God Save the Esteem: Difference between revisions

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The tone of the series can go from broad comedy to heart-wrenching angst so fast it'll make your head spin.

* [[Moral Guardians]]: To reflect the changes in the evil forces preying on modern teens, Val is updated from a vapid plastic surgery addict pretending to be a child to a cloying, hypocritical, pseudo-religious abstinence freak.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: A particularly creepy one appears in ''Daria's High Score'' where we learn that Daria's terrifying [[Slasher Smile]] in the black and white pilot episode ''Sealed With A Kick'' is also her O-face.

* [[OC Stand In]]: As is ''de rigeur'' for Dariafic, numerous unnamed background characters gain names, personalities and some even become fairly major characters, most notably the members of Quinn's gang.

* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: While Canon!Daria had this to some degree, the severity of the meltdowns she starts having during the Grandma Barksdale arc is a pretty shocking indicator of shit getting real.

* [[The Quincy Punk]]: Killer Quinn and the rest of The Maleficent Eleven actually seem to ''strive'' to be this.

* [[Recursive Fanfiction]]: The aforementioned ''Moving Pictures'' is a semi-example, as while it is written by a different author, it's accepted as part of the canon. There are several more straight examples, though.

* [[Setting Update]]

* [[She's Back]]: The triumphant conclusion to ''Bearing Gifts''.

* [[Ship Tease]]: One of the aforementioned recursive fanfics was a [[Slash Fic]] that began with Jane subbing for Amy's cameraman. Guess what happens in the B-plot of ''Highland Lassie''?

* [[Shout Out]]: Crawling with nods to other Daria fanworks. For instance, Jake's older sister (who never appears in the show at all but was mentioned by [[Word of God]]) has two sons named John and Finn, based on [[Gender Flipped]] version of Jane & Quinn from two other popular fanfic serials.

** "Is It Fun Yet?" features a cameo by [[The Wire|Superintendent Rawls of the Maryland State Police.]]

* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Instead of that wimp O'Neill, Janet Barch teams up with Mr. D for some good ol' fashioned angrysex.

* [[Streisand Effect]]: Ms. Li's attempts to take down Daria's website about all the corruption at Lawndale High only serve to alert more students to its existence.

* [[Sure Why Not]]: Charles is not averse to including fan suggestions in his work.

* [[Wham Episode]]: Several, most recently ''Epic F Word'', featuring {{spoiler|Principal O'Neil attempting suicide and being replaced by [[De Martino]], Stacy suffering a complete nervous breakdown and Lawndale High finally being shut down for good by the state}}.

** And then there's Andrew Landon's affair with Erin.

* [[Yandere]]: Killer Quinn, in regards to Trent.