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'''''[http://www.sinfest.net Sinfest]''''' is a webcomicweb comic by Tatsuya Ishida, an outgrowth of a strip he originally created for the UCLA college newspaper. The primary characters are Slick, a [[Calvin and Hobbes|Calvin-esque]] teenaged "pimp" who's always trying to look as cool as he can, and his hot friend Monique, who spends her days fighting for feminist causes when she isn't flirting with hot guys (of whom Slick doesn't qualify).
 
Other characters include [[God]] and [[Satan]], who still hold a silly grudge; Seymour, a religious zealot; Li'l Evil, a Satan zealot; Squigley, a pig who gets high all the time; Jesus; Buddha; The Dragon, an embodiment of Eastern religion; Percival and Pooch, the artist's cat-and-dog duo; [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Criminy,]] the sheltered bookworm. They have surreal, metaphysical adventures that often involve Slick's high view of himself, Monique's oversexed behavior, Satan's desire to acquire their souls, and other goings-on.
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The strip originally lived up to its name, playing with [[Dead Baby Comedy]] scenarios, drug humor, and subversive pokes at the nature of religion and morality, among other topics, usually with little or no regard for continuity. Over time, however, it's gotten softer and more mainstream. While still poking fun at religion and comfortable with [[Seven Dirty Words|language that won't play in newspapers]], Tatsuya is now trying to show a world where most people are brainwashed by dominant culture and a Matrix-like patriarchy is responsible for most evils, most of which involve excessive consumerism, marketing of everything, male chauvinism, and just plain bad old intolerance. Longer story arcs have been introduced and playing above and beneath others, such as Criminy's platonic romance with one of Satan's hot succubi, and her conflicts as a result. Slick and Monique's obnoxious behavior has also been downplayed a lot—while they might not be a loving couple, they are friendly associates. [[Non-Indicative Name|Don't let the name fool you.]]
 
A rare example of a webcomic becoming [[Lighter and Softer]], and good for anyone who wants to go on an [[Archive Binge]], with just over [[Archive Panic|45,000400 strips]]! Indeed, it's one of the [[Webcomics Long Runners|longest running]] webcomics on the net. (The [https://sinfest.xyz/view.php?date=2000-01-17 first strip] was posted on January 17, 2000. As of early-December 2021, it has updated daily since July 10, 2006.)
 
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* [[Alliteration]]: Pooch and Percy.
* [[After-Action Patchup]]: Fucshia treats Crimney's cuts, after he reaches her in Hell.
* [[A Glitch in the Matrix|A Glitch In The Patriarchy]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209165726/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4275 Brought to you by the revolution.]{{broken link}}
* [[A Lady on Each Arm]]: Satan, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209165706/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2934 here,]{{broken link}} [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181502/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2867 here,]{{broken link}} and [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209180151/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2630 here.]{{broken link}}
* [[Aliens Steal Cattle]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185718/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2168 Xanturian invaders]{{broken link}}. They lose a staring contest, though.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: See [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164709/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1019 here]{{broken link}} and [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181707/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3836 here]{{broken link}}
** [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|...except Criminy]].
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: {{spoiler|Lil' Evil.}}
* [[And Zoidberg]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209161732/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2357 ...And these guys]{{broken link}}
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: Many of the secondary characters, including [[Eagle Land|Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty]], [[The Grim Reaper|Death]], now "reaping" souls via modern assassination tactics and weaponry, and Dragon, the embodiment of all eastern religion.
* [[Anti-Magic]]: The simplest explanation of how the Reality Zone works. All forms of magical flight fail, pits to hell can't be created, and unnatural creatures either revert to a natural form (as in Squigley's case) or are slowly harmed (as with the devils.)
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** Tangerine is Type 3 (see [[Obliviously Evil]]).
* [[Art Shift]]: The art style will often change depending on the mood of the scene. Humor is in a simplified 'cutesy' style, while drama is a bit more detailed and manga-esque.
** Also [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209161535/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3701 the reality zone]{{broken link}}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Fuschia, starting around late 2008.
* [[Aside Glance]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209170036/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3532 This] strip, with the story starting three strips earlier [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209192425/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3529 here].
** For the record, the page before it is a follow-up to the "other Sunday Strip" mentioned below.
* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Monique looks good, even as [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162655/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3210 Androgynique] and Badass 'Nique. Both mess with Seymour, though.
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: Subverted and inverted [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164956/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=281 here].
** Played straight [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209180112/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3099 here.]
* [[Author Guest Spot]]: Tatsuya Ishida is a semi-regularly occurring character, both as Pooch and Percy's owner and for [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]] moments. A [[Running Gag]] is the comparison between him and [[A God Am I|God]] as the two "creators" of the comic's universe.
* [[The Backwards R]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005184507/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2965 State Sponsored Comik Strip 2]. Because [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|In Soviet America Comic Strip Laughs At You]]!
* [[Battle Cry]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209180855/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4100 Squigley's] is about as opposite to a [[Badass Boast]] as you can get, but the sentiment makes it more awesome.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]:
** A standard feature of Monique's warm-weather wardrobe and the one outfit that the gay guy wears.
** The succubi's outfits, and Fuschia's sailor fuku that she wears when she's with Criminy.
** Most of the women in the comic, really.
* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: By Jesus. Against Death's scythe. Which he ''[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164426/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3631 broke]''.
* [[Berserk Button]]:
** Seymour [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184721/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3663 pushes] Fuchsia's...and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629032948/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3666 regrets it].
** And following that, a very understated one for the usually soft-spoken and mild-mannered Criminy [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629032948/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3666 here].
** And then Forky [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209160352/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3692 tells Fuchsia] someone was hunting it. Things ''almost'' got messy.
* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209163205/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3771 Mr. "X"]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]:
** Criminy. After Seymour drove off Fuchsia, he raised his voice in anger for the first time.
** The new Fuchsia is kind and gentle. It's unwise to piss her off. See [[Berserk Button]] for a pair of nice examples.
* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209173345/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1580 ...it's flip-off time!]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131028130928/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2672 It's flip-off time again].
** Also, when [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162734/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3740 Slick's laptop caught some spyware] that made it follow the owner to toilet with webcam on. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111128084427/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3738 See?]
** Also [https://web.archive.org/web/20111013115629/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4037 This] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209192612/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4042 this]. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162347/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4043 It's bomf-off time].
** Baby Blue and Fuchsia. Succubi. Probably helps their job too.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]:{{spoiler|1=And a [[Moment of Awesome]] for [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4100 Squiq.]{{broken link}}}}{{broken link}}
* [[Bigger Than Jesus]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in a strip titled [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171913/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3218 "Agent"] where the Devil offers to become Jesus's personal agent and make him "Bigger than [[The Beatles]]."
