Loophole Abuse/Web Original

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Examples of Loophole Abuse in Web Original include:

• Elaine E. Nalley in the Whateley Universe is so notorious for doing this at Whateley Academy that the headmistress gave her the codename Loophole. As a Rules Lawyer, this can cause problems. Eventually, she discovers that the administration believes in Rule Zero.
  • In another Whateley example, Jobe Wilkin's mandatory school codename is... Jobe Wilkins. It's not just megalomania, given his notoriety as the only son of the setting's Captain Ersatz of Dr. Doom he figures he's not going to go unrecognized in any event.
• Ain't no rule that vampires can't be gymnasts!
• Skeletor competes in a Pokémon match ^{[dead link]}
• In the Global Guardians PBEM Universe, the 1964 Summer Olympics saw both the United States and the Soviet Union field teams filled to the brim with super-humans. In some cases, the "athletes" were quite obviously superhuman. Olympic officials swiftly closed the loophole that allowed superhuman "athletes" and disqualified both teams before competition actually began.
• A big problem in the Salvation War is that nobody has made laws pertaining to the dead, which causes quite a few legal headaches.
  • Another time, a British colonel tried to take over the command of Free Hell, only to be stopped by Julius Ceaser who points out that because of the amount of people under his command, he is technically a general.
• Skippy's List has examples:

124. Two drink limit does not mean first and last. 125. Two drink limit does not mean two kinds of drinks. 126. Two drink limit does not mean the drinks can be as large as I like. 127. "No Drinking Of Alcoholic Beverages" does not imply that a Jack Daniel's® IV is acceptable. 135. An order to put polish on my boots means the whole boot.

• The alt text of the final illustration on this installment of Randall Munroe's What If? column (concerning Scrooge McDuck and zoning regulations), invokes the former Trope Namer:

There's nothing in the basketball rulebook that says a duck can't build a giant bin of money to swim in.

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