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* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]: Repeatedly. Eventually someone on the staff [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/440/ told the boss about "micropayments"]. See the next pages.
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Baron Wolfgang Von Epeen became the leader of Efficient Omniscience and decided to talk trash to Absolute Endgame - even after he was told that one of the developers was in their guild.
* [[Call Back]]: [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/79/ Arsemode] has shown up several times, in increasingly elaborate variants. [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/88/ Double arsemode]. [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/236/ Quantum-arsemode!] [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/348/ Group arsemode]. [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/357/ Arsemode] again]
* [[Cluster Bleep Bomb]]: The Devs briefly introduced a filter to censor all homophobic comments, which rendered D34dly incomprehensible. [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/348/ Yeah, it was gay.]
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Like most [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]]
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* [[Flanderization]]: D34dly D34dly started out as a bit ditzy. He evolved into someone who seems to be functionally retarded about everything that isn't PvP.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: D34dly D34dly. He's pretty damn good at PvP, but doesn't seem to have even the slightest bit of common sense or basic knowledge about anything else ("[http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/237/ This map sucks, there's no South on it. The only direction shown is North!]").
* [[GIRL]]: [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/365/ Loads!]
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: Around 80% of the things the devs do. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Help Help Trapped in Title Factory]]: Well, [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/430/ Antonio] had to do something about it...
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* [[Running Gag]]: Overpowered characters are getting [[Killed Off for Real|permakilled]] by Clichemon. [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/205/ Like] [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/357/ this] (spoilers).
** Mithril-hunting level 200 robots. [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/397/ Back from beta]. [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/412/ Big spoiler]. [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/436/ Call them] "[[Dwarf Fortress|Hidden Fun Stuff]]", if you will.
** [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/349/ Various] "[http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/
* [[Scunthorpe Problem]]: Parodied. When a player named himself Dick Tracy, a GM changed his name to !@%& Tracy (and banned him for a week).
* [[Sexy Packaging]]: [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/186/ The expansion pack.]
* [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]]: ([[In-Universe]]). Al, one of the developers, is also a PvPer who despises all non-PVP content and constantly fights with the other developers when forced to work on "carebear content". [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/285/ He later gets his revenge.]▼
* [[Stripperific]]: Parodied. Hypatia complains about it, and not to mention the cover for the game's patch...▼
* [[Shout-Out]]: Directly to ''[[City of Heroes]]'' at one early point. Not to mention that in many ways Clichequest seems to share a little too much in common with ''[[Ultima Online]]'' and ''[[EverQuest]]'' to be a coincidence.
** Given the name of Clichequest, it's not exactly likely to be a coincidence...
*** The Noob shouts out to Everquest repeatedly. Over and over again. From the gag about the elven population dwindling because the newbies walk out of the treetop city and fall to their deaths (city of Kelethin), or when the new expansion was marketed by including a 3D bustline on the package (Firiona Vie), to the author acknowledging that one of the strips was based on an experience of "camping" a monster for 17 days...
** Allusions to movies are pretty frequent as well - there have been references to, at least, ''[[Blade Runner]]''<ref>Sir Bob's "I've seen things you newbies wouldn't believe..." speech</ref>, ''[[Doctor Strangelove]]'', ''[[Forbidden Planet]]''<ref>[http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/383/ the id-monster]</ref>, [[The Godfather]]<ref>[http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/352/ Don Vito], with obligatory "unicorn head in the bed" gag</ref>, ''[[The Graduate]]''<ref>Cyborella's attempted seduction of Ohforf</ref>, ''[[The Warriors (film)|The Warriors]]''<ref>the PK guilds chasing the Outcasts - "[http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/279/ Outcaaasts! Come out to play-aaay!]"</ref> and
** ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'': [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/236/ Quantum entanglement and exploits]. [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/389/ seen on a dev's computer]. [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/410/ Paul] ("I can stop whenever I like"). And the [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/412/ cofounder] as well. [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/429/ Paul again].
* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/355/ Apparently], the lead dev trying to outdo ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' (or Warhammer?) in [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|bigger shoulder pads]]. One [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/357/ rejected design] had cranes on it to assist lifting [[BFS|legendary weapons]].
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* [[Spanner in the Works]]: Several, especially Ohforf who took a [[Tier-Induced Scrappy|package nobody takes]] and drops in all the wrong places at the right time.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: "Switch yourself off, fool! You'll [[Lampshade Hanging|attract attention]]!" - Sir Bob to a spy disguised as a [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]].
▲* [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]]: ([[In-Universe]]). Al, one of the developers, is also a PvPer who despises all non-PVP content and constantly fights with the other developers when forced to work on "carebear content". [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/285/ He later gets his revenge.]
▲* [[Stripperific]]: Parodied. Hypatia complains about it, and not to mention the cover for the game's patch...
* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: D34dly D34dly.
* [[Twenty Bear Asses]]: Hilariously lampooned in an early strip.
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