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== Core Cast ==
===Torg===
A [[Cloudcuckoolander]] who is an [[Idiot Hero|eager and well-meaning idiot most of the time, but has flashes of heroics]]. He's [[The Hero]], at least a foolish version of one... until several years into the series, when he starts to [[Took a Level in Badass|Take A Level in Badass]] every few story arcs and thoroughly claims the title. He's still a goofy badass, though.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]] - Torg's crush on Zoë, which has been going for at least eight years. He did however spit it out to a parallel earth Zoë; {{spoiler|it didn't end well, and he doesn't want to put the home-dimension Zoë at risk.}} Given the survival/sanity records of his girlfriends, not spitting it out is fairly sensible.
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** And then Oasis came along - if Torg confessed his love, Oasis would have killed Zoe.
** Once all of the obstacles listed above had been overcome, he finally spat it out.
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Basically any time Torg defeats an enemy before he took his level in badass.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Emphasis on the "crazy". Emergency pants!
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* [[Unmoving Pattern]] - Torg's flannel shirts.
A [[Mad Scientist]] who has been best friends with Torg since their middle school days, and has problems with women. He's [[The Smart Guy]], with occasional forays into [[The Big Guy]].
* [[Badass Longcoat]] - Usually subverted by Riff, but played very much straight during the climax of "Dangerous Days Ahead".
** Riff's little shopping trip in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140218010623/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020602 this strip] hung a big honkin' lampshade on it.
* {{spoiler|[[Batman Gambit]]: Riff pulls off an epic one at the end of 4U City Red.}}
* [[Catch Phrase]] - "Let me check my notes."
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{{quote|'''Torg''': {{spoiler|If the nanites are perfect, why didn't they fix your eyes?}}}}
The female [[Unlucky Everydude]] that ends up constantly involved in everyone else's screwiness. While more capable than most, she's clearly [[The Chick]] most of the time.
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* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]]: Most of the time.
One of Riff's ex-girlfriends, who dabbles in magic and has her fate entwined with the sinister [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Book of E-Ville]]. Often [[The Lancer]], although she has been [[The Chick]] on at least one occasion and occasionally veers to [[The Woobie]].▼
▲One of Riff's ex-girlfriends, who dabbles in magic and has her fate entwined with the sinister [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Book of E-Ville]]. Often [[The Lancer]], although she has been [[The Chick]] on at least one occasion.
* [[Black Magic]] -
* [[Blind Without'Em]] - Possibly the biggest exhibitor of the trope in history. Contact lenses that are strong enough to bring her vision to normal are so large, they give her Big Anime Eyes.
* [[Dark Magical Girl]] - Flirts with this trope but never fully commits.
* [[Demonic Possession]]
* [[Inept Mage]]
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]
* [[The Smart Guy]]
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: "Gwen", goodness knows why.
** Gwynn is a [[Meaningful Name]]. If you {{spoiler|disallow the "and sometimes Y" rule for vowels, "Gwynn" is a vowelless name - just like K'Z'K}}.
* [[Tsundere]] - Type A.
A miniature talking and very evil lop-eared bunny which might be the most dangerous force in the universe. Very violent and short-tempered, though perfectly
* [[The Big Guy]]: Despite being physically the smallest of the main cast.
▲A miniature talking and very evil lop-eared bunny which might be the most dangerous force in the universe. Very violent and short-tempered, though perfectly controlle dif he needs to be. Quite possibly the smallest [[The Big Guy|Big Guy]] ever to reach his level of badassitude.
* [[Can't Get in Trouble For Nuthin']]
▲* [[Can't Get in Trouble For Nuthin']] - Bun-bun can escape punishment, and get Torg in trouble, by wearing a Torg costume.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Time to die, Nerd-Boy!" and similar, along with his switchblade's distinctive 'ka-click!' sound effect.
* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]
* [[Implacable Man|Implacable Bunny]]
* [[Interspecies Romance]]
* [[Karma Houdini]]
* [[Killer Rabbit]]
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]
* [[Mysterious Past]]
* [[Older Than They Look|Older Than He Looks?]]
