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** And note that that first panel was based on the style ''years'' after the first actual panel.
** Art timelines for [http://penny-arcade.com/2011/11/18/jonathan-gabriel-an-art-retrospective Gabe] and [http://penny-arcade.com/2011/11/18/tycho-brahe-an-art-retrospective Tycho].
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: From the [http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/8/20/ rejection letter] the duo supposedly received from Golf Digest for Bogey Golf, their series of golf comics:
{{quote| Your "Bogey Golf" submission glorified many themes one does not readily associate with the game, such as incest, murder, rape, bestiality, religious intolerance, or crab fishing. }}
* [[Author Appeal]]: Gabe seems to like drawing [[Eldritch Abomination|weird, disgusting-looking alien creatures]].
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** [[Fail O'Suckyname]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/10/10/ Jim] is a [[Call Back]] to when they played [[Final Fantasy XI (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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].
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Anne does this in the earlier strips.
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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
* [[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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'''Tycho''': So, you didn't wet yourself. You were just drinking ''piss''.<br />
'''Gabe''': Yes, that's right. No. }}
* [[But You Screw One Goat!]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/12/31/ Not anymore, though.]
* [[Call Back]]: The [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/7/14/ comic from July 14th, 2010] has Tycho use the made-up racial slur "chuwero", first mentioned [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/11/10/ three and a half years ago]. He will also use it on occasion in ''[[Poker Night At the Inventory (Video Game)|Poker Night At the Inventory]]''.
** [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/05/17 Tycho invented] [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/6/13/ a hippo.]
* [[Character Blog]]: The corresponding blogs on the strips.
* [[Check, Please!]]: [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/03/25 This strip].
* [[Chest Burster]] / [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: The [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/05/04/ Broodax], [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/5/7/ in] [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/06/06/ spades].
* [[Christmas Special]]: Oh so [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/12/17/ subverted].
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** 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)|Video Game]] seeing that it's a gamer webcomic, but its really unlikely for them to crossover a [[Homestar Runner (Web Animation)|Web Original]] and a [[Sam and Max Freelance Police (Comic Book)|Comic Book]].
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Gabe. Not only is he the Cardboard Tube Samurai - whose skills may carry over in some form to his civilian persona - but he has received a blood transfusion from Spider-Man, and may be Darth Vader's son. Taking all this into account, Gabe may have the potential to be a web-slinging force-adept with the ability to slice things to shreds with a perfectly round tube, to say nothing of the potential synergy between spider-sense and force awareness. He's also the Beta Whisperer.
* [[Crowd Song]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/11/14/ this].
* [[Dada Comics]]: Twisp & Catsby.
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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
* [[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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* [[Girl On Girl Is Hot]]: Heavily implied [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/08/29 here].
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Often seen when the characters, especially Tycho, are angry. [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/8/24/ Here's] just one of many examples.
* [[
* [[Gonk]]: A somewhat more [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/04/02 "realistic" drawing of the authors], though exaggerated [[Rule of Funny|for comedic effect]].
* [[Go Ye Heroes Go and Die]]: The motto of the Lookouts in the eponymous strip is "May We Die In The Forest".
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* [[Kill It With Fire]]: Effectively the MO of the Gabe's ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' wizard Jim Darkmagic (of the New Hampshire Darkmagics) in their podcast on the [[Wizards of the Coast]] website. Scorching Burst was used to set fire to everything from goblins to zombies to vampires to berserkers to priests to Binwin Bronzebottom, the party's Dwarven Fighter.
** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/07/ Inverted]
* [[Last
* [[Least Rhymable Word]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/9/13/ Acquiesce].
* [[Leave the Camera Running]]: The guys have described their pacing as a comic adaptation of this idea; many strips have punchlines in the second panel, and the frame will simply stay on the characters a little too long. The third panel will either be a [[One Two Punchline]], [[Overly Long Gag]], or [[Reaction Shot]]
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* [[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 [[Warhammer 40000|Warhammer 40,000]] in the title.
* [[Merchandise
* [[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].
* [[Multiple Choice Form Letter]]: Tycho writes [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/03/16 one comic] this way as he wants to write a comic about the E3 convention before he attends. It results in some pretty hilarious [[Mad Libs Dialogue]].
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/02/21 The first part] of the story arc ''Ripped From Today's Headlines'' has Tycho accidentally killing his wife when trying out a move from ''[[Splinter Cell]]'', and feeling bad for it.
{{quote| '''Tycho''': Oh my god. Oh my god. Please don't leave me!}}
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Scott Kurtz of ''[[Pv P]]'', portrayed as [[The Rival]] in some strips, is invariably called "[[Country Matters|Steve Kuntz]]" by Gabe and Tycho.
