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'''''Gold Digger''''' is a [[Long Runners|long-running]] US comic from [[Antarctic Press]] with [[Animesque|manga-inspired art]], written and drawn by Fred Perry. The first appearance of the characters was in the anthology title '''Mangazine''' Vol. 2 #11 (September, 1991). They then got their own eponymous 4-issue miniseries (September 1992-March 1993). This proved successful enough to make ''Gold Digger'' Vol. 2 an ongoing. 50 regular issues were published between July 1993 and June 1999, plus a number of annuals. These issues were mostly in black-and-white. The series was then relaunched as a full-color series. Vol. 3 started in July 1999 and is still ongoing.
The story centers around the adventures of the kind, nerdy, and idealistic [[Hot Scientist]] [[Gadgeteer Genius|inventor]], [[Adventurer Archaeologist|archaeologist and explorer]] Gina Diggers; and her [[Boisterous Bruiser]], [[The Fashionista|fashionista]], [[Last of His Kind|were-cheetah]] adopted sister/bodyguard, Britanny "Cheetah" Diggers, as they search the world (and others) for relics of the distant past.
▲'''Gold Digger''' is a [[Long Runners|long-running]] US comic from [[Antarctic Press]] with [[Animesque|manga-inspired art]], written and drawn by Fred Perry. The first appearance of the characters was in the anthology title '''Mangazine''' Vol. 2 #11 (September, 1991). They then got their own eponymous 4-issue miniseries (September 1992-March 1993). This proved successful enough to make ''Gold Digger'' Vol. 2 an ongoing. 50 regular issues were published between July 1993 and June 1999, plus a number of annuals. These issues were mostly in black-and-white. The series was then relaunched as a full-color series. Vol. 3 started in July 1999 and is still ongoing.
The third sister, Brianna, is the goofy mental and physical combination of Gina and Britanny, accidentally created in the process of removing a curse gained during one of their adventures. She combines Gina's thirst for mysteries, scientific acumen, and libido with Britanny's low attention span and thirst for action, fashion, or entertainment (plus a portion of her werebeast strength). Hence, she likes action-technology of any kind, especially if explosions are involved. She is usually accompanied by her trademark childlike little Peebo robots.
▲The story centers around the adventures of the kind, nerdy, and idealistic [[Hot Scientist]] [[Gadgeteer Genius|inventor]], [[Adventurer Archaeologist|archaeologist and explorer]] Gina Diggers; and her [[Boisterous Bruiser]], [[The Fashionista|fashionista]], [[Last of His Kind|were-cheetah]] adopted sister/bodyguard, Britanny "Cheetah" Diggers, as they search the world (and others) for relics of the distant past.
If, as [[Exactly What It Says
▲The third sister, Brianna, is the goofy mental and physical combination of Gina and Britanny, accidentally created in the process of removing a curse gained during one of their adventures. She combines Gina's thirst for mysteries, scientific acumen, and libido with Britanny's low attention span and thirst for action, fashion, or entertainment (plus a portion of her werebeast strength). Hence, she likes action-technology of any kind, especially if explosions are involved. She is usually accompanied by her trademark childlike little Peebo robots.
▲If, as [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|the name]] and the [[Adventurer Archaeologist]] trope implies, the sisters seem more intent on digging up valuable treasures to fund their lifestyle than searching for actual knowledge, they invariably make up for it by becoming [[Accidental Hero|unwitting heroines]] in the process, usually with the help of their friends, and with time, Gina [[Character Development|evolves]] into more idealistic [[Pillars of Moral Character]] material.
It is popular enough to have several spin-offs, usually four-issue miniseries.
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Fred Perry also began working on an independent OVA based on the original "Time Raft" pilot story since 1999. He basically did ''[[Dancing Bear|everything]]'' except for the voice acting and music composition, while still producing the main series. The last part of story was finally completed and released in 2010.
Not to be confused with the (completely different) [[Gold Digger|character archetype]] -- even though that very trope ''is'' a derisive (and largely undeserved) [[In-Series Nickname]] for [[Adventurer Archaeologist|Gina]].
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* [[Action Duo]]: Gina and Britanny, [[Brains and Brawn]].
* [[Action Mom]]: Julia; Britanny after Tifanny's birth.
* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: Gina, Penny, Lord "Pee-Wee" Talon, and many others.
* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]
* [[
** Her standard Peebo [[A Is]], on the other hand, avert it and are much more well behaved, even if they do like going "boom" on bad guys. (It's just that they have a much better idea of what a "bad guy" is.
** Peebri, however, wraps around to this trope again, in much the same way a childish Brianna would act.
{{quote|'''Peebri''': I-i--I'm onwy a cute wittle apple who didn't fall fawr fwom da twee!}}
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: Gina and Brittany especially, but females in this series tend to gravitate towards the aggressive side when it comes to guys.
* [[Always Someone Better]]: A [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] of [[Lara Croft]] filled this role from off-screen for Gina for a while.
* [[Animation Bump]]: A couple shots in the first part of the OAV were redone for the final version, and they really stand out against the original footage.
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* [[Artificial Human]]: Brianna, Array, Raphiel, the whole Amonian race.
* [[Atlanta]]: Home of the Diggers family.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Fred definitely loves his were-creatures. Ironically, he dislikes certain varieties. A furry/TF fan, he apparently is not.
* [[Bald Women]]: Zelda, one of Talon's employees. In no way detracts from her [[Amazonian Beauty]] status.
* [[Balloon Belly]]: [[Winged Humanoid|Charlotte]] has had this happen to her at least once, leading to her being [[Mistaken for Pregnant]].
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* [[Big Monster Cute Name]]: "Flakey", the 2-kilometer-long [[Giant Enemy Crab|kraken]].
* [[Bleached Underpants]]: Fred Perry used to draw more adult material, and in fact still does. Gina has her origins in this material, which explains her proportions (and attidude).
** There are also persistent rumors that Britanny started out as Fred Perry's roleplaying character on adult furry mu*s.
* [[Blessed
** Though Ayane looks him in the eyes anyway towards the end of their first date, and he still doesn't seem bothered.
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Brianna, Xane
* [[Boobs of Steel]]: The stronger females tend to have larger breasts (at least within their respective [[Cast Herd]])—not that this says much.
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* [[Buffy-Speak]]
* [[Burger Fool]]: Penny forces Gina to work at one of these before she'll loan her enough money to avoid bankruptcy.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: The [[Voltron|Vaultron]] force, the [[
** Then there's the [[Teen Titans (
*** And their teacher, Miss Tickle from ''[[Mission: Magic!]]''—er, we mean Miss Giggle, who has a darker complexion and a pretty funny explanation for her blobby hairdo: Her cat is permanently curled up on top of her head. Kids, be very careful with your teleportation experiments!
** Fauntleroy's Platinus is like a [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]] ''[[Witchblade (Comic Book)|Witchblade]]'' (A sentient [[Empathic Weapon]] that assumes the form of [[Stripperiffic]] "[[Chainmail Bikini]]" armor for her male host...because she's a pervert.)
** More recent storylines have included prehistoric [[Captain Ersatz]] versions of the [[Visionaries:
** The whole series sometimes appears to thrive on this, from species to certain characters.
** Agent M's former identity, Miracle, is described by one character as "movin' faster than '''bullets'''... stoppin' '''trains'''... and leapin' sky-scrapers with '''one hop'''...." Gosh, [[Sarcasm Mode|I wonder]] who [[Superman|he]] is.
** Jotaru the genie is [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Jotaro]]. There are also versions of [[Ranma 1/2|Ranma Saotome]], [[Street Fighter|Ryu and Balrog]], [[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft]], a gender-flipped version of the [[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic|Mane Six]], and many, many, ''many'' others. "Like" is probably too weak of a word, "Fred Perry is addicted to his Captain Ersatzes" probably fits better.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Gothwrain; Dreadwing; Ancient Gina
* [[Clark Kenting]]: Agency Zero, especially Agent M, formerly the most recognizable hero on Earth. Pinky & The Cheets.
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* [[Dark Action Girl]]: numerous including Link and Zelda, two of Talon's employees.
** G'Nolga, Julia Digger's archrival in Jade.
* [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]]: Xane. Also Aljabra, although she's a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] rather than fitting the typical personality.
* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]: The human forms for both Britanny "Cheetah" 'Gia and her daughter Tifanny.
* [[Demon Head]]: Theodore's "Flaming Skull Bit."
