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Bill Holbrook's '''''[http://www.kevinandkell.com/ Kevin
The comic stars the Dewclaw family, a blended family of disparate species:
* Kevin Dewclaw (Rabbit) - [[The Big Guy]], runs an ISP out of their basement
* Kell Dewclaw (Wolf) - [[Action Mom]], [[Mama Bear]], Corporate Executive
* Lindesfarne Dewclaw (Hedgehog) - Kevin's (adopted) daughter from his first marriage. [[Mad Scientist]]-in-training,
* Rudy Dewclaw (Wolf/Fox) - Kell's son from her first marriage, teenager, [[Young Gun|Alpha Male]]-in-training
* Coney Dewclaw (Rabbit/Wolf) - Kevin and Kell's daughter, [[Tyke Bomb|already at the top of the food chain]]
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The comic is mostly a [[Slice of Life]] comic, first dealing with the world's (dis)approval of K & K's "mixed" marriage, then moving into dealing with [[Loads and Loads of Characters|their (increasingly) extended family]] (Assorted inlaws, co-workers, and friends), with occasional forays into special arcs (like the Y2K storyline). While massive plot arcs have largely faded out after 2004, occasional multi-week plots still crop up from time to time.
Technically no longer a [[Web Comic]], as Holbrook's native ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' picked it up in 2004, though the internet remains its primary form of distribution. It was nearly pulled in 2009, but a massive surge of reader support kept the comic in the paper, with the caveat of Sunday strips changing their format to be shorter and vertical in layout.
Not to be confused with the similarly-named TV show, ''[[Kenan and Kel]]''
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== A-E ==
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: The mole scientists, Avogadro and Bob. The former's [[wikipedia:Avogadro constant|name]] being a [[Stealth Pun]].
* [[After the End]]: Although it isn't brought up much, the world the characters live in was created by an organization of birds. After humans made Earth uninhabitable, and departed for a distant planet, the birds, the only surviving vertebrates, used the humans' intelligence rays to increase their intelligence, and travel back in time to 10 million BC, to stop humans from emerging, giving intelligence to other species in the process.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Kevin was widely rejected for being a fearless rabbit, even before he married Kell and thus became even more of an outcast.
* [[All the Myriad Ways]]: The current Danielle isn't the original.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Lindesfarne's blog and later Catherina Aura's twitter have been used to explain or develop plot points in greater detail than merely within the strip.
* [[Altar the Speed]]: Lindesfarne promised to marry Fenton when she graduated college, giving her several years to put it off. In late 2009, she discovered that extra credits from high school could be integrated into her college credit work - the result being that she graduated several months short of the original date. Since she chose to keep her promise to Fenton, she got ''married'' much earlier as well.
* [[Animal Jingoism]]: Used and abused, occasionally Aesoped.
* [[Animals Not to Scale]]: Most of the animals are of similar size, no matter what their species.
* [[Animal Stereotypes]]: blind bats, snooty water-hating cats, loyal dogs, hedgehogs with super-strong quills, cowardly rabbits with big families, deer stuck in directed light, and shark lawyers among others.
** This is often subverted, like with Kevin, who is basically a walking, talking, subversion of many of the stereotypes about rabbits.
* [[Arranged Marriage]]
** Lindesfarne also had to get out of one, which was handled when [[Contrived Coincidence|it turned out her fiance was dating her best friend online.]] They made it official.
** George and Martha Fennec once stated that their marriage was arranged in order to introduce some genetic diversity to their [[Blue Blood|"extremely noble lineages"]]. Is it any wonder why they cheated on each other?
* [[Art Evolution]]: Quite noticeable in some cases, especially with Cynthia and Justin (two obscure side characters).
* [[Ascended to Carnivorism]]: Coney the [[Killer Rabbit]].
* [[Ass in
** And this occasionally pops up as Halloween costumes for kids. Kell noted one time that a child was using a...less-than-fresh pelt. (In fact, this is eventually where Corrie's "Dale" pelt went: into Coney's dress-up box.)
