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* [[Accidental Murder]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2007/01/06/various-aged-regular-ninja-persons/ When] a team of [[Highly-Visible Ninja]] arrive at Wonderella's door to kill her and their leader shoots a dart at her, Wonderella, thinking they've come [[Knocking on Heathens' Door]], slams her door in their faces, which [[Rule of Funny|somehow]] deflects the dart back at the leader, which kills him. The other ninja [[You Kill It, You Bought It|submit to Wonderella as their new leader]].
* [[Actually a Doombot]]: Intelli-Ape [https://nonadventures.com/2007/01/13/gorillas-in-the-pissed/ captures] "Wonderella" to "draw attention to tropical deforestation", but "Wonderella" then explodes — "she" was only a "Custom Exploding Cyborg" that Wonderella bought on [[eBay]].
* [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read]]: Intelli-Ape [http://nonadventures.com/2012/01/14/the-kong-and-short-of-it/ comes to this conclusion] after making the mistake of prying too deeply into [[Stepford Smiler|Wonderita's]] mind.
* [[Amplifier Artifact]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/21/back-in-black/ 2007/04/21]: Dana claims that her new dress, which is [[Made of Evil|"weaved solely of evil incarnate"]], makes her "way stronger" and faster and able to "jump hella higher than ever", but she isn't shown using her powers while wearing it.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' [http://nonadventures.com/2007/03/31/goodness-gracious-cretaceous/ in this strip.] Features genuine Ryan North T-Rex dialogue!
* [[Alter Ego Acting]]: Justin Pierce's Twitter feed is 100% in-character as Wonderella.
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* [[April Fools' Day]]: The [http://nonadventures.com/2009/03/21/family-matters/ latest] [http://nonadventures.com/2009/03/28/led-astray/ comics] were slightly [[media:wonderella2009-03-28-138-aprilfools.jpg|tweaked]] for 2009.
** In 2012, NonAdventures.com was replaced with [https://web.archive.org/web/20120626014612/http://nonadventures.com/no-nad.html NoNadVentures.com] (a replacement-testicles-for-pets company parodying the genuine [http://www.neuticles.com/ Neuticles]).
* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: [
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: The [[Alt Text]] in [http://nonadventures.com/2012/02/04/sister-extract/ this strip], after magic is dismissed as nonesense:
{{quote|Like all good comic book scientists, Dr. Shark is willing to ignore massive swaths of his inexplicable universe. }}
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* [[Beast and Beauty]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2011/07/30/beauty-and-the-beatdown/ Here.]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: And here you thought Rita's only personality trait was being [[The Ditz]]. [http://nonadventures.com/2010/09/18/sidekick-effects/ Think again]!
* [[Big No]]: Wonderella [https://nonadventures.com/2007/03/10/daylight-savings-crime/ after] her abuse of the Order of Prodigious Noblewomen's [[Time Machine]] to try to avoid losing an hour with the switch to daylight saving time earns her the ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' ending, with the Statue of Liberty half-buried in a beach.
* [[Blasphemous Boast]]: "God answers [http://nonadventures.com/2007/10/13/the-wrong-arm-of-the-law/ to ME!]"
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2009/01/31/animus-complex/ Animating touch.]
* [[Blob Monster]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/21/back-in-black/ 2007/04/21]: To attend a fancy party (to which Petri and Queen Beetle are also going), Dana needs to buy a dress. The only one she feels she can afford is one that's deeply discounted because it "is weaved solely of evil incarnate". After she arrives at the fancy party, where Petri is wearing a very similar dress, their dresses merge to form a [[Blob Monster]] [[Made of Evil]].
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Wonderella
* [[Breast Expansion]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2011/09/02/das-reboot/ Even if you shouldn't have breasts at all.]
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'''Wonderella''': '''Superhero''' dead, guys.
'''Crowd''': "Ohhhhh." }}
* [[Continuity Nod]]:
*
*** Santa, of course, [http://nonadventures.com/2012/12/29/ill-be-doom-for-xmas/ returned]. And then [[It Got Worse]].
** The virtual reality headset that Wonderella bought on [https://nonadventures.com/2006/10/14/enter-the-dragon-slayer/ 2006/10/14] to play a video game shows up again on [https://nonadventures.com/2007/11/17/melanin-colleague-and-the-infinite-sadness/ 2007/11/17] when she uses it to [[Inside a Computer System|enter the Internet]] (over Queen Beetle's [[Lampshade Hanging|objection]] that "There's no plausible reason why that should ever work") to stop an Internet entity's plan "to remove all color from reality itself".
