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[[File:Wotch_Banner_Samson_4009.png|frame|The [[Power Trio]]. Not pictured: [[Loads and Loads of Characters]].]]

 

'''Anne''': Actually...I'm a Wotch. }}

 

 

A [[Web Comic]] with a [[Mundane Fantastic]] theme, varyingly zany adventures with an overarching [[Myth Arc]], and almost every possible variety of [[Shapeshifting]] oozing out of its suddenly feminine ''ears''. The art goes from poor to unspectacular-but-fitting. ''The Wotch'' has a sense of fun and does some good romps if you can get into it and like, or don't mind, the levels of [[Transformation Comic|things turning into other things]].

 

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* [[And I Must Scream]]: A running "gag" of sorts is that anytime anyone is turned to stone, they are sentient during the statufication. Specifically follows the characters of Scott and Rosetta around, {{spoiler|though it does get fixed, at least in Scott's case}}. Played for laughs <s>less</s> more than for horror.

* [[Art Evolution]]: Since it returned, the creator of [[City of Reality]] has taken over as artist, leading to much better art quality. Even before that, compare [http://www.thewotch.com/?date=2002-11-21 this] to [http://www.thewotch.com/?date=2008-02-29 this].

*** Incorrect. It has been stated in a canon-filler arc that rewriting reality is something even the gods themselves do not do. How she accomplished the feat of making everyone except them believe that they were always like that is unknown.

*** ''Do'' not do, not ''can''not do.

* [[Break the Haughty]]: The increasingly annoying Lucius and Maggie of the "The MOST Most Dangerous Game" arc finally get their due when they {{spoiler|nearly kill Robin, angering Anne enough to force her into [[One-Winged Angel|the Wotch equivilant]] of [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|the Avatar state]].}} What really sells it is that, A) due to a [[Schedule Slip]], we've been waiting two years for this, and B) that even as {{spoiler|everything crumbles around them}} they try to cling on to their smug attitude. [http://thewotch.com/?date=2012-01-17 They fail] [http://thewotch.com/?date=2012-02-13 to do so].

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Bit character Myrrh started off as a random doodle on the spinoff comic artist's art gallery and was imported into the main comic proper.

** ... As was the centaur girl, Glock's MIB group, and doubly so for the Samantha Stone (once for the design and once for the name)

* [[Crossover]]: With [[Accidental Centaurs]].

** And {{spoiler|The Wicked Witch of the West}} is the villain of said crossover.

* [[Cute Witch]]

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: {{spoiler|Miranda's tag-alongs.}}

* [[Deep-Immersion Gaming]]

* [[Description Cut]]

'''Note''': ''To whom it may concern. Lord Sykos is announcing his arrival. Please take the time to prepare a proper welcoming party of at least thirteen maidens to greet him.'' }}

* [[Different for Girls]]

* [[Education Through Pyrotechnics]]

* [[Enemy Without]]: Anneger.

* [[Evil Chancellor]]: Subverted.

* [[Expressive Shirt]]

* [[Fountain of Youth]]: 21-year-old Evan seems to be addicted to spending his off hours as the four-year-old Lily, which does sound like an awesome stress reliever. It's pointed out that such escapism is not entirely healthy, and he's occasionally shown making an effort to improve his adult life.

* [[Freaky Friday]]

** Also, [[Gender Bender|T]]andy [[Transgender|G]]ardens.

* [[Furry Fandom]]: Oddly, an in-universe example: A furry fandom is intentionally cultivated and abused by lycanthropes for use in keeping up [[The Masquerade]]. For example, they host a tourist festival / furry convention at "Werewolf Mountain" and encourage people to dress up in fake ears, fursuits and other such getup... which allows the Werewolves to walk around openly shifted without any problems. Some of them even run ''stores'' while fully wolfed-out.

* [[Gender Bender]]: "Ka-girl" is practically a [[Catch Phrase]].

