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* The "well-oiled machine"-scene from the prequel ''On the Origin of PCs''. [[Disaster Dominoes|Due to prepared actions, Belkar charges a Kobold, and misses; Haley's prepared action is to shoot the first thing that charges, so she shoots Belkar; Elan's prepared action is]] [[Epic Fail|to flank attack the first wounded creature, and so attacks Belkar; and V's prepared action is to cast Lightning Bolt against the first four creatures lined up towards him or her...]]
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* ''Start of Darkness'' may be [[Darker and Edgier]] than the rest of the series, but the funny moments stand out because they're in line with the more serious parts. Such as Xykon after he beats Dorukan...
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''(Xykon comes upon the MitD, a sombrero on its box, a taco in hand/claw/whatever)''
'''Xykon:''' ''(Wide-eyed)'' ...
'''MitD:''' Fiesta?
'''Xykon:''' Ooooookay. }}
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0082.html Redcloak's reaction to the Dwarf Porn].
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0090.html Move Silently check.]
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* The appearance of [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0091.html Fruit Pie the Sorcerer] made This Troper go "WTH!?"
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0095.html This whole page], but especially when Xykon ask Redcloak to cast Speak with Dead.
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'''Xykon:''' Not me, you moron! }}
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0147.html Redcloak gets a spine.]
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'''Redcloak:''' I can't help but notice that your sense of team spirit is inversely proportional to your number of functioning appendages, sir.
'''Xykon:''' Cute. Did you actually grow a spine there, Redcloak?
'''Redcloak:''' Perhaps I just got hit with a piece of yours when you exploded, sir. }}
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0149.html Redcloak becoming Supreme Leader of the hobgoblins.]
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0216.html "Attack of Opportunity! Attack of Opportunity!"]
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0226.html Roy is the King of Nowhere].
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'''Roy:''' [[Call Back|Don't start, trust me.]] }}
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0227.html "By the Twelve Gods and in the name of Lord Shojo, I demand to know: Who removed the tag from this mattress?!?"]
* The entire sequence of events that follows Roy donning a Belt of [[Gender Bender|Masculinity/Femininity]], particularly Haley's digs in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0236.html "Mean Girl"], and the following [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0237.html "Growing Some"]. She [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0240.html doesn't let up] until she comes down with stress-induced aphasia.
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0240.html WHORE ATTACK!]
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'''"Kaboom" Redaxe:''' Must be some obscure prestige class... }}
* ''[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0257.html Thog on rocket skates]''.
* Sabine's [[Deadpan Snarker]] [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0258.html reply to Nale's request] to find somewhere where no-one would notice a bound and gagged schoolgirl.
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0281.html Luckily, Belkar's is a multipurpose lead sheet.]
* After Haley is struck with aphasia, she communicates a vital plot point to Roy by charades. Roy does pretty well, until he fields this guess:
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* Two Words: Explosive Run-- '''<nowiki>*BOOM*</nowiki>'''
* Haley's [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0327.html rather effective method] for solving the standard [[Knights and Knaves]] dilemma.
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** The jailer refers to Thog as human offal at the start of that strip. Thog replies, "thog only HALF-human offal."
** At the end of that strip, as Elan is crying for help:
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'''Thog:''' '''thog hears you.'''
'''Elan:''' Can anyone ELSE hear me?! }}
* Miko and Redcloak fight. Redcloak manages to weaken Miko and asks Xykon to kill her. However, Xykon is quite busy [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0369.html betting 200 gp on the fight with the Demon-Roaches... and he bets on Miko]. And the Monster in the Darkness has a [[Pass the Popcorn|popcorn bucket]] and a giant hand, supporting Redcloak.
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0379.html Lord Shojo's puppet show].
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0382.html Haley's mind splits into pieces.]
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* "While singing the complete score to 'Meet Me in St. Louis'." Okay, maybe just for the musical-theatre geeks. The best part? According to the limitations of the Charm Person spell, singing showtunes while killing people is something that's ''perfectly compatible'' with Belkar's nature.
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0386.html Comic #386:]
** ''Thog in a leprechaun suit''.
** "NALE!!!!" "NALE!!!!" "'''nale!!!!'''" (His expression at the third is priceless.)
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0387.html Comic #387:]
** The penultimate "prison break", especially the last lines:
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'''Elan:''' We were only in there for forty minutes.
'''Thog: prison changed thog quickly.''' }}
** The "[[You Don't Want to Catch This|Vaporising Flu]]" in the same comic; [[Blatant Lies|only contagious if you stand around in places where a previous victim has died and ask questions]]. Work that Bluff score, Elan.
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0414.html "YAHTZEE!"] I don't know why; maybe it's the timing, maybe it was just the culmination of the many, many Crowning Moments of Funny in the [[Archive Binge]]. But when I read that one word, it was just too much. I literally collapsed in laughter and was unable to get up for several minutes. It was that funny.
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0418.html "This is your junk." And then everything afterward.]
