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Line 1: {{work}} {{cleanup\|The external links in the examples need to be cleaned up, as per [[All The Tropes:Style Guide#External Links\|our Style Guide]].}} [[File:wonderella_first_strip.png\|frame]] {{quote\|''"I started out Wonderella to make an off-the-clock superhero who was an average woman instead of some 24/7 warrior... though somewhere along the line, 'average woman' became a cross between [[Seinfeld\|Elaine Benes]] and Zelda [[F. Scott Fitzgerald\|Fitzgerald]]."''~~\|'''Justin Pierce'''}}~~ \|'''Justin Pierce'''}} '''''The Non-Adventures of Wonderella''''' is a parody web comic of the [[DC Comics]] character [[Wonder Woman]], and many superhero tropes in general. It focuses mainly on the mundane parts of the life of Wonderella, a somewhat air-headed and lazy Valley Girl-ish superheroine who demonstrates [[Punch Clock Hero\|little interest in being a hero]]... or, in fact, doing anything much outside of partying, getting completely wasted, violence, and shopping. [[Stock Super Powers\|She is super-strong, super-durable, and she can't fly but she can "totally jump hella high"]], and [[Flight, Strength, Heart\|when tied up she can hork up a giant octopus]], [http://nonadventures.com/2008/06/28/balance-of-flower/ tell plants to die], or [http://nonadventures.com/2008/04/26/power-couple/ curl up in a perfect ball when traumatized]. ~~Also~~She also has a rarely used invisible blimp. [[Better Than It Sounds]], honest! ''The Non-Adventures of Wonderella'' began on September 9th, 2006. It was formerly hosted on [[Webcomics Nation;]], itand now has its own ~~website at~~ [http://nonadventures.com/ ~~nonadventures~~website]. ~~dot~~''Wonderella'' ~~com~~seems to be on hiatus, with the most recent comic posted in August 2019.] {{tropelist}} ~~----~~ * [[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]]. ~~=== This webcomic provides examples of: ===~~ * [[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 Toto 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. Line 19 ⟶ 22: * [[An Aesop]]: Even villains must help [http://nonadventures.com/2007/06/23/trading-braces/ teach children lessons.] * [[A Pirate 400 Years Too Late]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/05/26/the-curse-of-plunderella/ The Chesapeake Bay Pirates]. * [[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]]: [~~http~~https://nonadventures.com/2007/01/27/everybody-in-the-club-gettin-gypsy/ ~~Yep~~To a coin-operated fortune-telling machine], Wonderella wishes to be "big". [[Rule of Funny\|Somehow]] the machine turns her into a giant, and she promptly rampages through her own city. * [[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. }} * [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Her mother's superhero outfit. Wonderita's civilian outfit. Line 31 ⟶ 34: * [[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~~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.] * [[Butterfly of Doom]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/03/10/daylight-savings-crime/ Daylight savings CRIME]. {{quote\| "Just seems like there are '''risks''' in altering the past, ya know?"~~<br />~~ "Risks like '''''everything going exactly perfectly''''', maybe." }} * [[The Cameo]]: [[Stephen Fry]] appears as Holmes' brother Mycroft in a strip which came out just after the announcement that he would be in the next [[Sherlock Holmes]] film. * [[Can't Believe I Said That]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2006/09/15/believe-it-or-nazi/ This] strip. {{quote\| '''Wonderella''': "...that's like the worst comeback ever uttered by the human mouth."}} * [[Captain Ersatz]]: Well over half the cast. Wonderella is [[Wonder Woman]] mixed with [[Superman]]'s origin. Wonderita is [[Batman\|Robin]]. Titania is [[Wonder Woman\|Hippolyta]]. Hitlerella is [[Captain America (comics)\|Red Skull]]. Doctor Shark is [[Spider -Man\|Curt Connors, AKA the Lizard.]] Intelli-Ape is Gorilla Grodd. Lord Killroy is [[Darkseid]]. Ginormus is [[Galactus]]. Spirral is Starro. Patrianna is [[Captain America (comics)]]. Jokerella is [[The Joker]], [[Lighter and Softer\|sort of]]. The Orchid is [[Batman\|Poison Ivy]]. Line 64 ⟶ 69: * [[The Chew Toy]]: Jokerella * [[Clip Show]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/10/20/son-of-a-bit/ Briefly]. {{quote\| "Don't you ''hate'' when lazy sitcoms reuse old material in clip shows?"