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[[The Verse]] which is the setting of five [[Web Comic]] series by David Willis: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131124182208/http://www.itswalky.com/d/19970908.html Roomies!]'', ''[http://www.itswalky.com It's Walky!]'', ''[http://www.shortpacked.com Shortpacked!]'' (which now [[Shortpacked|has its own page]]), ''[http://www.itswalky.com Joyce And Walky!]'' and ''[http://www.dumbingofage.com/ Dumbing of Age]'' ([[Dumbing of Age|which also has its own page]]).▼
''Roomies!'' began in 1997 as a [[Slice of Life]] webcomic concerning the adventures of Danny Wilcox, [[Ordinary High School Student|Ordinary College Student]], and his [[Kavorka Man]] roommate Joe Rosenthal. Other important characters included Danny's love interest Jennifer "Billie" Billingsworth, his mixed-race [[Broken Bird]] ex-girlfriend Sal Walters, and the [[Virginity Makes You Stupid|sheltered]], [[Yandere|semi-well-adjusted]] Joyce Brown. The strip gradually developed both [[Cerebus Syndrome]] and a love for theatrics, culminating in Joe and Joyce being kidnapped by aliens.
▲[[The Verse]] which is the setting of five [[Web Comic]] series by David Willis: ''[http://www.itswalky.com/d/19970908.html Roomies!]'', ''[http://www.itswalky.com It's Walky!]'', ''[http://www.shortpacked.com Shortpacked!]'' (which now [[Shortpacked|has its own page]]), ''[http://www.itswalky.com Joyce And Walky!]'' and ''[http://www.dumbingofage.com/ Dumbing of Age]'' ([[Dumbing of Age|which also has its own page]]).
▲''Roomies!'' began in 1997 as a [[Slice of Life]] webcomic concerning the adventures of Danny Wilcox, [[Ordinary High School Student|Ordinary College Student]], and his [[Kavorka Man]] roommate Joe Rosenthal. Other important characters included Danny's love interest Jennifer "Billie" Billingsworth, his mixed-race [[Broken Bird]] ex-girlfriend Sal Walters, and the [[Virginity Makes You Stupid|sheltered]], [[Yandere|semi-well-adjusted]] Joyce Brown. The strip gradually developed both [[Cerebus Syndrome]] and a love for theatrics, culminating in Joe and Joyce being kidnapped by aliens.
At this point it re-branded itself ''It's Walky!'' and began to focus on the adventures of a [[Government Conspiracy]] called SEMME, dedicated to dealing with extra-terrestrial threats to Earth. The titular David "Walky" Walkerton, a [[Keet|hyperactive]] member of Squad 128, found himself fighting alongside Sal, Joe and Joyce, all of whom were inducted to SEMME and placed in his squad, with [[Stuffy Brit]] Jason Chesterfield, [[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk]] Mike Warner and [[Genki Girl|even-more-hyperactive]] Robin DeSanto rounding out the central cast.
After a random collection of [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue|Where Are They Now Epilogues]], DW launched ''[[Shortpacked]]'' in 2005, which revolves around the adventures of [[
This strip was put on hiatus in 2010, and later that year got a soft reboot into ''[[Dumbing of Age]]'', which transplants characters from all of Willis's other comics into Indiana University and strips off the sci-fi elements, thus going back to the original premise of ''Roomies!'' ...and so the circle is complete.
''Joyce & Walky!'' got taken out of mothballs on May 13, 2012, with three updates since then. Willis says he's unsure how long updates will keep up.
The cast of these series is [https://web.archive.org/web/20120413143203/http://www.walkypedia.com/index.php/Category:Characters vast], but the main players in each can be boiled down to:
* '''Danny Wilcox''', an ordinary college student with a tendency for unbridled panic.
* '''Joe Rosenthal''', Danny's [[Kavorka Man|womanizing]] best friend and dorm roommate.
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* '''Sal Walters''', Danny's moody, mysterious ex-girlfriend, who shows up just long enough to tell Danny goodbye because she's moving on to...
* '''David 'Walky' Walkerton''', a [[Keet|hyperactive]], bubble-headed medical lab attendant turned alien hunter who was once Billie's best childhood friend {{spoiler|and is actually Sal's long-lost twin brother}}.
* '''Steven 'Beef' Walkerton''', Walky's fraternal twin brother {{spoiler|secretly [[Switched At Birth]] with Sal}}.
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Their main opponents are the Purple Aliens ('Alien' being the actual name of their homeworld), lead by Head Alien; the [[McNinja|British Ninjas]] from a secret organization led by {{spoiler|Jason's father Dargon Chesterfield and Jason's former lover Penny Worthington}}; and the Martian Empire.
* '''Becky''', Joyce's new best friend. She is generally more sane and easy-going than Joyce.
* '''Dorothy''', Walky's over-achieving ex-girlfriend who dumped him for not being studious enough. She's moved into Walky's neighborhood and is having second thoughts about her decision all those years ago.
* '''D.J.''', Danny and {{spoiler|Sal}}'s hypothetical kid from the future. Other universes sending help for other versions of him, only to end up in the mainline continuity, is the impetus for most of the plot.
See [[Shortpacked!|here]] for info.
▲== Dumbing of Age: ==
See [[Dumbing of Age|here]] for info.
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== ''Overall'' ==
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: Has one on [https://walkypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Walkyverse FANDOM].
== ''Roomies!'' ==
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* [[Anything That Moves]]: Billie before Ruth's death.
* [[Arc Words]]: "Act with integrity... No regrets."
* [[Art Evolution]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927174955/http://joyceandwalky.com/d/19970908.html This] is what the first strip of the entire canon looked like. [http://www.dumbingofage.com/ This] is the latest strip of ''Dumbing of Age''. '''Same artist.'''
* [[Ascended Extra]]:
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Danny and Billie. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110406002731/http://www.itswalky.com/d/19990518.html I'm enjoying this way too much.]
* [[Book Ends]]: The comic begins and ends with Danny on the phone with his girlfriend and scolding Joe for climbing up out the window to the girls' dorms, trying to get him to think of the consequences. The first time, Joe's response shows his obliviousness to the concept of dealing with your actions; the second time, Joe [[Character Development|has actually considered the potential ramifications]] (if only the favorable ones) and decided to do it anyway.
* [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']]': Drink one beer, and {{spoiler|you'll proceed to get totally drunk and a close friend of yours will GET KILLED saving you from your own stupidity}}.
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* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: Ruth's {{spoiler|death}} brought the strip's consequence-free hijinks to a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|screeching halt]].
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Joyce. Worth noting that she's jealous over someone that's not actually hers.
* [[Creator Cameo]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120709203613/http://www.itswalky.com/d/19980403.html "If I don't get a girlfriend in the next five seconds I'm gonna jump out the window."]
** The first of many. Willis make multiple background appearances throughout his comics, and later on becomes Ethan's [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]] in ''Shortpacked''.
* [[Disneyfication]]: Parodied with ''Roomies!'' issue two, which has Danny, Joe and Joyce watching "Disney's ''[[Hansel and Gretel]]''".
* [[Fallen Princess]]: Billie, a former Libby-esque Cheerleader, has a hard time adjusting to her loss of status upon entering college where no one cares how "cool" you supposedly were in high school.
* [[Famous Last Words]]: {{spoiler|Ruth's "Act with integrity... No regrets!" was echoed throughout the series, even by characters who didn't know her.}}
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* [[Irony]]: Ruth learned her "act with integrity" motto from her adulterous father.
* [[Info Dump]]: From this scene in ''Roomies!'' issue two, for those unfamiliar with the comic:
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'''Danny:''' Joyce wants to see a movie.
'''Joe:''' Joyce? You mean that studious, churchy girl? The Joyce who followed you home and claimed you as her own? Even though you're dating Sal, who's currently still in high school?
