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* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Amber gets super strength and Gail gets... to talk with her cat. {{spoiler|At least, that's what she first thinks.}}
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Amber gets super strength and Gail gets... to talk with her cat. {{spoiler|At least, that's what she first thinks.}}
* [[Blood Knight]]: Coyote, Coyote, COYOTE.
* [[Blood Knight]]: Coyote, Coyote, COYOTE.
* [[Breast Attack]]: [http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/297539/6-20/ During the armored car robbery.]
* [[Breast Attack]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120723010053/http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/297539/6-20/ During the armored car robbery.]
* [[Car Fu]]: As seen [http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/631281/12-22/ here].
* [[Car Fu]]: As seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20160809103346/http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/631281/12-22/ here].
* Chaotic Neutral: Gail and co, but especially Jasper.
* Chaotic Neutral: Gail and co, but especially Jasper.
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Gail's secondary power always changes; This means she has all kinds of weird powers, talking to animals, [[Walking Techbane|disabling any technology she nears]], [[Telepathy]] and {{spoiler|[[Playing with Fire|pyrokinesis]]}}.
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Gail's secondary power always changes; This means she has all kinds of weird powers, talking to animals, [[Walking Techbane|disabling any technology she nears]], [[Telepathy]] and {{spoiler|[[Playing with Fire|pyrokinesis]]}}.
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* [[Perma-Stubble]]: Sean
* [[Perma-Stubble]]: Sean
* [[Power Incontinence]]: Gail. So far she has had the power to [[Speaks Fluent Animal|talk to animals]], [[EMP|electronic disruption]], [[Telepathy]] and [[Pyrokinesis]].
* [[Power Incontinence]]: Gail. So far she has had the power to [[Speaks Fluent Animal|talk to animals]], [[EMP|electronic disruption]], [[Telepathy]] and [[Pyrokinesis]].
* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: In [http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/737476/13-26/ this strip], nearly verbatim.
* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: In [https://web.archive.org/web/20111206084523/http://whenshewasbad.smackjeeves.com/comics/737476/13-26/ this strip], nearly verbatim.


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Revision as of 21:44, 1 April 2021

There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
And when she was good
She was very, very good
But when she was bad

She was horrid!
—Nursery rhyme
Every story needs a villain...
—Gail Swanson

When She Was Bad is a webcomic about Psycho Lesbian Villain Protagonist Gail Swanson, who gained superpowers when a mysterious cloaked man zaps her, in a Magical Girl story gone wrong. It's about her fights, her triumphs, her losses, her lackeys... And maybe her love life. If she can ever get the guts to ask the girl of her dreams out.

It's also about her heroic counterpart, Alpha Bitch Amber Price, who eventually resigns into her role, and tries to use her powers for good, especially against Gail Swanson.

Tropes used in When She Was Bad include: