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Oh, and lest it seem still rather ordinary, it turns out that his girlfriend has a few quirks, and when she decides to [[Mind Screw]] the entire campus with him on Halloween, he seems [[Attractive Bent Gender|far too good at being female...]] and that's just the start.
'''''[http://www.barkingduck.net/ehayes/ The Saga of Tuck]''''' is a long-running, generally-acclaimed work of fiction by Ellen Hayes, exploring just how a teen would react if suddenly his life, and gender, were turned upside down in so many ways. Published periodically online since 1997 (which is when the storyline is set; [[Webcomic Time|a little over a year of story time has elapsed in a dozen years]]), it's an excellent look at how normal - and yet how very strange - a teenager's life can become. The first story was released in 1997, while the 142nd was released in 2009.
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* [[Afraid of Needles]]: Justified in that Tuck just loathes anything conclusively medical.
* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Even when Tuck tries hard not to be.
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* [[Minored in Asskicking]]: Tuck, possibly Mike.
** [[Word of God|There are others who have not yet been revealed.]]
* [[Cursed
* [[Dean Bitterman]]: Principal Nickerson, also a [[Sadist Teacher]] - hard to figure which fits best.
* [[Different for Girls]]: Initially...and lampshaded later.
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** {{spoiler|tended. Heh.}}
* [[Mama Bear]]: Tuck's mother, when Tuck is in that [[Convenient Coma]], scares everyone except possibly her husband.
* [[Meaningful Name]] Yeah, Tuck means something in the transgender and transvestite communities. [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Mind Rape]]: Extremely hard, extremely fast. {{spoiler|Thankfully, not permanent, though.}}
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: {{spoiler|Tuck's parents immediately accept their son's homosexuality, but disapprove of his indeterminate gender identity, in spite of his intersex condition. Of course, if their son would discuss it with them...}}
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** Also possibly the previous babysitting job/incident Mike had with Tuck; it's mentioned a few times.
** Averted other times, perhaps, as the author likes coming up with them. Examples are the panties found under Brian's desk; the shocking of a parent, the refrigerator painting, the missing air compressor (never explained, but then nobody who mentioned it knows what happened either)
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted
* [[Not a Date]]
* [[Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught]]: The primary rule of Tuck's family and friends...but they're exceedingly good at it.
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* [[The Mafia]]: If you screw with Tuck or members of his groups, you do not come out smelling like roses. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in various uses of the term "Omerta", meaning roughly, 'you don't go to the cops, you come to us'.
** Meaning exactly, "Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of himself without police protection is both. It is as cowardly to betray an offender to justice, even though his offences be against yourself, as it is not to avenge an injury by violence. It is dastardly and contemptible in a wounded man to betray the name of his assailant, because if he recovers, he must naturally expect to take vengeance himself."
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* [[Transvestite]]: One character's father runs a support group.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: almost all the story is written from the first-person limited viewpoint of Tucker himself. And Tucker doesn't understand a great deal about human-human communication protocols.
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