* [[Crossover Cosmology]]: Lampshaded in [http://nonadventures.com/2006/12/25/jesus-christ-super-hero-part-2/ the end] of the [[Saving Christmas]] two-parter; then later, with [http://nonadventures.com/2007/06/30/fjord-escape/ the Norse.]
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/05/17/asp-hat/]
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* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/02/03/victorian-secret/ Spirral.]
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/06/16/the-death-of-wonderella/ Parodied.]
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/14/shark-and-shark-alike/ 2007/04/14]:
{{quote|'''Dr Shark:''' Once my mutagenic gas fills the streets, the entire city will be reduced to nothing more than ordinary SHARKS!
'''Wonderella:''' But why would you even do that? Sharks are ''horrible''! Cable says they kill millions of Americans ''every day''!}}
::Given that Dr Shark immediately agrees with her, this is apparently even true in their world.
* [[Evil Plan]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/11/03/the-lass-crusade/ Jesus Christ has one.]
* [[Eye Beams]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2010/09/11/lashes-to-ashes/ But just as an allergic reaction to shellfish.]
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* [[Fan Girl]]: Hitlerella with regards to [http://nonadventures.com/2010/05/08/die-a-mothers-day/ Wonderella Sr.]
* [[Fantastic Voyage]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/12/15/tumor-has-it/]
* [[Feather Fingers]]: Dr Shark, a "brilliant geneticist" cursed into the body of a shark by [[Mutagenic Goo]], holds things with his pectoral fins.
* [[Fetish]]: A few are brought up.
** [http://nonadventures.com/2011/07/30/beauty-and-the-beatdown/ Like why the Beast would easily find someone to love him.]
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* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: And she wrote ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''. [http://nonadventures.com/2008/11/08/lady-and-the-vamp/]
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Devlin the arsonist, whom Wonderella bumps into and [http://nonadventures.com/2007/02/17/burning-love/ breaks] [http://nonadventures.com/2008/02/09/old-flames/ up] with [http://nonadventures.com/2009/02/14/monster-mashup/ every] [http://nonadventures.com/2010/02/13/premature-evacuation/ year] at Valentine's Day. ([http://nonadventures.com/2007/06/09/ethereal-girl/ Also at the solstice.])
* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: A team of them [https://nonadventures.com/2007/01/06/various-aged-regular-ninja-persons/ arrive to kill Wonderella], wearing black bodysuits in an ordinary apartment building — except for their leader, who is even worse, wearing a bright red suit.
* [[Hitler Ate Sugar]]: Done in ''[http://nonadventures.com/2007/06/02/outrageous-fortune/ reverse]''.
{{quote|'''Wonderella (to Hitlerella)''': You know who else did monologues all day? Hamlet.}}
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* [[Humanity on Trial]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2009/03/07/mars-heeds-women/]
* [[Hypochondria]]: The page image for the trope is [[Special:Permalink/1669117|currently]] Wonderella [https://nonadventures.com/2006/09/13/birdhouse-in-your-soul/ being sure she has bird flu] and calling [[Superman|Clark]] for help. Clark sounds pretty exasperated with her.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/07/mostly-armless/ 2007/04/07]: Dana admonishes Rita about the importance of not exposing one's [[Secret Identity]], "[[Fantastic Racism|especially]] to [[X-Men|mutants]]", and, shortly afterwards, while in her civilian identity, boasts of being a superhero to a shop clerk who is apparantly a (non-superpowered) mutant.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Each strip is titled with a purposely terrible pun. "Daylight Savings CRIME", "Mostly ARMLESS", "Bad to the CLONE", etc.
* [[Ignore the Disability]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/07/mostly-armless/ 2007/04/07]: Dana, grocery shopping with Rita, realizes that the cashier is missing a hand and tries to ignore it. The cashier says that she was born that way, making it extra awkward that Dana had just been ranting that "[[X-Men|Mutants]]. [[Fantastic Racism|Are. Horrible.]]"
* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2009/02/14/monster-mashup/ Parodied, subverted,] with one-third [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke]].
* [[Imagine Spot]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/05/10/ballooner-landing/]
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: In a variation, after [https://nonadventures.com/2006/10/21/in-the-cold-kentucky-reign-of-blood/ staking some vampires], [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|Wonderella]] takes their bones — i.e., presumably human bones — to make soup stock. According to the [[Alt Text]] for [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/21/back-in-black/ 2007/04/21], Rita ate the "vampire soup" too.