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{{quote| '''Tycho''': [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/03/25/ Let me just ask you this]: do you think that "cloud rendering" is something that happens in the sky?<br />
'''Gabe''': Yes.<br />
'''Tycho''': Alright. [[Check, Please!]]. }}
* [[Oh Crap]]: Gabe tries out ''[[Minecraft]]'' and realises he's gotten into something very addictive:
{{quote| '''Gabe:''' I guess you punch trees? Which creates... wood? [[Item Crafting|Which I can turn into sticks? And then I turn the]] ''[[Item Crafting|sticks]]'' [[Item Crafting|into]] ... Oh no. ''Oh no.'' I'm in some real fucking trouble here.}}
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* [[Rooting for The Empire]]: Tycho [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/03/02 in this strip] towards the zombies of ''[[The Walking Dead (TV)|The Walking Dead]]''.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/19/ Why does Penny Arcade think you should get] ''[[Prototype (Video Game)|Prototype]]''?
* [[Rule
** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/9/19/ In The Love Nest of Har'akki]
* [[Running Gag]]:
** How many times have they killed each other and stolen that Pac Man watch from the corpse?
** The repeated jokes that Gabe is secretly gay (especially for [[Spider-Man]]): [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/3/29/ 1]
** Their comic counterpart's obsession with penises. [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|But not in a gay way.]] (Examples forthcoming, probably too numerous to list)
** Punctuation.
** Stem cell research.
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** In fact, swine flu was the ''only'' time Gabe and Tycho were unable to produce a strip since the series ''began''. Tycho did three MS Paint horrorpieces, but in ten years, that's ''it''.
* [[Second Law My Ass]]: The Fruit Fucker, and Div.
* [[Self
{{quote| '''Tycho''': "Making something that is bad on purpose - and not bad inadvertently, which is my usual process - is a whole-body thrill."}}
** Tycho and Gabe teach schoolkids how to make comic strips:
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'''General:''' Y is kind of a tricky letter. }}
* [[Single Issue Landlord]]: The premise of "That's so locust!"
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://penny-arcade.com/resources/real-talk.html Gabe gets a horrifying one] when the comic's popularity happens to cause trouble for [[Jerkass|Ocean]] [[Small Name, Big Ego|Marketing]].
* [[Slice of Life]]: In more recent years, as the guys have started having families, these sort of strips have started to happen occasionally. [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/9/3/ An example.]
* [[Snap Back]]
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* [[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
* [[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
** Also due to the fact that, as great as the Jim Darkmagic's (of the New Hampshire Darkmagics) strip was, the even more amazing alternatives -- ''Automata'' and ''Lookouts'' -- crushed it in in the voting, with ''Lookouts'' winning by a small margin (all three concepts are going to be revisited anyway, they just wanted to know what ''order'' readers would like).
** They've since presented another round of potential spinoffs like ''[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/10/27/ Sand]'' and ''[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/11/1/ Queen of Bells]''. One, ''[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/10/29/ The New Kid]'', has already been optioned for a movie.
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* [[The Talk]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/18/ This].
** Tycho of ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' got a [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/1/17/ particularly painful subversion] of [[The Talk]].
* [[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 [[
* [[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 and Dragons|D&D Essentials]]'':
{{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.<br />
'''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.<br />
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** Also, in [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/08/17 this strip], Tycho appears to be sitting on the toilet.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Geez, Tycho. Did you have to use a sharp knife to cut a banana?
** Real life example: Ocean Marketing (or, rather, one person [[Small Name, Big Ego|too high up the chain for his own good]]) just picked a fight with Penny Arcade for the loyalty of the gamer population. [[Sarcasm Mode|Surely this will be a battle of epic proportions.]]
* [[True Companions]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/2011/2/21/ Gabriel is not my friend, he's more like my arm.]
* [[Trust Me I'm an X]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/9/ "It's okay, I'm a dentist."]
* [[Two Gamers On a Couch]]: The [[Ur Example]].
* [["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 ''[[Mirrors Edge]]''.
* [[Wall of Text]]: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/ I Hope You Like Text].
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** Both Jerry and Mike have said that without Robert Khoo, their business manager, they would have sold themselves into slavery for what, at the time, would have seemed like a really good idea. For example: their book rights.
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* [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[Wild Mass Guessing]]: Combined with [[Intercontinuity Crossover]] [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/1/11/ here].
* [[With Friends Like These]]: Gabe and Tycho.
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