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* [[All There in the Manual]]: The prose fanfiction on the site tends to be part of the comic's canon. Which means if you do an [[Archive Binge]] of just the comics (or just Create.swf Adventures), you'll inevitably find yourself asking questions like "[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=flankoi When did Koishi hook up with Flandre?]", or "[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=diffstory2 Since when is Flandre's power 'Manipulation of Destruction'?]", or even "[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=aliceill When did Marisa move in with Alice?]"
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Mokou was actually a lesbian who was jealous of Kaguya's suitors, but never realized this until Remilia manipulated their fate so that they'd [[Shipping|fall in love]]; Kisume is [[The Mad Hatter|completely freaking nuts]], and reasons that only someone who is insane would want to live in a bucket the way members of her species do, and it is implied that ''all'' tsurube-otoshis are like this.
* [[Anachronic Order]]: a side-effect of throwing in "this takes place between ''Subterranean Animism'' and ''Undefined Fantastic Object''" after the fact. In particular, ''Rethinking the Natural Law'' initially cheerfully and strictly followed the reverse order of the available story modes in ''Touhou 12.3''; this was also the optimal order to avoid actually revealing anything, including the identity of the new villain, until the arc was more than halfway over. The [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=timeline timeline] was once the subject of frequent [[Retcon|retcon]]s.
* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: Orange is [[Invoked Trope|stated to be]] a "youkai of resilience who recovers more easily than [she] fears" by Hina; she's less bothered by the fact that she was sealed away by Reimu for eleven years (according to the timeline) than she is by everyone smothering her in worry and concern.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=shcomic59 Seihou Nekokayou: Spectral World Archive on a 99GB Diskette.] That is, this is the comic which Muffin would have created ''in the Touhou universe'' ([[In Spite of a Nail|all other things being equal]]). [[The Rant]] for the ''actual'' [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic59 comic #59], in addition to implying that it also shares the same [[Stealth Pun]] in the title, discusses [[Celebrity Paradox|other]] [[For Want of a Nail|implications]], and now and then Muffin adds more items to the list (without it showing up in the site updates) ...
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* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Alice shows signs of her bashful/lovestruck personality from general-[[Fanon]] early on, before Muffin [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=deadlymariari developed a certain loathe for this interpretation.] Other characters occasionally had a similar shift in behavior.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]/[[Chekhov's Gunman]]: In Create.swf Adventures, {{spoiler|one mushroom that got left behind toward the beginning becomes a main character after turning into a Youkai.}}
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: [[The Rant]] for comic [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic82 #82], "[[Magic Aa Is Magic A|Magic A Is]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|As Magic A Does]]", describes Marisa's [[Cool but Inefficient|useless-in-a-world-with-no-physical-combat]] "Fist-Shield" spell as this.
** In ''Create.swf Adventures'': [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0039 early on], Marisa threatens to sic Orin (who has the power to control evil spirits) on Mima (an evil spirit). [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0547 Much later ...]
* [[Chew Bubblegum]]: [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa02cottage0625 When a character arms herself with no danger present]:
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* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Meiling ([[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon|bonus points]] for also being "[[Running Gag|totally a]] [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon]]"), who in [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic33 #33], despite being a stage 3 boss, was able to stop [[Bonus Boss|Flandre]]'s rampage with her martial arts, taking on ''[[Doppelganger Attack|four of her at once]]''. Unfortunately, in general, martial arts are useless against danmaku ...
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Most of the fight scenes are like this for [[Rule of Funny|comedic purposes]]; in particular, in the "Rethinking the Natural Law" [[Story Arc]], every fight that ends with a decisive victory for one side or the other is like this -- particularly against [[Final Boss|Meimu]], who ''loses every fight'' in this manner ... [[I Am Not Left-Handed|until she fights with Reimu and Rin]].
* [[Cut His Heart Out Withwith a Spoon]]: "[[Hit You So Hard Your X Will Feel It|I'm gonna hit you so hard]], [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic79 your descendants will feel it!]" (And they ''do.'')
** And in [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic88 another], Ran shouts "I'LL KILL YOU UNTIL YOU DIE *AGAIN!*" at Mima (a ghost).
** "[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic25 Mind your own business if you want to remain not on fire.]"