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* Belkar and the two devils on his shoulder; "the angel... doesn't work here anymore". Then the scene cuts to an angel in a straitjacket crying (paraphrased slightly): "[halflings are] supposed to be jolly, but he just kept stabbing them... WHY ISN'T HE JOLLY?!"
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0456.html The ultimate duel between clerics.]
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0497.html "Evil adventuring party." "It happens. C'mon, I'll take you fishing."] The most hilarious part is how blasé everyone is about killing an adventuring party in the living room.
* Most of Belkar's stuff on [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0515.html this page], but the wights in the second panel deserve a mention:
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'''Wight 2:''' I think he did. Also, I think no one has ever asked that exact question in the history of civilization, so bonus points there. }}
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0520.html The TRUE power in Azure City].
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0524.html "Yeah... kick that string's ass, Mr. Scruffy." ]
* "Supreme Leader, I have that [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] you requested."
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0549.html "Hello? Mommy?"]
* The billboard for the town that was built by the orange kobold Oracle: "Lickmyorangeballshalfling".
** The above, as well as everything out of the Oracle's mouth, becomes much funnier if, like me, you read him as having the voice of [[Gilbert Gottfried]].
* Elan is trying to have a secret meeting with Therkla, only to get interrupted by Qarr, and then by ''[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0583.html talking trees]''
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'''Durkon as a bush''': [[Comically Missing the Point|See? Tha's wha I been tryin' to say all along!]] }}
* [[Pregnant Badass|Kazumi Kato]], in the middle of her [[Mama Bear|psychotic pregnant rage]], encounters a ninja who begs for his life, as he has children too. Her response?
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** Doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0588.html Sit on me head.]
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'''Durkon''': Sit on me head. }}
* Elan [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0596.html finally grasps sarcasm.]
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** '''"Puns are for girls."'''
** From the same one:
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'''Enor:''' But the elf said to sit on my hands.
'''Gannji:''' You don't have hands, you moron! You have '''claws'''!
'''Enor:''' Oh yeah.
'''Gannji:''' For the record, you'll also be safe if it tells you to sit on your brain. }}
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0723.html "Heredity is a cruel mistress."]
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0727.html "YOU DID!"]
* Elan's [[Imagine Spot]] when he really wants Roy to meet his Dad.
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'''Roy and Elan:''' Hooray!
'''Tarquin:''' [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0739.html Also you both get puppies."] }}
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0753.html "Caress, caress, caress, caress my lithe supple body!"]
* The Empress of Blood flying despite an enormous round and bloated body, and disproportionately small wings.
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'''Elan:''' She can FLY???
'''Tarquin:''' Quite the stumper, isn't it?
'''Vaarsuvius:''' I should avoid casting any spells tonight, if only to give the laws of physics time to cry alone in the corner.
'''Empress:''' If anyone needs me, I will be up here on my throne, '''being awesome'''! }}
* There's a certain sadistic hilarity to Tarquin's irritation when his plan to impress Elan goes wrong. Said plan involved Elan's name being set up in gigantic flaming letters on the mountainside, which does impress Elan until Tarquin [[Moral Event Horizon|reveals that the letters are made of escaped slaves being burned at the stake]]. While Elan continues to stare in horror, Tarquin grumbles to himself, "Crap, the three prisoners at the bottom of the E burned out early. Now it looks like I just [[wikipedia:Flan|really like custard]]."
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0761.html Elan and Tarquin's duel] is possibly the largest [[Hurricane of Puns]] in the series.
* The ''glorious'' hurricane of [[Genre Savvy]], [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]], and [[Shout-Out|Shout-Outs]] in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html this strip].
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'''Elan:''' Oh, right. Like, [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|a big burn on the side of my face]], at the very least. }}
* As it turns out, "preparation" is [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0766.html a virtue in the Empire of Blood's guard staff].
* Three words: Potion. Of. Glibness:
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'''1stGuard:''' Huh. Must be a trick of the light.
'''Haley:''' [[Jedi Mind Trick|You actually don't work here anymore.]]<br />
'''2ndGuard:''' Crap! How am I gonna pay my mortgage?!<br />
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'''4thGuard:''' [[Verbal Backspace|FALSE ALARM!]] }}
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0771.html "Okay, yes, but it was consensual every time."]
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'''Elan:''' I can't! [[Cargo Cult|He's in my pocket!]] }}
* Belkar [[It Makes Sense in Context|Threatening to cut a goat's nipples off if it gives cows milk to Mr. Scruffy.]]
* Two gladiators and a guard getting eaten by an Allosaurus.
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* Mr. Scruffy attempting to save his master... [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0780.html and suceeding].
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0787.html Comic #787:]
** After a few comics building up the gladiatorial champion of the Empire of Blood, we finally get to see who it is. It's the [[Queen]] reference that really sells it.
** And Roy's reaction is priceless. He goes from not wanting to even fight to this:
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* And then the ''actual'' fight, next comic...
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0789.html Comic #789:]
** Panel 1 of "Also, His Popularity Has Waned":
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'''Tarquin:''' Well, you'll miss the big fight, but you do what you need to do.<br />
'''Haley:''' Come on, V. And bring the cat, just in case.<br />
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** [[Parody Retcon|"Parody is protected speech."]]
* Elan effectively ''weaponizes'' his [[Contractual Genre Blindness]]. Elan expresses surprise that Nale is alive. Nale points out that [[Never Found the Body|a villain "dying" off-panel]] means they're certain to come back. Elan replies that of course [[Genre Savvy|he knows that]], but the trope requires [[No One Could Survive That|the hero to believe the villain is dead]] for it to work:
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'''Elan:''' First blood: ELAN! }}
* Two for Vaarsuvius [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0800.html in the same strip:]
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'''V:''' I believe he just ceased his struggles against my mental commands to shoot you. }}
* Elan: "[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0801.html Wow, this whole "identical twin" thing has never worked out in my favor before!]" Look closely at the next-to-last panel: He's handing her a sword. Go Elan!
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0819.html Three ingredients]: One [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] dictator, one egotistical, invisible idiot, and a Ring of True Seeing, and you have the recipe for a pointed "Gotcha" glare and a massive and hilarious [[Oh Crap]].
* And two strips later, Nale complaining that his dad's [[Genre Savvy]] didn't work in regards to Elan:
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'''Tarquin:''' They are! [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|With their mastery of the narrative structure]], they ''should'' be ruling the entire cosmos by now! }}
* At the end of [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0821.html Raiders of the Lost Plot Arc], Tarquin makes a dramatic statement.
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'''Nale:''' I'm not saying, "Dunh dunh DUNH!" for you.
'''Tarquin:''' That is not how I raised you, young man! }}
* Nale has created a new Linear Guild, but still needs a [[Lizard Folk|kobold...]]
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* In an example of [[Black Comedy]], [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0825.html Redcloak hires some "interior decorators" for the resistance base]:
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* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0832.html Comic #832:]
** Another example of [[Black Comedy]] from our favorite goblin, there's his nonchalant admission to {{spoiler|killing Tsukiko}}. What really sells it is how confused he looks at everyone else's shocked reactions.
** That whole page is a good example of the classic Team Evil comedy we've come to love (especially the Demon-Roach comments in panels 4 and 8).
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'''Redcloak:''' It never crossed my mind.
'''Xykon:''' Good! I like you this way. It's like we have a grumpy pirate on the team.
'''Demon-Roach:''' And thus began the Legend of Arrrghcloak! }}
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0835.html Belkar's revenge on Yukyuk for hurting Mr. Scruffy.] Also the fact that V and Belkar seem to be totally in sync with each other for it.
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0837.html The Order makes it to the Windy Canyon!]
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''(next panel)''
'''Elan:''' ''(singing)'' Search, search, search, search the canyon for Girard's Gate! }}
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0838.html Comic #838:]
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** There's also V and Durkon's list of the ways human senses are inferior to the other player races.
* In [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0840.html Comic #840], the Order needs to search for traps, but Haley convinces Roy to make the Charmed Yukyuk do it.
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'''Roy:''' That's a interesting technique. It's almost like he's--
<nowiki>*ZZZZAPP!*</nowiki
'''Roy:''' --just walking up--
<nowiki>*BOOM!*</nowiki
'''Roy:''' --the stairs. }}
* The Order is trying to find Girard's gate, but {{spoiler|the Draketooths are dead and unwilling to be resurrected}}. So they try to use Speak With Dead {{spoiler|on one of the Draketooths}} to find out where the gate is. The problem is, the spell allows the use of [[Literal Genie]] for answers.
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'''Corpse:''' Around... the rift...
'''Roy:''' OK, then, where is Girard's rift?
'''Corpse:''' It lay... between... Girard's... buttcheeks.
'''Elan:''' The tragic loss to the field of ass comedy diminishes us all. }}
** See the [[The Order of the Stick/WMG|Wild Mass Guessing]] page for a potential meaning of this joke.
* In response to the above, Roy has Haley 'check' that statue of Girard.
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'''Roy:''' Duly noted. Keep looking.
''(Later, after they find Girard's crypt...)''
'''Haley:''' You're going to make me search that skeleton's dry, crumbly assbone, aren't you?
'''Roy:''' Yep. }}
* This exchange from the fight between the Order and {{spoiler|Tarquin disguised as Thog}}:
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(''spell doesn't work'')
'''{{spoiler|Tarquin}}:''' Okay. (''grabs Durkon by the beard and tosses him aside'') }}
** Also this moment:
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(''[[Beat Panel]]'')
'''{{spoiler|Tarquin}}:''' Aren't you going to do any--
'''Elan:''' ''Try, try, try, try not to get too much in anyone's way!''
(''cue Roy and Belkar successfully tackling {{spoiler|Tarquin}}'')
'''Elan:''' Hooray! I did it! }}
* Roy figures out that {{spoiler|the Thog they're fighting isn't Thog}} and tries to take off the enemy's helmet; only to find a person ''wearing a mask with the word'' '''''NOPE!''''' ''printed on it.''
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