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So you're reading ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'', and something catches your eye. You don't think too much of it at the time. Then, a little while later, as you're going to the fridge for a drink or a snack, you think, "WAIT a minute...."
 
This page is for showcasing noteworthy moments of [[Fridge Brilliance]] or [[Fridge Horror]] in ''The Order of the Stick''. Note that any [[Fridge Logic]] examples do NOT belong here -- put them on the series' [[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)/Headscratchers|Headscratchers]] page, instead.
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** Meh... that one's kind of thin. Sabine is a succubus. In her own words, she's an evil incarnation of illicit sex who had sex four times when separated from Nale for a couple hours. She was also turned on by Miko.
*** Not really. Sabine's nature is ''to'' seduce, not to ''be'' seduced. She has sex with things because she makes ''them'' turned on by ''her'', not the other way around. She wasn't "turned on" by Miko, she was trying to turn ''Miko'' on to seduce her to the dark side.
* I read ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'', and always thought it was pretty good. I enjoyed the universe's neat little backstory but didn't think too much on it. Then I read [[Continuity Snarl]] over here, and reread those strips outlining the history of the OotS universe, at which point I realized Rich Burlew is a genius. -- [[J Dubya]]
** I'm rather embarrassed to admit that I didn't get the [[wikipedia:Pompeii|Vaarsuvius/Pompey]] joke until like a month after I read it. -- [[Japanese Teeth]]
*** I didn't get it until just now. -- CDL (Unregistered)
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* This line by Girard: "Give a man enough power, and he's bound to abuse it, no matter how noble he thinks he is." {{spoiler|The IFCC gave V power, and s/he abused it, likely killing Girard in the process, and definitely killing his entire family line.}} ''Damn'', Girard, you were right on the money.
** {{spoiler|Girard was long dead before the Familicide was cast, seeing how he got properly buried.}}
* Keeping in mind that warlocks in most D&D settings get their powers from [[Deal Withwith the Devil|contracts with demons]], V's anger at being called one in the marketplace suddenly takes on a much more personal tone.
* All of the Gates (or at least, their defenses) have so far suffered a [[Death Byby Irony]]:
** Lirian's Gate--so besotted with the power of Nature to guard it, it had no real defences against the unnatural lich Xykon or even a simple forest fire.
** Dorukan's Gate--guarded with the idea that arcane power was the ultimate defence, which fails when you face an enormously powerful arcane caster who is specifically built to take down other arcane casters; plus, Dorukan clearly valued the intelligence of wizards, and the gate was inadvertently destroyed by Elan who is, simply put, a buffoon.
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*** He's still an awesome character.
* Regarding the different afterlives for each different alignment, it's quite sad to think that Haley and Elan will never be able to see Roy and Durkon again after they die, because the former are Chaotic Good and the latter are Lawful Good.
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'', blowing up Dorukan's dungeon was done so the party wouldn't loot and XP farm the population of said dungeon, with Elan doing it out of dramatic necessity. Well, that's fine and all, until you remember 3 things: 1. there were those rebellious goblin teens inside that dungeon. 2. Redcloak declared them all dead. and 3. If you've read ''Start Of Darkness'', you'd know that {{spoiler|Xykon gang-pressed a lot of innocent goblins to work for him}}.
* The recent arc with {{spoiler|the mother black dragon seeking vengeance on Vaarsuvius}} was inspired by a moment of [[Fridge Horror]] that creator Rich Burlew had when he noticed that of all of the races in D&D, {{spoiler|dragons}} are the only ones with character stats for every stage of their lives, including childhood, and therefore the only race whose children the game effectively condoned killing.
** In D&D 3.5, that is. By the same metric 1st edition condones killing the children of many more species, including ogres, bugbears, giants and other intelligent, humanoid races. It also gives notes on the price certain intelligent species' skins can fetch on the open market, as well as the possibility of kidnapping their young and selling them.
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