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The strip had a [[Time Skip]] in May 2020.
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Not to be confused with the term [[Player Versus Player]]. Or the common abbreviation for [[Porn Without Plot]], for that matter.
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* [[Artifact Title]] - When was the last time the magazine itself meant anything?
** Lampshaded in a guest strip, where the characters find themselves looking at the magazine for the first time.
* [[Art Evolution]] - compare [https://web.archive.org/web/20131106200254/http://www.pvponline.com/comic/1998/05/04/mon-may-04 the first strip] with [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721160216/http://www.pvponline.com/2010/05/31/the-king-and-aiiieeee/ this more recent one], or again [https://web.archive.org/web/20120116060138/http://www.pvponline.com/2011/05/03/evening-wear/ this one].
* [[Art Shift]] - Kurtz did a Lolbat arc in the style of noir comics from [[The Thirties]].
* [[Atomic F-Bomb]] - In the ''[[Watchmen]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20131108132844/http://www.pvponline.com/2009/03/02/ombudsmen spoof].
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** Nowadays, Kurtz frequently uses Skull to reflect himself, but in a much less indirect manner. (His birthday reflected Scott's, etc.)
** Lolbat villain the Mad Hater seems to resemble a younger Kurtz in appearance, but in personality seems based on those parts of the fanbase who dislike the Lolbat interludes.
* [[Betty, Veronica and Archie Switcheroo]]: Parodied during an convention arc. Francis accompanies Marcie to a convention to cover it for the magazine. An older cosplayer named Neko flirts with him. Marcie as the Betty naturally gets jealous, while Francis due to being a [[Hormone-Addled Teenager]] doesn't know how to respond. The thing is that Neko is just flirting. Marcie eventually loses her temper and summons gamer powers to attack her. Francis is horrified, but Neko retaliates by turning into a mecha. Security has to break them up and kicks all the teens out. Marcie apologizes to Francis afterward because she was the instigator and ruined their assignment.
* [[Bi the Way]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130716181257/http://www.pvponline.com/2011/04/26/turn-of-the-bookworm Miranda, apparently]. Or maybe she's not, and [[Attention Whore|just likes attention]]. Or is just messing with her sisters.
* [[Blind Without'Em]] - In a somewhat unusual example, Brent, because [[Fridge Brilliance|he wears sunglasses so often that his eyes can't handle the sunlight.]]
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* [[The Butler Did It]] - Not murder-related, but {{spoiler|Butler is the LOLBAT.}}
* [[But We Used a Condom]] - Jade's pregnancy scare
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: One of the party during the "Mines of Madness" [[
* [[Captain Ersatz]] - Scratch Fury and the "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110721163124/http://www.pvponline.com/2010/01/04/my-buddy-and-me/ Cabbage Scratch Kid]" do a subverted riff on ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''. The subversion is that the cat is real and the boy is a doll. Hungry Cat might be a riff on Moe and/or Susie Derkins.
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]] - The strip toys with this to some extent. It never goes full-over into drama, but for most of its run now it's alternated between Gag Per Day format, [[Dramedy]], and [[Rule of Drama|downright serious drama]]. Some people felt the strip fell full into [[Cerebus Syndrome]] during the Brent/Jade wedding arc, which happened to overlap with a surprisingly serious turn for Skull, Cole's marriage falling apart, and a story about Robbie and Jase falling out. Of course, the strip quickly went back to comedic arcs after a few months, just as it always had done before.
* [[Cheated Angle]] - Before Brent revealed his face (well, [[Negative Continuity|again]]), he would always be drawn so that you could never see his eyes behind his sunglasses. Now, when seen from the side, [[Art Evolution|you can clearly see his eyes]].
** Also Jase's eyes were always covered by his hat until he started dating Robbie's gardener and temporarily stopped wearing it. He got his hat back but now his eyes are clearly visible (and he's lost a lot of weight).
* [[Collectible Cloney Babies]]: We see some collectible trends that come and sweep the cast:
** Brett treats the new iPhone as this, wanting to be the first person in the area to get one. To accomplish this goal, he gets a job at the local Apple store in the hopes that employees get first dibs. It goes horribly wrong when he tries to quit at the premiere to get the first spot in line, and he ends up hospitalized.
* [[Colorful Theme Naming]] - Brent Sienna is a pun off of burnt sienna. Note that he's also pretty [[Deadpan Snarker|dry]]...
** And his wife is named "Jade".
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Robbie: I own a couple of adult entertainment companies. They send me one of everything. }}
** At which point Francis starts making Smut Angels.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]] - [https://web.archive.org/web/20140914231741/http://pvponline.com/comic/2005/11/01/tue-nov-01 The Panda].
* [[Put on a Bus]] - Marcy went to college in one story arc, and [[The Bus Came Back|later returned]].
** Robbie and Jase. Robbie still shows up on occasion, but Jase is basically gone.
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* [[Sex as Rite-of-Passage]] - Combined with a [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]] with Francis and Marcy.
{{quote|"LEVEL UP! You gain: +3 Years Maturity!....Community College Courses!}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: There's one to ''[[Adventure Time]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20131106210421/http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2012/01/09/coming-up-for-air
* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Max Powers.
** In [[Real Life]], Gabe and Tycho from ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'', their good-natured cruelty to each other popping up in a strip every once in a while. Scott's foreword to one of their print collections ended with "Fuck them, and fuck you for buying this book and not PVP," and Gabe and Tycho refer to Scott as "Steve Kuntz" on the regular. Now that Scott is living in Seattle and working in the Penny Arcade offices, one only assumes that the hijinks will continue.
*** Also, the old [[WoW]] guilds (Panda Attack for PVP, the Knights of Arcadia for Penny Arcade) were pretty much an online, massively-multiplayer extension of the real-life relationship between the two. [[Ctrl+Alt+Del|B^Uckley]] tried to get in on it with his own guild, but when Kurtz, Krahulik, and Holkins would have none of it, he ended things on a predictable note (
* [[Skyward Scream]]{{context}}
* [[So My Kids Can Watch|So My Dad Can Watch]]: [[Word of God]] says that Scott keeps it clean-ish for the sake of his father.
* [[Straight Man]]: Cole
* [[Sunglasses at Night]]: Brent - he wore them under his bandages when he was blinded, and when he took them off, he was [[Blind Without'Em]].
* [[Superhero]]: Kurtz's earlier character Captain Amazing made an early appearance and earned a spinoff. More recently, we've seen Jingle Force Five (a Christmas-themed parody of the original ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' lineup) and The Lolbat, a combination of [[Batman]] and the internet lolcat phenomena
** Captain Amazing also has a sidekick named [[Twitter|ReTweet]], who he [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717215205/http://www.pvponline.com/2010/03/05/tweet-titan/ did not want] at first, but has since reluctantly accepted as his sidekick, and has also obtained two allies, the Double Rainbow.
{{quote|'''Francis''': S.C.R.A.T.C.H. is our Smart Content Routing Algorithm Technology Compression Hub, which is a real thing and not [[Fun with Acronyms|just a bunch of words I forced to fit into an acronym]].}}
* [[Take That]]: Kurtz inserts plenty of these, aimed at a wide range of targets.
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