''Both [[Aside Glance]]''
'''Danny:''' That was...[[Lampshade Hanging|informative]]. But yes. Joyce. }}
* [[Kavorka Man]]: Joe - to the point that later [[Fanon]] would speculate that part of his Abductee powers was [[Love Is in the Air|enhanced pheromones]]
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Ruth.}}
* [[Meganekko]]: Billie
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Crossed with [[
* [[
* [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]: Anything involving Joyce/Sal and SEMME.
* [[Punny Name]]: Whitney Howard Lesse, Ruth Lesse, Dick Lesse.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The title of the first book collection. ''Roomies! [[Dr. Strangelove|Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Beer]]''.
** The second book has two: the title is ''Roomies! [[X-Men|Giant-Sized]] [[Cerebus Syndrome]]''. The cover is a take-off on the ''Giant-Sized X-Men'' cover.
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Both played straight and subverted : Joyce seems to be the only human who can stand ''[[Cool and Unusual Punishment|The Sound of Music]]'', but once the aliens realize this they show her porn instead, which [[Heroic BSOD|screws her up]] for [[Character Development|the long term]]
* [[Tsundere]]: Billie, toward Danny.
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== ''It's Walky!'' ==
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Monkey Master has [[Arm Cannon
* [[Action Girl]]: Sal, primarily, though Joyce, Daisy, Lith, and Linda would count too
* [[Action Mom]]: Linda Walkerton, {{spoiler|eventually becoming the second Big Boss of SEMME}}
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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: By the end of the strip, about a third of the major characters are dead.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: This time an entire ''squad'' of them, all female.
* [[As You Know]] / [[Info Dump]]: Lampshaded. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120122021913/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20000111.html "Hey, boss, we know all this."]
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Walky.
* [[Back
* [[Badass Normal]]: Jason, {{spoiler|the only non-abductee member of Squad 128}}.
* [[Battle Trophy]]: After killing Dargon and [[Klingon Promotion|taking over his paramilitary organisation]], Penny takes to wearing his [[Eyepatch of Power|eyepatch]] as a personal affect.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Well, a ''lot'' of them, but honourable mention to Dina, who had been steadily falling into despairing over her own uselessness when one of the Britjas pressed it when he was setting up a bomb to destroy S.E.M.M.E.'s intelligence and research files.
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* [[BFG]]: Joyce's cannon.
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Mike. It's a [[Comedic Sociopath|funny kind of evil]], though.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Walky, Joyce, Linda...
** Joyce in particular could be the poster girl for this trope.
* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]: It takes a mere sip to get Sal and Walky passed out.
* [[Cat Fight]]: ''So'' many, most involving Sal.
* [[Call Back]]: To ''Roomies!'', multiple times. For example, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011032007/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20040123.html the incident Billie's describing in panel one] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110406002829/http://www.itswalky.com/d/19990529.html can be seen here.]
* [[Cerebus Retcon]]: Pretty much ''everything''.
** Using ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' as torture goes from being just plain [[Suckiness Is Painful]] to having a subliminally-painful, ''[[Scanners]]''-like effect on abductees imprinted on them in youth, and Joyce's immunity becomes a plot point.
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* [[Cloning Blues]]: Anti-Joyce, whose murder by the original would lead to severe repercussions.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: [[Two Words: Obvious Trope|Four words]]:''The Sound of Music''
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: 3D models were used for some of the robots and spaceships. They looked ''really'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120307093731/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20020512.html out of place.].
* [[Contractual Genre Blindness]]: Head Alien just enjoys playing the Villain too much for his own good.
* [[Creator Cameo]]: At it's subtlest. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121030165525/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20041016.html Look in front on Monkey Master's left arm, the one that's not holding Aliens.] (Warning, comic contains spoilers!)
* [[Crossover]]: With ''[[Melonpool]],'' twice, and both times it had a lasting effect on ''Walky'''s storylines.
** And another with ''[[Fans]]'', which seemed more concern with advancing both character sets' emotional arcs.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Both Joyce and Walky.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Sal, through much of the series.
