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* [[I Miss Mom]]: The arc finally resolves this plot thread as Aggie unconsciously learns to accept her mother's death and integrate the positive aspects of her memory instead of focusing on her absence and harbouring an unhealthy unconscious wish to join her.
* [[Longing Look]]: Penny gives Aggie one just prior to plunging off the cliff.
* [[Near -Death Experience]]
* [[Odd -Shaped Panel]]: In [http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=897 this strip], as Aggie rides the tiger, the borders of the last panel fade midway into nothing, suggesting an ominous passage into the unknown, the void, or death.
* [[Real Dreams Are Weirder]]: Played with. Although Aggie's dream, like most fictional ones, has a coherent beginning, middle and end, it also, like many real dreams, abruptly shifts between one setting (the tiger chase with Lisa and Penny) and another (her bedroom with Charisma). At one point, Aggie experiences [[Mind Screw|both settings at the same time]] as she begs Charisma's help while fleeing the tiger.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Melody gets in a dig about her political orientation.
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'''Melody:''' "Not enjoying anything?" What, you think I went to Hell? I wasn't ''that'' liberal. }}
* [[Ship Tease]]: Aggie unconsciously realizes, for the first time, that Penny is attracted to, and possibly in love with, her. Note that this is the first instance in which the possibility of attraction between the titular characters is [[Played for Drama|played entirely for drama]], and not partially or wholly for [[Played for Laughs|laughs]].
* [[Shout -Out]]: The arc title alludes to the Frank R. Stockton short story, "The Lady, or the Tiger?". Aggie, somewhat like the prisoner in the story, must choose between "the tiger" (obsessive, suicidal fixation on her mother's death) and "the lady" (honouring her mother's legacy by embracing and enjoying life).
* [[Snow Means Death]]: The nightmarish portion of Aggie's dream is the only time snow is depicted in the comic.
* [[So Proud of You]]: Melody to Aggie: "[T]he best part of me...is standing right beside me."