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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]].
 
Spawned a number of [[Spin -Off|spinoffs]], the most notable being [http://cheer.thewotch.com/index.php The Wotch: Cheer], about a group of [[Jerk Jock|jocks]] [[Gender Bender|turned into]] [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders|Cheerleaders]]. ''[[Cheer]]'' now has its own page so please post all ''[[Cheer]]'' related examples there.
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* [[A Boy and His X]]: "A Girl and Her Blob", the Ming + Myrrh [[Lower Deck Episode]]. The series itself could be considered "A Boy and His Wotch," but the trope doesn't fit due to Anne being a sentient human main character.
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*** 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].
{{quote| '''Maggie:''' '''What is she?!'''}}
* [[B Side Comics]]: Genie World
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* [[Dead Little Sister]]: {{spoiler|Miranda's tag-alongs.}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Jason.
* [[Deep -Immersion Gaming]]
* [[Description Cut]]
{{quote| '''Miranda''': ''We must be extra cautious. It is not as though this threat will announce its arrival.''<br />
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* [[Eyepatch of Power]]
* [[The Faceless]]: Xaos. His face is revealed only in [http://www.thewotch.com/index.php?epDate=2008-08-29 this flashback].
* [[Family -Friendly Firearms]]: The members are DOLLY [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2006-09-08 are inexplicably armed with lasers.]
* [[Filler Strips]]
* [[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.
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Jason catches on to his [[Gender Bender]] [[Running Gag]] fast, and at one point volunteers for a female role in a caper without realizing that there are perfectly serviceable girls available because he assumes he'd end up that way anyway. Miranda also gets a few moments of these, not that Anne and crew will listen to her.
* [[Girl Posse]]: Subverted twice.
* [[Go -Go Enslavement]]
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: And Angry Angel, and Prideful Angel, and Lusty Angel, and...
* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: Ti'el casually ''loses an arm'' and is teased by her partner when she reacts.
* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]: In the midst of a [[Les Yay]]-laden Katie/Wolfie [[Lower Deck Episode]], Katie [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2010-02-02 says of her romantic woes] that she's "[[Unusual Euphemism|never going to move to a Greek island to write intense relationship poetry]]."
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: If it were not for Jason's strange obsession with redheads, he and Robin would not have discovered Anne's secret in the first place and missed out on crazy adventures and much hilarious [[Gender Bender|gender bending]].
* [["Hey You!" Haymaker]]: Well, it's a [http://www.thewotch.com/?date=2008-06-27 roundhouse,] but the principle still stands.
* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: The old "stage magic" trick
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Quite literally, in the case of Glock.
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: Robin also gets a bit of this trope in season 1. The result? [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nearly destroying the town]].
* [[I Need You Stronger]]: Xaos explicitly states this as the reason he hasn't taken Anne down yet.
* [[Implausible Fencing Powers]]: Blackbeak's pirate penguin prowess with a sword is too great to be captured by mortal art, it seems.
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: Gailadrea, a Dryad who wears a bikini top and miniskirt made out of growing leaves. Mind you, her ''hair'' is also made out of leaves, pushing this into vaguely [[Stripperific]] territory...
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: Ti'el, being a (previously male) alien [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2006-10-12 has elements of this], although she figures things out rather quickly. Myrrh, being a [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2006-12-20 slimey ball of vaguely human gel], only makes clothing as a [[Sight Gag]], but this doesn't come up often as she [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|doesn't really have anything to cover up anyway.]]
* [[Instant Ice, Just Add Cold]]: [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2005-07-08 Here].
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]: ''Lots''. The genie who was accidentally granting wishes, the various were-creatures, the mythos virus fallout, etc. etc.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: How Robin finds out that {{spoiler|Cassie}} is a witch is her levitating her pencil, the same way Jason found out Anne was the Wotch.
* [[It Was Here, I Swear]]: DOLLY's headquarters in ''The Wotch''; the dungeon in the student council room in ''Cheer!''
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Played straight and subverted, as the Jocks tend to reform after {{spoiler|spending a few weeks as brainwashed DOLLY slaves.}}
* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Natasha Dahlet of DOLLY is turned into a dolly}}, although she is still alive [[Nightmare Fuel|and sentient]], [[And I Must Scream|but unable to move]]
* [[Karmic Transformation]]: {{spoiler|DOLLY is defeated when Anne turns many of them into boys}}, also the chauvinist [[Jerk Jock|Jerk Jocks]] who become the ''Cheer!'' Squad are examples. See also [[Karmic Death]] above.