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Averted, despite the heroes having access to a Martian Resurrection Chamber by the end of the comic. Only one person can use it at a time, the process takes nine months, and you need a sample of DNA from the subject. {{spoiler|And the martians are very thorough when it comes to preventing their enemies from returning, so most of the SEMME agents who died in the finale are staying dead. It's very fortunate that Joyce happened to have...''acquired'' some of Walky's genetic material shortly before the battle}}.
* [[Destructo-Nookie]]: When Walky and Joyce finally resolve their [[UST]], motel room furniture [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209125021/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20040418.html pays the price]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Before [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011032118/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20040206.html coming to the main universe] Dargon Chesterfield {{spoiler|condemned his home universe to eventual heat death by intentionally refusing to evenly trade energy from the universe he and the rest of his organization were traveling to. All because The Wanderer didn't leave him enough time for Jason to be born there, thus making him detectable by the other universe's version of The Wanderer.}}
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{{spoiler|'''Dargon Chesterfield''': You robbed me of my ''heir''. I will rob you of your ''future''.}} }}
* [[Ditto Aliens]]: Justified - we never see the Purple Aliens or Martians outside of their protective suits.
* [[Doctor Jekyll and Mister Jack Daniels]]: When he gets drunk, Mike turns ''nice''!▼
* [[Double Entendre]]: Especially in the storyline appropriately named 'Innuendo'.
* [[Dramatic Shattering]]: Subverted and promptly lampshaded:
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* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Walky, especially in the gender-bending reality-warping storyline.
* Everythings Better With Monkeys: Monkey Master, who ''hates'' being called a monkey - he's a giant robot ''ape'', after all; also, Walky's obsession with monkeys, and especially his favorite childhood toy, Mister Monkey.
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* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Toward {{spoiler|Alan}} and the law-abiding Martians; in the epilogue, toward now-assimilated aliens.
* [[Flight]]: Part of what makes Joyce special is that she can use the flying pack effectively.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20101012204415/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030415.html Over my fossilized remains!]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011032305/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20040227.html In this "vision," how many arms did you have?]
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Robin, though it's mostly emotional fragility rather than physical - she's about as strong as the others.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Sal.
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: Sal.
** Averted with Jason: though he apparently ''does'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110312060148/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20011125.html have an accent], it's not phonetic.
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Britjas, just...Britjas.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Robin.
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* [["Get Out of Jail Free" Card]]: Averted: when Sal was incarcerated, she could easily have broken out if she'd wanted to, but remained because she knows she deserved it, and eventually had to escape when swept up by circumstances.
* [[Gigantic Gulp]]: The "X-TREEEM MUG!" storyline.
** Becomes a fine [[Brick Joke]]. In the last panel of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160113223922/http://www.joyceandwalky.com/d/20041027.html last strip] {{spoiler|we see a flash-forward of Joyce and Walky sitting together in old age - the giant mug is still right by Walky's side}}.
* [[Godly Sidestep]]: The Big Cheese claims to know which religion is the correct one, but refuses to tell anyone, claiming that if you don't figure it out for yourself, you won't understand the answer.
* [[Government Conspiracy]]: SEMME.
* [[Glurge Addict]]
* [[Great Way to Go]]: Dying in a fire is bad, but also [[Stuff Blowing Up|sort of cool]]. If it's while in the middle of an orgy in which one is the only male<ref>and straight</ref>...
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Many, most notably Linda during the final fight with the Britjas.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Dina.
** Possibly Mike as well, as he
* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: Mike.
* [[
* [[I Want Grandkids]]: Joyce's mother, to an [https://web.archive.org/web/20090821180814/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030320.html astoundingly] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131018055207/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20051126.html embarrassing] degree.
* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: But it doesn't work the last time Head Alien tries it.
* [[Indecisive Parody]]: It doesn't really know if it's a comedic series or a dramatic one. It's a mix of both.
* [[Is That What He Told You?]]: Another tactic Head Alien often used.
* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: {{spoiler|Mike Warner.}} Also doubles as both a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
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* [[Klingon Promotion]]: {{spoiler|Penny's assassination of Dargon.}}
* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: The Wanderer, in his first full appearance. He even provides the page quote.
* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: Joe, first with his crush on {{spoiler|Joyce}} and then with him starting to fall for a nerdy girl in a chatroom. It sets off his character development arc, and he eventually becomes a more well-rounded person because of both instances.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: The mindwiper.
* [[Let's Wait a While]]: Though in Joyce and Walky, it's not so much "Wait until the time is right to have sex" as much as "Wait until Joyce can think about sex without going catatonic or psychotic."
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: At least 90% of the characters on that page up there were introduced for or major players in this one. The [http://scorpius.spaceports.com/~carnildo/itswalky_all.html unofficial stats page] lists 247 named or otherwise identifiable characters.
* [[Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20121030170339/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20041015.html We found Phil, the Destiny's janitor, trapped in a closet, and he helped us escape using a variety of common household tools.]
* [[Loud of War]]: The aliens use ''The Sound Of Music'' as a form of mental torture.
* [[Love Martyr]]: Dina.
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* [[Mysterious Parent]]
* [[Never Bareheaded]]: Dina is never seen without her trademark safari hat, even when sleeping or suspended upside down. In the entire series, she takes it off exactly once: {{spoiler|when she is about to die.}}
* [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120309164413/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20010129.html "Yes. Yes! He put me in his 'tummy prison.' I'm not making this up."]
* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: The Head Alien is a pretty funny guy... who also happens to singlehandedly ruin several characters' lives.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] Dizzy and hyperactive as he is, Walky is not nearly as dumb as he acts, (he was a straight-A student) but he prefers to play the fool to avoid responsibility. (And he has trouble breaking the habit of a lifetime when responsibility is ultimately forced upon him.)
* [[Oedipus Rex]]
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Walky is called "David" a small handful of times in the strip's entire history (mostly by his mother.) Doubly ironic as everyone calls him "Walky", which is a nickname he doesn't even like (he insists people call him "Walkerton") due to its association with repressed memories.
** Billie also qualifies.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: {{spoiler|The only time Mike shows any display of emotion for his fellow human beings other than abject hate (as long as he isn't drunk) was [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|when Dina died in front of him.]]}}
* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Sal, for a while.
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* [[Separated at Birth]]: {{spoiler|Sal and Walky.}}
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Sal shooting Tony, in a [[Story Arc]] appropriately entitled "Kill Your Friends".
* [[Shout-Out]]: Walky seeks inspiration for how to effectively lead his team, and it comes [https://web.archive.org/web/20140331012023/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030629.html crashing through a window.] Turns out Willis was making references to [[Batman]] even before he started parodying him explicitly.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Dina, although {{spoiler|she sadly doesn't get a [[Beautiful All Along]] moment}}.
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Joyce, to the point where it becomes a [[Running Gag]].
* [[Smite Me,
* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: The ultimate source of Beef's tragic [[Face Heel Turn]].
* [[Spy Catsuit]]: Lampshaded.
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* [[Take That]]: A story takes place in a [[Comic Book Time|time-frozen]] small town in Canada, taking place in large part in a high school, where a fish can be seen floating in midair. c.f. ''[[Avalon (webcomic)|Avalon]]''.
** Another take that to ''[[Avalon (webcomic)|Avalon]]'' in the announcement of ''Dumbing of Age'':
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* [[The Artifact]]: ''The Sound of Music'', early sexual [[Aesop
* [[The Atoner]]: Sal. Somewhat subverted, since this is usually defined as wanting to go out and do something to atone. Sal sits in prison when it is implied she could break out, and is forced to escape by circumstances.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Lampshaded at least once. After the series ended, Willis even did a storyline about it.
* [[There Was a Door]]: Sal. It became a [[Running Gag]] with her. She even Lampshades it while using a door ''as a blunt instrument'' on Billie.
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* [[Throwaway Country]]: Invoked by the Head Alien, who figures no one would notice if he just froze Canada. "God''damn'' was I right!"