}} * [[Clothes Make the Maniac]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/04/21/back-in-black/\] * [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Rita. * [[Comeback Tomorrow]]: After managing only a [[Lame Comeback]] when meeting Hitlerella [[Villains Out Shopping\|out shopping]], Wonderella provides the [[Special:Permalink/2021574\|current]] page image for the trope by [https://nonadventures.com/2006/09/15/believe-it-or-nazi/ confusing Hitlerella with a belated comeback while fighting her two weeks later]. * [[Comeback Tomorrow]] * [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Wonderella's blatant disregard for the safety and well being of pretty much everything other than herself (and possibly, her mother). [[Lampshade Hanging\|Lampshaded]] when she travels to a [[Mirror Universe]] (see below). * [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Wonderella embodies this trope. * [[Comic Book Death]]: "Rita, Rita. Superheroes don't die. And if they do, they come back in like, a week!" [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: "Yeah. GUY heroes. Bad Things constantly happen to '''girl''' heroes, and they STAY that way!" [http://nonadventures.com/2007/01/27/everybody-in-the-club-gettin-gypsy/\] [[Lampshade Hanging\|Lampshaded]] [http://nonadventures.com/2011/07/23/the-long-con/ here] {{quote\| '''Wonderella''': "Apparently a lot of 'em are dead now."~~<br />~~ '''Crowd''': ''GASP!''~~<br />~~ '''Wonderella''': '''Superhero''' dead, guys.~~<br />~~ '''Crowd''': "Ohhhhh." }} * [[Continuity Nod]]: * ~~[[Continuity Nod]]:~~* [http://nonadventures.com/2008/06/07/what-would-doobie-doobie-do/ "The Easter Bunny doesn't exist!"] "Gasp! What about Santa?" [http://nonadventures.com/2006/12/23/jesus-christ-super-hero/ "Sure, 'til I killed him!"] * 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~~with Awesome]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/05/17/asp-hat/\] * [[Cyberspace]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/11/17/melanin-colleague-and-the-infinite-sadness/\] * [[Darker and Edgier]]: As with [[Butt Monkey\|everything]] [[The Woobie\|she does]], Jokerella screws this up [http://nonadventures.com/2011/02/05/joke-and-mirrors/ here]. Although Hitlerella also has her own embarrassing [[Darker and Edgier]] stage. * [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Wonderella's mother * [[Deal ~~With~~with the Devil]]: Subverted [http://nonadventures.com/2012/03/03/ here]. * [[Death Glare]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2006/12/25/jesus-christ-super-hero-part-2/ Jesus Christ.] * [[Deconstructive Parody]] * [[Did Not Do the Research]]: [[Patrick Stewart]] appears [http://nonadventures.com/2009/05/09/the-art-of-worf/ in one strip]. He claims that he hates [[Galaxy Quest ~~(Film)~~\|that Tim Allen movie]], but the real Patrick Stewart has gone on record as loving the film. Thinking Pompeii was a Greek city rather than a Roman one: {{quote\| "Generally speaking, most online comics get by with no editorial management, but in this case I made a couple of Greek jokes regarding Pompeii, a Roman city nowhere near Greece. I will leave the comic unchanged for the weekend as a shameful reminder to do better fact-checking, then replace it on Monday with a version that addresses my Carmen Sandiego dilemma."}} * [[Disney Owns This Trope]]: [[Universal]] [http://nonadventures.com/2012/04/28/flapper-keeper/ forbade] Rita from asking a flapper to go [[Back to ~~The~~the Future (~~Film~~film)\|Back to The Future]] with her and Dana. * [[Divide Byby Zero]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/03/08/its-hard-out-there-for-a-blimp/ This will give you invisible paint]. * [[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2011/06/04/immaculate-reception/\] * [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/01/26/beware-the-ides-of-arch/ Being an archnemesis]. Seems it requires lots of dedication and the unspoken agreement to limit torture and captivity to a single heroine (or her plucky sidekick). The heroine, by herself, is bound to listen her nemesis' villanious rants and, after beating her nemesis, stay there until the police comes. Connect some dots... * [[Dresses the Same]]: Parodied, as they're both [[Clothes Make the Maniac\|evil outfits.]] * [[Drugs Are Bad]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2009/01/24/doobie-druthers/ Parodied.] * [[Dude, Not Ironic]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/05/17/asp-hat/ Here]. * [[Dumbass Has a Point]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/02/23/slogans-heroes/\] * [[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.] * [[Fairytale Wedding Dress]]: That even had [http://nonadventures.com/2009/08/29/tying-the-not/ a white version] of her [[Requisite Royal Regalia\|tiara]]. * [[Fake Static]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2009/07/25/on-the-rogues-again/\] * [[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.] * [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: Dr. Shark, as established [http://nonadventures.com/2011/03/26/shroom-at-the-top/ here]. Also lampshaded in the [[Alt Text]] [http://nonadventures.com/2012/02/04/sister-extract/ here]: {{quote\| "Like all good comic book scientists, Doctor Shark is willing to ignore massive swaths of his own inexplicable universe."