* [[Asshole Victim]]
** Not surprising, the [[Manipulative Bastard|personnel director]] was [[Kick the Dog|taunting Kell]] [http://www.kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0106.html with a dog collar].
** Also the talk show host who tried to goad Kell into eating Kevin.
* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]]
** Averted because Angelique has ''Plastic Surgery'' to alter her ear to look rat like after she was banned from calling herself a rabbit after {{spoiler|betraying secrets that rabbits use to evade their predatory foes}}.
* [[Author Filibuster]]
* [[Badass Adorable]]
* [[Bad Boss]]: R.L. has little to no respect from his employees and treats most of them poorly, firing Kell, one of his most loyal employees, on the advice of a contractor.
* [[Barefoot Cartoon
* [[Beast and Beauty]]
* [[Becoming the Mask]]
* [[Big Eater]]
* [[The Big Guy]]
* [[Bland
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]
** And to each other in some cases, guess that's what happens when your food is sapient.
** For example, Danielle expressed bafflement that while in the human world sexuality is a big deal, in Domain no one raises an eyebrow about Rachel's homosexuality, noting that ''diet'' is the, as she put it, 'pointless arbitrary division' everyone focuses on. (Kevin just asks what an eyebrow is.)
** Discussed when Fenton's tree house embezzles from Hare-Link. He states that while fauna have to follow their own rules to ensure that society remains orderly and functional, plants naturally consume all resources they can to sustain themselves, and Tree is making an effort to do the right thing.
* [[Blush Sticker]]: Lin has them in [https://kevinandkell.com/2022/kk1016.html this strip], when she worries that Coney might think that Lin thinks Coney is immature.
* [[A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family]]: Rudy, Lindesfarne and Coney, respectively.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Fenton was once asked, in the height of the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' craze, if he was a vampire bat. {{spoiler|Turns out his mother ''is''.}}
** A little longer period. In 1996, [http://www.kevinandkell.com/1996/kk0808.html Lindesfarne said she was caught by Rudy to help him pass summer school]. In 2011, [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2011/kk0326.html Coney got herself "caught" by a friend, Lin, so they could play after school].
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: In this Sunday [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0304.html strip], it's refernced by name!
* [[Broken Aesop]]: Basically any of the comic's assertions about how much worse the human world is than the one the characters inhabit, as they attempt to call out various human failings. Remember, this is a world where slaughtering and devouring other sentient creatures is not only a ''profession'', but a ''sports competition'', and eating someone's friends can be dismissed with some mild embarrassment.
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Lindesfarne finds out that the professor whom she's working for falsified his results on stem cell research. Rudy learns that {{spoiler|his biological father cheated on his mother}}.
* [[Cargo Ship]] - In-universe example: Aby Eyeshine literally married her job.
** Complete with anniversary gift (a new sign) and concern about whether she's cheating on her job (by supplemental income from [[Second Life|Ninth Life]].)
* [[Carnivore Confusion]]
* [[Cat Up a Tree]]
* [[Character Blog]]
* [[Character Development]]
** Actually Ralph's development began when he swallowed his pride and went to work for Hare-Link, making his former would-be prey his ''boss''. His getting fat during this time could be a covert [[Lampshade Hanging]]. He even said [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2001/kk0613.html he's glad he never caught Kevin].
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* [[Beat]]*
'''Ralph''': That... I'm glad I never succeeding in devouring you?
'''Kevin''': Maybe deep down you never really wanted to... }}
** Vin Vulpen, when it was shown how he was doing, actually was shown to have been a much better character in the wild from the glance we saw. When he was pretty much an utter bastard (literally, since we find out that he's {{spoiler|Rudy's biological father's son by an extramarital affair}}).
** Even Angelique got some, although it wasn't as major. She's had a ''few'' redeeming moments (Lindesfarne's graduation from high school.)
* [[Cheated Angle]]: Kevin always has one ear flopped over - the one furthest from the audience. Meaning that which is flopped and which is straight can change within the same strip if Kevin turns his head. Holbrook acknowledges this in the FAQ as a stylistic choice.
