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[[File:Archipelago_cover_4520.jpg|frame|Here you will meet demons, Ravens, crazed pirates, and were-sharks. Enjoy the ride!]]

 

 

 

One cold night, Credenza discovers a man named Blitz washed up on the shores of Ruin Island. Blitz is wounded and on the brink of death, but with Credenza's help is able to recover. The only problem? Blitz has lost his memories as well as his sanity. Archipelago follows Credenza and Blitz's story as they become involved in a colossal battle between good and evil, journey to new parts of the titular Archipelago, and make a few friends along the way.

 

* http://archipelagocomic.com/

* http://thesilvertophat.deviantart.com/

 

 

 

* [[Accidental Kiss]]: Willium and Nim [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=146 here.]

* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Considering the fantasy setting, not terribly shocking.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Captain Snow is this most of the time, making jokes and snide comments; he's <s>probably</s> very capable of dropping it, though.

*** The Author also on occasion leaves notes with certain strips that pose as a sort as insight into the makings of individual characters or elaborations on elements of the Archipelago world i.e. information about the inner workings of magic in this setting.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: Those who are posessed by a raven spirit but are captured or simply no longer useful may be Soul Sealed. Essentially the subjects soul is sealed deep within their body and while they remain alive and aware, they cannot move or act in 'any' way at all.

** Also, {{spoiler|Raven}} could qualify as a type II or III.

* [[Art Evolution]]: Seriously. Compare [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=1 this] with [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=583 this].

* [[Artificial Limb]]: Snow has a cyborg arm (which is quickly growing in a cyborg body because he keeps getting injured). For a more bizarre example, Anansi uses scarfs for arms.

* [[Author Appeal]]: In the creator's own words, "In case you haven't realized, Archipelago is pretty much one big excuse for me to draw strange animals."

* [[Badass Preacher]]: Miss Tabitha is a nun. A rather elderly nun. Do not be fooled by appearances. Do not threaten her abbey's residents. Do NOT tear books in ''her'' library!

* [[Bad Dreams]]: Credenza sometimes has these about her childhood

* [[Ballroom Blitz]]: Book 6. Snow and an army of Ravens attempt a hostile takeover of the Quillotia Castle while King Mikel is hosting a party to welcome home {{spoiler|his long-lost cousins, the Luck brothers.}}

* [[Blowing a Raspberry]]: Blitz, to Captain Snow {{spoiler|''after tearing his mechanical arm off.''}}

* [[Body Horror]]: [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=954 Dude].

* [[Cassandra Truth]]-No, Blitz [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=30 didn't kill her.] He also didn't kill [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=34 that guy] whose body he was found standing over, literally caught red-handed. Seriously, he didn't kill them.

* [[Catgirl]]: Miss Tabitha, among others.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: On [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=751 this page,] and observant reader will notice that when Charlie licks Credenza's cheek, there's a tiny blue magic flash and her scratch is suddenly gone. In the [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=959 next chapter,] [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=960 this] [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=961 happens.]

* [[Circling Birdies]]: Happens quite often.

** Another time, when Paollo's waking up from a vision

'''Tusura:''' Close enough. }}

** [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=944 Kitchen timers: The blind version of stars.]

** Paollo qualifies as well. Also, Mikel. There's also Clair, but she's a child so it's really more of an active imagination.

* [[Clothing Damage]]: [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=186 "Was it really necessary to get rid of his clothes, or was that just for effect?"]

* [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]]: This or possibly a combo of it and [[Lethal Chef]] describe Riley's cooking. His signature dish is best described as fish still-kicking cooked into a pancake batter. {{spoiler|Both of these tropes are actually averted, as his dish is delicious, loved but lost by the Pintur family.}}

** Or, for that matter, [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=957 this]

** [[Rule of Three|Or]] [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=1004 this]

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: Raven, of the injured mid sentence variety.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Most of the characters have their moments, but Raven's the most notable.

