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Some stories begin in schools, some at a park or in someone's apartment. This one starts on a spaceship.
 
''[[The Law of Purple]]'' is a sci-fi webcomic. It centers around the Fayse family, a set of siblings from the planet Caligula, where race is determined by one's ear shape, not skin color. They crash-land on Earth and quickly make their first real friends since they left their home world. It can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20140620114602/http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/ here]
 
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* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: The Caligulans, where one family contains kids with red, green, blue, and white skin.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Morgan
* [[Art Evolution]]: Compare [https://web.archive.org/web/20070908200406/http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=2 this] page with [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1134 this]{{Dead link}} one.
* [[Author Avatar]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1122 Jay is based on the author, Jessica Segaard]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=252 This one is more direct]{{Dead link}}
* [[Badass Damsel]]: Lette, in Dogs of War.
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Silver is totally bald.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Several places. [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=944 this]{{Dead link}} is a nice example.
* [[Beautiful All Along]]: Jel's cousin Vickie actually looks better without her customary layer of makeup.
* [[Best Woman]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=753 Boy cats are not eligible to be bridesmaids.]{{Dead link}}
* [[Bi the Way]]: Lynnah, Green and Blue, at least.
* [[Big Bad]]: Silver
* [[But We Used a Condom]]: Lette's mother was in her mid-forties and using two kinds of birth control when she became pregnant with Lette. This is why Lette is about the same age as her nephew.
* [[The Caligula]]: Silver. Possibly lampshaded, as the planet he's the king of is called Caligula.
* [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys]]: Lampshaded. [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=858 Lette is building a harem.]{{Dead link}}
* [[Catfolk]]: The Nekojin
* [[Chainmail Bikini]]: Lette is forced into one [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1041 here]{{Dead link}}. That's also the closest thing to a skirt we're ever going to see on that girl.
* [[Covered in Kisses]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=760\]{{Dead link}}
* [[Covert Pervert]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305102430/http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageIDpageid=902 Danni]
* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=925 Apparently possible on Myrania]{{Dead link}}
* [[Deadly Doctor]]: Doctor Dross
* [[Descriptively Named Species]]: The Nekojin. (Neko means cat in Japanese)
* [[Designated Girl Fight]]: Starts on [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=401 this]{{Dead link}} page.
* [[Dumb Blond]]: Invoked by [[Shi Shi]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130802074145/http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=371 here].
* [[Eloquent in My Native Tongue]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110913161230/http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=328 Thud puts it beautifully.]
* [[Entitled to Have You]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=931 Shishi]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=933 clearly feels this way about Blue.]{{Dead link}}
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: It would be shorter to list the male characters that don't qualify for this than those that do.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Lette, in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140405134252/http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=730 this] comic. And she pulls it off beautifully.
* [[Expy]]: The author freely admits that Lette's design is based on Kaiba from [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]
** Also, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305181221/http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageIDpageid=1142 Juni is Alister, and Carli/Carly/Carleigh is Zigfreid von Schroeder]
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Synn, before the start of the comic, although it's not clear how bad he really was before [[Heel Face Turn|Heel Face Turning]] back.
* [[Fan Service]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=19\]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=195\]{{Dead link}}[http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=278\]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=279\]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=301\]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=768\]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=944\]{{Dead link}}. Please note that the page titles for several of these mention their fanserviceyness.
* [[Filler Strips]]: Usually very amusing ones.
* [[Gender-Restricted Ability]]: Myranian women can access and manipulate peoples' nervous systems. Men cannot.
* [[The Glasses Gotta Go]]: Dex looks like the very attractive Lette when his glasses are removed.
* [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]]: It's not obvious, but [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305104935/http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageIDpageid=511 Ingrid's skin is green]
* [[Guest Strip]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=578\]{{Dead link}}[http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=579\]{{Dead link}}
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Mentioned in [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=49 this]{{Dead link}} early comic. Later, we find out that Daimon is a wraith/human hybrid. Even later, {{spoiler|Memphis gets Sabre pregnant, and Red and Rose are also expecting.}}
* [[Halloween Cosplay]]: Lette dresses up as Priest Set(o)
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Several characters could qualify for this, although how much of a bad guy they were beforehand is variable. Daimon probably fits best.
* [[Homosexual Reproduction]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=891 baby packs]{{Dead link}}
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Lynnah
* [[Hot Chick with a Sword]]: Lynnah again.
* [[Human Aliens]]: Most alien species look human, with a few differences.
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=772 Only a dream, but...]{{Dead link}}
* [[Important Haircut]]: Lette, [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=129 in Behind Blue Eyes]{{Dead link}}
