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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: In the [http://www.the503comic.com/?pageID=12 proof-of-concept strip].

* [[Bar Brawl]]: Initiated by Demitri Kalinin and John Flatt in [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=53 this strip], and continued [http://the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=55 here], with appropriate music ("London Calling" by The Clash).

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Demitri's response to being [[Hoist By His Own Petard]] in [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=62 this strip].

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Demitri's response to being [[Hoist by His Own Petard]] in [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=62 this strip].

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Phil obviously has one of these, first referenced [http://the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=5 here] and then made more explicit with a [http://the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=40 dream sequence] to the point where [http://the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=41 other characters] [http://the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=31 noticed it on their own.]

* [[Death By Origin Story]]: {{spoiler|Dawn Rachel Mcallender, Phil's girlfriend, dies in a wildfire in 2006.}} This is what motivates Phil to move to Portland and fills him with grief at the beginning of the strip.

* [[Funetik Aksent]]: The Australian owners of the Jolly Swagman speak in a strong bogan accent represented as such and even lampshaded in [http://the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=89 Strip 70].

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: When Demitri asks Phil to prove his (Phil's) existence. Given that Demitri has a black eye as a result of an earlier [[Bar Brawl]], [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=62 the outcome is fairly predictable].

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: When Demitri asks Phil to prove his (Phil's) existence. Given that Demitri has a black eye as a result of an earlier [[Bar Brawl]], [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=62 the outcome is fairly predictable].

* [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall]]: In Phil's conversation with Demitri in [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=62 this installment]:

* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: In Phil's conversation with Demitri in [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=62 this installment]:

{{quote| '''Phil:''' Okay, then, let's take your overly-skeptical approach to everything. Prove to me that ''you'' exist.<br />

'''Demitri:''' Don't pull that Descartes crap. I'm right here in front of you, you can see me. Don't be ridiculous.<br />

'''Phil:''' [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall|You could just be a figment of someone's imagination, for all I know. A character in a story, or something.]] }}

'''Phil:''' [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|You could just be a figment of someone's imagination, for all I know. A character in a story, or something.]] }}

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: The bouncer, [http://the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=57 when he kicks John and Demitri out of the bar].

* [[Oh Crap]]: When Phil Stone realizes he's . . . [[Unusual Euphemism|become romantically involved with]] [http://the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=10 the girlfriend of a Huskers lineman]:

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* [[Rail Enthusiast]]: Ryan Sangiorgio, who improbably [http://the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=52 gets the girl because of it.]

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: As noted above, the webcomic is partly inspired by the author's life in Portland.

* [[Riddle for ~~The~~ Ages]]: The fairy which shows up in [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=40 this episode] - is it a figment of Phil's imagination, or [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=60 is] [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=61 it] [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=62 real]?

* [[Riddle for the Ages]]: The fairy which shows up in [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=40 this episode] - is it a figment of Phil's imagination, or [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=60 is] [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=61 it] [http://www.the503comic.com/index.php?pageID=62 real]?

* [[Slice of Life]]: See "[[Real Life Writes the Plot]]".

* [[Trickster Archetype|Trickster]]: Demitri Kalinin