** Also, flashbacks are given the color treatment.

* [[Demonic Possession]]: {{spoiler|The Shadomandyr Queen uses Simon this way. When the Raven sees Dragonfly he posses Snow so he could kill Dragonfly personally, Snow is angry about this because the terms of the his deal stated no possessions. Oh, and The Raven causes Snow to change into a massive raven with a shock of white feather on his head.}}

** That would be [[Morphic Resonance]].

* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Credenza goes barefoot quite often.

* [[Duct Tape for Everything]]: You're in the middle of nowhere, and the heart crystal, the only thing that can keep your sub going, is falling apart. So you put it back together with... [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=397 DUCT TAPE!]

* [[Dull Surprise]]: Lucinda, to pretty much everything. Justified since she's emotionless.

* [[Explosive Breeder]]: Apparently, Moofs.

** [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=77 Do you know what happens if those things get in your submarine and multiply!? (Shudder)]

* [[Eye Take]]: [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=836 Both Raven and Credenza on this page.]

* [[Fainting Seer]]: According to Tusura, it often takes a bucket of cold water to snap Paollo out of his visions.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Usually directed against weresharks and related half-bloods. Weresharks are seen as predatory monsters (and culturally, that's not far off the mark) who are better off dead. Tuff and Riley Luck, as half-bloods (they had a human mother), face all the prejudices ascribed to sharkmen, and even their shark kin would kill them as abominations. It's especially bad in Quillotia, the Luck brothers' home city, which is home to a large population of wereorcas, who hate weresharks more than any other race.

** Later, [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=505 Credenza to Raven.]

'''Raven:''' I should never have let you give me candy. }}

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Credenza, though she makes a special exception for Captain Snow, whom she would gladly personally throttle.

** [[The Big Bad]]: The story's Big Bad is actually The Great Raven, but Captain Snow plays this part for the villain band...

** ...and Lucinda acts as his [[The Dragon|dragon.]]

** [[The Evil Genius]]: Han.

** [[The Brute]]: Kurr.

** [[The Hero]]: Credenza. A rare example where the leader is female while the rest of the band is male.

** [[The Lancer]]: Raven

* [[God Help Us All|God Save Us All]]: [[Cloudcuckoolander|Paollo]] is the prince of the Solid Tower, the destined ruler of the Eastern Continent! [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=74 In his hands lies the future of our country!]

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Alice is trying to untie a bag rather urgently. It's got lots of tight knots. So Alice, a girl raised around sailors, starts swearing at it like only she can:

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Raven gets a soul.}}

* [[Human Shield]]: {{spoiler|The Shadomandyr Queen uses Simon as one.}}

* [[Hypnotic Eyes]]: Vaniji.

** Played during the beginning, with Credenza/Blitz/Raven

** {{spoiler|With Simon, when he's possessed by the Shadowmandyr Queen}}

* [[Imaginary Friend]]: Clair has one, named Benjamin.

* [[I'm Crying but I Don't Know Why]]: Blitz does it [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=653 here] and [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=853 here.] {{spoiler|Turns out that the first time he's crying the first time because before his memory loss, he had a wife who died in childbirth. The second time, we know about this... But he doesn't. He had just woken up from a dream which was a memory of his wife. [[Word of God]] says Blitz doesn't understand his dreams, they just make him sad.}}

** {{spoiler|Snow and Yula, though Yula was not particularly good, and willingly joined Snow.}}

** [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=946 Riley, there are better times to propose...]

* [[Life Energy]]: One source of magic.

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Played for laughs.

* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: Uru and Credenza.

* [[Loss of Identity]]: Blitz.

* [[The Merch]]: What better way to enjoy a cup of tea than to have it served in a [http://www.cafepress.com/ArchipelagoShop.551986995 mug with a picture of everyon'e favorite undead soul-stealing pirate king?]

* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: Those controlled/hypnotized by Vaniji. They don't always look like it though.