* [[Distracted
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Penny Pinscher in her first appearance was pretty blatantly villainous... she was an arms dealer who lied to a bunch of leprechauns to convince them Gina and Britanny were completely evil, and then made ''sure'' to sell them weapons that could kill Britanny (as well as take out Gina's armored car). But then Fred Perry apparently decided that she should be part of the good guys, so it was decided she was ''also'' a brilliant scientist and archaeologist and now she and Gina are [[Vitriolic Best Buds]].
* [[Expy]]: Aljabra Gihom, an expy of Fred's "Level UP!" Mithra character Calcula Mihgo—herself a [[Captain Ersatz]] version of Osaka from ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]''.▼
* [[Evil Twin]]: Brianna and Madrid
** With a shot of [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Madrid's current persona allows the author to write either solo "Gina" stories about Madrid the explorer with Dao and Subtracto, or ensemble "Gina" stories about Gina the professor with her students and family.
▲* [[Expy]]: Aljabra Gihom, an expy of Fred's "Level UP!" Mithra character Calcula
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: A magical mishap turns Theo's father Jonathan into the evil Lich King.
* [[Fake Crossover]]: The series really skirts the line of this, such as when Gina mentions receiving a [[Inspector Gadget|computer book from a girl with a weird uncle]]. Mind you the girl in question eventually became a full-fledged character).
* [[Fanon Discontinuity]]: In-story. Gina has been described as loving "all things [[Monty Python]], [[Star Trek|Roddenberry]], and [[Star Wars|Lucas]]." But she does '''not''' like the ''Star Wars'' prequel trilogy, which she in fact refers to as "fan fiction."
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]
* [[Feminist Fantasy]]: Probably one of the most tolerant and evenhanded comics around. The female characters are smart, capable, funny, goofy, distinctive, well-rounded, and memorable, in a diverse and amusing manner reminiscent of ''[[Tenchi Muyo!
* [[Flying Brick]]: Agent M
* [[French Maid]]: Link is an [[Amazonian Beauty]] who wears rather ... undersized french maid outfits on missions.
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* [[Heel Realization]]: Madrid has a moment of clarity when she realizes that her [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]] needlessly ruined a chance to escape capture and imprisonment.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Redemption is a major running theme in this comic. Many of Gina and Britanny's enemies become their best friends and allies. Mesha, Tark, Brianna, Penny, Charlotte, Jetta...{{spoiler|Pee Wee, Madrid, Lich King...}}
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Many years before the first ''[[Iron Man]]'' movie, Gina and Britanny get locked in a seemingly inescapable cavelike prison cell. Gina proceeds to make an elaborate powered armor out of ''literal'' scraps of metal. Fred Perry's penchant for heavily referencing pop culture is apparently prescient.
* [[Hive Mind]]: Array is a variant; each [[Me's a Crowd|duplicate of herself she creates]] has an independent personality which returns to her mind when she reassimilates her body. However, they all share the same general goals.
* [[Hot Amazon]]: many, including actual Amazons.
* [[Hot Librarian]]: Kahn, librarian of the Library of Time.
* [[Hot Mom]]: Julia; {{spoiler|later Brittany}}
** When Julia {{spoiler|accidentally rejuvenated her body from 50 years old to 30}}, her husband noticed ''something'' was different, but had to use magic to tell ''how'' different it was, because she {{spoiler|hadn't looked all that much older at 50}}.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Gina and Penny.
* [[Humanity Ensues]]: Fauntleroy is a dragon cursed to stay in human form. When he finally finds the [[MacGuffin]] he needs to return to dragon form, he decides to wait and [[Humans Are Special|see if there's more he can learn from being human]].
* [[I Call It Vera]]: One [[Word of God|author's note]] commented, "Yes, all of Brianna's weapons have first names... Got a prob' wit dat?"
* [[I Want Grandkids]]: The ghost of Britanny's birth-mother showed up in one issue. She passed on some useful information, but one of the first things she said was how suited Britanny's hips would be to producing '''lots and lots''' of children. Asking again ... twice ... for numerous grandchildren was the '''last''' thing she said, too.
* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: Grammy Brunhildagarde
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Dr. Diggers tried his best to disarm the werewolf leader, but in the end the only werecheetah left to save was baby Britanny.
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]/[[Accidental Innuendo]]: Julia Diggers' longtime friend Karia is referred to as the "Queen of Oblivious Innuendo," because she '''never does''' figure out that the phrasing she uses when talking about their martial arts sparring often sounds like she's describing lesbian sex.