* [[Bilingual Bonus]] / [[Shown Their Work]]: The binary Slick's Slickbook laptop spouts out actually translates to relevant messages.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Possibly [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209192043/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3699 Monique]. Then again, there's [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209183937/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2107 another explaination].
* [[Bifauxnen]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162655/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3210 Androgynique]
* [[Big No]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171040/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1395 Big No from Lil' E].
** Slick [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172728/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3732 REALLY] should have saved frequently.
* [[Bishounen]]: In [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181200/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3765 this] strip? [[Jesus Was Way Cool|Jesus]].
* [[Black and White Morality]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209170348/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3607 Played with.]
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Not surprising, The Devil and his minions are prone to this, as seen [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209165005/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3728 here].
* [[Blush Sticker]]: The boy Baby Blue had a crush on, in flashback.
* [[Bondage Is Bad]]: Played very straight [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172016/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4268 here]. A rather surprising case of [[Did Not Do the Research]].<ref>For a more level view of BDSM culture, see [[BDSM]]</ref>
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] / [[Heel Face Brainwashing]]: BOMF! Several supernatural characters have demonstrated the ability to call upon hidden aspects of mortals' personalities and render those aspects dominant, with the magnitude of the effect dependent on the degree to which the aspect was originally present in hidden form. The Buddha just temporarily calms people, but Jesus and Satan can cause permanent changes to behavior and appearance (well, permanent till the other reverts their work.) Several strips suggest more precise rules as to how this works, but taken as a whole they contradict each other—the primary influence seems to be the [[Rule of Funny]].
* [[Brick Joke]]: The strip of [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164309/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3191 June 1st 2009] and [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184358/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3556 June 1st 2010]. Either this or a [[Call Back]].
** The [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164337/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=180 return] of [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209183349/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=86 banana burritos]!
** A relatively short [[Brick Joke]], but a [[Brick Joke]] nonetheless. In [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164108/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=815 this April 18th, 2002 strip], Slick and Monique discuss the whole "Men from Mars and Women from Venus" thing when Monique jokingly suggests that Slick is from Uranus. "Back to your planet, butt boy!" [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164900/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=821 six strips later] after the topic had generally been dropped, Monique still can't help bringing it up again by calling him "butt boy" and telling him to "Go back to Uranus!" It probably [[It Makes Sense in Context|made absolutely no sense to Criminy]].
* [[Brown Eyes]]: Criminy
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]:
** "Bad Behavior", where Seymour antagonized Fuchsia. Given that on their first meeting, Fuchsia [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629031657/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3050 set him on fire]}}, he really should have known what he was getting into.
** A couple of devil bullies mess with Criminy and Fuschia on one occasion. Between the [[Badass Adorable|two of them and Tomey]]... well, the bullies definitely end up worse off.
** When Lil'E was in kindergarten, two boys tried to bully him. But if you mess with the {{spoiler|son of the Devil you make his dad angry.}} Those boys were lucky to escape with just a few burns.
* [[Butterfly of Transformation]]: Some examples are:
* [[Call Back]]: Fairly early on in Fuschia's progression from willing servant of evil to Crim's girlfriend and reluctant [[Punch Clock Villain]], she saw parallels between herself and [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3129 a butterfly]. Almost 18 months of strips later, Crim invades hell to visit Fuschia, and then has to make a quick escape that lands him in the Reality Zone. Shortly after arriving there, he [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3694 observes both a butterfly and a caterpillar nearby].
** [http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-31 This means that people CAN change according to Fuschia].
** Both of which may be a callback to an earlier moment [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1121 involving Criminy]. Also, in one Sunday strip, after The Devil and Baby Blue try to re-devil Fuchsia, we see her staring off after a butterfly as well.
** [http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-03-14 Thanks to some enlighted Illuminati drones, Buddha grew butterfly wings.]
** Another one comes with [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3126 Criminy's gift to Fuchsia] -- [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4079 the one thing she takes out of the Devil's manor with her.]
** [http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2003-02-18 Crimney muses that someday we'll all become beautiful.]
* [[Call Back]]: Fairly early on in Fuschia's progression from willing servant of evil to Crim's girlfriend and reluctant [[Punch Clock Villain]], she saw parallels between herself and [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184543/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3129 a butterfly]. Almost 18 months of strips later, Crim invades hell to visit Fuschia, and then has to make a quick escape that lands him in the Reality Zone. Shortly after arriving there, he [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629033043/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3694 observes both a butterfly and a caterpillar nearby].
** Both of which may be a callback to an earlier moment [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172646/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1121 involving Criminy]. Also, in one Sunday strip, after The Devil and Baby Blue try to re-devil Fuchsia, we see her staring off after a butterfly as well.
** Another one comes with [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184106/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3126 Criminy's gift to Fuchsia] -- [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209192414/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4079 the one thing she takes out of the Devil's manor with her.]
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: "ASS!"
* [[Camp Gay]]: That one gay man that Slick ran into, who now is sort of the default gay character.
* [[Cartoon Juggling]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209180551/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3317 Pooch does the arc], much to Percy's displeasure.
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Slicky
* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]
* [[Catching Some Zs]]: Even said [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209155625/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=491 once].
* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: Just having [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209193033/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3930 'Nique describe it to Seymour] made his [[Your Head Asplode|head explode]].
* [[Cats Are Mean]]:
** Subverted in that Percival, while often acting like a jerk, actually does care about Pooch (though he'd never admit it).
** Also played straight when he though it would be funny to make a "catse" screen saver.
* [[Cat Fight]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184739/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3333 Monique and Fuchsia, lampshaded immediately].
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164957/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3060 Pillow fight], Monique vs. both Devil Girls.
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: Subverted; about halfway through the comic's run, several darker elements came into play. The Devil became much more straightforwardly evil; the succubi and Death became regular characters; Hell and the tortured souls within started appearing regularly; and Uncle Sam showed up and became corrupt, then broke. Despite this, the series stayed comedic, due in large part to [[Character Development]] (see below.)
** But played more and more straight as time goes on and more and more strips designed without a joke are posted.
* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Behold... [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209170947/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3217 Chainsaw Jesus]!
* [[Character Development]]: Along with the [[Reverse Cerebus Syndrome]]. Every main character has had some sort of serious character development. Those who have not completely changed their outlook on life (Monique, & Fuchsia) have been given a third dimension (most visible in Slick & Crim) with the only possible exceptions being Pooch, God, and the author avatar. The short version is Slick & Monique are considerably less selfish, Squig and Crim are braver, Fuchsia and Baby Blue have distinct personalities, Lil'E and Seymour are less dogmatic, and the Devil doesn't do comedy so much anymore. The longer version is:
** Slick started out as an egotistical jackass but now has taken a turn to being a better person, going so far as to admitting he loves Monique. He even lost his tie, and got new shades that are not pitch black. However, that seems to have reversed itself.