* [[Knight Templar]]: {{spoiler|Miranda.}}
* [[Kung Fu -Proof Mook]]
* [[Lady Land]]: {{spoiler|DOLLY's stated goal.}}
* [[Latex Perfection]]: Myrrh's latest trick is to shapeshift into a normal looking person, clothing and all. Only downside is the green hair. Oh, and if she is distracted at all, she explodes.
* [[Laser -Guided Amnesia]]
* [[Lawful Stupid Chaotic Stupid]]
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: [http://www.thewotch.com/index.php?epDate=2008-08-12 This strip.]
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* [[Mandys Law of Anime Gender Bending]]: Most of the time, it has been subverted on a couple of occasions more recently though.
** The first Wotch was subject to this, too.
* [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Tandy Gardens High School shortens down to [[Transgender|TG]], which are also the only letters on school T-Shirts worn by characters - most obviously the [[Spin -Off]] Cheer Squad.
** Also: Samantha Wolf. [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Three guesses what she turns out to be.]] This is even lampshaded at one point.
* [[MesMe's a Crowd]]
* [[Middle of Nowhere Street]]
* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Lampshaded.
* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of The Body]]: "Too potent a transformation spell?" [http://thewotch.com/index.php?epDate=2006-10-14 "Too potent a transformation spell."]
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Anibelle.
* [[My Nayme Is]]: Pronounced "Chaos", spelled [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Xaos]].
** [[Truth in Television|That's the Greek spelling of the word.]]
* [[NamesName's the Same]]: Professor [[The Odd Couple|Oscar Madison]].
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]
* [[No Periods Period]]: Averted.
{{quote| ''Yeah, fine. I get to look forward to two fantastic monthly events now. One which turns me into a vicious monster and the other into a werecat.}}
* [[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.
{{quote| "I'm sorry; ''Why'' is this girl made of goo again?"}}
* [[Open -Minded Parent]]
* [[Opposites Theme Naming]]: Scott Winters and Julie Summers.
* [[Orcus On His Throne]]: Xaos does pretty much jack, although this is later explained: He's waiting on Anne to grow up. He's ''farming'' her.
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* [[Shoot the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Miranda's actions at the end of DOLLY}}, as well as -- probably -- {{spoiler|her treatment of Ivan after he broke into her house}}. Although, she's getting pretty close to the [[Moral Event Horizon]] when she said that {{spoiler|Ivan was lucky she didn't just kill him, and the fact that she doesn't care at all about the innocent bystanders who were affected by her spell.}}
** 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]].
* [[Shout Out]]: It's starting to seem like no webcomic is complete without [http://www.thewotch.com/index.php?epDate=2007-02-26 at least one] [http://cheer.thewotch.com/index.php?date=20070331 reference to] the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series.
** 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...
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* [[Something We Forgot]]
* [[Speech Bubbles]]
* [[Spin -Off]]
* [[Spoof Aesop]]
* [[Stage Magician]]
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* [[That Poor Plant]]: The mall plant.
* [[The Blob]]: Myrrh, of the [[Cute Monster Girl]] variety.
* [[The Obi -Wan]]: Miranda
* [[The Theme Park Version]]: Genies
* [[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].
* [[The Verse]]: Has quite a few spinoffs. Insinuated to take place in the same universe as [[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]], as well.
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* [[Tomboyish Name]]: Alex, Jo and Sam, even though their names when they were male were completely different.
* [[Transformation Comic]]: One of the [[Ur Example|Ur Examples]].
* [[Two Scenes, One Dialogue]]
* [[Undead Tax Exemption]]
* [[Unsound Effect]]: Ka-GIRL!
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* [[Wasteful Wishing]]: "I wish you were a redhead!"
** [[Rule of Funny|Funnily enough]], {{spoiler|''the genie'' talks him out of it! Although, in this case, it's only because the genie can't grant wishes that affect herself.}}
* [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Miranda}}
* [[Weird Moon]]
* [[Weirdness Censor]]: [[Played for Laughs]]; Tandy Gardens was inspired by [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Sunnydale.]]
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