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* [[Artistic License Animal Care]]: Hazel's attempt to put Sprinkles on a diet of "hippie food", which doesn't go well.
* [[Designated Hero]]: Hazel.
* [[The Bechdel Test]]: Despite what the page says, this comic fails the gender reversal of the Bechdel Test. Male characters rarely interact except to talk about their girlfriends or relationships. The author generally does not have a genuine voice when it comes to masculine characters.
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: Every strip featuring Hazel and Zach's [[Will They or Won't They?]] scenario and the moment [[They Do]] is this, considering how their relationship is going to turn sour in later arcs.
* [[Ho Yay]]: Jamie and...pretty much everyone female.
* [[Ho Yay]]: Jamie and... pretty much everyone female.
* [[Jerk Sue]] : The author probably aims at [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]], but Hazel has progressively more and more of Jerk traits, and little to no Heart at all. Her relationship is based - on her part - solely on sex, she constantly fails to offer any support, feeling or pretty much ''anything'' to her friends and boyfriend other than the sight of her being drunk. And still she has all these people who care for her, the perfect Wish Fulfillment boyfriend and happy coincidences to help her pull through. As the comic progresses, the number of times other characters [[Informed Ability|say out loud]] how they are friends and care for her increases greatly, too.
* [[Jerk Sue]] : The author probably aims at [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]], but Hazel has progressively more and more of Jerk traits, and little to no Heart at all. Her relationship is based - on her part - solely on sex, she constantly fails to offer any support, feeling or pretty much ''anything'' to her friends and boyfriend other than the sight of her being drunk. And still she has all these people who care for her, the perfect Wish Fulfillment boyfriend and happy coincidences to help her pull through. As the comic progresses, the number of times other characters [[Informed Ability|say out loud]] how they are friends and care for her increases greatly, too.
** She moved out of this when Zach broke up with her because of her irresponsibility and selfishness, but then became this again when she out of nowhere gets offered a book deal.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Candy, twice, first with her attempted rape of Chris, then again when she attempts to sabotage Jameson and Maureen's wedding. Strangely, [[Moral Dissonance|the characters only really acknowledge the second horizon crossing]].
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Candy, twice, first with her attempted rape of Chris, and then later when she attempts to sabotage Jameson and Maureen's wedding. Thankfully, [[Laser-Guided Karma|she gets epically put in her place in the second one]].
** [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)|Well...]]
* [[The Scrappy]]: The webcomic would be hell of a lot more enjoyable with its [[Ensemble Cast]] if not for its [[Designated Hero|protagonist]] Hazel. She probably aims to [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]], but she fails at that miserably, and comes off as a dull, boring and unlikeable bitch who hogs the spotlight for much more sympathetic and likable characters.
** Actually, they do call her out on it, but then get over it after a while. It still hasn't been established if anyone got over the wedding yet, since Candy didn't appear again [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1007/ until recently.]
** '''Candy'''. This is even [[In-Universe]] too, with few, if any, characters liking her.
*** Well, Clarice has clearly gotten over it, and Maureen appears to be taking a pretty Zen approach to the whole matter. But given Jameson's punchline when Maureen told him so, keep the popcorn handy for whenever Corsetto decides to throw the old friends together.
* [[Take That, Scrappy!]]: While portrayed as sad in he webcomic, Zach breaking up with Hazel after getting fed up of her immature bullshit was met with cheers by many readers. It could also count as an [[Author's Saving Throw]].
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: several different characters have had their moments, Angel's belief that lesbians cannot give each other STDs probably qualifies.
** Candy getting put in her place after crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]] in Maureen and Jameson's wedding. Hell. Yes.
* [[Unintentionally Sympathetic]]: Jim, Corsetto intended to portray him as a [[Entitled to Have You|hypocritical]] [[Dogged Nice Guy]], [[Word of God|claiming so]] on [https://twitter.com/#!/dcorsetto/status/137268323955113985 one of her tweets]; unfortunately the scenes that resulted from her "research" put him [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1279/ next to Chris] [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1280/ who was just bragging about getting laid], [[Kick Them While They Are Down|painting him as a loser to whom is ok to brag that you are getting what he is not]], and if that was not enough, [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1281/ when Jim snaps for this he is then portrayed by other guys as making the false dichotomy that since a Nice Guy can't get laid] [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1285/ then all guys who do must be Jerkasses].
* [[Unintentionally Sympathetic]]: Jim, Corsetto intended to portray him as a [[Entitled to Have You|hypocritical]] [[Dogged Nice Guy]], [[Word of God|claiming so]] on [https://twitter.com/#!/dcorsetto/status/137268323955113985 one of her tweets]; unfortunately the scenes that resulted from her "research" put him [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1279/ next to Chris] [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1280/ who was just bragging about getting laid], [[Kick Them While They Are Down|painting him as a loser to whom is ok to brag that you are getting what he is not]], and if that was not enough, [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1281/ when Jim snaps for this he is then portrayed by other guys as making the false dichotomy that since a Nice Guy can't get laid] [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1285/ then all guys who do must be Jerkasses].
* [[Unintentionally Unsympathetic]]: Hazel, Hazel, Hazel. The author deliberately wrote her as a flawed character to make her more relatable, but she just comes off as borderline unlikeable.
* [[The Woobie]]: Thea is heading toward this territory. Loses her job: check. Sister has cancer: check. Girl she's taken with uses her for sex and exposes her to an STD: check. Yup, we've got ourselves a woobie.
** She has a chalk board tally of girls she has turned straight.
* [[The Woobie]]: Thea. Loses her job: check. Sister has cancer: check. Girl she's taken with uses her for sex and exposes her to an STD: check. And if that wasn't enough, she has a chalk board tally of girls she has turned straight.
** Things are turning around, though -- she had a [[Genki Girl]] almost literally fall into her lap and things have only been better from there.
** Thankfully, things went up when she met [[Genki Girl]] Mimi, and it just got better from there.


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