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> RECALL EMOTIONALLY BIPOLAR SITUATIONS

Andrew Hussie is an undeniable master of the emotional whipkind abstratus.

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• The End of Act 4 flash has this in spades! After the completely hilarious Con Air reenactment, we get Jack decimating The Battlefield and destroying Prospit. Even within in the flash, there's a moment where Squiddles hug a random sailor. Followed by Jade's dream self dying saving John from the wreckage of Prospit impacting Skaia. Later, Grandpa Harley recovers Dream!Jade's corpse and brings her back to his battleship. On one page, you see him crying. On the next, you see that he's already stuffed and mounted her into a goofy pose. Cue the Spit Take.
• Karkat's tears of red liquid sorrow are somewhat spoiled by the honking Juggalo in the background. Goddammit, Gamzee.
  • Not to mention Jack Noir's comforting words of "there there you goddamn blubbering pansy".
  • Chillingly averted when it happens again R.I.P Feferi...
• John arriving back at his house at the start of Act 5 Act 2, goofing around telling imps off... and then things take a turn for the serious.
  • And in the middle of that conversation the mood gets flipped again with Rose calling John "our leader" D'awww.
  • And then she does this. Yikes.
• This update. The whiplash is so heavy it can break your neck.
• And then, immediately following the Jade: Enter flash, you see that Bro is dead by his own sword. Not two pages later? You see the newly christened Bec Noir donning his shades and gloves, to gut-wrenchingly hilarious effect.
• Taken to extreme levels with the pages that happen after [S] John: Enter village. After a fun and happy time talking to all the salamanders and John being excited to get to the next part of his quest, he is stabbed in the chest by Bec Noir. Immediately afterwards, John ascends to the God Tiers in one of the most Awesome Moments of the comic.
• "BOO HOO HOO HOO HOO HOO HOO HOO Woof :'("
• [S WAKE:] Hell yes, the music is MeGaLoVania! HELL NO, Bec Noir killed dream-Feferi, dream-Nepeta, and all of Derse! Hell yeah, Aradia ascended to god-tier and froze Bec in time! SWEET JEGUS, VRISKA KILLED TAVROS! and then...
• Eridan going absolutely apeshit, killing Feferi and Kanaya right after critically wounding Sollux ended a weekend of bloodshed with this.
  • And the SBAHJ reference here has a similar effect.
  • Though for some, the mood fails to whip and just detours into Dude, Not Funny.
  • And if that didn't do it for you, then we get to examine Terezi's investigative methods.
• On this page, Karkat kissing Kanaya manages to be very sad while Terezi kissing Tavros manages to be very funny at the same time despite the fact that they're both essentially doing the same thing.
  • Probably due to the faces.
• Seek the Highb100d starts out with pretty kickass/cute music, but as you progress, the music progressively changes into dark, ominous, clowny music.
• GAMZEE: ENGAGE MURDER MODE is this. It's hilarious, especially due to Equius' facial reaction two or three panes later, but he's also STRANGLING EQUIUS
  • Pretty much anything involving Gamzee after he went homicidal.
• After a long string of WHAM Panels involving multiple Troll deaths and Sanity Slippage we immediately switch to John and WV's Flying Car Shenanigans. BEEP.
• Be Jack Noir. Readers should really have expected that the only way that the author could balance out a string of over 2 dozen pages of high-octane awesome would be with following it up with a swift kick to the teeth.
• And then, without warning, Jack: Trophy Binge.
• Done in a SINGLE PANEL mid-flash in [S All: Behold glory of Zillyhoo.]. From laughter to horror and shock.
  • Actually, two pictures.
• John saying goodbye to his friends as they deliver an important package to Derse. Such encouraging images counter-pointed with how Grimdark the situation has become according to Jade's pesterlog, and John's happy face either makes you say Dude, Not Funny or what a Crowning Moment of Funny.
• [S Seer: Descend.]
• Oh man - Rose and John vs. Jack! This is gonna be awes--... ...John?, wait, did Rose blow herself up in a reckless and futile attempt to take out Bec Noir?
• Aww, Dave... Haha, slick move, Dave!
• Terezi decides to fulfill her destiny as a Legislacerator and kill Vriska for everything she's done that was mostly done by Gamzee and Eridan. Horror ensues when she finds a page from Mindfang's journal held down by Nepeta's stolen claw and falls into the Trickster Room with flash-stepping Gamzee. She then dismisses it as one of "Spidertroll's" tricks, finds a record cover and asks, "WHO'S THIS DOUCHEBAG?". Then she finds her FLARP costume and reunites with her best scalemate, only to have it switched out with Lil Cal by Gamzee from her tightly clutching hands.
• Yay, Rose didn't blow herself up! Rose?
• Oh my god, Terezi just killed Vriska! ...Pffffffhahaha Gamzee what are you doing.
• Aaaaaawwwwwwww-- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• You see Slick smashing his 1001st clock. Then you look at the narrow fenestrated wall.
  • For that matter, the conversation and flash leading up to the 1001st clock bring a completely different feeling.
• No! Vriska's dea- Nic Cage! Get out of there!
• Bec Noir kills alpha!Dave before Jade's eyes. Then, when she's cradling his corpse, Noir looks absolutely heartbroken due to his Achilles' Heel.
  • And later makes a "bawwwww" face and looks adorable when she's about to revive Dave on Derse through a kiss.
• The gravity of Davesprite and Jadesprite's conversation is somewhat spoiled by Unreal Air coming in for a landing on Skaia in background.
• This conversation between Gamzee and Dave is simultaneously absolutely terrifying and absolutely hilarious. On the one hand, we're seeing the exact moment where Gamzee loses it and turns into a mass-murdering psychopath... and on the other hand, Dave has no idea whether Gamzee is serious or not and is going all Deadpan Snarker on him. Not to mention that after all this (which also contained some serious plot revelations), it ended with:

