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Now has a [[Lackadaisy (Webcomic)/Characters|character page]]. Please put all character related tropes there.

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=== This webcomic provides examples of: ===

== A-E ==

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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: [[Word of God|Tracy]] has answered on her forum that ''yes'', one of the main characters will die.

* [[Apron Matron]]: Aunt Nina.

* [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking]]: Played to a T in this quote:

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Played to a T in this quote:

{{quote| '''Lacy''': "Headlamps, Mr. Sable."<br />

'''Wick''': "Right, where would I be without Miss Lacy?"<br />

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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Subverted HARD, with Viktor, who tries to help against the pig farmers, has the means to do so, gets to the bar in time, but is unable to help because of stairs.

** To be clear, the reason stairs were an obstacle is because his bad knees can't really bend anymore.

* [[Big Ol Eyebrows]]: Rocky, to the point where when the speakeasy is being attacked by the pig farmers, they know him as "The one with the eyebrows."

* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: Rocky, to the point where when the speakeasy is being attacked by the pig farmers, they know him as "The one with the eyebrows."

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: ''[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=30 KUS VOLA! ZABIJEM T'A!]''

** He's saying 'You piece of ox! I'll kill you!'; in Slovak, calling someone a 'piece of ox' is a common insult, similar to our English habit of calling someone a jackass.

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* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: ''Nobody'' in this story is blameless. The protagonists can be nice, they can be funny, and they are certainly usually better than the villains of the story, but let's get a few things straight: just about everyone in the story (including all the protagonists) is a criminal of some description, and over half of them have killed. Even Freckle.

** ''Especially'' Freckle.

** Even [[Cool Old Lady|Mrs. Bapka]] (Viktor's upstairs neighbor) [[Word of God|is a hardened criminal]], who {{spoiler|[[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Heinous|stuffed sardines down her kitchen drain before the widespread adaptation of garbage disposals]]}}.

** Even [[Cool Old Lady|Mrs. Bapka]] (Viktor's upstairs neighbor) [[Word of God|is a hardened criminal]], who {{spoiler|[[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|stuffed sardines down her kitchen drain before the widespread adaptation of garbage disposals]]}}.

** Though we've yet to see Lacy mixed up in any wrongdoings, time will only tell if this remains the case.

* [[Blah Blah Blah]]: [http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=10 Noise noise noise].

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'''Mordecai''' "...No one who counts." }}

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]

{{quote| '''Rocky:''' "You know how when Viktor looks at you, it seems like he's searing a hole through your face? Well, I have a theory about that. By having to pass through that singular ocular of his, the, uh, hate energy he radiates experiences [[Genius Bonus|some sort of amplification in a manner not unlike stimulated emission]] as, uh, Einstein described it, resulting in a kind of [[Frickin Laser Beams|highly intensified...glare beam]]".}}

{{quote| '''Rocky:''' "You know how when Viktor looks at you, it seems like he's searing a hole through your face? Well, I have a theory about that. By having to pass through that singular ocular of his, the, uh, hate energy he radiates experiences [[Genius Bonus|some sort of amplification in a manner not unlike stimulated emission]] as, uh, Einstein described it, resulting in a kind of [[Frickin' Laser Beams|highly intensified...glare beam]]".}}

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* [[Femme Fatale]]: Mitzi, if you don't think she's [[The Vamp]].

* [[Femme Fatalons]]: Mitzi. Just ask the poor vagrant that tried to take a pearl from [[Berserk Button|the engagement necklace Atlas had given Mitzi]] back in the good ol' days. [[Eye Scream|Ouch.]]

* [[Five Man Band]]:

* [[Five-Man Band]]:

** [[The Hero]]: Rocky

** [[The Lancer]]: Mitzi

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* [[The Flapper]]: Ivy

* [[Four Eyes Zero Soul]]: Mordecai.

* [[Four Fingered Hands]]: Justified, since they're all cats.