** Monique used to just be a rather two-dimensional materialistic attention-whore slut and is now a crunchy activist feminist. She's also cut her hair, gone to a much more androgynous look, and now considers her past an [[Old Shame]].
** Fuchsia started out as genuinely evil, but now is in love with Criminy, quit working for the Devil and is now essentially a soft-hearted (but short-tempered) human with a few extra features (check how her design has changed).
** Criminy used to hide himself away in his Fortress of Knowledge; as his relationship with Fuchsia progressed, you saw less and less of the Fortress, until [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209190227/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3723 you see him completely without it.] His hair is also a little more natural, where prior it was always 'in place'.
** Seymour used to be a hard conservative who attacked anything outside his narrow ideals. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185456/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3862 After learning a hard lesson in humility] he now shows Tangerine [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209155424/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3893 respect.] He's still conservative and holds a grudge against Fuchsia and Baby Blue (they messed him up) but he's not quite so fast to attack now. He also seems to genuinely care about Lil'E, especially after Lil'E's recent amnesia.
** While not as much as Fyoosh and still very much a [[Card-Carrying Villain]], Baby Blue is shown to have a genuine soft spot for Fuchsia and possibly some jealousy towards Criminy.
*** More recently, Baby Blue deliberately lied to The Devil, saying she couldn't find Fuchsia, after she saw her friend [[Sleep Cute|napping together with Criminy under a tree.]]
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* [[The Chase]]. Death. Annually, to the year, and to the zombie.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]] / [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]:
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164654/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2814 Those] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162726/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3668 "glitter points"] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181142/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3673 come in] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162414/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3680 handy].
** The "Reality Zone" too, since it seems to have the power to incapacitate things of Hell. Forky lost consciousness upon entering and recovered upon leaving. The Devil is apparently afraid of the place, as he refused to enter and create a hell hole there. Instead, he replied "show's over" when asked and walked away. Tangerine actually started to burn like a vampire in sunlight when she went in.
* [[Chew Toy]]: Seymour in 2011 gets lots of screen time dedicated to making him suffer. Not that the fan base [[The Scrappy|minds]].
* [[Clothing Damage]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209183658/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4030 Monique binding her foot.]
* [[CannotCan't StandLive with Them, CannotCan't Live Without Them]]: Monique and Slick are very self-centered, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209173344/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=276 can't even hold their eyes on each other], don't really know what they want for more than a few minutes... yet [[Green-Eyed Monster|neither will allow anyone else to approach the other]].
** Monique looks at a guy she considers attractive, then [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209170559/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1870 he reminds of Slick, and finds this a turn-off]. It's such a huge turn-off that [[Hypocritical Humor|she starts hitting on him right on the next page]].
* [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]]: For [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209173638/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3547 Squigley]
* [[Conflicting Loyalty]]: An issue for [[Anti-Villain|Fuschia]] and [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Tomey.]] {{spoiler|Or rather, [[High Heel Face Turn|it WAS an issue for Fuschia]].}}
* [[Continuity Creep]]: As noted above, the comic has had little to no regard to continuity in its earlier years. But extended story arcs began taking shape before so long. And old throw-away gags from earlier days have also been brought back and expanded upon, including Squigley's ability to [[Wrong-Context Magic|fly his couch while high]].
* [[Continuity Reboot]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185806/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3422 Spoofed] a few weeks into 2010.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Nique acts as one to Criminy and can be quite protective of him if she thinks he's in danger.
* [[Cool Cat]]: Percy is a perfect example of "cats are cool" via "cats are aloof," where he ''thinks'' he's too cool for everyone around him, and acts accordingly.
* [[Cool Horse]]: The [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209183658/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4030 winged horses] Tangerine and 'nique watch in the tree.
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181151/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4105 This senora.]
* [[Cool Shades]]: Probably the look Slick was going for, although he doesn't pull it off as well as he thinks he does.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]:
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172954/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3439 Classic.]{{broken link}}
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209163414/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3552 This]{{broken link}} also counts.
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164208/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2070 Because Slick knows Squiggly better than Devil]{{broken link}}.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Several characters such as Mickey Mouse, [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]], Tom the Cat. Homer Simpson and Charlie Brown [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209192037/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2973 appear as leaders of different major crime families], with the Devil as ruling Don of the Five Families.
* [[Crossover Cosmology]]: The main focus is Christian but Buddha and the Dragon (representing Eastern religions in general) have also shown up. In fact Buddha and Jesus are pals.
* [[Crush Blush]]: When Baby Blue confessed her attraction to a boy, he blushed.
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* [[Cute Bookworm]]: Criminy is a rare male example.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Fuschia, Baby Blue, and Tangerine.
* [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!]]: As seen in [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209183741/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2952 this strip]{{broken link}}
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Right from the first strip, Satan's been offering them. This has not generally worked very well.
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: The Succubi, though Fuschia has recently become less-so. Depraved, that is. She's presumably still bisexual.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]:
** Fuchsia, after dealing with Seymour's [[Fantastic Racism]] one too many times, sees her angry face reflected in the water and begins to wonder if she really ''doesn't'' belong in our world, and promptly throws herself back into Hell.
** Monique may be fast approaching hers after [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629033138/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3743 learning she may have helped condemn a million men to hell.] She doesn't seem [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185112/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3744 to be] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171931/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3748 taking it well.]{{broken link}} But Slick is [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|working on]] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209174237/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3755 bringing her back].
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: Quite literally. He takes [[Sadly Mythtaken|Cerberus]] out for walks around the neighborhood and flicks off God from hilltops. At the same time, God regularly speaks to people in the form of giant hand puppets in the sky.
* [[The Devil Is a Loser]]: And it's God's favorite pastime to remind him of it.
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: Must you kill off '''[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209193157/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3523 everyone??]{{broken link}}'''
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Done by MMX at the end of his run. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209182950/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3772 Death gets right back up]{{broken link}}, albeit, visibly worse for wear.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]] : [[Serious Business|Eternal Vengeance]] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209165208/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3830 for tripping.] Y'know, cause [[What an Idiot!|he wasn't looking where he was walking]].
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: Seymour and Monique, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164230/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3929 here].
* [[The Ditz]]: Monique has taken on elements of this since the strip took a turn for the [[Lighter and Softer]].
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]:
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131123001524/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3204 Criminy and his telescope]
{{quote|'''Baby Blue:''' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|The Force is strong with this one.]]...[[Smoking Hot Sex|I need a cigarette.]]}}
** As well as; [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209190205/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3247 this,]
* [[Drag Queen]]: Squigley dresses up as "[[Sarah Palin|Sarah Piglin]]" in a number of strips.
* [[E=MC Hammer]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171803/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2641 Literally]. ("It's kinda like science!")