* [[Deconstruction]]: Touhou's canon is extremely vague on a lot of things. Muffin sometimes takes a particular aspect of canon and says "Okay, so ... how would this ''really'' work?" about it (see above, under [[Crapsack World]]).
** In particular, Meimu/Kon Yakumo's depiction was meant to deconstruct the [[Mary Sue]] archetype: on top of the idea of "Meimu" to begin with, she is the daughter of a canon character and she barges into the plot of one of the games to try to make herself all important, but she is a bratty idiot and everyone realizes this (on top of having a power which resembles Yukari's, but is much less versatile or useful). [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|The execution, however, was a bit lacking.]]
* [[Doomed Byby Canon]]: [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0345 We get to be the Yatagarasu? Nice.] [[Time Skip|*A few centuries later*]] "Hey Okuu, you wanna eat that dead sun god here?" (Not that it is actually canon that the Yatagarasu in question had been involved with Yukari's lunar invasion. But regardless, she had to be a corpse by the time of ''Subterranean Animism.'')
* [[Everyone Is Bi]]: Only a couple mentions which nearly amount to [[Lampshade Hanging]] in some cases; the driving force of shipping is mentioned in [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=perfectsq Perfect Square], when Alice compares peoples' reactions to her [[Interspecies Romance|relationship with Marisa]] to what would happen if Marisa was going out with, say, Reimu; in [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=diffstory A Different Story of an Eastern Wonderland], Daisuke and Keine explicitly spell it out for Renko and Maribel that being entirely straight or gay is [[Bi the Way|unusual in Gensokyo]] and that Outsiders are considered weird for considering this weird; and a in [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic19&c=87de24a0a #19] when [[Kill It Withwith Fire|Mokou]] reveals to Kaguya that she is not bi but a lesbian, i.e. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|a flamer]].
* [[Fan Nickname]]: [[Moe]][[Moe Anthropomorphism|shroom]] for Masha.
* [[Flat What]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Word for word]] [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0386 here].
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* [[Retcon]]: Dissatisfied with how comics 97-100 turned out, Muffin tossed them into a bin and basically started remaking them. To say nothing of the timeline ...
* [[Retired Badass]]: Sakuya, not that it stops her from being badass nowadays.
* [[Right for Thethe Wrong Reasons]]: In comic [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic61 #61], the events of ''Imperishable Night'', which were started by [[Moon People|Lunarians]], have resulted in [[Lunacy|moonbeams driving fairies crazy and making them superpowered]]. Mokou, fighting off fairies, wonders out loud why this is happening; a [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]-fairy promptly attacks her and, in [[Talkative Loon]]-mode, blurts out, "BECAUSE ALIENS FROM THE MOOOOON!"
* [[Rule of Funny]]: The [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic63 Catness] [[Story Arc|arc]], in which half of Gensokyo's not-already-[[Petting Zoo People]] population gets turned into [[Catgirl|cats]], and in which "[[Sophisticated As Hell|shiny objects]]" is a technical magical term, and susceptibility to the effects of the catness is based on stupidity or strength (but not both). And that's just the tip of the iceberg in the comic as a whole ...
{{quote| '''Wriggle:''' ''(after Mokou has just been [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p{{=}}thcomic25 defeated by Tenshi])'' "Yeesh ... [[Never Send an X Toto Do Aa YsY's Job|never send a lesbian to do a bisexual crossdresser's job.]]"}}
* [[Schedule Slip]]: The comic's main page says "updates Sundays and a few Thursdays" but lately it's become (early Mondays, sometimes up to a day later). Actual ''missed'' updates are rare, but they do happen.
** As of April 1st, 2010, Muffin's updated the comic's main page to this:
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* [[Self-Deprecation]]: In "Ask Masha":
{{quote| '''Anonymous asked:''' Do you read Seihou Nekokayou? If so, what do you think of it?<br />
'''Masha:''' Eh, it seemed to me to be kind of overrated when I went through it. It wasn't always that original, it kept using the "[[Death Note (Manga)|just as planned]]" joke, and it used [[Original Character|OCs]] a little too much... }}
** According to [[Word of God|Muffin's own Tumblr]], this was based on actual criticisms he'd seen about the comic.
* [[Sexy Discretion Shot]]: Flandre and Koishi hide [[Making Love in All Thethe Wrong Places|in a side-passage]] in the Underground in [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic84 #84]; the "camera" remains trained on the dark entrance to said passage. [[Subverted Trope|Unfortunately]], Flandre has not yet had [[The Talk]] at that point ...