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]
* [[Cloning Blues]]
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]
* [[Comic Book Time]]
** Except Kell. After being established as [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/kk1218.html around 35] [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/kk1219.html in 2006], [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2011/kk0221.html she was aged to 40 suddenly in 2011] while those around her have aged at the usual slow rate.
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]
** ''All the freaking time.'' For example, in the most [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2010/kk0606.hatml recent page of this writing]{{Dead link}}, the
** Note that Rachel was introduced as being in Bruno's class...then is suddenly Lindsfarne's roommate.
* [[Crapsack World]] -- [[Earth
* [[Crossover]]
* [[Dark Horse Victory]]
* [[Death
* [[Demoted to Extra]]
** Tammy is back to help Lindesfarne plan her wedding, and she brought her son Angstrom with her.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]
** On top of that Fenton is shown to have terrible eyesight even with his glasses. In reality bats have fantastic vision even with the Mark I eyeball, and glasses are worn specifically to correct any problems one has with their eyesight (hence that type being called corrective lenses), both of which negate Fenton's absurdly bad eyesight. In fact, the only thing that backs up Fenton's eye problems is the old idiom "Blind as a bat," but at that point one wonders why Holbrook didn't just make Fenton blind to begin
** The history of the Great Bird Conspiracy claims that they were the only species to survive the destruction of [[Earth
** Surely the IRS would have said something about Kevin and Kell filing jointly as spouses for ''ten years'' despite the fact that legally, thanks to Rudy, they were not married.
** Legislation ''does not take place instantaneously''. This pops up ''a lot'' in the comic to try and create obstacles or simplistic resolutions to complex problems, such as the community wi-fi contract or Kevin and Kell's rush to marry before the anti-mixed species marriage act passes.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]
** The creator actually says in the FAQ that another part of the strip is a stand in for real world issues, ''all'' real world issues.
{{quote|
*** Well, at least he's not biased . . . mostly.
** There appear to be degrees of discrimination; only the most extreme believers in species purity (like the Institute of Species Purity) oppose inter-species marriage as long as the two partners share diets, but predator/prey relationships have quite a bit of social opposition.
* [[Dope Slap]]
** Kell gives Sheila one. ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|With her tail.]]''
{{quote|
'''Kell:''' Somebody had to. }}
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]
** [[Fridge Logic]]: She didn't notice a male voice?
*** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Who says Bruno has a deep voice?
* [[Dungeon Bypass]]
* [[Efficient Displacement]] - Might show up in several places, but is played with [http://kevinandkell.com/2010/kk1116.html here].
* [[Elephant in
* [[Everyone Is Related]] - The Dewclaws, Kindles, and Fennecs have not-so-gradually developed into a [[Tangled Family Tree]]. One comic from 2002 featured a [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0526.html Dewclaw family tree] that is now a little out of date, a current one would be difficult to portray in only two dimensions.
** Rudy and Vin, once bitter enemies, turn out to be half brothers.
** Corrie, a sheep, is the long lost daughter of Ralph, a wolf.
** And now it turns out that Wendell, the [[Bratty Half
*** And this isn't counting the ones that are predicted to happen when they're old enough to marry, such as Bruno/Corrie and Rudy/Fiona. Lindesfarne and Fenton tied the knot recently.
** Also demonstrated in [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0125.html this strip].
** Some commenters on Lindesfarne's blog have referred to this phenomenon as "Dewclaw assimilation".
* [[Evil Costume Switch]]
* [[Exactly What It Says
== F-J ==
* [[The Faceless]]: R.L.
* [[Faked Rip Van Winkle]]: Lindesfarne and Fenton's tree do this to him by making him think it's three years later. {{spoiler|It kind of backfires.}}
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Mainly between predators and prey, although some inter-species prejudice, such as between canines and felines, exists. It must be said, though, that its take on the concept, which, while as seen above is not without its critics, is certainly more nuanced than most, and [[Your Mileage May Vary|perhaps]] more relevant. While most parables about racism and cultural conflicts encourage people to put aside their differences, this one asks more difficult questions: What if some differences can never be put aside? What if some groups can never co-exist without hurting each other? Can we still find a way to make a peaceful world even then?
