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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
It is popular enough to have several spin-offs, usually four-issue miniseries.
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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).
* [[Blessed
* [[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 [[
** The whole series sometimes appears to thrive on this, from species to certain characters.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Gothwrain; Dreadwing; Ancient Gina
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* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]: The human forms for both Britanny "Cheetah" 'Gia and her daughter Tifanny.
* [[Demon Head]]: Theodore's "Flaming Skull Bit."
* [[Distracted
* [[Expy]]: Aljabra Gihom, an expy of Fred's "Level UP!" Mithra character Calcula Mihgo—herself a [[Captain Ersatz]] version of Osaka from ''[[
* [[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.
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* [[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).
* [[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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* [[Leprechaun|Leprechauns]]: <small>WITH TANKS AND [[Mobile Suit Human|MECHA]]!!</small>
* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: Invoked after Julia's fight with Serpentus{{spoiler|, in which she uses magic-proof Dwarven chains to tie him to the room in such a way that ten tons of rock will fall on him if he isn't untangled very, very carefully}}.
* [[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.
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** 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 [[Ho Yay|Crush]], though.
* [[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.
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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
* [[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 Imposter]]: Madrid was [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] about this.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: Tirant, Dreadwing, the Lich King
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