* [[Morality Pet]]: Stretching the definition almost to the breaking point, but Captain Snow's nephew Knull {{spoiler|and his widow Noemi and their daughter Yulalia, who was born shortly after Snow died.}}

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Holly calls Clair by her mother's name by accident- she wasn't paying attention at the time.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Pretty much everyone on Quillotia.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: Nim, after {{spoiler|rescuing Willium from the belly of the Shadomandyr Queen,}} states simply "That was definitely the third weirdest thing to ever happen to me."

** We're not sure what happened at Mikel's 21st birthday party, but when he brings it up in comparison with {{spoiler|1=[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=640 Snow's attack on Castle Quillotia] }}, you know it has to have been crazy.

* [[Pregnant Hostage]]: {{spoiler|The King's wife during Snow's attack on Quillotia; she goes into labor as soon as the battle is over.}}

* [[Punny Name]]: Tuff Luck

** {{spoiler|[[The Bus Came Back]]: In book 7, when they go to Paper Island to find Kor, they also find Paollo's guards, all brainwashed by Vaniji.}}

* [[Crows and Ravens]]: No actual ravens, but the [[Big Bad]] is called The Raven and looks distinctly birdlike.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Han always sews before a battle, despite being one of the most threatening of Snow's crew.

* [[Rebus Bubble]]: used [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=9 here] and [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=801 here].

* [[Red Right Hand]]: take note of anyone who is missing their left eye especially if it happened recently.

* [[Running Gag]]: "If you support *insert topic relevant to the current strip here*, vote for Archipelago!"

* [[Sense Freak]]: {{spoiler|Raven after becoming fully human.}} More specifically, he's interested in taste. [[Word of God]] says he has a very detailed diary of everything he's ever eaten and whether he likes it or not.

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Credenza, at the royal dinner in Quillotia

** Prince Paollo quotes a Beatles song and Macbeth.

** Snow reads Poe's "Conqueror Worm" to {{spoiler|his daughter Yulalia.}}

* [[Smells Sexy]]: {{spoiler|When they meet him, Dragonfly gives Riley the scent of his mate. Later, he finds the person with that scent, who also happens to be an heir.}}

* [[Something Person]]: [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=679 It's Laundry Pants Man!]

* [[Spider Sense]]: Or rather, "Sharky Sense" as Riley calls it. [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=855 Can be rather intense.]

* [[Start of Darkness]]: Snow as a kid took animals apart to see how they worked and because he thought they did nothing useful. A lot of sociopaths in the real world also start by killing animals, so it isn't too much of a stretch.

* [[Tarot Motifs]]: Willium Drake uses magical cards resembling Tarot cards.

* [[Team Mom]]: Credenza.

'''Blitz:''' The way we always do what she says. }}

* [[Teleporter Accident]]: [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=6 How about that stretcher?]

* [[The Messiah]]: Credenza.

* [[The Soulless]]: every raven

** Subverted both in that they have no interest in reclaiming their soul, and in that most of them have part of their souls and emotions still intact.

* [[The Rival]]: Nim to Willium Drake and vice-versa.

* [[Transformation Trinket]]: Dragons use these to switch between their human forms and their dragon forms. {{spoiler|Blitz's is his watch}}

* [[Unsuspectingly Soused]]: [http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=239 Gregor Samsa is a giant potato!]

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: All full-blooded werebeasts have a human and animal form. Half-bloods could, in theory, but it would probably kill them. Han pulls off a simpler version with his appearance through garments sewn from magical materials.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: On at least one occasion the author has stated that Raven was originally going to be an occasional mook who would pop up now and again to throw a wrench into the situation for our intrepid heroes but that the author than pictured him and Credenza conversing and that his present character personality and role there in, evolved from that.

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: A lot, actually. There's Avians, those possessed by the Ravens seem to able to sprout magic wings, and Raven.

* [[Witch Doctor]]: Jan.

 

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