* [[Fanwork Ban]]: Bill Holbrook discourages fanart and fanfiction of the comic on the grounds that it weakens his copyright protection.
* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: Kevin's ear, which the author has admitted will always flop the same way regardless of what side Kevin is facing for aesthetic purposes.
* [[First Girl Wins]]: Fiona for Rudy. Oddly, [[Victorious Childhood Friend]] is ''subverted'': they had hated each other when they were in day care years before Fiona moved away, and didn't even remember that before a teacher told them about it.
* [[Forgotten First Meeting]]: Rudy and Fiona, who find out after dating for some time that they were in the same preschool - and hated each other.
* [[For the Evulz]]: Rudy's comic portrayed humans as [[Captain Planet]] villains in almost every respect except for the fact that [[Villain Protagonist|they're the main characters]]. Of course, at the time he drew the comic, everyone in that universe thought humans were fictional creatures. The idea of a race that would deliberately destroy habitats was considered so outrageously absurd as to be humorous.
* [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot]]: Lindesfarne ran her own blog at [https://web.archive.org/web/20110713144352/http://blog.kevinandkell.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110713144352/http://blog.kevinandkell.com/], and 6/27/08, she started responding to replies. Please note, however, that as of late 2013 the blog seems to have disappeared (despite still being mentioned on the site); the URL deposits you at the current day's strip instead.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Ralph's desire to eat Kevin stems from the tragic death of his herbivore lover. Desdemona Fuscus pressures Lindesfarne and Fenton to get married so that Lindesfarne doesn't find out about her being a vampire bat before the wedding.
* [[Furry Comic]]: One of the longest running and best known.
* [[Furry Confusion]]: Basically determined by [[Rule of Funny]]. For just one example, Lindesfarne's lab mice were long-running characters that lived in a cage like pets, even though they were actually sentient and capable of speech. Other parts of the comic have shown mice that are the same size as the main characters, complete with anthropomorphic features like hair and clothes. The status of the lab mice nearly break the strip's logic when Lindesfarne attempts to send them to the human world in place of herself and Danielle, but is informed by Catherine Aura that it wouldn't work with mice because they're "too small". This concept is also used for laughs from time to time - for just one example, Kell appears to be enamored of dogs in a pet store window, but the last panel zooms out to reveal it's a temp agency. The Dewclaws also keep a sentient flower for a pet. They're also aware of the concept of pets despite no appearances of other pets in the strip, though there may be other reasons why they feel this way besides [[Rule of Funny]].
** There's also the appearance of human-sized insects like moths, lightning bugs, and praying mantises...while insectivores like Lindesfarne and Fenton usually eat regular sized little insects. There was even an instance of a GIANT SPIDER attacking Tammy and Ray's (moth and lightning bug respectively) wedding, which Lindesfarne and Fenton ATE.
* [[Gender Bender]]
* [[Gender Equals Breed]]
* [[Genius Loci]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]
* [[Green Aesop]]
* [[Green
* [[Half
** To justify one species not wearing clothes...how ''would'' snakes wear clothes?
** ''None'' of the animals wear shoes or socks, leading to an early joke in the series about the characters wondering why they hung Christmas stockings as they had no idea what they were.
* [[Half
* [[Happily Adopted]]
* [[Happily Married]]
* [[He Knows Too Much]]
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]
* [[Historical Domain Character]]
* [[Hoist
* [[Holding the Floor]]
* [[
* [[Homage]]
* [[Humanity Ensues]]
** Ralph and Martha also briefly experienced this when they were transported into the human world. Ralph returned to his own self when he returned to their own dimension, but Martha remained human for a short time due to being in a lead container.
* [[I Am Not Weasel]]
* [[I Can Explain]] -- [[Averted Trope|Averted]] twice with Corrie, who doesn't quite confess to being a sheep disguised as a wolf before the people whom she believes realize her secret indicate they're talking about something else.
* [[Identical Grandson|Identical Granddaughter]]
* [[Improbably High IQ]]
* [[Infinite Canvas]] (or rather finite newspaper column) -- Recent Sunday strips.
