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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Tycho's [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/1/13/ childhood] [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/7/4/ was] [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/1/17/ often] a [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/6/23/ living hell].
* [[Accidental Truth]]: In [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/02/29 "Stewardship"] Scott Kurtz comes to the guys with a list of topics to avoid while writing [[
* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/13/ "Dune? It sounds dry." "I'm trying not to be amused by that."]
** Also found [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/9/15/ here].
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* [[Author Avatar]]: Retroactively so - Tycho and Gabe were not originally meant to represent the creators, but too many readers assumed that they did and eventually Jerry and Mike just said [[Sure Why Not]].
** Jerry's [[The Rant|posts]] sometimes mention that while Tycho draws from Jerry and Gabe from Mike, their characters are distinct from their creators and the real story is redistributed to the appropriate character. For instance, he was the one that wanted to give away [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/3/28/ free waffles at their convention booth], but it wasn't something Tycho would do, so their roles were switched for the comic.
** The dissimilarities between Mike/Jerry and Gabe/Tycho were later played for laughs in [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/04/02 "Perhaps Too Real"], where Tycho and Gabe art redrawn for the iPad Retina display end up [[Gross Up Close
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Mike named his ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' wizard "[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/15/ Jim Darkmagic]" (of the New Hampshire Darkmagics).
** Immediately called out by Scott Kurtz, who demands, "Why don't you call yourself Chet ''AwesomeLaser''?"
*** Scott Kurtz later gave this a [[Shout
** The group also suggested "Jim Fellmagic," "Fell DarkJim," "Jim Felldark," "Fell Darkevil," and "Ominous Darkfell Magic-Bad."
** Also, [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/5/4/ Doctor Raven Darktalon Blood].
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* [[Development Hell]]: Episode 3 of ''[[On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness]]'' was seemingly in this inferno, until the creators said the video game series was over and the storyline would continue as a [http://www.penny-arcade.com/rainslick/ novel].
** And then subsequently reversed the position, as a new developer took over the third game.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Astonishingly (and he apologized for it almost immediately), there was [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/02/24 a comic] where Tycho became [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|dangerously]] angry while asserting that ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]]'' was the 10th Classic series game. ([[Don't Explain the Joke|It wasn't]]; the Classic series [http://penny-arcade.com/2006/02/24 hadn't even gotten as high as] ''7'' when ''X'' was released. The actual ''Mega Man 10'' would be made years after the strip.)
** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/10/10/ "The Great Divide"] is about how little sense it makes for Peter Molyneux to design [[Fable|Fable 2]] for non-gamers. Molyneux actually asked reviewers to play through the game, then get someone who doesn't game a lot to play through, in order to compare the different worlds the two different approaches would yield.
** And [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/6/8/ this] strip mocks the new mutants added in ''[[X Men First Class (Film)|X Men First Class]]'', yet Banshee and Angel Salvadore have been around for quite a while (they may not be the oldest X-Men, but they've been in the continuity for a while).
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* [[GIFT]]: The [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/ Trope Namer.]
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: One covering [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/9/8/ twelve years] and an [[Art Shift]].
* [[Girl
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Often seen when the characters, especially Tycho, are angry. [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/8/24/ Here's] just one of many examples.
* [[Godwin's Law]]: Tycho [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/10/12 runs afoul of this.]
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* [[Groin Attack]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/6/16/ Here], [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/7/15/ here], [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/4/ here] and [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/8/13/ here].
** [[Schmuck Bait|Click OK]] [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/06/18 to be kicked in the beanbag.]
* [[Gross Up Close
* [[Grumpy Bear]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/4/25/ Tycho].
* [[Guest Strip]]: Rare enough to stand out; [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/9/9/ one example] (necessary because of Gabe's swine flu) was done by [[FoxTrot|Bill Amend]].
** And then mercilessly lampshaded by one guest artist ''himself'' by [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/9/21/ coming up with the same idea] for the strip subject [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/9/11/ as one of the previous guests].