* [[Time Stands Still]]: The Head Alien creates a device that can do this and tests it on Canada.
* [[Title Drop]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20121030165941/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20041026.html It's Walky.]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Totem Pole Trench]]: In [https://web.archive.org/web/20110814021028/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20020210.html this] '' strip, Joyce and Dina use a more specific version to pretend to be Jason.
* [[Translation Train Wreck]]: Translations of {{spoiler|Martian}} speech come out this way.
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* [[Tsundere]]: Sal, towards both Tony and Jason.
* [[Two Words: Obvious Trope]]: "Four words...{{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|your twin sister, Sal]]}}."
* [[Unexpected Successor]]: Walky's mother becoming head of SEMME.
* [[The Unmasqued World]]: The Aliens come out of hiding and attack Denver about halfway through the series.
* [[Unpredictable Results]]: The Head Alien's time-freezing ray, which at first seems to just cause [[Gender Bender]] but makes reality gradually more wibbly the longer it lasts. The fact that the ray was used to freeze the Cheese, who is functionally if not literally God in the Walkyverse, may have had something to do with this.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Willis had way too much fun with Joyce and Walky's. By the time it was released it had the force of a small thermonuclear device.
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* [[Unbroken Vigil]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080705145954/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20010409.html Seen here.] (''[[The Sound of Music]]'' lyrics he's singing are what brought her out of it last time she was comatose.)
* [[Unrobotic Reveal]]: Alan.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Often - usually after Head Alien has pushed one of them a little ''too'' far.
* [[
* [[The Voiceless]]: Marcie. She ''may'' actually be mute, and [[Dumbing of Age|definitely is in another universe.]]
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Sal, much of the time, verging on [[Knight Templar]] in places [https://web.archive.org/web/20130622063746/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20020709.html
* [[We Named the Dog Indiana]]: Joyce's dogs, Walkies and Daniel. Both times, she had been mindwiped of the respective boy's existence, and it was unintentional. When introducing Walky to her parents, they believe Walky was named after the dog. He retorts with an Indiana Jones reference.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: The Purple Aliens, whom the SEMME agents happily slaughter by the saucerful.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Lith.
* [[You Say Tomato]]: Walky cracks up because of how a British character pronounces his name.
* [[Your Approval Fills Me with Shame]]: After Danny asks if he, Joe, Rachel and uber-nerd Howard are on a suicide mission, Joe outlines why it's not and explains intangibility by bringing up [[X-Men|Kitty Pryde.]]
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''' Joe:''' ''Now'' I want it to be a suicide mission. }}
== ''Joyce & Walky!'' ==
* [[After the End]]: The comic's tagline describes ''J&W!'' as "post-apocalyptic." Given that said apocalypse was averted, it's debatable how well the description fits.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: Hoo boy. The villain's entire plot revolves around building an army out of the future kids of potential pairings, and that's just for starters...
* [[April Fools' Day]]: 2008 had Ultra-Car getting hit with a missile, Joyce and Walky inside declaring their hatred for each other, and Head Alien and Monkey Master having a [[Dance Party Ending]].
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: Monkey Master disbelieves Head Alien II's existance and exploits. Head Alien II assumes this is the reason [[Subverted Trope|until Monkey Master tells him it's because]] "that would mean you actually ''succeeded'' at something."
** Played straight later: even after all he's seen and done, Joe ''still'' denies the existance of Danny's alt-future kid DJ.
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* [[Back to School]]: [[Played Straight]]. Joyce was abducted by SEMME before she could finish college and Walky never started, so both start taking courses once the war's over. [[One-Hour Work Week|The plot never focuses on it, granted...]]
* [[Bad Job, Worse Uniform]]: Sal and her job at Pluto 9571.
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'''Walky:''' Than we shall remain silent. }}
* [[Benevolent Boss]]: Joe, as head of Rosenthal Industries. Danny works for him.
* [[Best Woman]]: Danny implied he would've ended up Joyce's maid of honor if Becky hadn't popped up.
