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The comic is notable for dealing with a [[Gender Bender]] plot in a much less [[Fan Service]]-ey way, and with much more emotional depth and serious character consideration, than is the norm. Essentially, if you left out the supernatural and fantastical elements of the story, you'd still be left with a good tale about the challenges faced by a [[Transsexual]] boy dealing with life in a girl's body. Also unusual is the fact that the "old universe", where Ash is a boy with emotionally distant parents and Emily is a college-bound senior with a mean streak, has literally never been seen in the comic, although it's often alluded to.
Has a [[Misfile
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* [[Batman in My Basement]]: Rumisiel literally has nowhere else to go, but he sleeps on the couch. Then to explain his presence, he's passed off as Ash's boyfriend. When Vashiel arrives, he gets the bed in the basement.
* [[The Beard]]: Rumi and later {{spoiler|Ash, to Rumi's older brother.}}
* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: Ash watches Emily as she sleeps. Much later Emily watches Ash. These are followed by a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] and [[Dude, She's Like, in
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: Ash's relationship with Missi may be written into their files—hence Missi's confusion about being attracted to Ash despite not liking girls in general.
* [[Bedmate Reveal]]: In [http://www.misfile.com/?page=256 this strip], Ash wakes up after a night of drinking to find Vashiel in his/"her" bed.
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* [[Different for Girls]]
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Emily's father, got her mom knocked up and was never heard from again.
* [[Does This Make Me Look Fat?]]: [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=179 Vashiel gives the wrong answer to this question].
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Just read [http://www.misfile.com/?page=100 this conversation] which Rumisiel overhears.
* [[Don't Think, Feel]]: This is how Ash drives. [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=197 Emily can't drive that way].
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** Also occurs in the forum. When guys can't take a hint, they're douches. But Missi can shove her face into Ash's cleavage in front of their schoolmates, even though Ash has repeatedly he is not interested in a relationship, well then it's cute and funny.
* [[Dramatic Wind]]: When Kate first shows up.
* [[Dude, She's Like, in
* [[Eating Lunch Alone]]: Emily on the first day of school after the mishap. As a sophomore, she no longer dares sit with her senior former friends.
* [[Education Mama]]: Ms. McArthur, to a T. Emily's having to deal with this is a major plot point.
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* [[Embarrassing Slide]]
* [[Engineered Public Confession]]: Done by Rumisiel to {{spoiler|Sheldon}}.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Expressive Hair]]: Missi's pigtails help convey her mood [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1605 here].
* [[Expy]]: [http://www.building12.net/issue6/cover.htm This] is the cover of Issue 6 of Hazelton's first webcomic, ''[[Building 12]]''. Guess which one's the female lead.
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* [[Gender Blender Name]]: One wonders what would have happened had this not been the case. Also an indication that this is not going to be a typical [[Gender Bender]] story since adopting a "girl name" is a classic <s>cliche</s> manifestation of the [[Second Law of Gender Bending]]
* [[Genki Girl]]: Missi.
* [[Girls
* [[God Is Inept]]: Clearly the universe: or at least the angels: have some issues or quirks. The fact that the filing system is said to need manual maintenance and checking counts.
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: subverted when both angels [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1199 urge] or condone the same course of action.
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* [[Heaven]]: Where this whole mess started and where Rumi hopes to get back to, if only to fix Ash's file. Looks kinda like a [http://www.misfile.com/?page=891 back drop] to some old ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode.
* [[Hellistics]]: Missi causes problems between Heather and Emily, to be solved on the tracks. Emily wins. Heather gets pissed. Heather gets a racing prodigy to try to beat Ash. Said prodigy, Logan, and Eponine, a friend of Cassiel's, hit it off at a party. Cassiel takes it upon herself to try to help Logan win the race with magic (not knowing that she's helping Heather, whom she despises). Rumisiel attempts to keep Cassiel from rigging the race, which causes Logan to crash. The police arrive to check up on the accident, also finding Emily, who they were already looking for since she ran off in the middle of the night to watch said race. Emily's mother blames the night on Ash, forbidding Emily to hang out with Ash ever again, though Molly quickly steps in and takes the blame while also calling Ms. McArthur out on being so overbearing toward Emily. Ms McArthur orders Molly out of the house and grounds Emily for a month. This results in Ash inviting Missi to a movie instead of Emily. Long story short, Ash eats with Missi somewhere. Leaving said eating place, Ash and Missi are approached by two men who seem rather… vehemently interested in them. The subtext seems to imply a threat of rape.
* [[Help, I'm Stuck!]]: Emily [http://www.misfile.com/?page=779 here].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Ash, after learning that Rumisiel wouldn't be allowed back into Heaven for 72 years. Complete with [[Shower of Angst]]. Ash also has mini-[[Heroic BSOD|BSOD]]'s whenever he feels he's lost too much to the ongoing [[Incredibly Lame Pun|flow]] of [[The Mind Is a Plaything of
* [[Home Porn Movie|Home Porn Photos]]: causing Eponine, Logan, and Ash some difficulties.
* [[Homoerotic Dream]]: [http://www.misfile.com/?page=578 Ash has one about Emily] while they were asleep in the same room. Emily figures it out, but she isn't bothered at all--''she's'' had one about a friend of hers too. [[Transparent Closet|Not that it says anything about her]].
