Penny and Aggie/Recap/Pre History: Difference between revisions

=== Tropes ===

* [[All There in the Manual]]: In the aftermath of this arc, readers wondered what happened when Giuliani caught Elmer joking over the unconscious Xena. Did he think Elmer was the assailant? Did Elmer face expulsion for the assault? If so, why didn't Aggie come forward if she's so concerned about justice? Nearly a year later, Campbell answered this in the forum: Giuliani did indeed expel Elmer, not for the assault (because there was no direct evidence he'd done it and Xena hadn't seen who did) but for his callously joking upon discovering her knocked out rather than calling for help. However, as Elmer has no friends except Bob, no one else at school knew why, or even that, he'd been expelled; it was assumed he'd just disappeared.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

* [[Church of Happyology]]: Note, however, the [[Word of God]] that Xena is not an official member of the religion in question. (An actual initiate wouldn't learn about Xenu, and his imprisonment of souls in volcanoes, to which she alludes in her "history" speeches, until the third course level, and would be strictly instructed not to reveal these teachings to outsiders, nor to initiates at lower levels.) Rather, she's a do-it-yourselfer who's read indiscriminately through the organization's documents as leaked online, as well as those not part of its official policy, such as Hubbard's personal correspondence, from which the above racist quote comes.

* [[Heteronormative Crusader]]: Xena.

* [[Jerkass]]: Elmer.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]] / [[The Nicknamer]]: When Penny finally tires of Stan calling her by the names of blonde celebrities as an insult, and tells him to knock it off, he says, "Okay, Petty."

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: The comic's first, as Xena utters the word "niggers" uncensored.

* [[Rage Breaking Point]]: For Brandi, it's Xena's racial slur.