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Happens to {{spoiler|Lil' Evil}} starting [https://web.archive.org/web/20111020215313/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4035 here]. Justified, it's the Lethe. Yes, ''[[Greek Mythology|THAT]]'' [[Greek Mythology|Lethe.]]
* [[Erotic Eating]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209183129/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3942 'Nique's method of inspiration].
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Early on, it was shown that The Devil had a few issues with some of Slick's [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181053/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=91 requests] to combine [[Les Yay]] with [[Incest Subtext]], though it was due more to feasibility than actual moral qualms.
* [[Everyone Went to School Together]]: Of all people, apparently ''Jesus and Blue'' [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181849/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4198 did]. Currently not known whether this is canon or a one-off gag.
* [[Evil Lawyer Joke]]: "[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209165112/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3243 Well, this comes as no surprise]".
* [[Evil Me Scares Me]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629032948/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3666 Fuchsia] has this reaction to her reflection after losing her temper with Seymour. In all likelihood, this was a side of herself she never wanted Criminy to see.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: Probably the entire ''point'' of Lil' Evil...and considering [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209165208/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3830 his role model]...
 
== F-J ==
* [[Fan Service]]: Although 'Nique and the succubi will [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209160518/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2660 cheerily] dish out fanservice to all comers, it also got kinda... [[Fan Disservice|subverted]]. I mean, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164327/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3142 ew]...
** A later strip even points out the [[Double Standard]]; when fans demand she show them ass, 'Nique calls Slick us on stage...
* [[Fantastic Drug]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181156/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4235 Jogs, apparently.] [[wikipedia:Endorphin#Runner.27s high|Some truth in the matter...]]
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Seymour in strips [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209163354/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3662 3662] and 3663 directed towards Fuchsia, which also showcases his hypocrisy since one of the core tenants of Christianity is that those who are legitimately trying to change their ways should be encouraged along that path. Made even more apparent when it was earlier shown that two angels pretty much ignore her nowadays since they know she isn't evil anymore. They even give Criminy their blessing when he digs his way to hell for her since after all, love transcends all boundaries.
** Seymour does seem more sympathetic towards Tangerine, trying to help her without hurting her feelings (partially so she does not hurt him), to the point where she seems to consider him a friend.
* [[Flat What]]:
** Percival, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209161732/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2357 here.]
** The Devil, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209155458/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3840 here.]
* [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|Lil'E's identity as being the [[Anti Christ]]}} is hinted at at these [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209193456/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3935 two] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209175152/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3938 strips.] Note the blurb Ishida uses and the actual strip itself.
** Also, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209175739/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4284 "i will not cheat] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209192548/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4289 taking advange of Liberty (a.k.a freedom)]
* [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]
* [[A Friend in Need]]: All sorts of characters—and growing more frequent.
* [[The Fundamentalist]]: Seymour and Lil' Evil for Christianity and Satanism, respectively. Subverted occasionally when Seymour actually practices what he preaches, only to relapse into being a massive prick some time down the road. Again, like everything else in this comic, his flip-flopping got Lampshaded as being due to [[Running Gag|the Full Moon causing a werewolf-like transformation]].
* [[Gender Bender]]: "Trans State."
* [[Geeky Turn On]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209180007/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4269 Fusha to Criminy]:
{{quote|'''Fusha''': "Oooo Criminy knows fancy words..."}}
* [[Give Me a Sign]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209183546/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2762 This strip.]
* [[The Glomp]]:
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209163630/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2205 From a pig!]
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209160027/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3675 From a succubus!] nd [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209165349/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4270 again].
* [[God and Satan Are Both Jerks]]: During one of God's puppet parodies, the Devil mocks him, causing Slick to comment, "Sometimes I can't tell the two of you apart."
* [[God Is Evil]]: Subverted; God can seem this way to some of the characters, but is generally just obnoxious and somewhat childish, with [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209190457/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=181 occasional] [[Pet the Dog]] moments. Jesus, on the other hand, is [[Jesus Was Way Cool|an awesome guy]].
** So is the Buddha. The Dragon of Eastern Religion is generally awesome also.
* [[Golden Mean Fallacy]]: Slicky [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171431/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3886 tried an apple] from the Tree of Knowledge and couldn't handle it. Slicky dived into Lethe and forgot everything. So he [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209190415/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3913 tried to combine them] into "Forbidden Fruit and Lethe Water Power Drink".
{{quote|'''Slick''': WTF?}}
* [[Good Is Dumb]]:
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* [[Go Mad from the Revelation]]: To a minor degree, this is why God does not show his face and uses the hand puppets. His showing a image of his face to two people caused a bit of a fight. Now imagine if He showed His face to a few more people...
** As previously stated, when Slick ate the Fruit of Knowledge and found out he was a cartoon character, he tried to kill himself by jumping off a cliff. That works out about as well as you'd think.
* [[Grammar Nazi]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184542/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2642 Oops!]
* [[Granola Girl]]: Nique's starts as a generic hippy ("Peace!") and gradually [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209183702/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2969 turns] very liberal left-wing, frequently protesting and contesting. She's even a struggling [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181225/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3235 vegan]. Lil' E even preferred her [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162408/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3563 as his "archnemesis"] over Seymour as more well-intended, at least for a time.
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]:
** Monique either has no intention of taking their relationship out of the friend zone or she [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209170946/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1518 would], but has zero tolerance policy for his horny clownades. But she's [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927012008/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1088 jealous]. During the "Loverboy" sequence she drives away a girl who was actually liked Slicky enough to laugh off his antics.
** Slick either is interested only in Monique's butt or can't hold his brain in one pile and mouth free of drool around her. When she isn't around, he wanders off after other girls all the time. But seeing her [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209170243/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1875 flirting with a guy]? No way. That's enough to [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172229/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1797 stop his own not-yet-ruined flirt] and go decry his rival in a hissyfit so stupid that even Monique who already knows him well [[Face Palm|facepalmed]].
* [[Gretzky Has the Ball]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162349/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=539 Monique's schmoozin' attempt.]
* [[The Grim Reaper]].
* [[Groin Attack]]: '''[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181120/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3788 "I love you, man!"]'''
* [[Groupie Brigade]]: After running from a mob, Death disguises himself to avoid blame for Michael's death. Accidentally, [[Mistaken Identity|he gets taken for him]], and [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209163441/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3224 runs from a mob.]
* [[Ha Ha Ha No]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209193641/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=607 Make love, not war.]
* [[Harmless Villain]]: Little E definitely.
** However he is {{spoiler|1=the [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4058 son of the devil]}}. So that could change.