* [[Ki Attacks]]: Several of the martial artists, especially the ninjas, and Ryan Tabbot.
* [[Kid From the Future]]: Brianna's, somewhere around ten years old. Which led to Brianna discovering she was pregnant, presumably with this girl. '''Then''' the future version of Britanny's daughter Tifanny showed up to retrieve her cousin, and in the process drop a [[She's All Grown Up]] on the readers.
* [[Killer Rabbit]] —er, Wabbit.
* [[Kudzu Plot]]: A pretty bad case, highlighted by the fact that the websites hawking the comic often contain cover previews and summaries for upcoming issues… but then Fred gets an itch to go growing the plot in some other direction entirely, and the previewed issues often have completely different covers and subjects, with the original plots dropped to be completed off-camera, if that.
** Lately, however, a good portion of those storylines have begun to be tied together to the [[Myth Arc]]. (See below.)
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Dreadwing "absorbed" two were-rats, [[Mickey Mouse|Miki and Mynny]], in order to steal their [[Born Lucky|extraordinary good luck]]<ref>A bad choice had made them vulnerable despite their luck factor, which he admitted he couldn't have overcome otherwise.</ref>. But then he {{spoiler|encountered Britanny, and}} discovered he'd also absorbed something '''else''' from them. As Miki's ghost explained, while Dreadwing lay trembling in the fetal position, [[Blank White Eyes|eyes wide in terror]]:
{{quote|'''Miki''': You are now thinking about the {{spoiler|"were-cheetah doom gaze..."}} a '''soul's terror''' that strikes at the heart of '''all were-rats'''... or, apparently... the hearts of all '''demi-dragons''' who have absorbed the essences of two sweet, innocent '''were-rat thieves'''! The stark, agonizing fear effect can last anywhere from '''two minutes''' to a '''whoooole week'''! Have '''fun''' with that.}}
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Team Noob]], ridiculously over-armed leprechauns with no idea where they are, what they are doing, what their mission is, how to operate their equipment, or how to not blow themselves up in 5 seconds, but using binoculars and bazookas backwards hasn't slowed down their enthusiasm yet. The ''GD Tangent'' [[Web Comic]] has a similar setup as the [[Trope Namer]], with a [[Shout-Out]] as well.
* [[Leprechaun|Leprechauns]]: <small>WITH TANKS AND [[Mobile Suit Human|MECHA]]!!</small>
* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: Invoked after Julia's fight with Serpentus, {{spoiler|
* [[Lions and Tigers
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: …and loads. There's a tie-in comic with one-to-three page write-ups on the characters that have appeared in the series. There have been ''23'' issues published so far (though only the first 17 are on the characters; the rest focus on locations). The first 17 issues of this Guide to the GD Universe have now been collected into [[Doorstopper|a two-inch-thick tome]].
** [[Cast Herd]]: The characters tend to come in sub-groups—the Edge Guard, Lord Talon and minions, Agency Zero—who can hold down arcs or even mini-series by themselves.
** Array personifies this trope [[Me's a Crowd|all by herself]], [[I Have Many Names|and herself]], [[Mind Hive|and herself]], [[The Conspiracy|and herself]], [[Doppelganger Attack|and herself]], [[Living Weapon|and herself]]... but they're all on the same side - ''her side!''
* [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]: Britanny (until her marriage), and Gina. Ironically, the latter used to be a [[Geek|Geeky]] [[Shrinking Violet]], until her [[The Ladette|more outgoing]] sister Britanny had enough of her reclusive attitude and, to make a long story short, broke her out of her box. The result? Gina became "boy-crazy" ''[[Up to Eleven|by "boy-crazy extraordinaire" Britanny's personal standards]]''. The latter doesn't know whether or not she should regret "helping" her sister.
{{quote|
'''Gina''': '''Eek!''' (
'''Britanny
'''Brianna''' (narrating):
** Brianna may have gained both of their sex drives combined, as [[Crowning Moment of Funny|she used to chain her panicked boyfriend to the bed to have her way with him]]
** [[Rule of Funny|Xane is the most extreme of all, as she regularly drools while taking concealed clothes-removing x-ray photographs of any attractive male within sight]]. She is getting some [[Laser-Guided Karma]] from [[Les Yay|Crush]], though<ref>After having accidentally planted her face in the other woman's crotch. Crush pretends to believe it was deliberate, and now calls Xane "Sweet lips."</ref>.
