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** Which comes back HARDCORE in [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/10/15-october-2011.html this issue.]
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: ''Inverted.'' Harry the Hipster.
* [[Cluster F
* [[Chew Toy]]: John for Jason and Yorick.
** Although it appears they have adopted Poor Trotmann as their new one.
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*** That may have been his ex-girlfriend, who he describes more in the post on [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/07/12-july-2011.html this] comic.
** Poor Trotmann. So very very much.
* [[Did They or Didn't They?]]: Neither {{spoiler|John nor Elly}} remember having sex, but considering they woke up naked together, she believes they did.
* [[Did You Just Have Sex]]: Ostensibly Sam and Lillith in [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/11/6-november-2011.html this issue.]
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Jason opens a bottle of beer on the goddess queen of the sun's face during a dream.
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Grace seems to be turned off by immaturity.
** [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/09/20-september-2011.html "Why can't I just be gay!?"]
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* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Lillith.
* [[Gratuitous French]]: Mais oui!
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: John is both belittling and supportive of his work on the in-comic comic.
* [[Guest Strip]]: ''Inverted'' when John Kossler wrote his own guest strips and posted them under different names.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: John, Yorick, Sam and Jason.
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** [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWordWeary "Look! You can see her boobies jiggle!"]
* [[The Man]]: Referred to in the title of [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/11/3-november-2011.html this issue.]
* [[Men Act, Women Are]]:
** ''Subverted'' with Grace and Elly, who are as much agents of the story as the male characters.
** ''Played straight'' with Lillith, who has much less character development than the other two and seems to do little more than react to situations.
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* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: The Mayor ruins a man after claiming a building the man had renovated was historical AFTER the man had spent $150,000 to renovate it.
** The author stated in a [[Not Making This Up Disclaimer]] in the comments section that he read an article about something similar happening in Dallas, so it has a little [[Truth in Television]] value.
* [[One Dialogue, Two Conversations]]: John and Madeline have one of these discussing "roaches." [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[One of Us]]: John himself plays D&D and reveals he's a fan of TV Tropes in the About section of his site.
* [[Opposites Attract]]: Jason and Yorick are dynamic and brash while Sam and John are quieter and more reserved.
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* [[Rasputin the Mad Monk]]: The main villain of the D&D game.
* [[Raised Catholic]]: John makes the sign of the cross when he hears a siren and has an icon of the Virgin Mary in his room.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Branden, a friend of the group who works for Yorick, gives one to Yorick after he decides not to fight the injunction on his show.
* [[Rebellious Spirit]]: Elly.
* [[Reluctant Fanservice Girl]]: Elly. She's been naked or nearly naked twice and [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2012/03/20-march-2012.html both] [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/10/13-october-2011.html times] she seemed mortified at the experience.
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* [[Secret Police]]: Morris refers to Harry as "the Gestapo of Upstate New York."
* [[Seen It All]]: Ida, the Mayor's assistant, isn't phased at all when he trashes his office and [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2012/03/24-march-2012.html defenestrates his phone.]
* [[Self
** The three guest comics John Kossler wrote himself, as they all poke fun at comic.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Lillith and John. But John's getting better, it seems.
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** Chris mentions employees named [[Questionable Content|Jeph]], [[Girls With Slingshots|Danielle]] and [[Something Positive|Randy]] and says they work more than Grace does and manage to be on time. (See [[Lampshade Hanging]] above.)
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The panels that take place in St. Petersberg are all photos of the city.
* [[Sibling Yin
** Sam and Jason Kirkwood.
** Even more pronounced with Harry and Mona Byrnewald.
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** Issue five indicates it's 3:30 in the afternoon and issue 29 states it's almost 9 at night. That means that, in the six weeks that passed between their release, it's only been a few hours.
** The trend continues in Day Two. As of this writing, it's about lunchtime the day after the story proper starts... which means that, in 140 comics and over a year of updates, it's only been about 24 hours.
* [[What Did I Do Last Night?]]: In the second season premier, John wakes up naked on a floor and has no clue how he got there.
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[White Male Lead]]: Out of the nine main characters, six are male, eight are white, all nine are heterosexual.
* [[World War One]]: The Dungeons and Dragons game is inspired by Germany's efforts to get Russia out of the war by demoralizing her populace by financing anti-war groups- including the Bolsheviks.
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