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Fushcia bounced back and forth between crushing on Criminy and actively helping Blue and the Devil antagonize Slick and Monique until her character development led her to pretty much stop being evil.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Fuschia [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209192414/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4079 made her choice without so much as a word,] over a year in making. She went initially from toying with Crimnee, to being intrigued, to straight-out crush. During her crush phase, she'd still cheerfully torment others but behaved herself whenever he was around. Over the passing of time, she started to wish to become 'normal' and feel pity for the damned (perhaps in a very different [[Not So Different]] moment). Recently she's almost completely rejected her devilish nature, flat out offering comfort to the damned and rarely being shown in her succubus outfit anymore. There's been some dark foreshadowing that this could get her killed (although none of the cast has ever died yet), but also some that shows she could obtain salvation.
* [[Heel Realization]]: It would seem Seymour is having one [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184038/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3795 here.]
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209182928/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4112 Seems like] {{spoiler|Lil'E}} is too. Not quite played for laughs.
* [[Hell Freezes Over]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209170039/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=700 Over there!]
* [[He's Back]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209161600/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4161 Slick dons the tie], meaning his perverted ways are making a comeback.
* [[Hell Hound]]: Cerberus is the Devil's pet, and spends his time menacing the cast (especially Slick) and eating mailmen.
* [[High Heel Face Turn]]: Fuchsia.
* [[High on Catnip]]: The [[Author Avatar]]'s cat [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185158/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1908 gets high on catnip], even saying "that's some good stuff".
* [[Holier Than Thou]]: Seymour, again.
* [[Holy Burns Evil]]: Not only is "Big D" repulsed by angel glitter and has angel-repellent, but even some apparently mortal creatures [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172529/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2054 have such weakness].
* [[Horny Devils]]:
** The succubi started out tempting Slick with lesbian trysts (which Blue is still doing) and are often seen attending the Devil.
** The Devil himself takes this role occasionally, acting as a pimp. He also does NOT like it when people try to take his "bitches", at one point holding a Glock to an alien from "Pimptopia" who was seeking bitches.
* [[Hot Librarian]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209155710/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3138 Parodied here.]
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Usually fight giant monsters and each other out of the continuity.
** [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha]]: ''[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209174016/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2740 Robo Sinfest]''.
** [[Transforming Mecha]]: anything from a [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209180339/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2308 soda vending machine] or [https://web.archive.org/web/20130731045732/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2959 ATM] to a [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209174126/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2224 church].
*** And [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172432/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2147 TV]. That's why [[The Television Talks Back|they talk back]] in ''Sinfest''.
* [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]] [[Accidental Innuendo]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131123001524/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3204 Here] and [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171433/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=957 here.]
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162238/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2369 Stereotyping how they stereotype her.]
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209180308/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=740 Seymour] is [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209192714/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=915 funny] like this—all the time.
* [[Icarus Allusion]]: The mini-arc "[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162146/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2199 Catch]"—it even ends in a postscriptum to Icarus story.
* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185429/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4121 Baby Blue] will destroy you.
* [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184421/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1439 Monique], although it's more like "I have booty you must obey".
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209192302/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3011 Respect the poon!]
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: The [[Fan Girl]] wants to be cool because Monique is. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162746/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4120 Monique handles it nicely.]
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Criminy, Jesus, Buddha (which for those two should go without saying), the cherubs.
** But above all, Pooch. He is the happiest, most positive, sensitive, good natured thing in the world of Sinfest. The angels? Can be a bit of some jerk-asses.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209161053/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3934 "That guy..."]
* [[Innocent Innuendo]] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171433/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=957 this strip] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131123001524/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3204 and this strip]
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: The 'Ninja Theatre' arcs, which take place in a feudal Japanese alternate universe, staring Slick as a ninja named Wasabi, and Monique as the Geisha Yellowtail.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]:
** Criminy (human) and Fuschia (succubus).
** {{spoiler|The Devil (guess) and Lil' E's mother (human).}}
* [[Irony]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181825/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3715 Here.]
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: When [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209180642/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2115 mistaken for Monique's retarded son] by a security agent, Slick gets upset about ''son'' part, not the ''retarded''.
** ''"[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209183518/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2206 Diminutive?!]"''
* [[I Think You Broke Him]]: "[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162319/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3043 Oops], I broke Slicky [[Running Gag|again]]".
* [[It's a Small Net After All]]: Averted for laughs when Seymour is trying to look up [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172106/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3933 how to fix a broken halo].
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: In one Sunday strip, Baby Blue holds off {{spoiler|killing Criminy after she realizes just how happy her former lover, Fuschia, is with him.}} Awwwwwwwww.
* [[Jerkass]]:
Line 254 ⟶ 258:
*** Until late 2011, when he proved that he could befriend a confused demon, and that he would not hurt Lil' Evil when the latter was down.
* [[Jerkass Gods]]: Subverted; the only character that he's consistently a [[Jerkass]] to is the Devil. God's hand puppet mockery can come off this way occasionally, although it's mostly played for laughs and some of His "victims" actually find the caricature amusing.
** God will, however, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209174304/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3205 torment] Slick occasionally.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Percy
* [[Jesus Saves]]:
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209170111/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3062 He Must].
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181302/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2567 He does so regularly, in fact.]
* [[Jesus Was Way Cool]]:
** It's worth noting that while the Buddha is neutral towards God and Satan, he treats Jesus as a friend.
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181028/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2121 Kung Fu Gospel]—A Rosary [[Dragons Up the Yin-Yang|Up the Yin Yang]].
* [[Jet Pack]]: Jesus has [https://web.archive.org/web/20140129220715/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3885 one].
 
 
== K-O ==
* [["Kick Me" Prank]]: "Big D" once [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185547/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3061 did it to Slick].
* [[Kick the Dog]]:
** Seymour, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181913/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3533 here], and during the "Bad Behavior" strips.
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: Seymour was abused, chased with fire, Bomf-ed, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171725/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1404 sneezed at by the Dragon], tempted until his wire halo explodes (twice in a row), had it [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629031657/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3050 set on fire], The Devil [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185456/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3862 demonized] him and Tangerine [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209174437/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3960 demonized] his ''hat''. And he not only deserved this treatment, but directly brought on himself most of it.
* [[Knight Templar]]: Seymour.
* [[Lady Land]]
* [[Lap Pillow]]/[[Sleep Cute]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185433/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3792 Fuchsia and Criminy]
* [[Large Ham]]: [[Author Avatar|The cartoonist.]] "[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209161229/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4164 NOBODY] [[No Indoor Voice|CRAZIER]] [[Self-Deprecation|THAN ME!]]"
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Seymour literally becoming what he hates in "Bomf 4".
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: A recent [[WAFF]]y romantic arc sealed the deal. Not that it's necessarily a bad or good thing.
** For [[Watsonian Versus Doylist|an in-universe explanation]], one could say it was thanks to [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209183033/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3001 Buddha's zen-powered butterfly effect] the way that Sunday strip ends.
* [[Literal Metaphor]]:
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209190205/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3247 "Today I'm going to wax my missile!"]
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209174234/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3646 Done here with "wild oats."]
