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* [[Accidental Innuendo]]: The [
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]:
** Tons of it, though it's usually done for laughs. There's a interpretation for almost all the characters. See [[Fanon]].
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** Luna's rather philosophical reaction after {{spoiler|finding out she's been rendered sterile via Maltak's restoration.}}
** There's a quick [[Lampshade Hanging]] about "not letting it spoil her victory," so this'll either be played straight or there will be massive angsting/questing for [[Phlebotinum]] down the road.
** And [https://web.archive.org/web/20130908154110/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2011-01-04 boom goes the dynamite].
** And it turns out that {{spoiler|1=they couldn't have had kids anyway because [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2011-01-05 Dominic was sterile all along.]}} So any future drama issuing forth from Luna's problems just got nerfed by a big wall of "It wouldn't have mattered."
* [[Anticlimax Boss]]:
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* [[Complete Monster]]: The Infernomancer, Caylin Bren, Serk Brakkis, Warlord Damaske, the Bikta Spirit Father... there's more than a few.
* [[Creator's Pet]]:
** Milov has no problem telling us [https://web.archive.org/web/20130613052859/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2010-03-25 how great Nimmel is]. From his point of view, it's all true, but one wonders what Milov would say if he knew Nimmel's [
** Luna danced around with this for a while, then after Maltak, her Wesley status has pretty much been cemented in the fandom, largely due to her being little more than a [[MacGuffin]] during the arc and taking the credit despite mainly being led by the hand by [[The Powers That Be]].
* [[Designated Hero]]:
** Dominic has some, ah, interesting methods at his disposal. And for that matter, some rather dubious motives at times.
** All of Luna's contributions to the salvation of Maltak were accidental, as she was manipulated by higher powers the entire time. That doesn't stop her from [https://web.archive.org/web/20140416022033/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2010-01-27 taking the credit].
** Nimmel reveals that the basic reason he transferred over to Coldfire Academy was because of the ego boost he could get by knowing he had the ability to beat up all the werewolves because the spells he specializes in are stronger there.
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]:
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* [[Fan Hater]]: To the extreme. John Solomon's line was that anyone who would defend ''Dominic Deegan'' was a morally bankrupt retard and so their arguments were automatically invalidated. Snarkers are more "tolerant", only describing fans as rather dull and a tad creepy.
* [[Genius Bonus]]:
** In the form of [https://web.archive.org/web/20100102090433/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-06-01a knock-knock joke]
** There is a professor at Miranda Deegan's academy named 'Runcible Spoon', a nonsense phrase from the Edward Lear poem ''The Owl and the Pussycat''.
** Dominic having an injured leg is a near-universal sign of a special or magical person (see [[The Iliad|Achilles]], [[wikipedia:Iron-Crutch Li|"Iron Crutch" Li, Daoist Immortal]], Dr. [[House (TV series)|House]]), though like the ''[[Watchmen]]'' [[Shout-Out]] it might be a coincidence.
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* [[Like You Would Really Do It]]:
** Due to [[Word of God]], this now extends to pretty much every important character.
** For a specific example, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140921173124/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2009-12-14 Luna's dying]. Yeah, right.
** {{spoiler|And lo and behold, she's alive, while technically dead for a few strips, everyone predicted she'd be brought back.}}
* [[Lowest Common Denominator]]: Mocked in one strip's author comments, when the first (in the comic's six year history) instances of dick and fart jokes, done by the title character. [[It Makes Sense in Context]], as Dominic was in a [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]] with a virus-spell that was taking swings at his mind and screwing up his bodily functions.
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* [[Never Live It Down]]: Orc rape! Supergreg!
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]:
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130123080338/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2006-12-18 Jacob.]
** The "tosser", which looks like an elephant with a humanoid body.
** {{spoiler|1=[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2011-04-01 The fate of Miranda's Teacher at the hand of the beast].}}
* [[Nightmare Retardant]]: One word: [
* [[Scapegoat Creator]]: The some of the [[Caustic Critic|harsher members]] don't just go after the webcomic--they go after Mookie himself.
* [[Snark Bait]]: ''[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7694104 And how.]'' Discounting the current thread, there are 1294 pages, averaging slightly less than 30 posts a page. Most of the major forums are now dominated by people who are in it just for the snark.
* [[Squick]]:
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140913074213/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2003-09-10 Jacob's] mentioning of how his body still "aches for mortal wants" while cradling the chin of a female corpse with his skeletal arm.
** Mookie's decision to draw a thong clad ass shot of Rachel while she was ''dying because her blood had been turned into ice'' invoked this in some readers.
** Mongrelfolk medical practice seems to involve a lot of regurgitation. Stunt's reaction? [https://web.archive.org/web/20120223023226/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2010-08-10 "How is that helping?!"]
* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: It's hard to argue against the racists who feel that orcs are savage and violent when so many orcs ''are'' savage and violent.
* [[True Art]]: Greg's music is very complex and creative; unfortunately his [[Straw Loser|hastily-assembled band]] can't keep up with him and after he dumbs it down it sounds awful and they fire him ("I changed all my music for '''you''' guys! It was the only way '''you''' could keep up with it! If anything '''you''' brought my music down!").
* [[True Art Is Angsty]]: Defied by [[Word of God]]; he had considered {{spoiler|killing off Luna for real}} at the end of the Maltak arc for a "powerful ending", then changed his mind because it would have destroyed Dominic and [[Reality Subtext|he was experiencing that same sort of loss with his grandfather]] and that wasn't the sort of thing he wanted to write about at the time. The [https://web.archive.org/web/20140329095819/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2010-01-06 accompanying newspost] for the strip where {{spoiler|she comes back to life}} included him saying he doesn't believe the bravery or quality of a writer is measured by his "main character body count."
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]:
** Accusations are a dime a dozen, but the biggest furor is about the [[Our Orcs Are Different|Blizzardian]] Orcs. Not only are the Orcs completely unable to save their own people, relying instead on Dominic to save them, but he does so by engineering a battle amongst the orcs where there were plenty of casualties. The cost of the battle was not brought up afterward.
** Some critic: "If you don't agree with Dominic (and think the forced-rapist is a bad guy) you are ''literally possessed by demons''."
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140921071448/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2011-02-04 This strip] originally had in the second panel Elanora saying, "They'll actually take on the genetics of the recipient. It will truly be '''their''' child." After it went up, Mookie realized how it could be taken the wrong way, and promptly changed it to what's up there now.
* [[Unintentionally Unsympathetic]]: Melna. Her past shows that she's a {{spoiler|rape victim with a tragic history}} but her violent personality and constant acts of [[Disproportionate Retribution]] towards [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male|male characters]] has left considerable portions of the comic's audience calling for her blood. It doesn't help that the last character to be shown in this exactly light was Siggy, and unlike her he was [[What the Hell, Hero?|frequently called out on his actions.]] {{spoiler|Not to mention being turned into a demonic slave.}}
* [[Villain Decay]]:
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