* [[Magic From Technology]]: Gina eventually gains a working knowledge of draconic magic by analyzing extradimensional technology.
* [[Meat
* [[Meganekko]]: Gina, for more than several issues now.
* [[Me's a Crowd]]: Array
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* [[Morality Pet]]: Ironically, Madrid and Platinus were this to each other.
* [[Myth Arc]]: Numerous plotlines and characters, at first seemingly unrelated, have begun to be revealed to be tied together to an overarching storyline concerning Future Gina trying to save the Universe.
* [[Never Mess
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: The Ninja Pirate Leprechauns. (Correction: Ninja Pirate MECHA Leprechauns.)
* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Gina, Penny, Pee-Wee, etc.
* [[Only Six Faces]]: The early art was worse about this than the current iteration. Every girl was some variety of big-breasted and curvy with the same general face-shape, often relying on facial markings to distinguish them. (Gina's mother being an early exception, but that was because she was portrayed as rather older than she wound up looking later on.) Male characters generally either looked like Conan the Barbarian or were short and skinny (with Gina's father being a rare halfway point). As the series went on, both body types and facial shapes started getting a bit more variety, though they still tend towards extremes (see: Lydia vs. Moisha).
* [[Our Monsters Are Different]], Particularly:
** [[All Trolls Are Different]]
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* [[Perky Female Minion]]: Six, Array, Skippy.
* [[The Plan]]: Gothwrain is all about these; most are part of his [[Gambit Roulette]].
* [[Rape
* [[Real Men Cook]] / [[Supreme Chef]]: People make a point of staying for lunch or dinner when Stryyp is doing the cooking.
* [[The Real Remington Steele]]: [[Word of God]] states that Perry skipped the middleman on Mistress/Ayane; her first story still has some of the plot points—"back after X years"—to support the original plan that {{spoiler|the "Mistress" was supposed to be Julia Diggers' temporary wrestling gimmick}}.
* [[The Rival]]: Penny Pincer, though she does a full [[Heel Face Turn]] about halfway through.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: To just about every [[The Eighties|'80s]] or classic [[Western Animation|cartoon]], many, many [[Video Games]], and [[Humongous Mecha]] anime.
** In fact, the shout-outs have become so common, numerous, and a close to the source material that some critics feel it's led to a bit of [[Seasonal Rot]], that the homages have come a little too close to crossing the line into just yanking whatever he likes from other canon and using it directly. (Example: Gina basically just builds herself an exact copy of the Lagann, complete with similar abilities to hijack whatever it attaches to.)
*** It wouldn't be so bad if these things were just done as gags all the time, but often they're ''plot relevant'' in working just like the original reference material. Gina's [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Lagann]] knockoff's ability to, well, act just like the Lagann is extremely important in the storyline. Same with the [[Transformers|Matrix of Leadership]] [[Expy]] the Edge Guard have (which was transferred in a [[Whole-Plot Reference|whole scene reference]] right down to the use of "'Til all are one") (Granted, the Matrix analogue contained a planetoid-sized spaceship in its own pocket dimension, so it didn't function ''quite'' the same. Still, Fred ''does'' love to riff blatantly on ''[[Transformers:
* [[Spot the
* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Rather averted by, for starters, Gina's father Theodore, an arch-mage with a trim, hard body -- who's been shown looking only a bit irked when she [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face|accidentally shot a '''10-inch-wide''' hole completely through his chest]]. He explains at one point that every molecule of his body is under his conscious control; a werewolf breaking his spine is annoyingly painful, but not incapacitating.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: Tirant, Dreadwing, the Lich King
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: One of Gina's students, Aljabra Gihom, has a tendency to '''take naps''' while kneeling, even in the middle of a room -- and when she does, she somehow projects "I'm a piece of furniture." So much so that when she wakes up, people abruptly realize they'd set their paperwork down atop a [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]] expy of [[Azumanga Daioh|Osaka]]:
{{quote|I guess when I'm all '''comfy''' in my '''nappin' pose''', somethin' about me just says to folks, "Oh, look! An end table! How convenient!"}}
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: Oracle, Azalea
* [[Super Mode]]: Britanny's "Tempest Mode".
* [[Super Team]]: Agency Zero, a [[Justice League of America|JLA]]-styled team that shifted to [[The Men in Black]] paradigm, hoping that keeping up a [[The Masquerade|masquerade]] about their activities would keep [[Super Villain|SuperVillains]] from having a focus to fight against.