* [[Incredibly Obvious Bomb]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/07/28/chicken-of-the-seamen/ Lampshaded in the alt text.] Then Wonderella [http://nonadventures.com/2007/12/29/baby-new-fear/ leaves one of her own.]
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Jokerella, although many of the other villains have their moments.
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* [[Logic Bomb]]: Attempted [http://nonadventures.com/2011/02/19/the-daily-trouble/ here]. It doesn't work.
* [[LOLcats]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/08/04/how-much-is-that-indignity-in-the-window/]
* [[Made of Evil]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/21/back-in-black/ 2007/04/21]: To attend a fancy party (to which Petri and Queen Beetle are also going), Dana needs to buy a dress. The only one she feels she can afford is one that's deeply discounted because it "is weaved solely of evil incarnate". (Isn't this trope about ''villains'', not objects? Yes…) Dana finds that the dress mitigates her [[A-Cup Angst]], she loves the fact that (unlike her usual jeans) wearing a dress lets her easily urinate while standing ([[Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers|...onto the side of a building, in broad daylight]]), and she claims that it [[Amplifier Artifact|boosts her powers]] — but then she arrives at the fancy party, where Petri is wearing a very similar dress, and their dresses merge to form a [[Blob Monster]] [[Made of Evil]].
* [[Magic Feather]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2009/04/04/a-broken-pumice/ "See this is why I don't do pep talks."]
* [[The Magic Touch]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2009/01/31/animus-complex/ On this page], Wonderella gains the power to give life to anything she touches.
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* [[Medium Awareness]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2011/01/29/heaven-can-grate/ God]
* [[The Men in Black]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/01/19/your-tax-dollars-at-jerk/ parodied]
* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: Wonderella's consultants at [https://nonadventures.com/2007/02/24/merchant-of-menace/ FocusPocus Media Solutions] get her to replace her cars (which are either [https://nonadventures.com/2008/02/09/old-flames/ unremarkable] or invisible) with a sporty car themed with her colors and logo and to use some rather useless [[Family Friendly Firearm]] so that toy versions can be sold to go with the Wonderella action figure.
* [[Milestone Celebration]]: Comic #300, "[http://nonadventures.com/2012/05/05/hair-of-the-dog-star/ Hair of the DOG STAR]," goes on for longer than the usual strip.
* [[Mini-Dress of Power]]: Wonderella Sr. wears a [[Bare Your Midriff|short skirt and top]] variant.
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** [http://nonadventures.com/2008/04/05/spirral-marketing/ Notably] averted.
** Briefly played straight when she gets [http://nonadventures.com/2011/09/02/das-reboot/ relaunched].
* [[Mutagenic Goo]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/14/shark-and-shark-alike/ 2007/04/14]: Accidentally spilling "embryonic shark matter" onto his hand turned Dr Tiberius [[Steven Ulysses Perhero|Shark]] into a shark (a [[Tailfin Walking]] [[Mad Scientist]] shark).
* [[Nerds Are Virgins]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2011/06/04/immaculate-reception/ "Sorry, I wasn't in the A/V club. I had sex instead."]
* [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2009/09/26/two-princess/ Parodied] like many, many other [[Time Travel]] tropes.
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* [[Orphaned Series]]: Justin Pierce's previous webcomic, ''Killroy And Tina'' (which he dropped largely in favor of working on Wonderella)
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Wonderella never removes her tiara, and the collar of her shirt makes a "W" shape, exactly like her costume's.
* [[Parental Sexuality Squick]]: Dana's reaction to Dr Shark asking whether Titania is still single is [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/14/shark-and-shark-alike/ "Oh ''ew''!"]
* [[Parodied Trope]]: About 90% of the strips.
* [[The Parody]]
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* [[Positive Discrimination]]: Queen Beetle, the black female superheroine, who is intelligent, well-mannered, and with an actual functioning moral compass -- very much in contrast with the lead.
* [[The Power of Rock]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2006/10/07/the-500-bearable-lightness-of-being/ But will it work] against ''[[Everything's Worse with Bears|bears?]]''
* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: [[Sin City|An unnamed character]] delivers [https://nonadventures.com/2006/12/09/sin-derella/ one] about the city and Wonderella, while Wonderella [[Bathos|rages about her drink being the wrong flavor]].
* [[The Problem with Pen Island]]: 2012's [https://web.archive.org/web/20120626014612/http://nonadventures.com/no-nad.html NoNadVentures.com] [[April Fools' Day]] gag.
