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[[File:loserz_0532_7664.gif|frame| Eric Approves.]]

 

A webcomic by Erik Schoenek. Started in 2001, went on hiatus in 2007. You find [http://loserzcomic.comicgenesis.com/ the archive of strips up to 2004 here]; a more recent site (bukucomics) [[Series Hiatus|was gone dead for some time]], came back, and now has gone dead again. Luckily, yet another archive can be found [http://the-qlc.com/loserz/ here].

The protagonists are three high school kids on a school in Michigan:

* Ben Winchester, a somewhat weird, but generally nice guy.

* Jodie Beretta, fun-loving bisexual, who's in a lasting platonic friendship with the two boys.

 

Not to be confused with [[Sexy Losers]].

 

* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: Ben's father is laughing about "dingle-choad".

* [[The Alleged Car]]: Eric's

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] on it being played straight, and subverted.

* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Eric and {{spoiler|you wouldn't guess it - Alice}}.

* [[Anything That Moves]]: Jodie.

* [[April Fools' Day]]

* [[Art Evolution]]: Black and White to Colored with Large Lips to the current style.

* [[Author Guest Spot]]

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Said chicken costume seems to be Jodie's only non-midriff-baring outfit.

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: No, Jodie farting once in front of her friends was a definite aversion.

* [[Big Eater]]: Ben, to Eric's displeasure.

* [[Big No]]: Actually a parody on [[Star Wars|Luke Skywalker]]'s.

* [[Black Best Friend]]: Black Girlfriend - Alice.

* [[Black Bra and Panties]]: Jessica wears them, while still a virgin. [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/213 See here.]

* [[Blank White Eyes]]

* [[Blatant Lies]]: [[Manipulative Bastard]] Adam is an expert at this.

* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Played with after {{spoiler|Jesse comes out and Carrie freaks out}} and [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/508 Alice forces them to make up].

* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Both Jodie and her mom.

* [[Brain Bleach]]: Ben [[Imagine Spot|imagines]] purging his thoughts with a [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/308 gasoline fire].

* [[Camp Gay]] / [[Depraved Homosexual]]: In-story on TV.

* [[Canis Latinicus]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/75 Jodie is a "sluttus maximus".] {{spoiler|Yes, "slutta maxima" should be... closer to correct.}}

* [[Cardboard Pal]]

* [[Casanova]]: Adam.

* [[Cat Fight]]

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]

* [[Code Word Coitus]]: Adam knows how.

* [[Country Matters]]: From Jessica to Carrie, and she deserved it.

* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/407 Gus.] Jodie is [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/408 reduced to nigh incomprehensibility in the face of his sheer adorableness] and [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/411 even Jodie's mother degenerates into] [[Baby Talk]].

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Carrie.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Jodie's, though it's something of a subversion - Jodie's mother became pregnant from a one-night stand in Vegas where she was so drunk that she didn't even remember the guy's name. She never saw him after, and it was two weeks later at home that she discovered she was pregnant, much too late to even attempt to locate him, so he didn't disappear - he was never even there to begin with at all.

* [[Dissimile]]

* [[Double Entendre]]

* [[Double Standard]]: Gives examples on occasion.

* [[Dream Within a Dream]]

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/432 The female Dance Team coach.]

* [[Erotic Eating]]: Demonstrated by Jodie [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/73 here].

* [[Cute Kitten]]: Gus.

* [[Funny Spoon]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/197 Of course, being under the influence of coffee helps appreciating spoons.]

* [[The Exit Is That Way]]

* [[Expressive Accessory]]: Eric's hat. Visible by everyone except himself.

* [[Flash Back]]: [[Lampshaded]] [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/134 here].

* [[Flipping the Bird]]

* [[Frivolous Lawsuit]]

* [[Funny Animal]]: Max and Cecil, a fox and porcupine based on ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' who appear in the main comic a couple of times while having their own occasional side story.

* [[Gasshole]]: Sorry to say that, but Jodie.

* [[Girl Posse]]: Carrie, Alice, Jessica.

* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]]: Jodie too.

* [[God]] (and [[Jesus]] too)

* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]

* [[Growing Up Sucks]]

* [[Guilty Pleasures]]: {{spoiler|''[[Sailor Moon]]''}} for Carrie.

* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]: Max and Cecil (only in a waterfight, usually they go without)

* [[Hikikomori]]: Jodie, once.

* [[Hitler Ate Sugar]]

** Though to be fair, it's never actually referred to as [[Tourettes Syndrome]]. He's just so socially awkward that he spits out the first thing on his mind when he meets a girl. Considering that he's an average 15-16 year old male, simmering in a massive cocktail of hormones, the first thing on his mind tends to be sex.

* [[Horrible Camping Trip]]

* [[It's All My Fault]]

* [[Jerk Jock]]: Most of them are.

* [[Jive Turkey]]: Subverted.

* [[Jizzed in My Pants]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/55 Here]. Jodie too.

* [[Killer Rabbit]]

* [[Life Embellished]]: Mostly [[Slice of Life]], but then suddenly the characters watch movies together with [[Star Wars|Yoda]], or do something else you don't see in [[Real Life]].

* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]: {{spoiler|1=Jessica McIntyre.}}

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Eric has his moments.

* [[Male Gaze]]

* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Averted.

* [[Man On Fire]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/323 Here.]

* [[My Girl Is Not a Slut]]

* [[My Girl Is a Slut]]: The reason most of the guys wooed Jodie.

* [[Mystery Meat]]

* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: {{spoiler|Adam - although he's rather a sexy nerd}}

* [[Nightmare Sequence]]: Also subverts [[All Just a Dream]], [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/180 here].

* [[Online Alias]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/241 Ben is "zombiejuiceYUM". Jodie is "p0rnstar6912".]

* [[Open-Minded Parent]]: Surprisingly, {{spoiler|Carrie's mother}}

* [[Orphaned Series]]

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]

* [[Parental Obliviousness]]: Jodie's mom, the other parents to some extent.

* [[Pass the Popcorn]]

* [[Picture Day]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/105 How to avoid you parents send your pic to everyone.]

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/291 Jessie on Carrie,] with a precision C strike.

* [[Serious Business]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/413 The right choice of Makkaroni with cheese!]

* [[Shaving Is Science]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/273 Parodied here.]

* [[Sleep Mode Size]]: Jodie sometimes, [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/335 like here.]

* [[Speak in Unison]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/315 Here, for example.] [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/145 And here.]

* [[Special Snowflake Syndrome]]: Ben wants to play an Elven Barbarian. "His name is Glorfinmad!"

* [[Split Screen]]

* [[Spoiled Brat]]

* [[Spork]]: Here, it's an [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/12 eyefork].

* [[Squee]]

* [[Step Three: Profit]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/423 By making people fat?]

* [[The Stoner]]: Tim; occasionally the protagonists too.

* [[Stuffed Into a Locker]]: Reversed in one case, where a locker was [[Ass Shove|stuffed into a person]]

* [[Subtext]]

* [[Take That]]: Several, one instance is towards the film version of ''[http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/176 House Of The Dead]''.

** And then one at [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/516 the forums].

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/338 Here.]

* [[Token Minority]]: Alice.

* [[Twice Shy]]: Played with Alice and Eric, who already got together, but broke up. [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/433 See here.]

* [[Unsound Effect]]

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]

* [[Why Did You Make Me Hit You?]]

* [[Women Drivers]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/3 Jodie]

** Before that though, he plays up the [[Double Standard]] for all it's worth. Jodie is annoyed with Ben for not wanting to hit her and get his revenge, so she asked him "What would you do if it was ''Eric'' who slept with her?". Ben immediately goes into a trance-like state and launches Eric across the room with one punch without turning around or even looking at him.

* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: Jodie.

* [[You Need a Breath Mint]]: [http://starship.slipshine.net/loserz/go/104 Jodie, for NSFW reasons.]

* [[You Need to Get Laid]]

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