** [[Reality Subtext]]
* [[Inherent in
* [[Insult Backfire]]
* [[Interspecies Romance]]
* [[In the Blood]]
* [[I Want Grandkids]]
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]
* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: Elanor, in a picture taken 30 years ago. Ralph is [[Squick
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Jerk
== K-O ==
* [[Killer Rabbit]]: Coney (and to a lesser degree, Kevin)
* [[Klingon Promotion]]: Promotion to Herd Thinners CEO requires a battle against the currently seated CEO, ending with the loser being devoured by the winner. In recent years, a series of succession challenges became important to the plot. {{spoiler|After Kell intervenes in a succession battle between [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|R.L.]] and Frank Mangle, she is promoted to Herd Thinners CEO because she was the ''least'' injured. Kell breaks the rule of killing either opponent, sending them to a hospital instead. She later has to fend off a challenge against herself, in which she effectively defangs her challenger instead of eating him and points out that if the board doesn't support her decision, the resulting succession fight will doom the company. [[Take a Third Option|She wins.]]}}
* [[L Is for Dyslexia]]: Rudy (fox/wolf cross) and Dorothy (rabbit, Kevin's mother): (they have dystracksia, i.e. troubles with reading ''tracks'')
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: Danielle and Lindesfarne are formerly human.
* [[Let's Duet]]: Kevin and Kell sing a song about how they first met in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPXG56RB3DM this video], which Bill commissioned by [[Filk Song|Tom Smith]]. Tom sings for Kevin and Karen Underwood sings for Kell. See "Suddenly Voiced", below, for more info.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Somewhat balanced by the frequent departures - there's a huge cast of characters, but rarely all at the same time.
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: The Domain version of the [[Facebook]] game Farmville [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2010/kk0905.html apparently doesn't disallow players from raiding their own henhouse].
* [[The Maiden Name Debate]]: Kevin changes his and Lindesfarne's last name to Dewclaw after marrying Kell, mainly because he had been disowned for doing so. This is probably the ''least'' unusual thing about their marriage.
** Lindesfarne has chosen to keep the name Dewclaw, likely because she's already a published scientist under that name.
* [[Maligned Mixed Marriage]]: The title characters, of course. It's shown that mixes of various sorts receive different levels of difficulty - within the same taxonomic family (such as Fiona's parents before their divorce) are generally accepted, and the further the drift from that, the more likely they are to deal with prejudice (both of Kell's marriages were mixed; her first, to a fox, only got mild disapproval from her family. The second caused her dad to disinherit her).
* [[Married to
* [[Meaningful Funeral]]
* [[Milholland Relationship Moment]] - Kevin and Kell discover that they've been having an internet "affair"... [http://www.kevinandkell.com/1998/kk0528.html with each other]. The truth comes out on a [[Jerry Springer]] show parody and ends up with the two of them on Oprah instead.
** ...After the [[Asshole Victim|host]] [[Karmic Death|had gotten devoured by Kell]] for [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|trying to goad her to eat Kevin!]]
* [[Million
* [[Miniature Senior Citizens]]
* [[Missing Mom]]: Wanda Woolstone, [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0512.html Corrie's mother], died in childbirth. Frank Mangle's wife and Leona's mother is never mentioned in the comic, but according to a September 2007 entry of Lindesfarne's blog, she died after a lengthy illness when Leona was eight.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]
{{quote|
'''Kell''': Yes, but Francis gives them an "other" to blame. }}
* [[Mysterious Animal Senses]]
* [[Name and Name]]
* [[No Biochemical Barriers]]
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]
* [[Noble Bigot]]: Kell has some difficulties dealing with felines, although she strives to remedy this. To an extent, Rudy towards herbivores, although with [[Character Development]], he gradually accepts his stepfamily.
* [[Noodle Incident]]
* [[N
{{quote|
'''Kevin:''' "Herbivore".
'''Rudy:''' "Herbivore" used to be a '''slur'''?!