* [["Happy Ending" Massage]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/11/19/ This strip]
* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/19/ here].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Tycho goes into one when he sees an ad for a place called "[[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Gamez N Flix]]", which made the always elegant Tycho go mad.
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** Gabe [http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/9/17/ has been lost] to ''[[Minecraft]]'':
{{quote| '''Tycho:''' He's well and truly gone; the Gabriel we knew is dead. He [[Dug Too Deep|delved too deep]] and was remade in the hot veins of the Earth. I have heard him suggest that the game is crack, but it's more like [[Item Crafting|all of the ingredients and equipment]] that you need to make crack, which I'd say is worse. It's like: give a man some crack, and he'll... but if you teach him to make crack, and then... [[Dissimile|There must be a saying that explains all this, surely]].}}
* [[Just
* [[Kill It With Fire]]: Effectively the MO of the Gabe's ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' wizard Jim Darkmagic (of the New Hampshire Darkmagics) in their podcast on the [[Wizards of the Coast]] website. Scorching Burst was used to set fire to everything from goblins to zombies to vampires to berserkers to priests to Binwin Bronzebottom, the party's Dwarven Fighter.
** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/07/ Inverted]
* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Gabe's first name is Johnathan, but this is of course rarely used.
* [[Least Rhymable Word]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/9/13/ Acquiesce].
* [[Leave the Camera Running]]: The guys have described their pacing as a comic adaptation of this idea; many strips have punchlines in the second panel, and the frame will simply stay on the characters a little too long. The third panel will either be a [[One
* [[Life Embellished]]
* [[Looming Silhouette of Rage]]: Found [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/3/3/ here], along with a [[Shadow Discretion Shot]].
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* [[Luke Nounverber]]: Jim Darkmagic
* [[Man On Fire]]: "[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/2/27/ I'm not sure that's an effigy]."
** Complete with [[Major Injury Underreaction]] and [[Shout
* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: [[Lampshaded]]. See [[The Merch]], above.
* [[Mermaid Problem]]: Addressed quite directly [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/09/29/ here].
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* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/02/21 The first part] of the story arc ''Ripped From Today's Headlines'' has Tycho accidentally killing his wife when trying out a move from ''[[Splinter Cell]]'', and feeling bad for it.
{{quote| '''Tycho''': Oh my god. Oh my god. Please don't leave me!}}
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Scott Kurtz of ''[[
* [[Nerf Arm]]: The Cardboard Tube Samurai, which has spawned more than a few instances of the deadly tube showing up in some games.
* [[Never Say That Again]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/i-hope-you-like-text/ Gabe evoked this response from Tycho.]
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/9/19/ Tycho is one.] Apparently this trait extends to his real-life persona...
* [[Ninja Log]]: Though it is uncertain if [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/2/16/ Gabe] can ''choose'' what he leaves behind or if "[http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/2/16/ the log [is] an inextricable part of the process]".
* [[Non
* [[No Medication for Me]]: Tycho spends a week off Lexapro, and [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/01/09 is impressed with what he produced]. There was the downside of "wrestling with demons of the mind" though. He [http://penny-arcade.com/2012/01/09 contemplates this idea], in [[The Rant]] before rejecting it as misinformed. And even if the peaks are still attractive, they don't compensate for the troughs.
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Tycho jokingly asks if the stains on Gabe's pants are semen. Gabe rebuffs him him by saying these are his painting pants, for an autobiography... which he's painting entirely [[Subverted Trope|in his own semen]].
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* [[Online Alias]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/1/31/ Annarchy] is of the "hacker" variety. Many [[MMORPG]] strips use the "[[Xtreme Kool Letterz]] and numbers" variety.
* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]: Parodied with the works of L. H. Franzibald, where there are "Hermaphroditic Androgynite" Witchaloks and "Half-wolf, half android" Wolfoids.