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Because the comic usually uses all caps, people tend to assume his name is capitalised as "Bun-Bun". Things like sub-chapter titles reveal it's actually "Bun-bun".
* [[Talking Animal]]
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]
* [[Wants the Work Done for Them]]: Bun-bun plays with this trope - instead of complaining until somebody else does the work, he threatens them. The end results are the same.
* [[Worf Effect]]
===Kiki===
Riff's pet talking ferret, who has a habit of being [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|easily distracted]] and naively willing to touch anything shiny. Kind-hearted, but [[The Ditz|very foolish]], and quite clearly the [[Team Pet]].
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* [[Talking Animal]]
Fish out of water [[Shapeshifting]] alien, that came from an early parody of ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' and ''[[Star Trek]]'' and stuck around. Reserve [[The Big Guy|Big Guy]], [[The Lancer|Lancer]], [[Team Pet]] varying depending on her form(occasionally changes forms [[Involuntary Shapeshifting|involuntarily]] to adapt to her environment) and the other characters present. Is personality wise a kind of [[Genius Ditz]] due to balance between her naivety and her predatory cunning.
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* [[Wing Pull]]: Most of Aylee's forms are capable of flight, even when it's not immediately obvious.
===Sam===
Formerly the cast's neighbor at the apartment complex, now a vampire [[Walking the Earth]]. He is the former owner of Kiki and still feels very protective of her. Has a crush on Zoë. Must steer clear of Riff, who tries to stake him whenever he spots him.
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* [[Third Person Person]] - Sam's da man! (Though he doesn't always do this - just when he's trying to [[Casanova Wannabe|charm the ladies]].)
A young woman mind controlled by a [[Mad Scientist]] named Dr. Steve Hereti. Has a tendency to come back from the dead and is very much in love with Torg.
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* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] - Oasis has this as her default mode of dealing with any and all challengers for Torg's affection. She once tried this with Gwynn under the mistaken impression that Gwynn was Zoë. In the bROKEN arc, sees her finally identifying Zoë correctly... and believing Torg was "mistaken" when he said he didn't love Zoë.
* [[Naked First Impression]] - Named one of the books: ''Game Called On Account of Naked Chick''.
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* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: She's really messed up in a lot of ways, and these include a lack of maturity and a fondness of violence, the later even after she decides to be a "hero".
* [[Resurrective Immortality]]: She is implied to be one of these. It has yet to be made clear how she keeps showing up again after being shot, impaled, and blown up so many times. It's possible that this is just the result of her Healing Factor, but there is evidence it's not the case.
** Revealed: {{spoiler|[[Send in the Clones]] applies, one clone at a time because that's all the O.A.S.I.S. satellite can control.}}
* [[Stalker with a Crush]] - An extremely dangerous example. {{spoiler|This trope goes away when Oasis finally gets free of the mind control she was under.}}
* [[Tyke Bomb]]
* [[Yandere]] - So very, very, very much.
** Then again, how stable could a Robot/Undying Clone trained to be an assassin with a mind-control enforced love be?
One of Riff's girlfriends who eagerly dove into the madness that was the cast's lives. Although her first stay on the strip was relatively brief (less than two years), she is very much a [[Ensemble Darkhorse|fan favorite]].▼
Oh, and she's {{spoiler|also Kusari, HeretiCorp's assassin.}}
▲One of Riff's girlfriends who eagerly dove into the madness that was the cast's lives. Although her stay on the strip was relatively brief (less than two years), she is very much a [[Ensemble Darkhorse|fan favorite]].
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]], with a dash of [[Wrench Wench]] - {{spoiler|Turned out she wasn't; HeretiCorp gave her inventions so she could get closer to Riff.}}
* [[Phrase Catcher]] - "Weird girl, Sasha."
* [[Put on a Bus]] - She was introduced around Halloween of 2000 and moved away back in [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20020822 2002], never to be heard from again.
** [[The Bus Came Back]] - [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090810 Until 2009], when the main cast of characters wound up with a couple vacant spots.
''Spoiler tropes:''
* {{spoiler|[[Evil All Along]]: She's always been working for HeretiCorp, and she gave her life in order to plant a tracker on Oasis}}.
