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* [http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF020-Skub.gif Skub is serious business.]

* In ''[[Triangle and Robert]]'', cooking and food is serious business. Cuisine magic powers the comic's most fearsome warriors, several of the characters have some sort of mystical cooking skill, most of them are descended from ancient lineages of battle-cooks, and it is eventually revealed that the entire universe is made out of pudding.

{{quote| "You have wronged innocents, Charles. I formally challenge you to a game of [[wikipedia:Four square|four-square]]. The loser will be given over to the lords of this realm to do with as they please!"}}

* Emeril LeGoinegasque, a supporting character in ''[[Achewood]]'', is the president of a club dedicated to the made-up hobby of Trashspotting, driving around on garbage day and building up extensively detailed personality profiles of people they've never even met based on what they throw out. He lives and breathes trashspotting, his character blog (yes, ''Achewood'' characters get their own blogs) was all about his trashspotting exploits, and he even had a trashspotting forum for a while. To him and his club, if to nobody else on Earth, other peoples' garbage is serious business.

** Emeril's trashpotting even acts as a [[Chekhov's Skill]] in one arc, where Philippe goes missing -- he manages to figure out where he's going based off a sole discarded can of baked beans.

** The entire concept is so ridiculous that the doctor, well-experienced at this sort of craziness, loses control and starts laughing hysterically.

** [[Beyond the Impossible|Half the reason for reading it is waiting to see what he'll come up with next.]]

** It's [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that it's not just the enforcers who have powers. Think about this for a moment: people who enjoy hurting others and/or hurting themselves, in possession of superpowers based on whether they are sadists or masochists (or both). And not just enjoying a little, either. People who literally GET OFF from either the pain they themselves feel, or the pain that others feel. Without someone to keep them in line, how is that NOT supervillains just waiting to happen?

* In ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'', if something is [[Running Gag|"Incredibly Silly"]], you can pretty much be sure it's also [[Running Gag|"SERIOUS BUSINESS"]].

** A magazine named "Serious Jester" is for those who really ''mean'' it.

* ''[[Something Positive]]'' features the Teddy Bear Liberation Front. Plenty of people in [[Real Life]] find the idea of plushie fetishism weird or disturbing, but as fetishes go, it's pretty harmless. The TBLF think it's so disgusting they kill and torture people who make, sell, or use "yiffable" plushies.

* In [[Nectar of the Gods]], bartenders are the general focus of the Webcomic, in the [[Tournament Arc]] bartending and mixing cocktails is very [[Serious Business]]! Where just drinking a specific type of drink can either fix a person's emotional problems in an instant or drive to induced suicide.

* In ''[[Las Lindas]]'', Rachael feels this way about the fights in the arena. [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=964 She cuts herself off before she can use this trope by name].