They both then proceeded to have one of the best rap-offs in the history of paradox space.

• Doc Scratch's prisoner is revealed to be Aradia (or someone who looks just like her), their fight starts out funny, with the mood whiplash starting around here.
• This page providing background fo the tale of the Signless is both a Tear Jerker and a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming:

Doc Scratch: {{[color|white:Once, in this very universe, you could say, Alternia was home to a peaceful race. Trollkind had never known the corrupting influence in their evolution which led them to perpetual war and violence.}}] Doc Scratch: {{[color|white:That is to say, they had never known me.}}]

• • As are the stories of his adoptive mother, the Dolorosa, and his girlfriend, the Disciple.
  • Andrew's shenanigans in the banner during this don't help.
• Here, the Sufferer is tortured with hot irons and held against an iron jut for his defiance. Upon closer inspection, he’s the Memetic Mutation Pantskat, come to life.
  • And because merely referencing the meme is never enough for Hussie, here is fedorafreak, while lamenting the the loss of "departed family members", accidentally alchemising "useless, excessively tall pant". Moments later, he announces he is donning the tall pant as a defensive garmant, getting a sudden inexplicable boost of confidence in martial prowess, and on the very next page we hear from him as he dies from a fatal wound, likely inflicted as a result of misplaced confidence in martial prowess. However, at the time he was resting on an "horizontal stone slab exhibiting unidentified iconography"...
• GO, HANDMAID, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH CRAP.
  • And immediately after, Hussie SNOPS the page layout so that it looks like it was ripped from Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff. He was indeed snaping wrong.
• SHOOOOOOSH!!!
• Courtyard Droll kills Jade, and then dances jauntily.
• The White Queen and King reunite for all of 10 seconds before being slaughtered by Bec Noir.
  • Nearly all of Cascade. Bec is sad about Jade's death and destroys the kids' universe in the next cut (in his future, but still...); the King and Queen reunite before getting slaughtered along with all exiles except PM; the trolls' universe is destroyed while Jade ascends; the Green Sun is created, but the trolls escape from their universe and PM confronts Bec. And, of course, the grimdark Act 5 Part 2 ends with Jade and John escaping the Scratch with most of their session in tow and Rose and Dave ascending right out of the Green Sun.
• Jane answers Lalonde, the teenage Bottle Fairy, with a hilarious conversation, until the audience learns recent attempts were made on Jane's life. Oh Crap.
• After the relatively benign beginning of Act 6, what with shenanigans and such, it's revealed that Jake's dreamself is dead.
• In story: Jake concludes an epic confrontation with a giant beast. Then he accidentally shoots Tinkerbull
• [S Jane: Get mail. ]
  • The updates following that.
  • A main character has possibly just died, but god forbid we run out of green curtain cloth.
• PM is about to face off with Jack, it looks like an epic battle is about to begin, and what does the viewer see? A heart over Jack's head, and a spade over PM's. Awwwww.
  • And then Jack leaves, and Serenity begs PM to help WV. And then we see that Sollux is dead, and while Karkat is crying Gamzee just seems to be staring into space, ruining the moment again.
    • And then we find out Gamzee was actually looking at the undead Sollux floating above them with Aradia, Rose, and Dave.
• Karkat's breakdown is hilarious...until you go to the hidden part with Nicolas Cage's Nightmare Face and horribly distorted voice. Not to mention that the face appears to be a green skull with a familiar rainbow patter under his chin, raising all sorts of disturbing possibilities.
  • AND YOU...GOT ONE
• Originally, the strife with Becquerel was to jaunty sci-fi music, called Mutiny, fitting for the space adventures and warpy whooshy stuff we see, followed by a joyful and cute, 8 bit victory tune. When the artist of Mutiny got into a fight with Hussie and left, this was replaced with Unbreakable Union a MUCH darker track with Tribal drums and increasingly intense piano and synth effects. The victory music was left unchanged.
• After receiving the revelation that Karkat accidentally gave the entire human universe cancer and gave the kids the bad luck that accidentally gave Jack Noir the ring, we get another SBAHJ in-joke:

PCG: JACK WAS THE LIVING EMBODIMENT OF THE DISEASE ALL ALONG. PCG: NOIR IS THE CANCER. PCG: IT'S HIM.

• Dream!Jane's Alive! Squee Oh NO... Jack's about to rekill! Oh Crap! Wait...The White Queen rescues Jane! PFFT...HAHAHAHAHAHA!
• We find out that the Condesce has taken over the world and Dirk and Roxy are living in a post-apocalyptic future under her rule... then we go straight into the intermission, where Andrew is nursing Spades Slick back to health and feeding him lusus milk.
  • Continuing from that scene, Ms. Paint seems quite happy to bring Jack soup. She even makes him a paper Scotty Dog! So she walks out in the hallway to bring him the soup, but as Hussie calls for her she stops and drops the soup...right next to a cue stick pegleg. Oh crap. Oh crap. OH CRAP!
    • And after that we get another memo from Karkat where he yells at himself again.
• Andrew Hussie finally stands up against Lord English. Of course it'd be a lot more badass if his gun was loaded.
  • Which was immediately preceded by Hussie saving Spades Slick from Lord English... by tossing the bedridden Slick off the balcony.
    • ...And then coming full circle with us actually watching him die during a heartfelt apology to Rufio.
    • And then, after that, Andrew wakes up in a dream bubble version of Tavros's planet and proposes to Vriska.
• Jane meets Gamzee in her land, and her reation is hilarious. Then, he sells her potions. Potions made of the blood of his friends.
  • He takes out the remains of Tavros and Vriska and PROTOTYPES THEM! If that's not Body Horror, I don't know what is. Jane's screaming and Gamzee casually waving in the background helps though.
• DD: Ascend More Casually. Highlights include Ms Paint mourning Hussie's death, John and Gamzee kissing, Vriska clocking Hussie like a rag doll, and DD putting on the Black Queen's ring after taking it easy with coffee, music, ring spinning, and Grey Lady porn. Seriously.
  • Followed by "unleashing the awesome powers of the ring" by... becoming invisible, then snarking that that's a pointless power, then...

DD: Use Red Miles.

• After making Dirk draw very tame and hilarious "pornography", it's revealed that uu murdered UU and is going Laughing Mad about it.
  • And then he says he wants to mate with her. Which he promptly corrects into checkmating her.
    • Well, I wouldn't call it a Freudian Slip and more of Freud tripping over an erect phallus and falling down 12 flights of stairs. And then his cigar explodes comically in his face.

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