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'''Walky:''' You're off the hook. }}
* [[Back
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: How the {{spoiler|alt-universe future kids end up, for the most part.}}
* [[Burger Fool]]: Sal ends up as one when forced into the working world.
* [[Call Back]]: Sal calls Joyce's use of her jetpack cheating when recounting one of their ''It's Walky!''-era fights to Becky. Later, whilst fighting the {{spoiler|brainwashed alt-future kids}}, Joyce gleefully refers to the use of her jetpack as cheating as she and Walky fly into battle.
* [[The Cameo]]: Joyce logs onto a [[All Girls Like Ponies|pony]] chatroom in the hopes of finding a new friend to be her maid of honor, only to become discouraged and give up. [[Shortpacked|Amber is on the same forum.]]
* [[Cerebus Retcon]]: We get an explanation for the duct tape restraints. Apparently it worked on the abductees when they were kids and they just never felt the need to upgrade. (Hey, no one said it was a ''good'' explanation.)
* [[Crossover]]: With ''[[Shortpacked]]'' for the wedding. Robin is authenticating, and Mike is invited. They bring Leslie and Amber as their plus-ones and they all show up in Ultra-Car.
* [[Clue From Ed]]: The [[Rubber Band History]] version of [[The Unmasqued World]] arc comes with the following note from Willis.
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''Hint: Things are different.'' }}
* [[Crack Pairing]]: Invoked with the alternate-reality kids for the future. Some of them have really bizarre parentage--[[Screw Yourself|the kid of Doc and Doc's clone]] and [[A Date with Rosie Palms|Harold and]] [[Cargo Ship|a tube sock]] are some of the ''less'' bizarre examples.
* [[Dead Guy on Display]]: The final fate of Head Alien I--in the ''Smithsonian'', no less.
* [[Fainting]]: Happens to Danny and Billie when faced with the reality of D.J.'s existence for the first time.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Lampshaded and subverted.
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'''Monkey Master:''' All these humans look alike!
'''Head Alien II:''' ...That's sort of a cliche, don't you think?
'''Monkey Master:''' I'm serious. They're all wearing the same damn outfit.
'''Head Alien II:''' Oh. Well. Point taken. }}
* [[Flash Back]]: An extended one happens early on, which introduces us to Dorothy and tells the story of how Walky became an honor student in high school.
* [[First Episode Spoiler]]: Jason and Sal don't last, which is why Sal now lives with Joyce and Walky.
* [[Friends with Benefits]]: Jason and Sal try this for a while after their relationship falls apart. It doesn't work out.
* [[Fourth Wall Portrait]]: Walky takes a life-drawing class and is critisized by his professor for "making up anatomy."
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* [[The Fundamentalist]]: Becky's dad. [[The Niles|He's used to show]] [[Character Development|how far Joyce has come.]]
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: {{spoiler|HAII eventually pulls this on Dorothy as one last resort.}}
* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: The alt-future kids all wear goggles, but mostly on their foreheads. What purpose they serve is never explained, but given that the kids bitch at each other for stealing each other's looks they're probably [[Rule of Cool|just there for esthetic reasons.]]
* [[Got Me Doing It]]: Joyce now also uses "wiigii" instead of "woo-hoo", and probably picked it up from Walky.
* [[Friendless Background]]: Jason's employers are ''very'' happy that he comes from one of these.
* [[Halloween Cosplay]]: On occasion, with the most memorable instance of Joyce being ''just'' a word a way from [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|implying Walky was dressed as David Willis.]] Walky quickly clarifies that his costume is actually [[Harry Potter]].
* [[Happily Married|Happily Engaged and Living Together]]: The titular duo. While Joyce does become a tad paranoid when Walky starts hanging around Dorothy, their relationship is remarkably drama-free and all of their arguments are petty and short-lived.
* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Danny. He doesn't seem to mind.
* [[Hope Spot]]: The multitude of alternate-future kids have been chained up by Head Alien II, but one (D.J. Wilcox) escaped. The others think he'll be of some help, until...
