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A webcomic done with [[LEGO]] figures and [[Tabletop Games|roleplaying]] miniatures, by David Morgan-Mar, an Australian physicist, who also perpetrates ''[[Darths and Droids]]''. Yes, he's [[One of Us]]. No need to run.

* Fantasy: A group of roleplayers guide their party through a quest that tips the hat to Tolkien... before laughing at him.

* Space: A [[Space Opera]] [[Gone Horribly Wrong|gone bad. Very, very bad]]. Like Fantasy, also intended to be chronicling the events of an RPG, rather than directly telling a story. [http://irregularwebcomic.net/850.html With one of the same players, no less]. [http://irregularwebcomic.net/1009.html They transpose rather neatly].

* Steve and Terry: The adventures of a crocodile hunter ([[No Celebrities Were Harmed|no, not THAT one]]), his long-suffering wife Terry, Dame Jane Goodall, and [[Cthulhu Mythos|Cthulhu]].

* Nigerian Finance Minister: The source of [[419 Scam|all those spam e-mails]] and his quest to raise money. Funnier than it sounds.

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* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: When the crossover problems were resolved all of the different themes finished their quests and then had this ending.

* [[Art Evolution]]: Or Photo Quality Evolution, anyway.

* [[Author Guest Spot]]

* [[Back to Front]]: [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1667.html "My personal time stream has been running backwards for some reason, and this strip doesn't have a punchline."]

* [[Book Ends]]: The final panel (other than guest strips and "The End") is a reshoot of the very first panel.

* [[Brain In a Jar]]: [[Adolf Hitler]] himself.

* [[Color-Coded Patrician]]: The head Death.

* [[Crisis Crossover]]: [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/comic.php?current=2161&dir=next5 at the end of 2008], {{spoiler|the universe imploded due to [[Temporal Paradox|temporal paradoxes]] ocurring [[Meanwhile in the Future|simultaneously]] in most of the themes. The characters all ended up at the Infinite Featureless Plane of Death, but eventually managed to get their respective continuities [[Continuity Reboot|rebooted]]}}.

* [[Deep-Immersion Gaming]]

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Quercus from the Space theme is currently this.

* [[Done a George Lucas]]: Redirect Namer (with kind permission from Dr. Morgan-Mar), referencing his adding missing sound effects to a podcast.

* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: This is the comic that averts this rule so hard and fast that you'd never know it existed. If there is any chance that a [[Viewers Are Geniuses|non-genius in the audience]] will not get the joke, it will be explained, in great detail. Not only are the explanations incredibly interesting in their own right but they often make the actual joke ''funnier''. [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2414.html This comic's] annotation brings explaining the joke [[Up to Eleven]].

* [[Easter Egg]]: In [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1466.html this] strip.

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: The Great Dragon Sage Ardaxar makes one in [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2252.html this strip], during {{spoiler|the simultaneous explosions the characters cause to restart the universe}}.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: [[H.P. Lovecraft|Cthulhu]] (in the form of a Lego octopus mounted on a tyrannosaurus miniature) is a recurring character, and often gets wrestled by Steve.

* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]

* [[The Grim Reaper]]: An entire enterprise of them, manned by a cynical "Head Death".

* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]

* [[Historical Badass Upgrade]]: Sir Isaac Newton is portrayed as a [[Doctor Who|Time Lord]], and gathers various scientists from history to fix the time stream.

* [[Hook Hand]]: Colonel Haken

* [[Tonight Someone Dies]]: Morgan-Mar announced the permanent death of a major character before the end of 2007. After setting up most of the regulars in highly perilous situations, {{spoiler|31 December came about -- and the "Me" character, Morgan-Mar in person, was killed.}}

* [[Too Soon]]: The "Steve and Terry" theme got a bit of flack when the real Steve Irwin died, though the fact that Steve woke up in the hospital from a serious injury when Steve Irwin died was entirely accidental, thanks to the miracle of comic buffers. He even apologized for the mix-up in the blurb.

* [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life]]: [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2177.html this strip] warns "Do not click if you have something urgent you need to do today!"

* [[Two Lines, No Waiting|Two]] ''[[Serial Escalation|Dozen]]'' [[Two Lines, No Waiting|Lines No Waiting]]

* [[We Come in Peace, Shoot to Kill]]: The invading Martians in the theme of the same name.

* [[Weird Trade Union]]: Deaths on strike. {{spoiler|Which was eventually broken.}}

* [[Writer on Board]]: The Shakespeare theme started out as a one shot railing against the culture-deadening evils of Microsoft PowerPoint, though it moved away from this quickly.

* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: Used intentionally with "quantum leap".

 

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