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{{quote|''"There is nothing... NOTHING... more important than lesbians."''|'''Sidney Burns''', dispensing some true wisdom.}}

 

 

 

 

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* [[Accidental Marriage]]: Mika and Sidney's marriage made more complicated the fact it's also an...

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Mika wasn't happy at her fathers choice of groom.

** Possibly subverted with Jimbo. His tusks aren't because he's from the Boar Clan, but because he has tengu blood.

* [[Animeland]].

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: It helps to understand the comic better if you remember that the author is intentionally parodying shonen anime in just about every facet of his comic.

* [[Art Evolution]]: Comparing chapter 1 to the most recent chapter very rapidly demonstrates just how much the author's art has changed.

** ''Viciously'' subverted with Hank the bartender... although [[Brain Bleach|Weasel's dad doesn't seem to think so.]]

* [[Backstory]]: Everybody has one, and some are darker than others.

* [[Badass Boast]]: {{spoiler|Sober}} Sid: {{spoiler|"If any of you mob assholes even think of hurting Mika... Just remember one thing..." * crushes a steel chair with one hand* "First... You'll have to go... Through Me." * delivers a [[One-Hit Kill]]* }}

* [[Badass Normal]]: [[In a World]] filled with cyborg scientists, werecats, dragons, and even more bizarre things, Sidney Burns only needs his fists and a bottle of scotch.

** {{spoiler|[[Badass Abnormal]]: Recently there have been hints (such as the firebreathing and the foreign element in Sid's mindscape) that Nariko did ''something'' to Sid to keep him alive. Mika questions her about it and Nariko angrily confirms it without getting into the specifics.}}

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Papa-san

* [[Crazy Enough to Work]]: {{spoiler|To convince the heads of the other yakuza gangs to attend his wedding to Mika, Sidney Burns visits (or, in most cases, punches his way into) the bases of every one of the yakuza clans in Tokyo, including a clan of assassins, a clan of magic using werecats, a clan of professional bodyguards, a clan of sky pirates, a clan of magic using thieves, and last but not least, a clan of time traveling monkeys. All on the same day. And was still in time for his wedding that night.}}

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Sidney Burns, big time.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Issue 10, in a rare twenty against one example. {{spoiler|The twenty lose.}} Oh, and let's not forget {{spoiler|Sid versus the Yeti.}} That one lasted 6.4 horrible, horrible seconds.

* [[Darkskinned Blonde]]: Kyoko

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Several. {{spoiler|Papa-san's Dead Wife and Dead Little Daughter which led to an ill-fated [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] that cost him an eye and the lives of many of his men, and also caused Ryujin to become obsessed with his new surrogate little sister Mika. Sid's Dead Little Brother Jim who perished in Iraq while Sid survived is just one of many sources of trauma that Sid drowns in alcohol. Recently it's been revealed that Taro really had a twin sister Tara who died in mysterious circumstances. His mother was so broken up by her death that Taro suppressed [[Real Men Wear Pink|his feminine side]] and threw himself into more masculine interests like football in order to make her happy. It's also why he acted like a playboy in the past despite not really being attracted to women.}}

** {{spoiler|The circumstances got a bit less mysterious, as it was revealed that Bengal, Taro and Tara's grandfather, murdered her in order to keep something important to Bengal a secret.}}

* [[Delinquents]]: Jimbo and his two underlings before Sid beats Jimbo up, as well as Mo, Curry, and Rarry.

* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Mika's early androphobia.

* [[Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off]]: {{spoiler|Sid's dad.}}

* [[Drama Bomb]]: Issue 2, where {{spoiler|Mika's scarred left eye is revealed, as well as her tendency to attempt suicide if left alone for more than a few minutes.}} The first instant of serious drama in the comic. Until that point, things had been comedy with only a little bit of drama.

* [[Drunk Duck]]

* [[Faceless Goons]]: The "Alphabet Goons" of the Black Sheep Clan are comprised of goons with stitches in the shape of letters from the English alphabet instead of faces.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Ace Diamond, due to events that occurred shortly after his initial appearance, has been [[Blessed with Suck|blessed]] with the nickname "[[Bring My Brown Pants|Brown]] [[Smug Snake|Trouser]] [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|Snake]]". Sidney Burns is mostly just called Sid.