}} * [[Flight, Strength, Heart]]: Wonderella's powers start as standard original [[Superman]] and get weirder. ** She [https://nonadventures.com/2006/09/23/lucy-in-the-sky-with-genocide/ can't fly, though, which she resents]. * [[Foot Popping]]: When Wonderella [http://nonadventures.com/2007/02/17/burning-love/ first meets Devlin]. * [[Former Child Star\|Former Kid Sidekick]]: Wonderella was "Wonderita" when her mother held the titular office. It seems to have had a bad effect. * [[Fortune Teller]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/01/27/everybody-in-the-club-gettin-gypsy/\] * [[Fun ~~With~~with Acronyms]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/11/15/diamonds-are-whatever/\] {{quote\| "What does M.A.L.I.C.E. stand for?"~~<br />~~ "It stands for '''evil''', darling." }} * [[Genie in Aa Bottle]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/11/10/djinn-there-done-that/ Lampshading] the [[Disneyfication]]. * [[Genius Loci]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/05/24/a-signage-of-the-times/ Target and Wal-Mart.] * [[Genre Savvy]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/12/22/a-christmas-peril/\] * [["Gift of the Magi" Plot]]: Subverted [http://nonadventures.com/2009/12/19/where-the-toys-are/ here.] * [[Gilligan Cut]]: "[[Catch Phrase\|S O O N :]]" This is used no matter the amount of passed time during the cut itself, be it a few minutes, [http://nonadventures.com/2010/12/18/highway-to-the-manger-zone/ thirty years] or [http://nonadventures.com/2008/09/27/one-more-deity/ time travel]. * [[Go -Karting ~~With~~with Bowser]]: Wonderella is apparently really friends with ''[http://nonadventures.com/2008/06/28/balance-of-flower/ every]'' villain. * [[Grenade Tag]]: On a [http://nonadventures.com/2011/10/29/swamp-and-circumstance/ defenseless] [[Plant Person]]. * [[Harmless Villain]]: Jokerella, [http://nonadventures.com/2006/12/01/the-tears-of-a-clown/ ever since her on-panel debut.] * [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: Parodied [http://nonadventures.com/2008/07/19/moms-the-word/ here], perhaps in homage to the [[Memetic Mutation\|infamous]] "[https://web.archive.org/web/20151206193847/http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/136/ Batman's Greatest Boner]": {{quote\| "''You just pulled yourself a boner '''so big''', you're '''all wet'''!''"}} * [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: And she wrote ''[[Twilight (~~Literature~~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.}} * [[~~Hitlers~~Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]]: Queen Beetle is [[Genre Savvy]] [http://nonadventures.com/2011/10/08/infant-bearable/ to this one.] * [[Hockey Mask and Chainsaw]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/05/17/asp-hat/ The last panel here.] * [[Homage]] [http://nonadventures.com/2007/03/10/daylight-savings-crime/ To] ''[[Planet of the Apes]]''. [http://nonadventures.com/2007/03/17/shamrock-shake-up/ Also] ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' movies. [http://nonadventures.com/2008/03/01/bottle-of-the-planets/ Lampshaded] ''[[The Simpsons]]'' homage. Straddles the line with being a [[Superman\|Kandor]] parody, and adds on a ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Shout -Out]] at the end. ''[[Watchmen]]''. [http://nonadventures.com/2009/03/07/mars-heeds-women/\] ** ''[[~~Big (Film)\|~~Big]]''. [http://nonadventures.com/2007/01/27/everybody-in-the-club-gettin-gypsy/\] * [[Humanity Onon 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. * [[Hypochondria]]: Was once sure she had bird flu. * [[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. * [[Insult Backfire]] / [[Your Mom]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2006/09/15/believe-it-or-nazi/ "What about Heidi Klum? She's German." "So's YOUR MOM." "...wait, did you actually just say that?"] * [[Jedi Mind Trick]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/06/09/ethereal-girl/\] * [[Jerkass]]: Pretty much everyone has [[Jerkass]] moments, but Patrianna and Wonderella definitely fall into this. * [[Jizzed in My Pants]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2010/02/13/premature-evacuation/\] * [[Just Between You and Me]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/11/15/diamonds-are-whatever/\] * [[Kangaroo