* [[Out
* [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/11/29/ Here], ''[[Kolibri]]'' is described as "arguably the finest hummingbird-based shooter available for the 32X".
* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Anne's parents [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/7/6/ say] she can't date boys [[Up to Eleven|until she's married]]. [[Logic Bomb|Wait, what?]] She also brings out the Overprotective Uncle in [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/2/13/ Tycho].
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* [[Race Lift]]: Parodied [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/24/ here]
* [[The Rant]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]:
** The [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/3/21/ Deepcrow] and some of the [[Warhammer 40000|Warhammer]] [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/7/14/ characters].
** Whenever Tycho is pissed enough, his normally brown eyes get a nice red glow.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]
* [[The Rival]]: Scott Kurtz of ''[[
* [[Robot Buddy]]: Div, subverted. Although if you wanna get technical, Div isn't really a robot so much as he is a personification.
** The Fruit Fucker is arguably a different kind of subversion.
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* [[Schedule Slip]]: Relentlessly avoided. Things that would cause multiple-week delays for other comics cause single-day delays for PA. They ran the first guest strip in recent history, because Gabe was physically unable to move a pen when it was time to draw the day's comic. Specifically, because he had ''swine flu''. And the first guest strip set a precedent for the others by being done by [[FoxTrot|Bill Amend]]. And just for fun, some of the guest strips were "Gabe gets swine-flu"-themed.
** In fact, swine flu was the ''only'' time Gabe and Tycho were unable to produce a strip since the series ''began''. Tycho did three MS Paint horrorpieces, but in ten years, that's ''it''.
* [[Second Law, My Ass]]: The Fruit Fucker, and Div.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Pretty often, both in the comic and Tycho's missives, notably when Tycho explains the nature of [[Stylistic Suck]].
{{quote| '''Tycho''': "Making something that is bad on purpose - and not bad inadvertently, which is my usual process - is a whole-body thrill."}}
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'''Meta Knight''': Yorganism?<br />
'''General:''' Y is kind of a tricky letter. }}
* [[Single
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://penny-arcade.com/resources/real-talk.html Gabe gets a horrifying one] when the comic's popularity happens to cause trouble for [[Jerkass|Ocean]] [[Small Name, Big Ego|Marketing]].
* [[Slice of Life]]: In more recent years, as the guys have started having families, these sort of strips have started to happen occasionally. [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/9/3/ An example.]
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* [[So Long and Thanks For All The Gear]]: Referenced in [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/12/2/ this] strip
* [[Something Completely Different]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/9/1/ Here.]
* [[El Spanish
* [[Species Surname]]: You'd think that Catsby was the dapper cat, yes, and thus the demon Twisp? [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/4/7/ Subverted].
* [[Spin-Off]]: They attempted to make a Jim Darkmagic comic arc, which seemed to involve him and his stage performances going horribly wrong. It was however, voted down. Probably due to the fact that "That wasn't Jim Darkmagic! Jim Darkmagic only ever rolls natural 20s! He's seven feet tall with red hair and eyes like the sun!"
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** Real life example: Ocean Marketing (or, rather, one person [[Small Name, Big Ego|too high up the chain for his own good]]) just picked a fight with Penny Arcade for the loyalty of the gamer population. [[Sarcasm Mode|Surely this will be a battle of epic proportions.]]
* [[True Companions]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/2011/2/21/ Gabriel is not my friend, he's more like my arm.]
* [[Trust Me, I'm an X]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/9/ "It's okay, I'm a dentist."]
* [[Two Gamers On a Couch]]: The [[Ur Example]].
* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/6/26/ Open Mic Night].
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* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: The basis of the ''Automata'' storyline
* [[Wild Mass Guessing]]: Combined with [[Intercontinuity Crossover]] [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/1/11/ here].
* [[With Friends Like These...]]: Gabe and Tycho.
* [[Write Who You Know]]
* [[X Days Since...]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/3/19/bedrock-concepts/ here]
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: Tycho [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/2/4/ does not like these.]
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