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Let's see...Sabre and Memphis, Blue and Lette (and Synn), Red and Rose, Aaron and Tuyen...the list goes on.
* [[It Runs On Nonsenseoleum]]: The series is named after the in-universe law of purple, which states that [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=365 nature loves purple, but hates a vacuum. So the vacuum between space is purple.]{{Dead link}}
* [[Kick Chick]]: Mari [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1055 resents]{{Dead link}} not getting the opportunity to be one of these.
* [[Klingons Love Shakespeare]]: Krackadoom is most impressed with [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=855 cake]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Lady Land]]: Myrania
* [[Lecherous Lick]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=772 This]{{Dead link}} is only a dream, but the lick at least is absolutely in-character for Robbie.
* [[Little Green Men]]: Green until his growth spurt
* [[Lizard Folk]]: Non-evil example, the Drakon
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* [[Love Triangle]]: Robbie and Lynnah are both after Green.
* [[Mad Doctor]]: Doctor Dross
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: As of [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1103 this]{{Dead link}} comic, Dross seems to be adding it to his repertoire of villain tropes.
* [[The Men in Black]]: Memphis, Rose, and Violet's parents used to be in one of these organizations. {{spoiler|Lette and her nephew's boyfriend are currently members.}}
* [[Moment Killer]]: [http://pottersues.livejournal.com/1774.html?thread=7662 Shishi] [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=932 is really]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1116 good at this]{{Dead link}}
* [[Most Common Superpower]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=593 ShiShi's wrong, by the way.]{{Dead link}}
* [[Mundane Fantastic]]
* [[No Bisexuals]]: Mentioned in [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=769 this]{{Dead link}} comic.
* [[Nosebleed]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=20 Yes, Blue is that sexy]{{Dead link}}. [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=214\]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=241\]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=276 lampshaded here]{{Dead link}}
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: 'Dragons' are actually higher-dimensional creatures that spend most of their time in another plane of existence.
* [[Power Dyes Your Hair]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=384 Wraithe hair]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=571 changes]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=572 color]{{Dead link}} when they go in badass-mode.
* [[Prince Charming Wannabe]]: Nick
* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: Lette [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=741 pulls this off]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1047 brilliantly]{{Dead link}} despite not being evil.
* [[Punny Name]]: all of the Fayse siblings
* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: Whitey, Sabre and Vanessa
* [[Reluctant Fanservice Girl]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=195 Lette does NOT appreciate the outfit]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Reptilian]]: Non-evil example: the Drakons
* [[Sarashi]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1067 here]{{Dead link}}
* [[School Clubs Are Serious Business]]: Dex's excuse for why he'd be willing to help out Robbie.
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: Silver kills all of his family that he can, including his own mother.
* [[Series Hiatus]]: From August first, 2011 to November 20, 2011. Also from March 15, 2012 to present.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Lette's character design is stated to have been based off Seto Kaiba from [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]], as referenced [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=209 here]{{Dead link}} and [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=281 here]{{Dead link}}. There's also the yearly [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=120 "beware the ides of March"]{{Dead link}} [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=367 Tribble]{{Dead link}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070904202127/http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=589 joke]. [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1101\]{{Dead link}}
* [[Space Elves]]: Second-kind Caligulan.
* [[Space Pirates]]: Morgan
* [[Spared by the Adaptation]]: The author states that there's a whole lot of people who were going to be killed off in earlier drafts.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: [[Shi Shi]] for Blue, and Nick for Lette
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=404\]{{Dead link}}
* [[Thanks for the Mammary]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=593\]{{Dead link}}
* [[Threesome Subtext]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=944\]{{Dead link}}
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Lette, in the Behind Blue Eyes ministory.
* [[Unusual Ears]]: Most notably Caligulan second kind, but some other alien species also fit.
* [[Uterine Replicator]]: [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=891 Baby Packs]{{Dead link}}
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305104935/http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageIDpageid=511 Silver attempts to compel the author to make him the main character].
* [[Virgin Power]]: The Wraithe species has the phenomenon of the "Virgin Seer".
* [[Wacky Cravings]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304181924/http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageIDpageid=1112 discussed by Red and Rose's pregnancy group here]
* [[Webcomic Time]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070915051459/http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=613 here]
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Synn, post-trauma bleach.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Sylvana
* [[World of Action Girls]]: Myrania is a planet where the women have kick-ass powers and the men are seen a good for nothing but [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=758 breeding]{{Dead link}} and [http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=759 moving furniture]{{Dead link}}.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: The only natural hair color that appears in LOP that doesn't appear in real life is blue. (For humans anyway)
 
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