Court]]: Patrianna is Wonderella's [[Jerkass]], snarky rival heroine. She's also Anna Petri, the only judge in their nameless city. [http://nonadventures.com/2006/11/25/the-price-of-patriotism/ This combination can lead to real awkward results...] * [[Kid From the Future]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2010/01/23/like-mother-like-slaughter/ Turns out to be evil.] * [[Kill Sat]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/11/15/diamonds-are-whatever/\] With a bit of [[No Endor Holocaust]]. * [[Klingon Promotion]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/06/21/satan-on-the-dock-of-the-bay/ Satan.] [http://nonadventures.com/2007/01/06/various-aged-regular-ninja-persons/ And ninjas!] * [[The Ladette]]: Wonderella herself. * [[Ladyella]]: Wonderella, Hitlerella, and Jokerella, are the most prominent, but not the only ones. * [[Lawyer -Friendly Cameo\|Lawyer Friendly Cameos]] of other DC characters, referred to only by first name.[http://nonadventures.com/2006/09/30/a-flash-of-despair/\] [http://nonadventures.com/2007/08/11/itty-bitty-bang-bang/\] [http://nonadventures.com/2008/12/13/the-dark-psych/\] [[Captain Ersatz]] of Marvel characters occasionally appear, too. [http://nonadventures.com/2007/12/15/tumor-has-it/ And Paris Hilton and Whatsername.] [http://nonadventures.com/2007/12/22/a-christmas-peril/ Mace Win- er, Samuel L. Jackson in a bathrobe.] * [[Legacy Character]]: Her [http://nonadventures.com/2007/02/10/mother-ella/ mother Titania] was the original Wonderella, her sort-of sister Penumbra was apparently also a hero. Queen Beetle and Patrianna [http://nonadventures.com/2010/08/28/monkey-see-monkey-doom/ were later revealed] as having legacies of their own. * [[Logic Bomb]]: Attempted [http://nonadventures.com/2011/02/19/the-daily-trouble/ here]. It doesn't work. * [[~~LO Lcats~~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. * [[Mayfly-December Romance\|Mayfly-December Bromance]]: Wonderella hangs out with a mutant mayfly [http://nonadventures.com/2014/06/14/girl-fly-day/ for its entire lifespan]. * [[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. * [[Merchandise Driven]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/02/24/merchant-of-menace/\]▼ * [[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. * [[Minor Flaw, Major Breakup]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2009/03/28/led-astray/\]. Changed into a [[Non Sequitur]] for [[April Fools' Day]]. * [[Mirror Universe]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/03/15/clover-and-over-again/\] Wonderella's doppelganger is just like her, because "The opposite of [[Comedic Sociopathy\|neutral]] is still neutral." * [[Mistaken for Profound]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2006/09/23/lucy-in-the-sky-with-genocide/ Here.] * [[Most Common Superpower]]: [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. * [[New First Comics]] * [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/10/11/2-fast-2-injurious/ "I got powers I ain't even discovered yet."] [http://nonadventures.com/2010/09/11/lashes-to-ashes/ Don't make me go to Lobsterfest.] [[The Incredible Hulk\|You wouldn't like me]] [[Alt Text\|when I'm at Lobsterfest.]] Line 189 ⟶ 210: * [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/04/19/gorilla-sky/ Shark versus Ape!] * [[Not Quite Flight]]: Wonderella can jump hella high. * [["Not Wearing Pants" Dream]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/05/05/graduated-killinders/\] * [[Oh, Cisco]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/06/16/the-death-of-wonderella/\] * [[Oh God, Did She Just Hear That?]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2009/02/28/its-coppering-time/\] * [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Dr. Shark, though he's supposedly a biology professor. Anyone else with the slightest scientific leanings shows it, too. * [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/12/06/bloc-of-the-walk/ Spoofed]. * [[Orifice Evacuation]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2006/11/04/bound-for-vengeance/ Here.] * [[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]] ''[[~~Charlottes~~Charlotte's Web]]'' [http://nonadventures.com/2006/12/30/animal-harm/\] ''[[~~Cops~~COPS (series)\|COPS]]'' [http://nonadventures.com/2007/10/13/the-wrong-arm-of-the-law/\] ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'' [http://nonadventures.com/2008/08/23/the-da-vinci-load/\] The monochrome-plus-red ''[[Sin City]]'' [http://nonadventures.com/2006/12/09/sin-derella/ grittiness]. [http://nonadventures.com/2007/02/03/victorian-secret/ And] ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]''. [http://nonadventures.com/2007/11/03/the-lass-crusade/ The third] ''[[[[~~The~~Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ~~(Film)~~\|The Last Crusade]] Indiana Jones''. [http://nonadventures.com/2008/01/05/geekret-wars/ The 'Secret Wars'] from [[Marvel Comics]]. And ''[[Transformers]]'', with some [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]. [http://nonadventures.com/2007/07/07/hardware-conflict/\] [http://nonadventures.com/2008/09/27/one-more-deity/ Gotta have] ''[[Back to The Future]]''. ''[[Second Life]]''. [http://nonadventures.com/2008/07/12/poultry-position/\] ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]''. [http://nonadventures.com/2008/12/20/snowman-is-an-island/\] ''[[Thor]]''. [http://nonadventures.com/2011/05/07/every-rose-has-its-thor/\]. Both the comic and the movie version. ''[[Green Lantern]]''. [http://nonadventures.com/2011/06/18/we-cant-have-nice-rings/\]. The entire Green Lantern mythos after ''War of Lights''. ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]''. [http://nonadventures.com/2011/07/30/beauty-and-the-beatdown/\]. With a sprinkle of [[Fridge Brilliance]] on Wonderella's part, as {{spoiler\|she realizes both that the Beast's servants were unjustly affected by his punishment and that beating up the fairy could have been a possible solution}}. ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''. [http://nonadventures.com/2011/08/13/the-trill-is-gone/\]. Owing to the source material, the ending result is more a (failed) [[Silent Snarker]] than a [[Cute Mute]]. "[http://nonadventures.com/2012/03/10/electric-bugaboo/ Electric Bugaboo]" is one of [[~~Superman (Comic Book)\|~~Superman]]'s "electricity powers" [[Dork Age]]. * [[Patrick Stewart Speech]]: With [http://nonadventures.com/2009/05/09/the-art-of-worf/ Patrick Stewart], even. * [[Peek -a -Bangs]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/11/15/diamonds-are-whatever/\] * [[Pettanko]] * [[Pimped -Out Dress]]: Her outfit in [http://nonadventures.com/2009/07/11/marthas-sin-yard/ a prison] that [[Martha Stewart]] designed. * [[Pink Means Feminine]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2011/06/18/we-cant-have-nice-rings/ Wonderita will] not accept a [[Ring of Power]] that's any other color. * [[Pity the Kidnapper]]: While Wonderella is busy ordering a virtual reality video game system, Hitlerella has Wonderita tied up over an [[Acid Pool]], but Hitlerella lets Wonderita go because [~~http~~https://nonadventures.com/2006/10/14/enter-the-dragon-slayer/ Wonderita's ~~gets~~incessant ~~Hitlerella~~chit-chat tois ~~just~~too ~~let~~annoying], ~~her~~providing ~~go.~~the [[Special:Permalink/2038646\|current]] page image for the trope. * [[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 ''[[~~Everythings~~Everything's Worse ~~With~~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~~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.] * [[Public Domain Character]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/10/25/perfectly-franklin/ Lampshaded] * [[Public Service Announcement]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/09/01/lipton-aint-easy/\] * [[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.''~~<br />~~ ''This was not a statement I was expecting to make today (or ever), but your logic is irrefutable and I am not above admitting my own mistakes.'' }} * [[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. * [[Running Gag]]: ** 'Ella and 'Rita trying to catch the leprechaun and teleporting somewhere. {{quote\| <nowiki></nowiki>POP "Aw bitches!"}} Wonderella can jump hella high. The Birthday surprise, complete with someone else's name poorly covered up on the banner. Line 245 ⟶ 274: * [[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/\] To the ''[[~~Bad~~Teenage ~~Dudes~~Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' [[Expository Theme Tune]]. [http://nonadventures.com/~~2007~~2008/0108/2023/~~show~~the-usda-~~your~~vinci-~~wiiness~~load/\] To ~~Prodigy~~'s'[[Bad ~~"Firestarter"~~Dudes]]''. [http://nonadventures.com/~~2009~~2007/0801/2920/~~tying~~show-us-~~the~~your-~~not~~wiiness/\] To Prodigy'~~'[[The Adventures of~~s ~~Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)\|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''~~"Firestarter". [http://nonadventures.com/~~2008~~2009/0408/1929/~~gorilla~~tying-the-~~sky~~not/\] To ~~the~~ ''~~Super~~[[The Adventures of Dr. ~~Mario~~McNinja]]'' ~~series~~. [http://nonadventures.com/~~2011~~2008/0304/2619/~~shroom-at-the~~gorilla-~~top~~sky/\] To the ''~~[[The~~Super ~~Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]~~Mario'' series. [http://nonadventures.com/~~2010~~2011/0103/1626/ofshroom-~~mice~~at-~~and~~the-~~menace~~top/\] To ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''. [http://nonadventures.com/2010/01/16/of-mice-and-menace/] To ''[[Frisky Dingo]]'' with its "[http://nonadventures.com/2010/10/16/quote-of-arms/ ironic scare quotes]". * [[Sidekick]]: Wonderita. * [[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] * [[~~Smoke~~Slobs ~~Out~~Versus Snobs]]: Dana [~~http~~[We ARE Struggling Together!