The Princess Planet
The Princess Planet (2004-2013) was a hilariously outrageous world where just about every girl is a princess and mix and match monsters frolic amongst spaceships and robots.
This Web Comic is best described as a Fractured Fairy Tale meets Space Opera with a dash of The Far Side.
The heroine, Princess Christi is bored with life in the royal family, so she abandons her life of comfort for adventures outwitting opponents with Bugs Bunny-like logic.
This tall blonde wants to be an adventure heroine.
Tropes used in The Princess Planet include:
- Action Girl
- Bankruptcy Barrel: Here. (But barrels aren't free!)
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
- Dem Bones: Christi often encounters living skeletons and even lost a game of Strip Poker to them.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Subverted - a minor character in his first appearance is sent to the dungeon, apparently to die - being hung next to a skeleton - for telling a bad joke, but the next strip reveals that the skeleton hanging next to him is actually a living skeleton sent there (briefly) for the same reason.
- The Ditz: Patricia, definitely. Suffice to say the swag link is an image of her screeching, "let's go shopping!"
- Everything's Better with Princesses
- Fantasy Kitchen Sink
- Fractured Fairy Tale
- Genre Savvy
- Gorgeous Gorgon
- Greed: Christi has this in abundance.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Christi is totally nude after losing at strip poker.
- It seems it wasn't even strip poker: She just lost everything.
- Literal Genie
- Mix-and-Match Critters
- Planet Of Crowns
- Portmanteau: Loads of them.
- Pun: Also loads of them.
- Running Gag: Christi often plays "treasure inspector"; the princesses saying "I have a..."; the king routinely finds fault with artists' suggestions for the royal coat of arms.
- Snowlems: Christi's companion is a talking snowman who never seems to melt.
- Space Opera
- Unexplained Recovery: Various minor characters, including the Viking turned to stone and then a flaming monkey-helecopter-baby-chicken-magnet and the Bad Boyfriend eaten by a monster, but noticeably not the child-eating witch Christi turned into a hat, whose every subsequent apperance was as a hat.
- Visual Pun