Strangers in Paradise: Difference between revisions

* [[Aborted Arc]]: Frequent. Some loose ends are left loose forever, and some seemingly important insights and revelations are never mentioned again. The [[Time Skip]] moments ALL fall under this banner.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Katchoo's step-father [[Rape as Backstory|beat and raped her when she was fifteen]]. [[Parental Neglect|Her mother then told her to stop making up vicious lies.]]

* [[The Alcoholic]]: Recovering. Katchoo began attending AA meetings when she was eighteen. Now she is in something of an odd place; she drinks recreationally, but manages to avoid any severe over-indulgences...[[Off the Wagon|except for when things get out of hand]].

* [[All Just a Dream]]: Happens from time to time.

* [[Breast Expansion]]: Casey gets breast implants. Twice.

* [[Broken Bird]]: Katchoo

* [[Butch Lesbian]]: Tambi Baker. Even as a fictional character she is tough and ''hard''.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Freddie just can ''not'' catch a break. Of course, maybe if he did not set himself up for so many falls...

* [[Crossover]]: In Terry Moore's subsequent series ''[[Echo]]'', Ivy Raven, an NSB agent who has gotten involved in the potentially [[Apocalypse How|world-shattering]] events of the story, begins to suspect that her superiors in Washington might not be as trustworthy as she had previously believed. The other characters ask if there is anybody she can go to for help, somebody ''outside'' the system who would nevertheless be able to give the important answers, and Ivy mentions that she might have somebody she can call. The next panel is apparently [[Cliff Hanger|Katchoo getting a phone call.]] Tambi guest stars two issues later, #28, where she tracks down a former Parker Girl who stayed in her cover as a member of the US military after the operation collapsed.

* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: {{spoiler|David Qin/Yousaka Takahashi}}

* [[Death of the Hypotenuse]]: Of course, ''which'' hypotenuse is the more tricky question.

* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Darcy and Veronica, both of whom are just ''fucked'' up people.

* [[Has Two Mommies]]

* [[Heel Face Turn]]

* [[If It's You It's Okay|If It's You, It's Okay]]

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Various characters are doing this constantly. Freddie, however, inverts it.

* [[Scars Are Forever]]:

** Katchoo has scars on her wrist in a "z" shape, but there was never an official explanation for their cause.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Freddie is not a [[Dogged Nice Guy]], he is just creepy and offensive.

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: The FBI investigation of Katchoo spans dozens of issues, but changes virtually nothing in the end.

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: [[Subverted]]. Casey is introduced as the silicone-infused-aerobics-instructor, and this seems to be all there is to her, but as the story progresses her character, personality and history are [[Character Development|expanded to equal any of the main characters.]]

* [[Someone to Remember Him By]]: {{spoiler|Planned out by Casey and Katchoo when they find out David has a brain tumor.}}

* [[Superhero Episode]]: Two of them, but both turn out to be [[All Just a Dream]].

* [[The Syndicate]]: The Big Six are apparently every''where'' with their influence stretching over every''thing''.

* [[Time Skip]]: Frequent, none of which end up corresponding to what actually happens in the story proper.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Katchoo and Francine

* [[Two Girls and a Guy]]

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Veronica's starts pretty much the moment she becomes the boss.

* [[Villainy Discretion Shot]]: {{spoiler|Veronica's demise}}.

* [[Wall of Text]]: SiP can be quite wordy, and Moore frequently abandons the graphic format altogether and just resorts to full-on proses passages for several pages. "Molly & Poo" is told almost entirely in prose, with only a few accompanying illustrations.

* [[Yakuza]]: The Takahashi family

* [[Yandere]]: Veronica

 

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