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* [[Boys Love]]

* [[The Chick]]: Mandy, who is surprisingly likable despite being "the girl" in a [[Boys Love]] story.

* [[Cliff Hanger]]: The first volume ends with Colin [[Armor Piercing Question|asking]] Tory, "Why are you always around? What do you want?" The second volume ends with {{spoiler|the two of them getting in a ''fist fight''}}. And there's no volume three. WTH publisher.

* [[Cliff Hanger]]: The first volume ends with Colin [[Armor-Piercing Question|asking]] Tory, "Why are you always around? What do you want?" The second volume ends with {{spoiler|the two of them getting in a ''fist fight''}}. And there's no volume three. WTH publisher.

* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: Tory has moments of these, particularly involving Colin and Dr. Garrets.

{{quote| '''Tory''': Are they counterfeiters? Arms dealers or illegal immigrants? Spies, drug dealers, part of the occult, the Mafia, KKK or maybe aliens...}}

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* [[If My Calculations Are Correct]]: Apparently Tory does a risk analysis every night before he goes to bed to see the odds of anything happening.

* [[Ill Boy]]: Colin.

* [[Imagine Spot]]: Tory has a tendency to daydream about everything from [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]] to [[Instant Awesome Just Add Ninja|Ninjas]] to a [[Showdown At High Noon]], complete with [[But You Were There and You And You|casting his friends and family as characters]].

* [[Imagine Spot]]: Tory has a tendency to daydream about everything from [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]] to [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|Ninjas]] to a [[Showdown At High Noon]], complete with [[But You Were There and You And You|casting his friends and family as characters]].

* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]: Colin has one of these, although he insists he isn't sick.

* [[In Harmony With Nature]]: Colin is implied to be this.

* [[Intertwined Fingers]]: Colin "tests" Tory by holding his hands like this in the park. {{spoiler|He thought Tory had "attunement," based on his awareness of his surroundings, but what exactly that is has yet to be explained.}}

* [[Laser Guided Karma]]: Out-of-universe. After the death of her father, Quick had spent much time downloading computer games to cope with her loss. Her computer was subsequently ravaged by a virus, causing her to lose the script, a hundred pages of storyboards, two complete chapters, and three penciled chapters of the final volume of Off*Beat.

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Out-of-universe. After the death of her father, Quick had spent much time downloading computer games to cope with her loss. Her computer was subsequently ravaged by a virus, causing her to lose the script, a hundred pages of storyboards, two complete chapters, and three penciled chapters of the final volume of Off*Beat.

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Pleasantly subverted.

* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: Both the leads fit this. Tory gets a little better. Colin doesn't.

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* [[No Social Skills]]: Both protagonists, though Colin's got it worse.

* [[Not Good With People]]: Colin, most likely a Type-2.

* [[One Head Taller]]: Would be straight example... if not for the fact that Colin's height seems to [[Off Model|keep changing.]] At one point he'll be a head shorter, then eye level with Tory, and then half a head shorter. ''All in the same volume.''

* [[One Head Taller]]: Would be straight example... if not for the fact that Colin's height seems to [[Off-Model|keep changing.]] At one point he'll be a head shorter, then eye level with Tory, and then half a head shorter. ''All in the same volume.''

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Colin lives with his guardian, Dr. Garrets.

* [[Photographic Memory]]: Tory, although it isn't perfect, so he obsessively writes things down in his notebooks.

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* [[Stalker With a Crush]]: Tory. First he keeps strange notes on the weird neighbor kid. Then he transfers to the weird neighbor kid's school. Then he sets up a study group in his physics class to spend time with the weird neighbor kid. He's aware that he's a creepy stalker and seems mostly fine with it, but it's unclear whether he's picked up on the crush part yet.

* [[Super OCD]]: Tory, at least when it comes to his journals.

* [[What the Hell Hero]]: Tory gets a succession of these as his obsessive behavior alienates his mother, Paul, and Mandy. He gets better, and then {{spoiler|manages to accidentally bait his [[Love Interest]] into taking a swing at him}}. Go figure.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Tory gets a succession of these as his obsessive behavior alienates his mother, Paul, and Mandy. He gets better, and then {{spoiler|manages to accidentally bait his [[Love Interest]] into taking a swing at him}}. Go figure.

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