* [[Taking You With Me]]: One were-tiger character got the nickname "Were-Lemming" because as a [[Cute Bruiser|"puny little" cub]], her favored technique for [[Chronic Hero Syndrome|intervening against]] [[Bully Hunter|the biggest bullies]] was to grab them and:
{{quote|...those fights always ended with Xercie pulling her victim into a water well, onto the street as a passing cart wheeled by, or off a ''steep cliff''! Being were-cubs equipped with magical regeneration auras meant those "accidents" were never fatal, but man, did they ''hurt''! Still, Xercie always walked away first ... and with a grin.... After a while, bullies stopped picking on the weaker kids. No one wanted to tangle with the "Were-Lemming"!}}
** It's '''still''' one of her favored tactics, as she showed against Dreadwing and Serpentus ... twice, in the latter case.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: '''''Invoked!''''' Brianna was a tad too bored. [[Be Careful What You Wish For]].
* [[Terrible Trio]]: Multiple cases; Erwin "Pee Wee" Talon actually has two sets on his payroll. They're each other's [[Psycho Rangers]].
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* [[Time Skip]]: Between issues #100 and #101 of the color series.
* [[Time Travel]]: Recurs throughout the series.
* [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl]]:
* [[Troperrific]]: One can argue that all of ''Gold Digger'' is Fred Perry's parody/homage to comics, novels, RPGs, video games, tropes, cliches and genres of all stripes.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Britanny loves tuna (so does Brianna; they have a hilarious race to get to the last can in one B&W issue). Charlotte the harpy, meanwhile, is obsessed with peanuts and pretzels; if enough are available, she'll [[Big Eater|stuff her face]] almost to the point of killing herself.
* [[Trigger Happy]]: Brianna. At one point she invites a friend to help her recalibrate the head-spaces and timings on her [[Cool Guns/Machine Guns|M2-HB]] '''collection'''.
* [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life]]: Mentioned in the 2010 Halloween special:
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* [[Unsound Effect]]: Many; one of the funniest is Penny, after a prank at Gina's expense is exposed, blinking "innocently" and radiating "Cute Cute".
* [[Valley Girl]]: Moisha, like, totally!
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Dreadwing and Ancient Gina are playing a rather slow version of this {{spoiler|via their own competing versions of Infinity}}.
* [[Web Comics]]: The "Ayane" and "Northern Edge" Tangent webcomics; both are currently on hiatus. Also, "Level UP!", a ''Final Fantasy XI'' webcomic by the same author.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Ancient Gina's "Millenium Pimp Slap", one of a class of spells of legendary power, warps space and time to open a portal behind the target—to [[Megaton Punch|let the caster slap him upside the head]]. It requires such nigh-infinite power to execute that it causes EVERY MAGE IN THE SERIES to sense a disturbance in the Force!
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Frequently averted. For instance, Brianna, the lab accident composite clone trying to kill the Diggers sisters, now their gung-ho sister. Or Charlotte, the instant-grown harpy girl accidentally freed from the control of the time-travelling dog who fired her at our heroes, now co-headliner of a [[WAFF
** Immediately after the dog's control was broken, Gina and company discovered that bubble of reality was about to collapse, so they ran for the way out ... taking Charlotte along, even though she was in a stupor and slowed them down. '''None''' of them were willing to just leave her behind.
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: A little girl claiming to be Brianna's [[Kid From the Future|daughter from the future]] showed up. Her name? Roquette -- pronounced "Rocket." Someone else said, "What kind of mother would name their--" and Brianna interrupted, "Whoa! Whatta '''cute name'''!"
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Stripe. Just...Stripe. Despite a massive-power up halfway through the B&W series making him one of the two most powerful good guys, he is infamous for being hit by surprise, dropping his guard, and so on. Outside his first battles post-power up, it's rare he doesn't end up knocked out at least for a while during a fight. No wonder Agent M thought he needed training despite his skill and strength.
** Fortunately, now that he's not adventuring in areas where he's forced to team up with everyone else, he can fight a bit more.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: After an [[Enemy Mine]] situation, {{spoiler|G'nolga rejected Julia's offer of a handshake}} and letting bygones be bygones. "And lose my '''most worthy rival'''? Never." [[Friendly Enemy|<fist-bump>]]
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