Bartleby Tales: Difference between revisions

* [[Bad Boss]]: Averted with Satan but played straight with God.

* [[Black Comedy]]: What did you expect?

* [[Celestial Bureaucracy]]: Hell is the good kind.

* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Double subverted. The series is quite frank about the sexuality of its barely-pubescent protagonists, but it still portrays children as less jaded and more idealistic than adults.

* [[Crapsack World]]: Earth is ironically far more hellish than Hell itself. It's best summed up in a sequence where Bartleby feeds a (willing, immortal) mouse to a snake, and remembers a terrified mouse on Earth struggling in vain to escape a similar snake.

* [[Creating Life]]: The one thing people in Hell can't usually do. Every once in a while, a newly arrived soul will fragment, bringing to life a replica of a dearly beloved object, but those who've been in Hell a long time can make no life at all. (Of course, with God the way he is, there are plenty of damned children to adopt.)

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Stated quite explicitly--Hell can be disturbing at first, but it's ultimately a place of redemption.

* [[Deader Than Dead]]: The fate of those who do not give up their hearts within the time limit.

* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]: Lampshaded as only possible in the cartoons--or in Hell.

* [[Hermaphrodite]]: Lexi the hyena.

* [[Immortality Bisexuality]]: Most people try this eventually, although a few characters aren't interested.

* [[Jesus Was Way Cool]]: His Father on the other hand...