* [[Product Placement]]: Parodied [http://nonadventures.com/2007/05/12/paperback-righter/ in Wonderella's own comic-within-the-comic.]
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* [[Pun-Based Title]]: Every single comic has a punny title.
* [[Punch Clock Hero]]: Taken pretty much [http://nonadventures.com/2008/01/26/beware-the-ides-of-arch/ to the limit.]
* [[Pyromaniac]]: Devlin is a minor character who "live[s] to purify the earth in fire" and [https://nonadventures.com/2007/02/17/burning-love/ calls] [https://nonadventures.com/2007/06/09/ethereal-girl/ himself] "Perdition's Flame given bones, breath and blood". Wonderella, who apparently shares his love of burning and exploding things, occasionally romances him, but they never stay together long.
* [[A Rare Sentence]]: In the Tiny Newsbox, in reference to [http://nonadventures.com/2011/09/02/das-reboot/ this comic]:
{{quote|''Due to overwhelming reader response, I have added breasts to the space dinosaur cowboy.''
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* [[The Real Heroes]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2006/09/12/cape-fear/ Not according to Wonderella.]
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: The short-lived [[Sentai]] team [http://nonadventures.com/2014/04/26/flags-of-our-fodder/ Semaphorce]'s Pink member declares "Pink for VENGEANCE!"
* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2006/12/23/jesus-christ-super-hero/ On Christmas Eve], Wonderella wants to have fun shooting clay pigeons, which she has Wonderita throw into the air — in a city, with nothing to stop her shots from hitting passers-by. Wonderella immediately accidentally shoots down Santa Claus in his flying sleigh, which crashes and [[Every Car Is a Pinto|burns]] on the roof of a church, [[From Bad to Worse|setting the church on fire]], after which Jesus teleports in to [[What the Hell, Hero?|admonish them]] and to recruit them for [[Saving Christmas]].
* [[Reduced to Ratburgers]]: After the leprechaun teleports Wonderella and Wonderita to [https://nonadventures.com/2007/03/17/shamrock-shake-up/ somewhere high up in snowy mountains], Wonderella [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|releases a moth, summoning a giant eagle]], but instead of properly rescuing them it just takes them to its nest, where it regurgitates food into its babies' mouths. Wonderella closes her eyes and angles to get some of the food, while Rita looks [[Squick|unsure she wants to go along with this]]. Given that they don't seem to have tried any ''other'' way to get back to civilization, Wonderella was maybe being premature in being willing to eat ''that''.
* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]
* [[Retro Gaming]]: Wonderella [https://nonadventures.com/2007/01/20/show-us-your-wiiness/ goes to buy] a [[Wii]] because "everyone else wants" one, but she finds it too complex and prefers playing ''[[Bad Dudes]]'' on an [[Wikipedia:arcade machine|arcade machine]].
* [[Rich Bitch]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/21/back-in-black/ "''Petri''."] — at least [[Slobs Versus Snobs|towards Dana]]. At a high-society party, for which Dana had to buy a dress, Petri ([[Hypocritical Humor|wearing an almost indistinguishable dress]]) faux-pityingly sneers at Dana for not having bought a more expensive dress.
* [[Rogues Gallery]]
* [[Runaway Bride]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2009/08/29/tying-the-not/ Here], even though she apparently already eloped with the guy.
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* [[Ruthless Modern Pirates]]
* [[Saving Christmas]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2006/12/23/jesus-christ-super-hero/ With Jesus.]
* [[Shark Man]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/14/shark-and-shark-alike/ 2007/04/14]: "Dr Tiberius [[Steven Ulysses Perhero|Shark]], a brilliant geneticist" searching for the [[Cure for Cancer]], was "instantly cursed to live in [a] half-man, half-shark body" when he "spilled [[Mutagenic Goo|embryonic shark matter]] onto [his] HAND!" Now he [[Tailfin Walking|stands on his tail fin]], [[Feather Fingers|holds things with his pectoral fins]], and is even more of a [[Mad Scientist]], turning the humans in the city [[Baleful Polymorph|into sharks]]. He was also Dana's biology teacher and he ends up serving as her [[The Smart Guy|Smart Guy]] despite being a villain (which is about equally thanks to his being a fairly unvillainous villain and to her being such an unheroic hero).
* [[Shooting Superman]]: Referenced [http://nonadventures.com/2010/10/09/two-gentlemen-of-piranha/ here].