* [[Lonely at the Top]]: The Devil is occasionally shown to be deeply unsatisfied with his lot.
* [[Lonely Together]]
* [[Loony Fan]]: Lil'Evil and Seymour, in slightly different ways. Lil'E clearly has a raging crush on the Devil and desperately wants his approval, while Seymour is such a devoted goofball [[The Fundamentalist|fundie]] that he regularly [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209160522/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2583 fails to notice the actual Jesus] since he's so busy shopping for Jesus merch.
** There's always one such clown -- [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184022/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=757 everywhere].
* [[Love Epiphany]]: Possibly Criminy [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209173946/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3672 in this strip].
* [[Love Redeems]]:
** Fuchsia has gone from evil to [[Punch Clock Villain]] due to her crush on Criminy and has even [https://web.archive.org/web/20090428153215/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3154 contemplated] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185433/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3792 redemption]. This has led her to start [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209173334/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3624 caring for the damned] and [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171258/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3589 helping pigs stuck in trees after adventures on magical toilets]
** {{spoiler|This also seems to be at work with Baby Blue, albeit in a more subtle manner. Fuchsia reforming sparked her decision of whether to remain truly loyal to the Devil or to protect Fuchsia.}}
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|1=[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4058 Big D is implied to be Little E's father].}}
* [[Magical Negro]]: Parodied in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209095646/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2624 this] strip
* [[The Malaproper]]: Tangerine.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Fuschia has a maternal bond with her pet Forky, and was ready to burn Little E's face off when he said he was going to mount it as a trophy.
* [[Marijuana Is LSD]]: Squigley appears at first to be subject to this, though it later becomes apparent that marijuana gives him actual powers, and flying around on his couch is neither a hallucination nor a metaphor. (He describes himself as a "shaman.")
* [[Mars Needs Women]]:
** The subject of a running gag, starting [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164959/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1647 here]. Possibly the cutest was "[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185110/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2986 Emotopia] needs [[Barack Obama|hope]]", but almost every character gets one, from planets that need [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209190630/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1649 bacon] to planets that need [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172036/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3268 health care]. Even the artist himself gets [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209190137/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3717 one].
** A couple of years earlier, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185620/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=908 inverted].
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172554/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1741 Sextron Needs Nerds] (they must be having ''tech'' problems).
** [[Mary Suetopia|Perfectron]] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185733/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2093 needs villains].
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209174830/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2534 Sleeptron Needs Awakening].
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172002/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2871 Cultron Needs Conformists].
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209163448/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3114 Pimptopia Needs Bitches].
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209155809/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3980 Furrytopia needs savages]. Or maybe it just needs a good ol' Bomf?
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164414/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4179 Corruptron Needs Justice].
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172645/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4256 Uranus Needs Gays].
* [[Masquerade]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209172250/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3703 Cows] on the ''[[Far Side]]''.
* [[Matrix Raining Code]]: In the strips "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130922215947/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4049 The Sisterhood 5], [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209190543/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4050 6], & [https://web.archive.org/web/20140118083514/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4051 7]"
* [[Medium Awareness]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171431/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3886 Good thing the River Lethe] was near by, or else Slick might [[Go Mad from the Revelation|have had a problem there]].
* [[Minion with an F In Evil]]: Thanks to Criminy's influence, Fuchsia is becoming this. She now sings songs to the damned and reads them stories.
* [[Morality Pet]]:
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* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Possibly in Dig 7, Baby Blue looked like she had murderous intent when she was attacking Criminy. See [[Depraved Bisexual]].
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]:
** Monique when she realizes she's [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629033138/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3743 indirectly responsible for the damnation of countless men].
** Baby Blue has this reaction {{spoiler|1=[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4093 after finding a note to her from Fuchsia after trashing Fyoosh's room.]}}
** Sam after he realizes he caused [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209174659/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3750 that refugee camp.]
* [[New Year's Resolution]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162356/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=721 Big D]. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184421/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1439 Monique].
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: Trike Girl's energy shield power seemed to have no point than to give her [[Plot Armor]]. There are theories however, that her shield works like [[Star Wars]] (blocks energy but useless against physical attacks).
** Now her trike has the power to turn into a space ship.
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Done at times for political satire, such as [[Barack Obama|Barackstar]] challenging [[Sarah Palin|Sarah Piglin]] in a rock-off.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: "Sinfest" itself, considering how little sin actually appears in current strips.
* [[Noticing the Fourth Wall]]: Done in [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171431/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3886 this comic.]
* [[Not So Different]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209191919/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=495 Seymour], the Christian fanatic, and [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184955/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2846 Li'l E], the Satan fanatic.<ref>Note this is by no means the only example that shows this; just ''one of'' the more easily spotted ones.</ref>
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]
* [[Oh Crap]]:
** Criminy gets a PG version when he realizes [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209192257/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3671 just how far down he's gone]
** The Devil is coming. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209173612/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3677 Oh crap].
** And now Blue when she realizes that [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209192532/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4091 Fyoosh has apparently abandoned Satan's service.]
** Lil' E [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209161940/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3376 got it].
* [[Order Versus Chaos]]: Satan likes to frame his conflict with God in these terms, though it seems to be a lot messier than that.
* [[Orphaned Punchline]]
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== P-T ==
* [[Pals with Jesus]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209180151/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2630 Buddha].
* [[Panty Shot]]:
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184624/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3664 Bad Behavior 3] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629032948/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3666 5]
** Between the [[Sailor Fuku|short skirt]] and the tail it's not surprising that Fyoosh's panties star in quite a few shots. [[Fan Service|Not that that's a bad thing.]]
* [[Parallel Porn Titles]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927050332/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3090 Babygotback Mountain.]
* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: Incoming [[Fan Service]]? Cue Squig with [[Offscreen Teleportation|inexplicable]] chair and popcorn.
* [[Pet the Dog]]:
** From [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209160002/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3766 The Devil] of all people.
** And [https://web.archive.org/web/20111013115629/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4037 he's done it before] too.
* [[Pettanko]]: Tangerine pre-transformation. May still apply compared to the other devil girls.
* [[Pig Man]]
* [[Planet Eris]]
* [[Plot Tumor]]: "Patriarchy" and boy did it grow fast (to the point where the strip has become centered on Trike Girl's actions and the ramifications of said actions). Also lampshaded by Slick in January 2012.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209175346/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4093 A subtle example...]
* [[The Power of Love]]:
** The angels' glitter has more functionality than just "Brownie points".
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162817/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3685 The last panel] suggests the Devil's "re-demonizing" [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162414/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3680 of Fuschia] hasn't fully taken.
*** Her reaction to the "Spirit Fingers" of the damned confirms it. (From her horrified reaction, we can assume Blue taught them that, too)
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005063658/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3106 It wouldn't be the first time] The Devil's efforts have failed to revert Fyoosh. It's pretty much confirmed that [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629031640/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3077 Criminy's the reason why.]