* [[Sexy Shirt Switch]]: Take a good look at Koishi and Flandre in [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic118 #118].
* [[She Is All Grown Up]]: ''Fate of 60 Years'' features grown-up Cirno (dubbed "Cirno-nee").
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* [[Shout-Out]]
** In addition to [[Metal Gear Solid]] [[Parody Episode|parody episodes]], the "Time Paradox" gag from MGS3 is often used, not to mention that Nitori has developed a knockoff CODEC technology which has seen use outside the direct parodies.
** Sakuya is a walking [[Shout-Out]] to [[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Dio Brando]]. This is in Touhou canon. The trope is present ''here'' by way of the fact that when she uses her [[Time Stop]] ability, the declared spell card is always (the technically [[Canon]]) "[[Memetic Mutation|ZA WARUDO]]" and the fact that Muffin is responsible for KirbyM including Dio-Sakuya poses in create.swf.
** ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'': Remilia's fate-manipulation has [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic1 similar requirements and effects]; Komachi even [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic17 has a Death Note] at one point (and can see your name and "lifespan in Shinigami time" [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic45 by looking at your face]), in addition to overuse of "JUST AS PLANNED."
** Marisa's "[[This Cannot Be!|NO WAY! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!]]" line is borrowed from KirbyM's ouvre, as is the punchline for [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic84 #84] ... though the line in KirbyM's flash is said for ''entirely different reasons.''
** The entirety of "Create.swf Adventures" is a shout out to [[MS Paint Adventures]], using many of the running jokes established therein (the pumpkin, the retrieval of arms, the [[Added Alliterative Appeal]] of the Strife Modus screen...), with Rumia's "Team ❽" forming a parody of the Midnight Crew.
*** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0363 CSA0363] references the "[http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Ongoing_Gags#Homestuck_Gags Huge Bitch]" running joke. [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004824 Not even a week later...]
** Shikieiki's [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic125 measures peoples' morality] with a ''literal'' [[Karma Meter]], designed to look like one from a [[Knights of the Old Republic]]-era [[Bio WareBioWare]] RPG.
** Kisume can apparently travel between buckets by "following the [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|recipriversexclusions]] of [her] mind and soul." Sakuya then describes the term when asked (though obviously not referring to the book by name.)
** In comc #37, a bit of text in the second to last panel is [[The Demented Cartoon Movie|qrrbrbirlbel]]. Oddly enough, this one was NOT picked up quickly.
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** {{spoiler|The real [[Stealth Pun]] is the two words left out in the mashup}}
* [[Story Arc]]: AKA "the dreaded continuity" due to the fact that the comic is usually a gag-a-day strip.
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: EX-Rumia, AKA Rumia Yagami, who acted like a [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|Sealed]] [[Large Ham]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|In A Humanitarian]] [[Cheerful Child]] in her [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic4 first appearance], [[Axe Crazy]] the [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic85 second time], and just plain cartoonishly evil [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic111 the third time]. She has formed a [[Shout-Out]] to [[MS Paint Adventures|the Midnight Crew]] [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic114 during the next 60 years].
** Yasora, who pretty much set herself up as an evil side of Utsuho the moment she comes out.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: from [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic95 this comic]:
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** Meimu's real name is Kon Yakumo. Kon means "navy-blue" to put her in with Yukari (violet), Ran (indigo), and Chen (orange).
** The titles of the members of Team ❽, in addition to having the same initials as [[MS Paint Adventures|The Midnight Crew]], are all darkness-themed.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Well, it ''is'' [[Touhou]], [[Frickin' Laser Beams|so]] [[Beam Spam|obviously]] [[Kamehame Hadoken|it]] [[Bullet Hell|counts]]. Special mention, though, must go to [[Canon Sue|Reimu's]] [[God Mode Sue|Hax Sign]] "[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|You Just Plain F***ing Lose]]" and Koishi's [[Ditto Fighter|Recollection "RED THE NIGHTLESS MOTHERF***ER"]].
** Also when all the heroines team up to fight Tenshi at the end of [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic80 Catness].
** Reimu's [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0487 Unlimited Fantasy Heaven]. {{spoiler|1=Which then [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0489 results] in a [[Heroic RROD]].}}
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