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* [[Animesque|Mangaesque]]: More pronounced before the [[Art Evolution]], but still somewhat mangaesque.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Missi.
* [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman]]: [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=27 Ash starts out this way] but eventually [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=766 gets over it], which only feeds his/"her" fears of [[The Mind Is a Plaything of
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Inverted; {{spoiler|boy!Ash was a virgin and is thoroughly squicked to learn girl!Ash is not.}}
* [[The Masquerade]]: Rumisiel claims that the misfile must be kept secret or his erstwhile superiors will cover their asses by making it permanent. Maintaining it becomes increasingly difficult once Vashiel and Missi join the crew.
* [[Master of the Mixed Message]]: Emily. Particularly [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1148 here].
* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of
* [[Mistaken for Badass]]: Not that Ash is bad at racing, but [http://www.misfile.com/?page=715 there are some things that just happened by accident.]
{{quote| '''Brent''': "Wow. She's good. There were only inches between her and that light pole."<br />
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* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Ash goes through a freakout after {{spoiler|hitting a girl, which he/"she" views as tantamount to surrendering his manhood in a [[Call Back]] to an early strip when Emily told Ash that he can hit a girl only if he is willing to admit to being a girl himself.}}
** Emily has one [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1187 here], after she and Missi piss off Ash enough with their sniping so that she quits talking to either of them.
* [[Nailed to
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: "Kamikaze" Kate.
* [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]]: Ash very much likes Missi, and feels truly happy for the first time since the Misfile while dating her, but becomes extremely uncomfortable upon realizing that Missi is playing the traditionally masculine "pursuer" role in the relationship, always trying to convince Ash to get physically intimate, while Ash is the one who keeps resisting in a stereotypically feminine way. Somewhat justified because Ash is trying to hold on to his male identity despite the [[Gender Bender]], and so whenever he finds himself playing a traditionally feminine role in ''any'' context, he [[Paranoia Fuel|sees it as a sign]] of the [[Second Law of Gender Bending|impending destruction]] of his "[[All Psychology Is Freudian|male psyche]]". Ash feels much safer being attracted to the more traditionally feminine Emily.
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* [[Pronoun Trouble]]: plenty of examples right on this very page. According to the "Ask Ash" column Ash accepts female pronouns because otherwise people would think Emily is crazy.
* [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend]]: Cassiel.
* [[Put
** Not seen in person perhaps, but his presence was definitely felt during Emily's race.
*** [[The Bus Came Back]].
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* [[The Stoner]]: Rumisiel, at first. Ash seems to have beat it out of him.
* [[Straight Gay]]: Kay Wheeler, despite being a male model.
* [[Straw Misogynist]]: Averted, notably, with the Arthur arc (starting [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=1597 here.]) Arthur is a significantly more common type of misogynist; he doesn't try to tell Ash to [[Stay in
* [[Strip Buffer]]: The forums are rife with speculation about the next day's comic, but that comic was completed a week earlier.
* [[The Sweat Drop]]: Even [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=917 Rumisiel's Tshirt] and [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=779 Emily's butt] get one.
* [[Suddenly Sexuality]]: Another deconstructed trope as Ash, Missi, and Emily all appear to struggling with the implications of their relationships.
* [[Sweet
* [[Taking the Heat]]: Molly does this for Emily before [[Calling the Old Man Out|calling the old woman out]].
* [[Talk to
* [[Tarot Motifs]]: [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=935 Bronwyn] tries to divine her future with her boyfriend… and lays the Misfile. '''''PERFECTLY.'''''
** The Hanged Man: Rumisiel. Self-sacrifice for the sake of enlightenment, bindings that make you free, paradoxes, and hanging between heaven and earth: in other words, exile to Earth to learn responsibility, where he has more freedom than he did in Heaven, enhances people's lives by ''accident'', flying around... A [[Messianic Archetype]]: he's a friggin' ''angel.'' [[Death Trap|Traps]], [[Self-Inflicted Hell|self-entrapment]], [[Apathetic Citizens|passivity]], and [[Despair Event Horizon|giving up]]... yeah.
** The Lightning-Struck Tower: The Celestial Filing Depot. Umm... "A straight Tower of Babel allegory about pride preceding a fall. Often associated to overly [[Pride|arrogant]], prejudiced, and authoritarian organizations (including [[The Government]]) which walk to their own [[Death
** The Lovers: Ash and Emily. [[Love Tropes|Romantic relationships]]. Also signifies standing at crossroad and [["Friend or Idol?" Decision|needing to]] [[The Sadistic Choice|make a]] [[Take a Third Option|decision]]. Additionally, the original card had a male and two females: in the context of the Misfile, Female Ash has to choose between Male Ash and Emily.
* [[Teens Are Short]]: The adults tower over the main characters, though Ash says he was taller when he was a boy.
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** Also, at Cape Cod, Marie only prepared one bed for Ash and Em to share. Ash let Emily have the bed and he slept on a cot.
* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: Ash's race against Tom.
* [[Tomboy]]: Ash, though, of course, "she's" actually a guy. In a cruel twist, though, he is subject to an intentional in-story slow descent into [[The Mind Is a Plaything of
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Ash and Emily.
* [[Training Montage]]: Em in [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=1268 this strip].
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