* [[Public Domain Artifact]]: Excalibur!
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Literally in [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005033824/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3155 this strip].
* [[Reality Ensues]]: Rather literally with the "Reality Zone."
* [[Rebus Bubble]]: Prevalent in some of the later strips, especially the Sunday color strips, which usually don't have much written dialogue. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184837/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2679 This strip] is a premium example.
* [[Reclusive Artist]]: Tatsuya Ishida is VERY rarely seen, to the point that only one image of him can be found online, He's not quite Thomas Pynchon Reclusive, but he's getting there. Some fans have even wondered if he died at some point (Reasons vary from the change in the strip over time, to just the fact that they can't find out that much about the guy. Nobody has verified a death, plus, he keeps on trying to get ''Sinfest'' into more mainstream publications, so he's out there but [[He's Just Hiding]]) instead of just realizing that, yknow, maybe the author of a successful comic does not want to get harassed 24/7. This was actually Lampshaded at one point by an [[Author Avatar]] being followed around by an annoying Expy of Lil' Evil.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: A lot of one-page remake gags, like ''[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209155618/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=749 Booty and the Beast]'' or ''[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209191718/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4237 Steampunk Jesus]''.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Fuchsia the Devil Girl and Baby Blue the Devil Girl.
* [[Rhetorical Question Blunder]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209165049/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3713 Here]:
{{quote|'''Percy:''' Is there anything in the world more ''miserable'' than a ''wet cat?''
'''Pooch:''' Ummmm... A frozen penguin? ... A shaved porcupine? Constipated skunk? ... A toothless beaver! }}
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209173133/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2605 Lil' E shouldn't have asked 'Nique].
* [[Right Behind Me]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209193239/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3700 ...I mean, nice hellhole you got there.]
* [[Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311112846/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=16 Referenced near the start of the strip.]
** Fuchsia writes one of these about Criminy [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209190218/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3177 here] behind the Devil's back.
* [[Running Gag]]: Several:
** Variations on [[Mars Needs Women]]
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** Characters turning into kanji characters.
** [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|"EEK! It's <blank>zilla]]!" Examples include Pigzilla, Pimpzilla, Bitchzilla, Fundiezilla, and Gayzilla. Usually defeated (or not) by an equivalent monster or robot.
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209161007/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1030 Telemarketers].
*** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209165433/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1014 Who's behind all this crap?]
{{quote|'''The Devil''': Hello!}}
** 'Nique being mistaken for a demon. Twice she intentionally posed as Booth Babe. Later both [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181928/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3063 Jesus] and [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209193130/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3073 Devil] confused her with one more Devil Girl. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164405/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3082 No idea why. So insulting.]
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: She hasn't made it yet but [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209173319/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4044 recent events imply] that Fuschia is going to have make a decision eventually.
** {{spoiler|1=And so [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4079 she did]. ''[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|AWWWWWWWWWWWW!]]''}}
* [[Scenery Porn]]: While it started out with black and white comic strips, in 2008 some [[Art Evolution|gorgeous full-colour, full page spreads started to appear]], sometimes with beautiful depictions of nature.
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* [[Sexy Santa Dress]]: 'Nique, Fyoosh, and Blue wear them for one Christmas arc, though the devil girls are technically Satan's little helpers...
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** A [[Self-Deprecation|self-deprecatory]] one, considering the author's admission to it being an influence, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110926212415/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=59 to Calvin and Hobbes].
** A later strip has Squigley fly past a boy and tiger in a box while he's on one of his drug induced couch flights.
** The October 30th strip references ''Nighthawks'', a 1940s painting.
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209175350/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3708 This strip alone] has more shout outs than you can shake a stick at.
** To [[Where's Waldo]] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209180121/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3702 here]
** To [[Calvin and Hobbes]] in the Reality Zone [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209160958/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3617 here], as well as [[The Simpsons]] and [[Peanuts|Charlie Brown]].
** Slick's words [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209180112/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3099 in the second panel here] are taken from the chorus to "Message in a Bottle" by [[The Police]].
** The book Criminy gave Fuchsia, the one thing she felt important enough to take with her when she left the Devi's mansion, is a Shout Out to [[Saturday Night Live]].
* [[Show Within a Show]]: "Ninja Theatre" is [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209164916/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2181 Slick's project] (see also the next page).
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Seymour's [[Knight Templar]] passive-aggressive ways pushes Fuchsia's [[Berserk Button]], leading her into a [[Despair Event Horizon]]. As Seymour tries to [[Evil Gloating|say a sermon,]] Criminy promptly tells him that he has had ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|ENOUGH.]]''
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]:
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209174236/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=684 Ezekiel and Ariel], a pair of little angels that also like harassing the Devil.
** Also, '''[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171057/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3651 this]'''.
* [[Significant Haircut]]: 'Nique gets one [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209175641/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4074 here]. We'll see if it sticks.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: The scale used to sit at the cynical end, but slowly started working its way up to the idealistic side thanks to an ever increasingly amount of strips that [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|can't help but tug at your heartstrings.]]
** Sometimes Pooch will wander around looking at a couple of things, and marvel in wonder, followed by Percy, who will look at the same or similar things in fear and anger. For example, Pooch sees nature as an artist, and Percy sees nature as an enemy.
* [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]]: Monique. Half the time she's flaunting it, and the other half she's mourning the consequences of having dudes fall for her left and right, especially when it leads them straight to Hell...[[You Are Worth Hell|literally]].
* [[Space Whale Aesop]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209170718/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4034 A public service announcement].
* [[Speech Bubbles Interruption]]
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Fuchsia becomes one for a while after she starts to become enamored of Criminy.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: It seems that Tatsuya will NEVER resolve any of the [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|UST]] between [[Takahashi Couple|Slick and 'Nique]]. It also seems that he will never make [[Beta Couple|Crim and Fyoosh]] an official couple after the Crim Goes to Hell [[Aborted Arc|arc]] [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|just sort of petered out unresolved.]]
** As far as Slick and 'Nique, perhaps [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209191958/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3232 this is why]. Not that 'Nique didn't express much the same sentiments herself [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209174900/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2387 earlier]...
* [[Strawman Political|Strawman Conservative]]: Several cases, most notably Little Evil.
* [[Stripperific]]: The Succubi. [[Captain Obvious|Duh]].
* [[Subliminal Seduction]]: All the time. "[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171956/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1377 Special messages]" on TV. Also, Monique [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209180604/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=745 talked backward], just to scare Seymour.
* [[Summon Backup Dancers]]: Done [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209193046/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2721 here.]
* [[Summoning Ritual]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185247/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4032 Interrupted.]
* [[Sunglasses at Night]] (Slick)
* [[Super-Deformed]] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171335/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1261 Chibi Sinfest]
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162655/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3210 here].
