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* [[Church of Happyology]]: All of [http://www.pholph.com/whole_arc_viewer.php?id=5&sid=1375 Arc XXIX] is a thinly veiled [[Take That]] to That One Church.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Jack is one, apparently.
* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: Hopkins makes this one [[Dance Trope Dance|dance a jig]] when it comes to Todd: He believes himself this, so he becomes this, with the Devil controlling his life. Then he realizes the Devil told him about the Seventh Wall, which means he can invert it and make the cosmos (or at least the comic strip) his plaything{{spoiler|, right? ''[[Out
* [[Crapsack World]]: Hard to place as since the comic is largely set in hell our viewpoint of events is skewed, and there ''are'' some very optimistic bits, however the facts are humanity has been wiped out, humanity's successors are doomed to make the exact same mistakes as humanity in the same order, and worse, hell may as well have a revolving door as far as some of its worse repeat offenders are concerned, there's a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] and a war with aliens waiting in the immediate future, and both god and the devil seem to have taken a "hands off" approach to things, leaving the fate of the world to mortals, angles and sins, of which only the worst of the sins seems to have a clear plan.
* [[Cursed With Awesome]]: Most of the characters who are punished with being anthropomorphic personifications of the seven deadly sins are given far greater powers than a normal denizen of hell. However, they're unable to actually enjoy the activities that embody their lust. The angel Central told Jack that one of the reasons the Sins were given power was so that they would not seek out redemption, continuing their punishment in Hell.
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* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: Even if they do have good in them, it's clear why the damned are damned: they shift blame around and say it's all the fault of a higher power they got condemned to hell. Some of them (like Lita) get disproportionately incensed at angels whenever they see them.
* [[Explicit Content]]: Although there is the occasional display of nudity throughout the strip, "The Games We Play in Hell" has more than a bit of explicit sex, particularly of the nonconsensual variety.
* [[Famous, Famous, Fictional]]: "... before uzis, RPGs, jets, bars, saws, lazers, power armor and pathmakers"
* [[Fan Nickname]]: God is known as "Cottonmouth" on the ''Jack'' forums. [[Alternative Character Interpretation|It's not because of]] [[Jerkass Gods|Her white coat, either.]]
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The closest thing to it is what Jack does to Drip after {{spoiler|Drip rapes Fnar--he devotes a good chunk of his power toward trapping Drip inside him, since if he killed Drip, [[Death Is a Slap On The Wrist|he'd simply respawn in Hell]].}}
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* [[Genius Loci]]: The anthropomorphic personification of Sloth is punished in Hell by becoming the ground.
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Jack, obviously.
* [[Go
* [[Good Eyes, Evil Eyes]]: Whilst Sins, God and the Devil have pupil-less eyes all non-sins in hell are shown with pinpoint pupils until they realize their sin, at which point they are drawn with the full pupils used by Hopkins for the living and Angels. It's also shown that those who have realized their sin can go back to the ominous pinpoint pupils,[http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=1377 if they fall in with the wrong crowd,] or if they've been brutalized like {{spoiler|Vinci}} in the side story [http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=7&sid=3272 "Pikri Alitheia"] after {{spoiler|trying to defend Bashful and being half-devoured by the Gorshes}}. The line {{spoiler|"I am alone"}} implied {{spoiler|Vinci's}} redemption reset button's been hit completely.
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: "Well, let me put it this way. In Heaven, they make love... on Earth, they have sex... but down here in Hell, down here... they fuck."
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* [[No Fourth Wall]]:
** Not content to merely break the seventh wall, he vaporizes it [http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=3500 here], [http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=3503 and then blows away the smoke a few panels later.]
* [[Nonhumans Lack Attributes]]: Played Straight for {{spoiler|Jack and Jill, presumably as Kane was [[Genre Savvy]] enough to realize making the first batch of his experimental AI's self replicating was a bad move.}} [[Full
* [[Non-Linear Character]]: As time doesn't exist in the afterlife, everyone dead technically. But Jack in particular who {{spoiler|reaped himself}}.
* [[No Pregger Sex]]: Anna was rather [[Squick|squicked]] by [http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=943 Wednesday's suggesting sex] while she was pregnant, in the arc [http://www.pholph.com/whole_arc_viewer.php?id=5&sid=920 "Wednesday's Child"].
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* [[Punny Name]]: Beo Wolfe
* [[Rape As Drama]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]/[[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Played with somewhat. Jack's eyes are pure glowing red most of the time. Since he's the reaper, people tend to take warning. But his actual [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Wrath Mode]] turns everything but his pupils black. {{spoiler|and those go after his memories are restored.}}
** The other sins also have similar eyes. Emily has bright yellow eyes, Drip has green eyes and the others have red ones if they have them at all. God and Satan have uniquely pure black eyes {{spoiler|until Sever The Hunger.}}
* [[Religion of Evil]]: Vince's cult.
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* [[Scale of Scientific Sins]]: [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Dr.]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Kane]] manages all them, at various points in his life
* [[Scunthorpe Problem]]: Inverted on the forums: the name "Matt" is changed by the filter to "Dolphinfucker". Apparently the artist's wife had a rather scary ex named Matt, who, among various other crimes including stalking her at some point, [[But You Screw One Goat!|reputedly did something unpleasant involving a beached dolphin's blowhole]] (possibly more than once). He also appeared in the comic a couple of times in an [[Ironic Hell]] in which [[Take That|he is the victim of rape by dolphins]].
* [[Self
* [[Serial Killer]]: Drip during his life and afterlife. The Vorshes also count.
* [[Seven Deadly Sins]]
* [[Shout
** The afterlife is distinctively based on the ''[[Divine Comedy]]''.
** In a recent ark, a character Richek reveals that he's seen the grim reaper numerous times and considers him somewhat of a friend, but no one else has ever seen him, and he doesn't know his name. What does he call his tall, rabbitty pal? Harvey, of course!
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* [[Spikes of Doom]]: This is how Jack defeats Joen in Those That Run.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Several, but notably Edward Vade - E. Vade.
* [[Traumatic C
* [[Tsurime Eyes]]: How you can tell someone is a bad guy, generally.
* [[Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000]]: Evan's favourite game, "Killing Killers and the Killers who Kill Them".
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* [[Very Special Episode]]: [http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=1183 By Guest Artist Mat Sherer of] ''[[Badly Drawn Kitties]]''
* [[Webcomics Long Runners]]: This comic has been consistently running for over ''ten years'', ladies and gentlemen.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: "Sever the Hunger". {{spoiler|It reveals just what Jack did in life that made him become Wrath--long story short, he wiped out humanity and so thoroughly wrecked the universe that he caused [[Generation Xerox]] on a cosmic scale, with furs going through the same kind of history that humans did. The kicker to this is that he himself did not know this beforehand--prior to his own demise, he asked to forget what he had done.}}
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Jack's fur is bright green, and Jill's is pink/maroon, whereas other furries tend to have more realistic fur colours {{spoiler|1=This makes some sense as adding non-natural pigmentation to transgenic creatures to identify them as such in case they escape into the wild is [http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB343&hs=Zl0&q=glow+in+the+dark+cat common real-life practice], although how someone could not notice that a bipedal talking rabbit is GM is [[Apathetic Citizens|another question]]}}. [[The Devil]]/Pepe Val Pew ''has'' got blue fur, but justified as A, he's an Author Avatar and B, [[The Devil]]!
** Both Drip and Lita have bright blue fur (though it's easy to infer that Lita inherited it from Drip). Penelope in the arc "Been Reading Job" also has maroon fur.
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