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[[File:minus12.jpg|frame|[[Strange Girl|minus]] is weird like that.]]

 

 

 

[[All of the Other Reindeer|She has very few friends]], apart from a green-haired girl, the beings that minus wills into existence, and the ghosts.

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Compare and contrast with "[[It's a Good Life]]".

 

<small> Also, yes, both the character and the strip are [[All Lowercase Letters|spelled with a lower case "m"]].</small>

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* [[Accidental Murder]] : {{spoiler|by the green haired girl, of all people. And it stuck.}} minus does this on occasion.

* [[Alternate History]]: Even without minus around making the laws of reality her [[Last-Second Word Swap|servant]], there are subtle hints that her world is not the same as our own. Of course, [[Epileptic Trees|she may well be responsible for that...]]

* [[Ambiguous Innocence]]

* [[Ancient Astronauts]]

* [[Apocalypse How]]: Quite a few, but most famously {{spoiler|the one that actually stuck, wherein minus resurrected the entire population of Earth, past and present, human and otherwise. It was crowded, to put it mildly.}}

* [[A Wizard Did It]]: Since minus's powers are, literally, ''whatever she wants'', "minus did it" is a perfectly valid solution to any [[Fridge Logic]].

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Rule of thumb: never ask minus anything when she's distracted, and always remember to be precise, and think of the side-effects before you do.

* [[Body Horror]]: minus turns a balloon selling guy into a balloon himself when he yells at her for popping all his balloons. {{spoiler|[[Nightmare Fuel|Then he pops.]]}}

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|The entire human race is destroyed, but lives on in the after life. Also, minus and the green haired girl look distinctly melancholy in the final strip.}}

** {{spoiler|Subverted when you remember that minus still has her godly powers and, ergo, can change the world back to how it was and do anything else to no longer be sad or melancholy.}}

*** [[Fridge Horror|Hooray, the cosmos is still in the thrall of a mad, amoral god for eternity!]]

* [[Bullying a Dragon]] / [[Mugging the Monster]]: A few kids in the early comics.

* [[Call Back]]: [[Show Within a Show|Sergeant Davy]] and his trusty steed, Prendon, are mentioned as having existed in the comic's world several strips after minus altered history to make Davy a war hero.

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Despite, as can be told by most of the rest of this page, having a reputation for being dangerous, in truth, all things considered, minus' stops doing more negative things very quickly - by halfway through the comic she's almost entirely neutral: only doing negative things out of naivete rather than intentionally doing them, and she often adds things to her some of the less positive things she caused to make them bittersweet or even good. She never stops callously making synthetic sentient beings, however.

* [[Cheerful Child]]: minus, of course.

* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Innocent, yes. She sets the bar for [[Ambiguous Innocence]].

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]

* [[Crystal Spires and Togas]]: The alien world.

** Granted, his actions {{spoiler|cause a chain of events which directly lead to [[The End of the World as We Know It]]}}, so one could say that his retribution was delayed, but there.

** The green-haired girl also pulls this off, accidentally.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]

* [[End of the World Special]]

* [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl]]

* [[Gainax Ending]]: The climax and ending do come right the hell out of nowhere.

* [[Great Gazoo]]

* [[Green Thumb]]

* [[God Is Flawed]]: minus

* [[Hair Colors]]: minus' changes from strip to strip.

* [[Humanoid Abomination]]

* [[Idiot Hair]]

* [[Imaginary Friend]]: Only in minus' case, they really aren't that imaginary for long.

* [[Inexplicably Awesome]]: It's never explained where exactly minus' powers come from.

* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: One of the girls in minus's class is friends with Larry, an adult man.

* [[Jerkass]]: minus can be this a lot.

** Also the red haired ghost girl. At least minus' is out of childish naivete and immaturity.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: minus.

* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: minus doesn't generally doesn't recognize the consequences of their actions until they're presented to her, if they ever are at all. This leads to a lot of [[Disproportionate Retribution]] such as turning a man into a balloon and letting him pop, or moments like the creation of a miniature civilization in her tub only to destroy it when bathtime ends.

* [[Little Miss Almighty]]

* [[Living Toys]]: variations on a theme for minus.

* [[Magic Realism]]: To an extent.

* [[Magical Camera]]: It captures souls.

* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]

* [[Mood Whiplash]]

* [[No Name Given]]: Everyone except minus, Larry, and a couple ghost characters.

* [[Only Six Faces]]: It becomes increasingly difficult to tell Minus from characters with similar hairstyle.

* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]

* [[Perfect Health]]: minus never gets sick unless she wills herself to.

* [[Pirates]]

* [[Planet Eris]]: Whatever minus can think up, there it appears.

* [[Reality Warping Is Not a Toy]]: Well, for minus it is.

* [[Recurring Character]]: Larry.

* [[Retraux]]: minus. is deliberately drawn in the style of a turn-of-the-century newspaper comic, only without the limitations on space or color.

* [[Reused Character Design]]: Most of the unnamed characters look like the characters from another one of the artist's series, ''Great''.

* [[Scenery Porn]]

* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: In-Universe: {{spoiler|[[After the End]], the ghost population finds the fact they had legs kinda funny, despite the fact most of them had legs before.}}

** The then apparently retroactively sends her sister back in time with her, so they could live life together.

* [[Spirit World]]

* [[Starfish Aliens]]

* [[Walking the Earth]]: Larry. Not even {{spoiler|[[The End of the World as We Know It]]}} can stop him.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]

** More like making fun of [[True Art Is Angsty]].

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Perks]]: Indeed, that's ''all'' they're used for.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: And Green hair, and red hair, depending on minus' mood it seems. Some of the normal characters have green or red hair regardless of minus.

 

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