** And [http://nonadventures.com/2011/05/28/bullet-with-butterfly-stings/ here] is a whole strip [[Lampshading]] this trope. Also, [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]] when, after shooting failed, you try [[Throw-Away Guns|tossing the empty gun at her]]...
* [[Shout-Out]]
** After the leprechaun teleports Wonderella and Wonderita to [https://nonadventures.com/2007/03/17/shamrock-shake-up/ somewhere high up in snowy mountains], Wonderella releases a moth to summon a giant eagle to rescue them, like [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Gandalf]].
** [http://nonadventures.com/2008/07/19/moms-the-word/ To] the Joker's [[Have a Gay Old Time|"boner,"]] as popularized by [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209085538/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=303:batmans-boner&catid=32:seduction-index&Itemid=36#content Superdickery.]
** To the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' [[Expository Theme Tune]]. [http://nonadventures.com/2008/08/23/the-da-vinci-load/]
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* [[Skewed Priorities]]: Wonderella usually has them.
** While Penumbra is concerned about the Greco-Roman Godhead being about to destroy Earth, Wonderella is instead [https://nonadventures.com/2006/09/23/lucy-in-the-sky-with-genocide/ upset that the Godhead didn't give her the power to fly] when it created her.
** Wonderella's objection to villains wanting to destroy Earth is that Earth has [https://nonadventures.com/2006/11/04/bound-for-vengeance/ Arby's] or [https://nonadventures.com/2006/11/11/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/ Tim Allen].
* [[Skyward Scream]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2011/08/27/quakey-breakey-heart/ Really brings out] Wonderella's [[Skewed Priorities]]
* [[Slash Fic]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/06/07/what-would-doobie-doobie-do/ With Ronald McDonald]
* [[
** Petri has a stable, high-status civilian job (judge) and presents herself as [[The Cape (trope)|The Cape]] and "[https://nonadventures.com/2006/11/25/the-price-of-patriotism/ a symbol of] [[Captain Patriotic|America's freedom]]". Dana has no civilian job (her income seems to come from [[Celebrity Endorsement]] and [[Merchandise-Driven|merchandising]]) and is cheerfully [[The Ladette|laddish]] and irresponsible.
** [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/21/back-in-black/ 2007/04/21]: At a fancy party, for which Dana had to buy a dress, Petri ([[Hypocritical Humor|wearing an almost indistinguishable dress]]) faux-pityingly [[Rich Bitch|sneers at Dana for not having bought a more expensive dress]].
* [[Smoke Out]]: Wonderella tries [https://nonadventures.com/2007/03/03/pale-to-the-queen/ after] she offends Queen Beetle in a bookshop, but she doesn't know what to do after throwing down a smoke bomb, so she just stands there in a cloud of smoke.
{{quote|'''Wonderella:''' gotta learn part two of this.}}
* [[Snap Back]]
* [[Space Whale Aesop]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/14/shark-and-shark-alike/ 2007/04/14]: "Dr Tiberius [[Steven Ulysses Perhero|Shark]], a brilliant geneticist", "didn't [...] abide by the federal stem cell restrictions", which resulted in a lab accident that turned him into a shark.
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/11/15/diamonds-are-whatever/]
* [[Spoof Aesop]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/12/08/the-embroiled-tannenbaums/]
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* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Wonderita [http://nonadventures.com/2012/01/14/the-kong-and-short-of-it/ lays it down]. "Silly! Human ladies are ''always'' supposed to smile, even when we aren't happy at all! See?"
** Also [http://nonadventures.com/2012/04/21/ship-of-the-iceberg/ name-dropped by Wonderella] during one of her typical ads - this one for "The Titanicker".
* [[Steven Ulysses Perhero]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/14/shark-and-shark-alike/ 2007/04/14]: Dr Tiberius Shark "spilled [[Mutagenic Goo|embryonic shark matter]] onto [his] HAND" and accidentally turned himself into a [[Shark Man]].
* [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler]][[Arch Enemy|ella.]]
* [[Superhero]]: Wonderella et al.
* [[Superheroes Wear Capes]]
* [[Super-Hero Origin]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2006/09/09/the-torment-of-a-thousand-yesterdays/ Wonderella's] is a parody/pastiche of [[Superman]]'s ''and'' Wonder Woman's.
* [[Super Registration Act]]: [https://nonadventures.com/2007/04/07/mostly-armless/ 2007/04/07]: [[X-Men|Certain superhero mutants]] "are registering their identity with the government" and Rita wonders whether she should too. Wonderella is strongly opposed to registration (and [[Fantastic Racism|to mutants]]). Registering doesn't seem to be mandatory.
