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* [[20% More Awesome]]: An angel shows Roy [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0489.html a graph] of Belkar's evil against time, measured in kilonazis. The standard unit is based on a hypothetical lovechild of [[The Lord of the Rings|Sauron]] and [[The Hundred and One Dalmatians|Cruella DeVille]]. Of course, in a ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]''-based universe, "evil" really might be quantifiable...
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: The [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0660.html "Obligatory Sewer-Themed Labyrinth"].
* [[Accidental Innuendo]]: In-universe parody.
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** "The Crayons of Time" [[Flashback Effects]].
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0339.html And lampshaded here]. "What are these weird bumpy things between their eyes?"
* [[Ascended Meme]]: It's a running joke among ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' fans that, due to a quirk of the 3.x Edition ruleset, a housecat will more often than not kill a Level 1 Commoner in a straight-up fight. One strip is even called, [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0780.html "The Duel Everyone's Been Waiting For"].
* [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign]]: Azure city naming schemes.
* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]
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* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Many of Nale's plans. His draft plan to kill Elan in Cliffport involved Sabine flying over carrying an anvil on a string. And Thog on ''rocket skates''. Their final plan kept the rocket skates.
* [[Back for the Dead]]: Julio Scoundrél sincerely hopes never to cross paths with Elan again for precisely this reason.
* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: Pretty much anyone who's got a [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist|friendly cleric with a Raise Dead spell nearby,]] including the Oracle, Roy, and Jirix.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Many characters who kick ass without any intrinsic magical ability. This includes Roy, Haley, Thog, Kazumi, Daigo and more. Belkar as well, despite the fact that as a ranger he ''could'' use spells. Theoretically. If he didn't have a Wisdom score normally reserved for lemmings.
* [[Bar Brawl]]
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* [[The Dead Have Eyes]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Most of the characters fall into this at some point, but Roy took extra points in this skill. Vaarsuvius comes only second to Roy in the snark, and being [[The Spock]] he's even more deadpan. And V's raven familiar seems to take after his wizard. On the villain's side, Redcloak is no slouch either.
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Not literally; coming [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]] is actually rather expensive. But price aside, it's usually not all that difficult, except when the plot requires it to be, as in {{spoiler|Roy Greenhilt}}'s case, or in special situations like being [[Deader Than Dead|killed by the Snarl]] or dying of old age. This is [[Lampshaded]] to the extent that a character calling for reinforcements (Haley in Old Blind Pete's cellar) suggests they bring the wherewithal to resurrect her and her friends. Also, you can apparently do the old "[[Chess with Death|challenge Death to a game for your life]]" thing. And you can pick [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0718.html Wet T-Shirt Contest] as your game.
* [[Deceased Fall Guy Gambit]]
** Kubota announces his intention to do this to Therkla. V, of course, {{spoiler|interrupts by disintegrating him}}.
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** An Angel "of pure Good and Law" clears the heroes' names, making them innocent of a very serious crime in the eyes of an order of paladins. However, the trial is just a [[Sham Ceremony]], and the "angel" is just a manipulative ghost disguised as an angel.
** The evil trio who tempts V takes on the role of [[Enigmatic Empowering Entity|Enigmatic Empowering Entities]], but subverts the role to snare the wizard. V is manipulated into accepting a price s/he doesn't understand and is tricked to believe that s/he has an excuse to let her more destructive tendencies run wild without accepting true responsibility for the havoc. Also, the power they give is tainted and fatally flawed in itself, not at all what V had imagined "Ultimate Arcane Power" to be.
* [[Episode Zero: theThe Beginning]]: One of the ''Start of Darkness'' issues.
* [[Equal Opportunity Evil]]: The [[Lawful Evil]] Empire of Blood employs humans, lizardfolks and kobolds indiscriminately, from the lowliest foot soldiers or slave drivers to the upper echelons of society, including the Empress' main counselors (with a human general, a lizardfolk high priest and a winged-kobold chancellor).
* [[Escalating Brawl]]: The argument between Roy, Gannji and Enor ends up in a serious pub brawl.
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