'''Kevin:''' We took it back as our own. }}
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] --
* [[Obsessed Are the Listmakers]]: Candace is really strict about procedures. In one story arc, Candace and her husband adopt a child, whose morning rituals, such as getting out of bed, brushing teeth and getting dressed, become strictly listed and timed. There are even lines on the floor of the child's bedroom detailing where to go in fulfilling the tasks!
* [[Offhand Backhand]]
* [[Oh Crap]]: The characters do this at various points when they find out about various unfortunate developments. George does this when he learns that his wife is pregnant, and again when Kevin tells him that rabbits have litters (his child turns out to be a single birth, though).
* [[Omniglot]] --
* [[Omniscient Morality License]]
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]
== P-T ==
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: A pair of human scientists [[Crossover|(from another web comic]], ''[[General Protection Fault]]'') were able to travel to Domain ''through the internet''. (It might also have involved piggybacking on an existing portal, but for the most part the transport was internet-based.)
** There have been other examples of fourth wall painting, too, such as [http://kevinandkell.com/1999/kk1001.html being weighed down by too much emotional baggage].
* [[Parental Obliviousness]]
* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]
* [[Pet the Dog]]
* [[Phlegmings]]
* [[
* [[Playing Cyrano]]
* [[Put
** Rhonda made a one-shot appearance in the lead-up to Lindesfarne's wedding and will make at least a few more as she is part of the wedding party. She is also regularly mentioned on Lindesfarne's blog.
** Candice, her husband, and Mary appear as wedding guests.
* [[Quicksand Box]]: Discussed by Rhonda when she enters college and gets rather poor mid-term grades, where she mentions that she is terrible with studying because in high school, she was used to having to do homework all the time and found herself doing nothing in college.
* [[Red Herring]]
* [[Retcon]]
** Rudy's age was retconned from twelve to fourteen because Holbrook felt his attitude was appropriate for a teenager instead of a younger child. The comic eventually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded it]] with a storyline in which Rudy had to find a way to prove he was really fourteen and not twelve after learning that his mother had claimed him as two years younger to make up for his small size as a cub.
** Herd Thinners has been stated in various strips that is a company that has been running for a long time(the prehistory), but in the strip that revealed that
** Rhonda's name was actually "Rhoda" in her first appearance.
* [[Right in Front of Me]]
* [[Risky Business Dance]]
* [[Rousseau Was Right]]
* [[Rule of Funny]]
* [[Running Gag]]
** Take out the comics which start with a character going about day-to-say life, and then equating it to animal behavior in the last panel. Then take out the comics which reverse that. What you're left with is almost entirely the story arc comics.
* [[Schedule Slip]]
* [[Second Love]]
* [[Self
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]
* [[Ship Sinking]]
* [[Shout
** ... And one to author [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0320.html E. B. White].
** In the [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2004/kk0201.html Interspecies Support Group], you can see a [[Rocky and Bullwinkle|moose standing next to a squirrel]].
* [[Something Else Also Rises]]
* [[Species Surname]]
* [[Stealth Pun]] -- [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2010/kk1116.html An elephant insurance man whom no one wants to acknowledge.]
* [[Strawman Political]]
* [[Stupid Boss]]
** Not merely a stupid boss... he's also utterly clueless when it's obvious to everyone else that Danielle found out she's pregnant.
{{quote|
'''George''': Odd. She never does that at home when she...
'''Kevin''': Get a clue, George.
'''Ralph''': They sell those on eBay... along with cribs. }}
* [[Suddenly Voiced]]
* [[Take a Third Option]]
* [[Take That]]
* [[Taking the Bullet]]
* [[Tap
* [[The Internet Is for Porn]]: Used in a rather PG way. Since the comic has a lot of internet jokes and setting it bound to come up.
** Also Ralph uploaded some old photos he found. He then finds out they were of his mother.
{{quote|
* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself|This Is Something She Has To Do Herself]]
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]
* [[Toy Ship]]
** Now Coney's protectiveness of Francis could be interpreted that way, despite their being biological cousins. And yes they count as related even though his mother is from an alternate universe and he recently turned into a human.