\|versus]] [https://nonadventures.com/2007/0304/0321/~~pale-to~~back-~~the~~in-~~queen~~black/ ~~Parodied~~"''Petri''."] 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~~Spanner ~~Aesop~~in the Works]]: [http://nonadventures.com/~~2007~~2008/1211/0815/~~the~~diamonds-~~embroiled~~are-~~tannenbaums~~whatever/\] ▲* [[~~Spanner~~Spoof ~~in The Works~~Aesop]]: [http://nonadventures.com/~~2008~~2007/1112/1508/~~diamonds~~the-~~are~~embroiled-~~whatever~~tannenbaums/\] * [[Stealth Pun]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/06/30/fjord-escape/ But spelled out in the alt text.] * [[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.] Line 280 ⟶ 323: [http://nonadventures.com/2006/12/25/jesus-christ-super-hero-part-2/ At Sutter Home.] ** [http://nonadventures.com/2011/09/02/das-reboot/ The latest DC reboot.] * [[Temporal Paradox]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/09/27/one-more-deity/\] * [[Theme Naming]]: Wonderella, Hitlerella, and Jokerella. When our heroine meets plant-based villainess The Orchid, she suggests "Flowerella" instead. {{quote\| Look, I just have this naming convention. If you wanna be my villain, you might as well have a name that rhymes.}} * [[There Is Another]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/08/25/planet-of-the-japes/ Parodied and subverted.] * [[This Isn't Heaven]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/06/07/what-would-doobie-doobie-do/ Through Frank Sinatra.] * [[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]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2006/10/14/enter-the-dragon-slayer/ in Enter The DRAGON SLAYER] ** ~~Also~~[[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: inIn [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. * [[Wanton Cruelty to ~~The~~the Common Comma]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2010/10/16/quote-of-arms/ "Those], madam, are called '''scare''' quotes. I'm using them to strike '''terror''' into the hearts of my enemies." * [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Hitlerella's greatest weakness is that {{spoiler\|she has a moustache.}} It's not pretty. ** 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 Onon 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.]~~ ** 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.] * [[What the Hell Hero]]: Nearly [[Once an Episode]]. It's that kind of strip.▼ ** 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. * [[A Winner Is You]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/10/20/son-of-a-bit/\] ▲* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Nearly [[Once an Episode]]. It's that kind of strip. ▲* [[~~Merchandise~~A ~~Driven~~Winner Is You]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/0210/2420/~~merchant~~son-of-~~menace~~a-bit/\] * [[Wizarding School]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/07/21/lack-magic-woman/ Harry Potter style.] * [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Many examples. A French supervillain who can split herself into three people? ''[~~http~~[wikipedia:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Perestroika \|Paris Troika]]''. * [[Worth It]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/05/24/a-signage-of-the-times/\] * [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2007/11/10/djinn-there-done-that/\]. * [[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] *{{quote\|'''Wonderella:''' "Not gettin' paid by the word here"}} [[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.] * [[You Know I'm Black, Right?]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/10/11/2-fast-2-injurious/ With Stephen Hawking.] * [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: [http://nonadventures.com/2008/10/18/all-this-and-brains-too/ A Russo zombie, not Romero zombie.] {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Embellished Webcomics]] [[Category:Gag Per Day Webcomics]] [[Category:~~The~~Web ~~Non Adventures Of Wonderella~~Comics]] [[Category:~~Webcomic~~Web Comics of the 2000s]] [[Category:Web Comics of the 2010s]] [[Category:The Full Name Adventures]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Non-Adventures of Wonderella, The}}