations between her human, fae, and wolf aspects.
* [[Jumping the Gender Barrier]]: {{spoiler|An and Daniel}}.
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* [[Lady Land]]: A very mild case, but it's repeatedly stressed that men do not [[Writer on Board|and should not]] have equal social standing in Faerie. Even the weakness of men's magic is artificially induced as social policy, not inherent.
* [[Lecture as Exposition]]: Fails nearly every time Flibbage tries it - non-fae tend to have [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] when it comes to Genrerics, the physical laws of the Faerie Realm, comparable to how physics rule the human world.
* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: Keti and Dan. Keti is [[Blatant Lies|blatantly lying]] when she [http://footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=154 actually says so]{{Dead link}}, but they really do interact like bickersome siblings, and quite sexlessly.
* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: Keti, after her experience with the Sword of Slayskull, now possesses dark stripes in her blond hair.
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Keti likes An, {{spoiler|even after finding out "he" is a girl}}, and Sparkle wants to seduce An due to taking it as an affront Keti should have a boy she [[Manipulative Bastard|can't control]], having also had a relationship with Daniel in the past, who's {{spoiler|developing a crush on An}} but concerned following through on it will hurt Keti, while Iordan ''definitely'' has strong feelings for Keti.
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*** Although this particular move [[Wrong Genre Savvy|bites him in the ass]].
* [[Magitek]]
* [[Medium Awareness]]: The Fey, allowing them create "intertextual cannons" [
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Cherry, by ''everyone'' except Flibbage and Jin at first; confirming it to Sparkle [[All Men Are Perverts|to get a glimpse of the girl's locker room]] didn't help. Most of their travelling companions catch on when he starts blatantly flirting with Jin.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: It's all played for laughs right up until {{spoiler|Keti stabs Iordan.}}
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Well, okay, there ''[http://footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=320 is]''{{Dead link}} technically a fourth wall, but it's really not that concealing, especially to Fae.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: "You are ''not'' flashing a pirate. It was bad enough with the sailors."
* [[In Vino Veritas]]: Dan and Jin
* [[Not Himself|Not Herself]]: Keti, in Chapter 8.
* [[Odd-Shaped Panel]]
* [[Old Shame]]: Emily Brady [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=397 posted her old InubuYAKasha artwork]{{Dead link}}, mercilessly critiquing her past self's drawing skills.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]
* [[Our Fairies Are Different]]: [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=65 This link sums it up nicely]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Half-weres cannot shapeshift, and often lack several other traits of full-blooded werewolves. [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=66 Weres are described as creatures of logic and technology, contrasting the fae]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: Keti freaks out when Sylphia's teleportation spell allows her to discover the [[Fourth Wall]].
{{quote|'''Keti:''' THERE'S A- A WALL HERE!
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* [[Relax-O-Vision]]
* [[Robot Buddy]]: Played with - all the [[Powered Armor]] AIs are a bit flaky, but M3H-13 takes every opportunity to rip his owner's self-esteem to shreds.
{{quote|'''M3H-13:''' {{
* [[Rookie Red Ranger]]: Keti, as the newcomer to the Dojo (as compared to the others like Jin and Daniel, who have already been at the dojo for four years.)
* [[Sequel]]: Strictly speaking, this comic is the [[Spin Offspring]] of the authors' [https://web.archive.org/web/20131113131012/http://www.footloosecomic.com/
* [[She Fu]]: [http://footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=351 If Jin's anything to go by]{{Dead link}}, Kung Shoe has a couple of units on Exceedingly Balletic Dodging.
* [[Something That Begins With Boring]]
* [[Speech Bubbles Interruption]]
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** Another example, from Keti's early crush on An:
{{quote|'''Keti:''' ...I'm always open to offers -- suggestions! I meant suggestions!}}
* [[The Nose Knows]]: Weres and half-weres like Jin and Daniel have an exceptional sense of smell (as well as good hearing); Jin used hers [http://footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=155 to find a missing party member]{{Dead link}}.
* [[The Reveal]]: Dun Dun [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=198 DUN]{{Dead link}} {{spoiler|An is female!}}
* [[The Rival]]: An, at least to Daniel. An's arrival at the Dojo upset Daniel's place as first in his class, not to mention the fact that all the girls (including Keti) swoon over An's good looks.
* [[Theory of Narrative Causality]]: A physical law in the world of Faerie; the world ''is'' a story, and anyone living there is caught up in the Plot, especially children of former adventurers. Anyone who knows the laws of "generics" can manipulate the Plot, if they dare - because the Plot eats people.
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* [[Transparent Closet]]: Keti ''would not'' admit she was in love with a girl, until her [[Funny Schizophrenia|nymph personality]] forced her hand.
* [[Transvestite]]: Steve (AKA Cherry) the crossdressing magical 'girl' who absolutely hates it when people equate his transvestism with homosexuality -- thought he's perfectly willing to exploit that misperception [[All Men Are Perverts|to get into female changing rooms.]]
** Or bath houses, for that matter [http://footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=74\]{{Dead link}}
* [[Twin Telepathy]]: Jin thinks she has a psyshic link with Dan, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721213416/http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=309 she doesn't]. They can however talk [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=54 without ]{{Dead link}}[http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=260 speaking]{{Dead link}}
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: {{spoiler|An and Daniel, immediately after her true gender was revealed and neither party was really sure how to handle it}}.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: 'Folk' takes the place of another F word.
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