* [[Tropaholics Anonymous]]
== U-Z ==
* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]: Kell and her cousin Sheila look similar enough to pass for each other, as Sheila is literally just Kell with different clothes and heavier makeup.
* [[Undead Tax Exemption]]: Averted when Catherine has to fabricate records for herself and Nigel in the human world.
* [[Unholy Matrimony]] -- [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|R.L.]] and [[Jerkass|Angelique]] have been shown to be genuinely in love with each other, despite Angelique seeing R.L.'s disappearance as an opportunity to take over Herd Thinners to conquer the world. Yet when R.L. returns alive, he is only minorly perturbed and simply convinces her its easier to make piles of money instead.
* [[Very Special Episode]]
* [[Villain
* [[Visual Pun]]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]
* [[Webcomics Long Runners]]
* [[Webcomic Time]]
** This also gets weird when you consider that Edgar is still high school age, yet his former girlfriend went into college long before he did - and was implied to have been dating her during that. Rachel also manages to mysteriously graduate so Lindsfarne could get a new roommate, but she was explicitly introduced as the same age as Rudy and Bruno.
** Vin's birthdate was eventually listed in the comic, showing him to be ''much'' older than he had been implied to be considering his introduction in the strip.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]
* [[Wham! Episode]]
** The revelation that Lindesfarne is a former human.
* [[Wham! Line]]
** As Kell flees the Rabbit Warren (which she entered to find Kevin's parents) with the rabbit whom she saved and who had helped her.
{{quote|
** Dorothy, while discussing requests for arranged marriages for Coney with Kevin, says she had set one up for him.
** Kevin finds an intruder in his house, who turns out to be working for his political opponents. When he says he's
{{quote|
** Lindesfarne tells Rudy that she's found Vin Vulpen's half brother, whom they need to give him a tail transplant. Rudy asks who would have to do it, and she says "Four inches should do it" while holding a ruler at his tail. Shortly thereafter, another comes when Rudy realizes the implications of this and denies that his father committed adultery.
{{quote|
'''Kell''': It's something I hope neither you nor Vin inherited from him! }}
** The culprit in Sid's murder confesses
{{quote|
* [[What Happened to
** After all the hoopla about baby Francis, his genetics, and ''turning into a human baby'', he's barely been seen in strip and the plotline has been dropped. This even includes an obvious [[Sequel Hook]] from Francis' birth storyline in which Danielle hinted that the only reason she would return to the human world would be to save him. [[Aborted Arc|This is never mentioned again.]]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]
** Made even more
** Lindesfarne's Blog entry for [https://virtual-quill.tumblr.com/post/687461569891794944/franchise June 19, 2022] outright states that Domain is somewhere in the [[w:Piedmont (United States)|Piedmont region of the United States]].
* [[Who Will Take the Kids?]]: An early story arc has Kevin and Kell debating over who should take the children in the event of their death. Ralph was automatically ruled out (this was before his [[Character Development]]), Kell's parents were ruled out since her father was succumbing to Alzheimer's, her cousin Sheila would eat Coney (this was years before Sheila was properly introduced to the strip), and Kevin was still estranged from his family over Kell. In the end, they name Lindesfarne (then in high school) the legal guardian and vow to take separate planes until she's twenty-one.
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Inverted; Lindesfarne considers Kell more of a mother than her original adoptive mother.
* [[A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing]]: Bruno (wolf) and his girlfriend Corrie (sheep) literally, figuratively, and just about every single variation one can think of.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Aby
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: The Bird/Y2K conspiracy.
* [[You Answered Your Own Question]]: How indeed could the [[Writing Around Trademarks|WikiBreaks]] be traced back to [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2011/kk0202.html Harelink?]
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: R.L. typically fires people by eating them.
** {{spoiler|Or so we were led to believe. Turns out, most of his trophies (the people he fired) are still alive - RL hired them back as temp workers, preventing them from getting any benefits.}}
* [[You're Not My Father]]: Lindesfarne stops calling Angelique "Mom" after the divorce, upset at being abandoned and not being acknowledged much even during the marriage.
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: George and Martha cheat on each other and catch each other at the same time.
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