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* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/13/ "Dune? It sounds dry." "I'm trying not to be amused by that."]
** Also found [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/9/15/ here].
* [[The Annotated Edition]]: The printed collections have text commentary.
* [[Answer Cut]]: Annarchy decides that E3 is "[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/5/30/ an elaborate scheme to suppress rational thought]" and wonders what kind of "pea-brained monkey man it's supposed to appeal to." Enter Gabe.
** In [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/04/06 this strip], when Tycho asks why Gabe only wore his pants backwards once, it cuts to a flashback of Gabe in high school, [[Potty Failure|with his pants soaked in pee]].
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** Jerry's [[The Rant|posts]] sometimes mention that while Tycho draws from Jerry and Gabe from Mike, their characters are distinct from their creators and the real story is redistributed to the appropriate character. For instance, he was the one that wanted to give away [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/3/28/ free waffles at their convention booth], but it wasn't something Tycho would do, so their roles were switched for the comic.
** The dissimilarities between Mike/Jerry and Gabe/Tycho were later played for laughs in [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/04/02 "Perhaps Too Real"], where Tycho and Gabe art redrawn for the iPad Retina display end up [[Gross Up Close-Up|looking like Jerry and Mike]].
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Mike named his ''[[Dungeons
** Immediately called out by Scott Kurtz, who demands, "Why don't you call yourself Chet ''AwesomeLaser''?"
*** Scott Kurtz later gave this a [[Shout-Out]] in [[PvP|his own strip]].
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** Also, [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/5/4/ Doctor Raven Darktalon Blood].
** [[Fail O'Suckyname]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/10/10/ Jim] is a [[Call Back]] to when they played [[Final Fantasy XI]].
** Also all characters/creatures by Franzibald. (Grimm Shado, Witchaloks, wolfoids, the [[Department of Redundancy Department|Shadowdark]]. Granted, some of these names aren't as much "sucky" as they are "horribly uncreative".)
* [[Awesome, Dear Boy]]: [http://penny-arcade.com/2011/11/14/skyward-sword Gabe was overjoyed] when Nintendo hired them to produce a ''[[The Legend of Zelda|Legend of Zelda]]'' comic to promote ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|Skyward Sword]],'' despite his schedule being full.
* [[A Wizard Did It]]: Used to explain [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11/2/ "reverse necromancy"]. As well as [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/18/ where babies come from].
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** The dickwolves are amateurs when compared to the [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/11/19/ customer service droid].
** And between the droid and the dickwolves, [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/01/07 Velociraptors].
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Most products are named and mocked, but in [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/10/18 two] [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/5/7/ strips] they were under a non-disclosure agreement, and decided to illustrate how silly the whole NDA thing is. There have been store and restaurant names such as GameShop, Taco Hole, and Wang's Chinese Restaurant, though Tycho once did refer to Barnes & Noble by its real name.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/08/03/ "Gabe, sometimes in order to hurt someone very badly, you have to tell that person terrible lies."]
* [[Book Ends]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/2/19/ a textbook example of this trope.]
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** ''Extremely'' subtle, but you'll notice that the two children sitting in [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/06/17/ the middle] are wearing shirts depicting [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/1/5/ the Merch and Fleshreaper].
* [[Cosmic Horror]]: The recurring concept and species known as the Deepcrow.
* [[
** One really has to see [[The Rant]] for that comic. The back-and-forth of Gabe and Tycho slinging factoids about the Mega Man games is fun. Especially the last one, where Gabe unearths an unbeatable fact that proves him right.
* [[Crossover]]: Telltale's ''Poker Night at the Inventory'', sure it's typical for them to crossover a [[Team Fortress 2|Video Game]] seeing that it's a gamer webcomic, but its really unlikely for them to crossover a [[Homestar Runner|Web Original]] and a [[Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Comic Book]].
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- If you try to protect your game, we'll steal it as a matter of principle.
[[Sarcasm Mode|It's like, who wouldn't want to bend over backward in their service?]] You need to know it, because nobody else is going to tell you: you guys sound like Goddamned subway vagrants. }}
** Also [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/6/15/ here] and [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/6/24/ here]
** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/2/19/ "A Cyclical Argument With A Literal Strawman"] The sad thing is that [[The War On Straw|the strawman]] [[Truth in Television|isn't really much of an exaggeration at all]]. They are using ''actual arguments frequently made by pirates''.
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/3/15/ This strip.]
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*** [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/02/25 Jesus FUCK my EYE CHRIST!]
*** [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/01/04 In the first panel.]
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Their "[[Spin-Off]]" series ''Automata'' is set in a 1920's [[Film Noir|noirish]] universe where racism is saved for robots rather than other humans.