* [[Synchronized Swarming]]: When Wonderella refuses to leave her television to defend her city from a "mutant moth attack", Penumbra's faeries [https://nonadventures.com/2006/12/16/fae-to-black/ assemble and "link arms"] to form a giant faerie warrior to fight the giant moth.
* [[Tailfin Walking]]: Dr Shark, a "brilliant geneticist" cursed into the body of a shark by [[Mutagenic Goo]], stands and walks on his tail fin.
* [[Take That]]: At so many things.
** [http://nonadventures.com/2007/10/27/an-american-werewolf-in-america/ Coors Light.]
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* [[Token Minority]]: Queen Beetle.
** Poorly-conceived token black bear [http://nonadventures.com/2009/09/12/the-barren-stain-bears/ Onyx Star]!
* [[Token Religious Teammate]]: Rita, maybe: in times [https://nonadventures.com/2006/12/23/jesus-christ-super-hero/ when] [https://nonadventures.com/2006/12/25/jesus-christ-super-hero-part-2/ Jesus] shows up, Rita seems distinctly more respectful and happy to see Him than Wonderella is.
* [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: In [http://nonadventures.com/2006/11/11/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/ Guess Who's Coming To DINNER]. Tim Allen is apparently too spicy for <s> [[X-Men|Galactus]]</s> [[Captain Ersatz|Ginormus]].
* [[True Neutral]]: Or as Dr. Shark puts it, [http://nonadventures.com/2008/03/15/clover-and-over-again/ Personality pH 7].
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Wonderella
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/11/17/melanin-colleague-and-the-infinite-sadness/ So does clutter-free web design.]
* [[Valentine's Day Episodes]]: Starting in [https://nonadventures.com/2007/02/17/burning-love/ 2007], Wonderella, who evidently hates Valentine's Day, tends to meet a [[Pyromaniac]] named Devlin around Valentine's Day, after which they gleefully burn and explode things, have a passionate romance based on their shared love of fiery destruction, and then fall out with each other after a comically short time.
* [[Vegetarian Vampire]]: Wonderella [https://nonadventures.com/2006/10/21/in-the-cold-kentucky-reign-of-blood/ meets some vampires] who say that, instead of killing innocent people, they intend to organize a blood donation drive and split the donated blood with the Red Cross. [[Deadly Change-of-Heart|Wonderella kills them all anyway]] — she wants their bones [[I'm a Humanitarian|to make soup stock]].
* [[Video Will]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2009/08/08/big-will-style/ "Oh! Hello there! I am dead."]
* [[Villainous Harlequin]]: Jokerella, skimping on the "villainous". Her mother Pirouette was a much straighter example.
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** Wonderella halts an invading alien force with alcohol. (It doesn't poison them or anything, it just makes them think flying into the sun is a ''really'' good idea...)
* [[Wearing a Flag on Your Head]]: Patrianna's outfit.
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]:
** Apparently Wonderella's original powers were so lame she was given [http://nonadventures.com/2006/09/09/the-torment-of-a-thousand-yesterdays/ new ones.]
** The [https://nonadventures.com/2007/02/03/victorian-secret/ Order of Prodigious Noblewomen]'s superpowers aren't outright useless — [[Alice in Wonderland|Alice]] is a [[Sizeshifter]] and [[Great Expectations|Miss Havisham]] and [[Wikipedia:Rappaccini's Daughter|Beatrice Rappacini]] are very good at killing (on the other hand, [[Jane Eyre]] is apparently [[The Team Normal]]) — but they [[Required Secondary Powers|just don't have]] the ''[[Glass Cannon|durability]]'' to survive at Wonderella's level.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Nearly [[Once an Episode]]. It's that kind of strip.
* [[A Winner Is You]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/10/20/son-of-a-bit/]
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* [[X Meets Y]]: Wonderella is essentially [[Wonder Woman]] meets Elaine from [[Seinfeld]].
* [[Yes but What Does Zataproximetacine DO]]: Wonderella's... frank regarding what it does, but not regarding its [http://nonadventures.com/2007/02/24/merchant-of-menace/ side effects]
* [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/12/22/a-christmas-peril/ A Christmas PERIL!]
* [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/01/06/various-aged-regular-ninja-persons/ Parodied] with the [[Ninja]] clan. Given a [[Continuity Nod]] [http://nonadventures.com/2008/01/12/fairy-the-hatchet/ later.]
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