** {{spoiler|Well, [[Cloning Gambit|she gave ''a'' life]]}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Send in the Clones]]: Like Oasis, she's a clone. Unlike Oasis, she can keep two clones going at the same time - which is how Sasha could be killed by Kusari}}.
The obligatory local bartender. Doesn't seem to mind all that much that one of her customers is a talking rabbit.
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* [[The Bartender]]
A time traveler from an alternate timeline where K'Z'K took over the world. He is an expert in inflatable technology, and
* [[Dirty Coward]]
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* [[Was It Really Worth It?]]: {{spoiler|Seems to be wondering this at the end of bROKEN.}}
A demon lord from the Dimension of Pain and a recurring villain in the strip {{spoiler|at least until That Which Redeems.}}
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* [[You Have Failed Me...]] - {{spoiler|Done to him by the Demon King at the end of That Which Redeems}}
A member of the Dimension of Pain's [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] who eventually befriends and helps Torg.
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* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]] - In an arc named "That Which Redeems" no less.}}
The head of one of the villainous organizations bidding on Dr. Shankraft's displacement drive and one of the few who came in person rather than sending a representative.
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* [[Unholy Matrimony]] - starts a relationship with Monicruel when the two of them get stranded on Shankraft Island. {{spoiler|Also, his wife, Chestro, seems even more villainous than he is.}}
The first true [[Big Bad]] of the series, K'Z'K (often called Kiske, much to his chagrin) is an extremely powerful demon Torg and Riff accidentally unleashed while playing with the Book of Evil. Although defeated by Torg and Zoë, he did not die, but instead his lingering will latched onto a depressed
▲The first true [[Big Bad]] of the series, K'Z'K (often called Kiske, much to his chagrin) is an extremely powerful demon Torg and Riff accidentally unleashed while playing with the Book of Evil. Although defeated by Torg and Zoë, he did not die, but instead his lingering will latched onto a depressed Gwynne and attempted to corrupt her into his new host before once again being vanished. Although his status as [[Big Bad]] has long since been passed over to Hereti Corp, he is still a constant presence in the comic, as his demonic servants have now formed a cult to free him from his banishment...
* [[Berserk Button]]: Do ''not'' pronounce his name with vowels!
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A remarkably bright boy for a leaf person, Calix is one of the few natives of Timeless Space rather than someone who has fallen out of the timestream. He was picked up by the Bloody Bun during a raid on his village, but instead of locking him below with his tribesmen, Bun-Bun promoted him to First Mate. According to his crew, that's because the Captain likes to know where the next mutiny is coming from.
▲'''Calix'''
▲A remarkably bright boy for a leaf person, Calix is one of the few natives of Timeless Space rather than someone who has fallen out of the timestream. He was picked up by the Bloody Bun during a raid on his village, but instead of locking him below with his tribesmen, Bun-Bun promoted him to First Mate. According to his crew, that's because the Captain likes to know where the next mutiny is coming from. {{spoiler|In actuality, it's because as a native, he wouldn't covet Technocon One, the only known way out of Timeless Space.}}
* [[An Axe to Grind]] - Calix is extremely skilled with his twin axes. So much so that Bun-Bun deduces his people are not farmers, but warriors who happen to farm.
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* [[Took a Level in Badass]] - After he stops caring so much for lives other than those dear to him, he becomes a lethal force.
Bun-Bun's first mate for the tail end of "Oceans Unmoving" and the entirety of "Oceans Unmoving II", up until Bun-Bun escapes and she captains her own ship. Came from a different time period; was pulled into Timeless Space when Carib-Carriage One attempted to take off.
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* [[Unusual Euphemism]] - okay, so the "curse words" in question are "freg" and "splat", and occasionally combined to make the phrase "fregging splat". She still has what in her universe qualifies as a very foul mouth, as she can't seem to go more than two panels without using one of these words at least once (and that's probably generous).
[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], played for laughs.
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* [[The Unpronounceable]] - [[Subverted]] for Face, whose real name is "Steeeeeeve." [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/051207 Played straight for Murdock.]
* [[Trapped in Another World]] - Everyone but Calix, and arguably him as well since he'd never been outside his village before.
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