* [[Filler Strip]]: The Sketchbook-like updates that happen when the two are at various conventions.
* [[Fingore]]: Gabe once [[Real Life Writes the Plot|legit]] cut his thumb clear to the bone without even realizing it. In [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/3/30/ the accompanying strip], Tycho was less than concerned.
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** And then mercilessly lampshaded by one guest artist ''himself'' by [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/9/21/ coming up with the same idea] for the strip subject [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/9/11/ as one of the previous guests].
* [["Happy Ending" Massage]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/11/19/ This strip]
* [[
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Tycho goes into one when he sees an ad for a place called "[[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Gamez N Flix]]", which made the always elegant Tycho go mad.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Tycho and Gabe, because they seem to spend a ''lot'' more time with each other than with their wives and children, and their periodic forays into sexual experimentation never seem to lead them together.
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{{quote|'''Tycho:''' He's well and truly gone; the Gabriel we knew is dead. He [[Dug Too Deep|delved too deep]] and was remade in the hot veins of the Earth. I have heard him suggest that the game is crack, but it's more like [[Item Crafting|all of the ingredients and equipment]] that you need to make crack, which I'd say is worse. It's like: give a man some crack, and he'll... but if you teach him to make crack, and then... [[Dissimile|There must be a saying that explains all this, surely]].}}
* [[Just-So Story]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/9/3/ What the tooth fairy does with teeth.]
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Effectively the MO of the Gabe's ''[[Dungeons
** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/07/ Inverted]
* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Gabe's first name is Johnathan, but this is of course rarely used.
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* [[Luke Nounverber]]: Jim Darkmagic
* [[Man On Fire]]: "[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/2/27/ I'm not sure that's an effigy]."
** Complete with [[Major Injury Underreaction]] and [[Shout-Out]] to [[
* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: [[Lampshaded]]. See [[The Merch]], above.
* [[Mermaid Problem]]: Addressed quite directly [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/09/29/ here].
* [[MST]]: [[Advertising Tropes|Ad]]''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|monishments]]'', found [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/7/26/ here].
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* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Scott Kurtz of ''[[PvP]]'', portrayed as [[The Rival]] in some strips, is invariably called "[[Country Matters|Steve Kuntz]]" by Gabe and Tycho.
* [[Nerf Arm]]: The Cardboard Tube Samurai, which has spawned more than a few instances of the deadly tube showing up in some games.
* [[Never Say That Again]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/i-hope-you-like-text/ Gabe evoked this response from Tycho.]
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/9/19/ Tycho is one.] Apparently this trait extends to his real-life persona...
* [[Ninja Log]]: Though it is uncertain if [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/2/16/ Gabe] can ''choose'' what he leaves behind or if "[http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/2/16/ the log [is] an inextricable part of the process]".
* [[Non-Lethal Warfare]]: ''Really'' weird, considering how often they do [[Sugar Apocalypse|Sugar Apocalypses]].
* [[No Medication for Me]]: Tycho spends a week off Lexapro, and [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/01/09 is impressed with what he produced]. There was the downside of "wrestling with demons of the mind" though. He [http://penny-arcade.com/2012/01/09 contemplates this idea], in [[The Rant]] before rejecting it as misinformed. And even if the peaks are still attractive, they don't compensate for the troughs.
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Tycho jokingly asks if the stains on Gabe's pants are semen. Gabe rebuffs him him by saying these are his painting pants, for an autobiography... which he's painting entirely [[Subverted Trope|in his own semen]].
* [[Odd Couple]]: The bread and butter shtick of the comic. Tycho mocks Gabe's ignorance, Gabe derides Tycho's pretensions. Rinse and repeat.
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** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/11/8/ Insulting someone bigger, stronger, and younger than you are is not a good move.]
* [[Online Alias]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/1/31/ Annarchy] is of the "hacker" variety. Many [[MMORPG]] strips use the "[[Xtreme Kool Letterz]] and numbers" variety.
* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]: Parodied with the works of L. H. Franzibald, where there are "Hermaphroditic Androgynite" Witchaloks and "Half-wolf, half android" Wolfoids.
* [[Out-Gambitted]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/8/31/ A hilarious example.]
* [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/11/29/ Here], ''[[Kolibri]]'' is described as "arguably the finest hummingbird-based shooter available for the 32X".
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* [[Pals with Jesus]]: Quite literally. Jesus seems to swing by the house frequently and gets along well with Gabe.
* [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]]: Killographic, used also in [[Real Life]], and stuponfuicous.
** Such words are often used by Tycho when he writes the news posts that accompany comics.
* [[Perverse Sexual Lust]]: Displayed with [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/2/ "Angelic Perfection"].
