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* In an early episode of ''[[Questionable Content]]'', Marten describes his job as being "[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=85 the office bitch]". This is his official job title.
* One patron in ''[[Unshelved]]'' runs into a problem like this when his girlfriend [http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20070417 wants to close the book on their relationship].
* In ''[[FindersFinder's Keepers]]'', Death sends Cailyn Asher a knife after Card asks for her (Death's) help. When Cailyn, Card, and Lady Scarring examine the knife later, Scarring calls it "the cutting edge." Cailyn of course asks what it is the cutting edge of, only to be told that the knife is '''the''' Cutting Edge, and it ''literally'' [http://www.finderskeepers.gcgstudios.com/?p=comic&chap=1&cid=22 cuts theory from reality.]
* [http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20080112.html This strip] from ''[[Exterminatus Now]]''.
{{quote|'''Eastwood:''' Oh, I assure you I'm pissing myself with fear.
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'': Where bad comics burn. This is ''usually'' a figure of speech referring to the comic being [[Caustic Critic|critically roasted]], but on three occasions thus far he has literally set the comics on fire once he's finished reviewing them.
* [[Jesu OtakuJesuOtaku]] often says metaphorical-sounding things in her anime reviews immediately before showing clips of those exact things happening—for instance, that one villain crushes the heroes' lives like marbles, or that another abandons the goals for which his sister sacrificed everything and [[Brother-Sister Incest|screws her]].
* [[Transolar Galactica]]'s first episode revolves around Captain Trigger ordering his helmsman to steer to the "second star to the right, straight on 'til morning".
 
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