* [[Genre Blind]]: The leader of D.O.L.L.Y. {{spoiler|comes back to gloat on top of a nearby roof, just in time for the [[Genre Savvy]] Miranda to [[Shoot the Dog]].}}

** She also {{spoiler|decided it was a good idea to betray ''two'' extremely powerful magic users, at least one of whom was more or less totally loyal at that point in time, for extremely flimsy reasons.}}

* [[Middle of Nowhere Street]]

* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Lampshaded.

* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Anibelle.

* [[My Nayme Is]]: Pronounced "Chaos", spelled [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Xaos]].

* [[No Ontological Inertia]]

* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted.

* [[Nosy Neighbor]]: Ivan. In an aversion, it bites him in the ass.

* [[Not Now, Kiddo]]

* [[One Steve Limit]]: Exception

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Cassie is starting to take this role.

* [[Open-Minded Parent]]

* [[Opposites Theme Naming]]: Scott Winters and Julie Summers.

** He's slightly busier when it comes to his own dimension, though he still prefers to delegate the more tedious jobs to his [[The Dragon|Dragon.]]

* [[Order Versus Chaos]]: And in a subversion, the good guys aren't Order.

* [[Orphaned Series]]: The last official story comic was posted [http://www.thewotch.com/?date=2009-08-21 over a year ago], on August 21, 2009. Since then there have been two filler arcs, but no real updates, not even news updates. The forums have been abandoned by the staff, although apparently the artist and writer have mentioned on other forums that the artist is swamped with her college courseload, and there's also apparently an embarrassment factor for having left the comic hanging for so long. In other words, there may be a revival, but it's unlikely at this point.

** They've officially returned, though with a [[City of Reality|new artist]].

* [[Our Werebeasts Are Different]] - Includes werecats and [[Werewolves]]

* [[Perky Female Minion]]: Aimee -- a subversion as Aimee used to be male and is ''choosing'' to act out this trope, she even drops out of character to ask Anne to not mess it up for her.

* [[Pettanko]]: Anibelle, who is constantly teased about the size of her, er, "wings and horns" by her much more developed sister Drax.

* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]: A variant -- [[Stripperific|Giladrea]], [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2008-11-07 could you please not walk on your hands?]

* [[Public Domain Character]]: The [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2008-11-14 Jabberwock] at that. [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2008-11-18 Yes, that's a Jabberwock].

* [[Running Gag]]: Scott being turned into some non-moving form, Irene and James switching minds, and of course, Jason switching gender.

** Also:

'''Person A:''' ''"No, *completely different question about some small detail*."'' }}

 

** It's worse than not caring, she deliberately included them as additional punishment for Ivan.

*** She did seem not so happy about it a few pages later, but then again it seems a bit like {{spoiler|the threat of the curse was what made him desperate enough to try to tell someone...}} giving it qualities of a [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]].

** How did we miss the whole point of [[Punny Name|Kirkashi's]] existence as a ninja? [[Naruto|He goes to a ninjutsu dojo named Konoha run by a purple-haired woman named Anko.]] And of course there's his little adventure in the wardrobe...

*** And there's DeFrain's magic red eye he keeps under his eyepatch.

** As well as [http://extras.thewotch.com/?date=2005-01-01 this] to ''[[Misfile]]''.

** [[Pokémon|Pika]][http://www.thewotch.com/?date=2003-05-15 chu?]

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: The meaning of D.O.L.L.Y. beyond the first two letters and the origin of Dee's tail.

** Not to mention [http://www.thewotch.com/index.php?epDate=2006-03-20 this].

** [[Jossed]] by Dan Shive for EGS, at least. [[Crossover|The rest though....]]

* [[Tomboyish Name]]: Alex, Jo and Sam, even though their names when they were male were completely different.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Miranda}}

* [[Weird Moon]]

* <s>Were</s>[[Where I Was Born and Razed]]

* [[Wistful Amnesia]]: Ming.

 

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