* [[Four-Fingered Hands]]: Justified, since they're all cats.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Tracy herself. As evidenced by her most recent (as of 08/23/2010) journal entry on her deviantArt page, Tracy has recently 'unofficially adopted' her neighbor's cat Luca after she found the poor creature barely alive with several serious facial injuries and a myriad of infections. She took Luca to the vet to have him humanely euthanized, but then found it in her heart (and wallet) to pay for his many many surgeries, antibiotic treatments, and pain medication. The result: Luca is now living happily with Tracy as a sort of bizarre IRL counterpart to Viktor as Luca lost an eye to infection and is generally chewed up body wise. So Tracy is not only a splendid artist, but a splendid human being in general.

* [[Funetik Aksent]]: Viktor Vasko (Slovak), the Savoy Siblings (Cajun), Aunt Nina (Irish), and the pig farmers ('Southern Rustic' English)

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* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: Serafine seems to practice this for some reason. We've yet to see just how qualified she really is.

* [[Hot Chick in A Badass Suit]]: Serafine Savoy.

* [[Huge Guy Tiny Girl]]: Viktor and Ivy, respectively.

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Viktor and Ivy, respectively.

** Also Nicodeme and Serafine.

*** Serafine is tall for a woman; it's just that Nico is tall for a man.

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*** It's especially visible on Nico, whose head fur is longer than that of the other male cats. We can probably guess males would have equally human-like hair if they'd just grow it out.

*** Though that does depend on how seriously you take the characters' human depictions - the boys have hair of varying lengths in [http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=328 this] picture, for example.

* [[I Call Her Vera]]: Serafine calls her automatic rifle "Boudreaux".

* [[I Call Her "Vera"]]: Serafine calls her automatic rifle "Boudreaux".

** Appropriate enough for a BAR.

* [[I Can't Believe ~~Its~~ Not Heroin]]: [http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=351 This] is what you get when you mix little Rocky with pancakes.

* [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!]]: [http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=351 This] is what you get when you mix little Rocky with pancakes.

** "'''''I CAN SEE ETERNITY'''''."

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Every page is titled "Lackadaisy [Something multisyllabic]"

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{{quote| '''Rocky:''' "No! Why isn't this corn tall enough? This is terrible corn!"}}

* [[Mature Animal Story]]

* [[Moe Couplet]]: [[Huge Guy Tiny Girl|Viktor and Ivy]], [[Morality Pet|whose relationship is not romantic]] but defintely cute. [http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=337 Discussed and practically lampshaded here], especially in the last panel.

* [[Moe Couplet]]: [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl|Viktor and Ivy]], [[Morality Pet|whose relationship is not romantic]] but defintely cute. [http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=337 Discussed and practically lampshaded here], especially in the last panel.

* [[Morality Pet]]: Ivy for Viktor

* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Nina is one of these toward Freckle, the Catholic version.

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** The only way you can find a historical inaccuracy is if the author draws attention to it specifically. It then turns out to be very, very minor.

** Seriously, look at literally ''anything'' in the comic and try to see something that didn't look like lots of thought and knowledge was put into it.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Mordecai has a mix between this and [[Technically a Smile]] or [[The Un Smile]].

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Mordecai has a mix between this and [[Technically a Smile]] or [[The Un-Smile]].

* [[Small Girl Big Gun]]: Ivy is in her school's Woman's Rifle Team.

* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Ivy is in her school's Woman's Rifle Team.

** Serafine also counts for this considering her rifle is actually important enough to be named by her.

* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Most of the protagonists, see [[Psycho for Hire]] below.

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== U-Z ==

* [[Ugly Guy Hot Wife]]: Depends on your taste in women, but Elsa seems to be easier on the eyes than Bobby.

* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Depends on your taste in women, but Elsa seems to be easier on the eyes than Bobby.

* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Honestly, why would someone as Irish Catholic as Nina name her son ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism Calvin]''?

** Calvin is named after one of the author's cats. Not an in-story explanation, but still...

** Perhaps there is nothing quite like an unfortunate name to instill some good ol' Catholic guilt....

* [[The Un Reveal]]: Rocky and Zib's conversation in [http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=30 Hallelujah: ]

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Rocky and Zib's conversation in [http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=30 Hallelujah: ]

{{quote| '''Zib:''' But before you hightail it out of here, humor me- just what made a lad like you volunteer to go running hooch around in the dead of night?<br />

'''Rocky:''' ''Well,'' I- oops. Did you see that? One of my strings is broken.<br />