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''cue [[Oh Crap]] look on the fleeing D.J.'s face''
'''HAII:''' It should be fun. }}
* [[Hypocrite]]: Joyce edges into this territory when she has a mini-freakout over Walky and Dorothy hanging out. Walky points out that she pined after both Danny and Joe and he doesn't take issue with them being around.
* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...]]: Walky threatens Jason with this when he finds out he and Sal have been sneaking around. Jason is unimpressed.
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* [[I'm Not Here to Make Friends]]: Jason's excuse for his lack of social life.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Pluto 9571 isn't a theme restaurant, it's a ''dining experience.''
* [[Intangible Man]]/[[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Electric Man, and later {{spoiler|Head Alien II.}}
* [[Left for Dead]]: Head Alien II does this for Sal and D.J., in spite of Monkey Master's insistence that D.J. still has vital signs and he should finish the job.
* [[Married to the Job]]: Jason, kind of. While he ''does'' love his job, his issues are mostly unrelated to that and he considers his [[Secret Agent|career choice]] is a convenient scapegoat for said issues.
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: Back to [https://web.archive.org/web/20120823105628/http://www.itswalky.com/d/19991219.html this Roomies! strip.] D.J. uses Danny's [[Anvilicious]] moralizing as his last words to his alt-universe father, and in doing so lends them a small bit of dignity.
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* [[Milestone Redo]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131123025958/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20070910.html Hey, Sal! Yeah, college is fine...]
* [[No Dialogue Episode]]: Joyce and Walky's wedding ceremony.
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Sal gives Head Alien II a damn good thrashing {{spoiler|while having just undergone organ transplants.}}
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* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: Machete, who doesn't carry any sort of blade.
* [[Obnoxious In-Laws]]: Sal, to Joyce.
* [[Overly Long Name]]: "I bet you never expected {{spoiler|my army of brainwashed}} kids-of-your-friends from the future! ... [[Lampshade Hanging|Doesn't roll of the tongue very easily, but not everything good is marketable.]]"
* [[Revenge]]: Joyce and Walky are ready to flee HAII's army when Machete mentions he killed {{spoiler|Sal,}} at which point they charge back into battle. Jason is a little less rash but follows them when Machete says HAII recorded the killing and watches it over and over.
* [[Right Through the Wall]]: Joyce and Walky. It gets Becky's dad on their case and, well, Becky...
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'''Joyce:''' [[Scrabble]]. [[Blatant Lies|We play very loud Scrabble]]. }}
* [[Rubber Band History]]: The [[Alternate Universe]] arc starts with a replay of the [[The Unmasqued World]] arc of ''It's Walky'', except Joe and Joyce are together now and Walky is nowhere in sight...and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
* [[Schedule Slip]]: Multiple, which resulted in the ''finale'' only being half-finished.
* [[Self-Serving Memory]]: Joyce has got a bit of a case of this with regards to her relationship with Danny in ''Roomies!''.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded.]]
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'''Danny:''' Yep. And I'm completely ready. ... ''Nothing can possibly go wrong!''
''Joe ducks under the table, than cautiously pokes his head up''
'''Joe:''' Nothing happened.
'''Danny:''' Told you everything is different. }}
** And [[Played Straight]] a moment
* [[Under the Mistletoe]]: Joyce and Sal freak out when they find themselves under it in the Dec. 2005 wallpaper.
* [[Wedding Day]]: Danny and Billie's wedding, though the duo are out of focus in favor of highlighting Sal and Joyce's hostility towards each other regarding how ''their'' relationships with Danny ended up. The comic also ends on one--[[Schedule Slip|or is about to, anyway]]
* [[Wedding Smashers]]: {{spoiler|Head Alien I in Dorothy's body.}} [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded.]]
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* [[With This Ring]]: Joe fumbles it at Danny and Billie's wedding, sending Sal and Joyce scrambling to beat each other to get it, much to the irritation of the bride and groom. Sarah beats both of them to it.
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