** Then [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185350/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3211 this] acknowledges the [[Attractive Bent Gender|odd attractiveness]] of [[Crossdresser]] Monique ("Androgynique"), possibly proving that [[Even the Girls Want Her]] (which is ironically the most success any of the characters—except [[Clueless Chick Magnet|of course]] for [[Nerds Are Sexy|Criminy]]—have had with women).
* [[Take That]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209192037/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2973 This strip.]
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209161352/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3819 Crimey] for Fuschia, although I think Cupid was aiming for him.
* [[Talking in Your Dreams]]
* [[Team Switzerland]]: Buddha acts as a neutral third party to God and the Devil. He'd be [[Above Good and Evil]] if he weren't one of the nicest characters in the strip.
* [[Theme Naming]]: The succubi are named after their hair colors.
* [[Through His Stomach]]: Subverted [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209173728/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2303 here].
* [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl]]: Slick is ''short.'' Also, Fuchsia and Criminy. Both are taller in the [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209182547/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3609 Reality] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209161535/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3701 Zone].
** Actually applies to most of the core male cast—Slick, Squiggley, Criminy, Seymour and Lil' Evil are roughly all half the size of the women—with the exception of the Devil (and obviously God). Oddly enough, the male supporting cast (Jesus, Uncle Sam, etc) are all of normal height.
** In the reality zone, they are the exact same size as the girls. Much more realistic.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: See Beware The Nice Ones above. It looked as if Criminy was about to kill Seymour.
** Even more so now that he is going into the very maw of Hell itself for Fuchsia. Go get her Criminy!!
*** Now, even after suffering a long fall, he's managed to fight off a winged pitchfork from hell [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181142/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3673 with a freakin shovel.]
**** And then [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162414/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3680 uses same flying pitchfork to make his getaway]. "Punch it, forky!"
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: Seymour after the Bad Behavior series.
* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: Slick. To some degree, Monique too.
* [[Torture Technician]]: Baby Blue gets creative sometimes. See: [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]. Chances are, all the torturers but Fuchsia (now) can be that way.
* [[Training Montage]]: Seymour [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209181639/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3925 buffs up] after Monique calls him on his gender confusion rant.
* [[Translation Train Wreck]]: [[In-Universe]] example [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162929/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3975 in this strip.]
* [[Troll]]:
** God's Devil Puppet.
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== U-Z ==
* [[Ubermensch]]—or rather Uberboy
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Between Slick and 'Nique. Squigley prefers to [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185303/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=460 phrase it] in [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209163531/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=986 more straightforward] terms, though.
* [[Unsound Effect]]: All over it -- [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209165100/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=521 here], [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209183740/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3213 here], [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171706/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3223 here], [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209190737/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2614 here], and [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209173847/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3319 here]. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209160341/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4239 Explore Explore]!
* [[Up to Eleven]]: Satan has a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131028130928/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2672 Paranoia Meter] that does this.
** And his [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209165021/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4148 Hellfire Meter].
* [[Villainous Crush]]: Fuchsia to Criminy. Starts her development into an [[Anti-Villain]].
* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209190143/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4247 Observe.]
* [[The Voiceless]]: Buddha.
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209175949/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3409 Or is he?]
*** Which is weird, because he started out having a voice when he was introduced.
* [[Walking the Earth]]: After some [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209191000/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3645 coercion], Squig does this during an arc beginning late in October, 2010. In fact, he walks through [[Shout-Out|a number of other comics]].
* [[War Room]]: Hell's control room is shown [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209155755/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3953 here].
* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: Several
** "You're like a butterfly. A wild butterfly. I will collect you and capture you."
Line 469 ⟶ 473:
** "Lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice, oh, and it lights up the night...and you see your gypsyyy..."
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: As it turns out, this is a lot of what drives {{spoiler|1=[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4114 Lil' E.]}}
** The reason he was abandoned by his father [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209163515/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4114 here]
*** Though he may not recall just why he is so desperate for that person's approval, considering how young he seems to have been when they stopped living as father and son.
** Some of the Devil's interactions with the "Puppet-master in the Sky" seem like this turned sour.
Line 479 ⟶ 483:
** {{spoiler|1=[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4107 So has Baby Blue.]}}
* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: Criminy, according to Fuschia.
* [[When I Was Your Age]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209160056/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3325 Uncle Sam to Slick]—who asks him about the uphill both ways.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: {{spoiler|Lil' E's mom}}.
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Satan
* [[Wiki Rule]]: Monique has discovered a wiki devoted entirely to her, with ''very'' [[Paranoia Fuel|up to date info on her.]] Also, the Other Sunday Strip up near [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] has an email to Slick from Monique saying that she made a wiki for him: SlickyWiki. Also, the webcomic now has its own [https://web.archive.org/web/20121226161920/http://www.ninja-theatre.com/wiki/Main_Page wiki.]
** Baby Blue pulls up [https://web.archive.org/web/20111013115629/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4037 Little Evil's entry on Wickedpedia.]
*** Fyoosh deletes hers when she quits.
* [[The World Is Just Awesome]]: There's a few moments like this and thankfully, they tend to be in the Sunday color strips, like [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209185421/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4009 this one.] Also, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171110/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2763 this.]
* [[Wrong-Context Magic]]: The word "magic" is never used, but Squigley's shamanic powers are completely different from anything demonstrated by angels or devils.
* [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]]: Fuchsia seems to be one given what she says in [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209191958/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3232 this comic]. She has since gotten better. Possibly Baby Blue in a [[Depraved Bisexual]] example.
* [[You Are Better Than You Think You Are]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184106/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3126 How] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629031657/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3050 Criminy] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209160027/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3675 regards] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209163757/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3337 Ms. Fuchsia.]
* [[You Are Worth Hell]]: Better in context, but even out of it, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209163735/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3667 aw....]
{{quote|'''Fuschia:''' Did you really come down here to save me?
'''Criminy:''' Yes. Well, ''no''. Not to ''save'' you... Just to ''be'' with you.
'''Fuschia:''' [[The Glomp|*GLOMP*]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Even better!]] }}
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209191620/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3753 Slick's opinion of Monique] could be interpreted as this.
* [[Your Approval Fills Me with Shame]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629033138/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3743 That's] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209174659/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3750 clever.] [[Guilt Tripping|Guilt Trip]], much?
* [[Your Mom]]: Used by the embodiment of eastern religions [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209180814/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1423 Here].
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209191331/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3570 Oh snappeth!]
* [[Yuri Fanboy]]: Slick and Squigley.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]:
** Fuchsia's [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209191958/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3232 Schoolgirl outfit], from time to time, Occasionally [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209184106/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3126 Grade A].
** Blue uses this along with [[Catholic School Girls Rule|Catholic Schoolgirl]] suit to devastating effect [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209174010/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3982 on Seymour].
 
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