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Weasel

* [[Genki Girl]]: Kyoko

* [[Goth]]/ [[Perky Goth]]: Mika on occasions.

* [[Handicapped Badass]]: Jimbo

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Given that Sidney Burns is significantly taller than Mika, and is incredibly stout, he likely has, at a minimum, ten times Mika's mass.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Sidney, but more heart of gold than jerk.

* [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]]: Sid's brain is a whole lot more complicated that some people would think. And more than a little disturbing in places. {{spoiler|Momo tries to break into Sid's brain in order to steal vital information. Sid's brain fights back. Hard.}}

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Brutally subverted, given that Sidney Burns apparently has a "sword ball" made up of katanas that other people have tried to use on him. According to Sid, the cheap katanas used by a group of yakuza bodyguards "wouldn't even stop a Jehovah's Witness back home".

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Starts in Issue 1, and never really stops.

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Up until Chapter 10, Sidney Burns just seemed like a large goofball, often using the most bizarre methods to solve problems (which include, but are not limited to wedgies, farting, and puppets). Sure, he can take a punch, but he almost never used serious violence to solve a problem. It isn't until {{spoiler|he and Mika are confronted by more than twenty goons intent on doing harm to Sid}} that we see what Sid does when someone seriously threatens him or the people he cares for. A can is opened. It's contents? 100% all natural fresh squeezed whoopass.

* [[Mister Exposition]]: Papa-san [[Crazy Prepared|even carries a photo album around with him]] because he never knows when he'll need to [[Lampshade Hanging|dish out some exposition.]]

* [[My Sister Is Off-Limits]]: Ryujin tells Sid in the first chapter that if he marries Mika when she turns 16 (the legal age of consent for females in Japan), he'll kill Sid. This puts Sid in a bind, since if he doesn't marry Mika when she turns 16, Papa-san will kill him.

** actually 13 is the legal age of consent in japan.

* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: Weasel ( {{spoiler|At least in Taro's imagination}}), and Mookie.

* [[Night of the Living Mooks]]: [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Bengal}} has the power to raise the dead to fight as his minions.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Sidney Burns

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]

* [[Our Elves Are Different]]: And some are [[Stripperiffic]]!

* [[Scars Are Forever]]: Well, unless you have major reconstructive surgery.

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Mika occasionally.

** {{spoiler|Mika also counts, as she contains within herself the Dragon of Life.}}

*** {{spoiler|She also has a Shinigami and three dead people inside her. It's getting kind of crowded in there.}}

* [[Sky Pirate]]: A story arc revolving around them.

* [[Spank the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Sid delivers one to Mika. This was [[Fetish Fuel]] to everyone present, even the one female observer.}}

* [[Stout Strength]]: Sidney Burns. Don't believe it? Wait until he flexes his muscles.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: {{spoiler|Sober Sid has a radically different personality that drunk Sid, and unlike drunk Sid, uses his full strength in a fight without any regard for his opponent's well being, making the first fight that Sober Sid appears in a [[One-Hit Kill]].}}

* [[Team Mom]]: Mika

* [[The Atoner]]: {{spoiler|Nariko. Kept a prisoner by Bengal and used in experiments to harness her powers over death, Bengal used her as a last ditch weapon against The Warrior, Sid in a previous life. However, Nariko fell in love with the Warrior, and when she learned that he was in love with The Dragon Of Life (her sister), Bengal tricked her into using a love potion to make him fall in love with Nariko for one night. However, the potion was poisoned (since Bengal provided it, it's only to be expected) and the Warrior died shortly after it's effects wore off. The Dragon Of Life, seeing her love dead, killed herself. The gods cursed Nariko for her actions, despite her being the [[Unwitting Pawn]], to walk the earth until she could reunite The Warrior and The Dragon Of Life when they reincarnated.}}

* [[The Big Guy]]: Sidney Burns, although sometimes the other characters forget just HOW big.

* [[The Quiet One]]: Jimbo.

* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: One character has only suggested this, but another {{spoiler|actually attempted it. Surprisingly, it doesn't work (no one thought to aim for the head), primarily due to an unintended [[Bulletproof Vest]] made out of an absurd number of training weights.}}

* [[Yakuza]]

 

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