* [[Potty Failure]]: The result of Gabe wearing his pants backwards like Kris Kross. (see [[Answer Cut]], listed above)
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{{quote|'''G-man:''' You're a hard man to find, Mr. Brahe.
'''Tycho:''' Not hard enough. }}
* [[Race Lift]]: Parodied [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/24/ here]
* [[The Rant]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]:
** The [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/3/21/ Deepcrow] and some of the [[Warhammer
** Whenever Tycho is pissed enough, his normally brown eyes get a nice red glow.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]
* [[Retconning the Wiki]]: There's a strip where Skeletor can be seen vandalizing the ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'' page on [[Wikipedia]]... [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/16/ here]
* [[The Rival]]: Scott Kurtz of ''[[PvP]]''. In reality he has collaborated with the boys many times, but in the strip he inevitably gets dubbed '[[My Name Is Not Durwood|Scott Kuntz]]' and [[
* [[Robot Buddy]]: Div, subverted. Although if you wanna get technical, Div isn't really a robot so much as he is a personification.
** The Fruit Fucker is arguably a different kind of subversion.
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* [[Shell Shocked Senior]]: Frank.
* [[Shoehorned First Letter]]: In [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/6/11/ this comic] about [[Kirby]].
{{quote|'''General:''' We call it the [[Fun with Acronyms|Kinetic Ingestion Regulator Bio-Yorganism]].
'''Meta Knight''': Yorganism?
'''General:''' Y is kind of a tricky letter. }}
* [[Single-Issue Landlord]]: The premise of "That's so locust!"
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* [[Snarky Non-Human Sidekick]]: Div.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Some days, it's some of the most erudite commentary on videogame culture out there. Other days, it's a series of [[Back to The Penis Well|knob gags]]. That's not even when it's "[http://penny-arcade.com/2011/12/23 Semen Week]".
** Tycho. For a man with that big of a vocabulary, he sure does love using the F word. For example, "[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/12/15/ Things, Part Two]".
** In "The Verdict": "On the charge of manslaughter, we the jury find the defendant, Jonathan Gabriel, not guilty. Furthermore, the jury believes the deceased totally had it coming to him, on the account of the bogus shit he said about 'Jesse's Girl'."
** All of "[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/03/12/ The Case Of Texas vs. CryoLord]".
* [[So Long and Thanks For All the Gear]]: Referenced in [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/12/2/ this] strip
* [[Something Completely Different]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/9/1/ Here.]
* [[El Spanish-O]]: In [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/9/7/ "The Ruse"], Gabe tries to use this as part of a [[Paper-Thin Disguise]].
* [[Species Surname]]: You'd think that Catsby was the dapper cat, yes, and thus the demon Twisp? [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/4/7/ Subverted].
* [[Spin-Off]]: They attempted to make a Jim Darkmagic comic arc, which seemed to involve him and his stage performances going horribly wrong. It was however, voted down. Probably due to the fact that "That wasn't Jim Darkmagic! Jim Darkmagic only ever rolls natural 20s! He's seven feet tall with red hair and eyes like the sun!"
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* [[Technology Marches On]]: Inevitable considering how long the strip has run. Some ideas are reinvented to suit new mores - the Fruit Fucker 5000 was originally a parody of the rambling cable-TV gadget advertisements popular in [[The Nineties]], but has since moved on to parody Apple's range of [[IProduct|iProducts]].
* [[Tears of Blood]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/9/9/ In response to] [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|a slideshow]].
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: In-universe; Gabe [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/8/23/ disapproves of] ''[[Dungeons
{{quote|'''Tycho:''' There was always one thing missing from your tabletop journey: a new version to revile, and an old version for you to cling to like a drowning man.
'''Gabe:''' I don't know what you're talking about, [[Ruined FOREVER|but D&D sucks now]]. I'm going to go online and argue about it.
'''Tycho:''' Godspeed. ''[[One of Us|Brother]]''. }}
* [[Toilet Humor]]: Quite a few strips, but [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/04/06 here] [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/03/04 are] [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/05/20 some] [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/23 of the] [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/03/11 most] [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/07/19 notable] [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/06/23 examples].
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* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/6/26/ Open Mic Night].
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Combined with [[Overly Long Gag]] in [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/11/03 this strip] about Gabe having motion sickness when playing ''[[Mirror's Edge]]''.
* [[Wall of Text]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/ I Hope You Like Text].
* [[What Could Have Been]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/2/21/ Olympus], an actual dream of both of them, is an arcade utopia which will never come to fruition because neither Gabe or Tycho have millions and millions of dollars.
{{quote|'''Gabe''': Imagine it's like a really classy Dave and Busters, like with dark hardwood bars, glass rooms full of high-end audio and video equipment ... Khoo said not yet.
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