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[[File:xkcd-compiling-resize_4449.png|link=http://xkcd.com/303/|frame|'Are you stealing those LCDs?' 'Yeah, but I'm doing it while my code compiles.']]
{{quote|''Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics [[Hard on Soft Science|(which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).]]''|The disclaimer at the bottom of every ''xkcd'' webpage}}
'''''[http://xkcd.com xkcd]''''' is a [[Stick Figure Comic]] by Randall Munroe. It is a gag-a-day
Originally a relatively unknown set of personal sketches and doodles, it grew in popularity in 2006 when other webcomics (such as ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'') began linking to it. However, it was when Randall posted a "[http://xkcd.com/195/ Map of the Internet]", and said map was subsequently [http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/11/1150241 featured on Slashdot], that xkcd's popularity truly erupted. Since then, it has been among the most well-known of webcomics.
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There are other recurring characters in the same social circle -- e.g. the [http://xkcd.com/220/ dark-haired] [http://xkcd.com/625/ existential nihilist] -- but most of them are less distinctive.
Has mentioned [http://xkcd.com/609/ the original TV Tropes wiki]. The wiki has returned the favor, taking many ''xkcd'' comics for page images (see [[xkcd/Trivia]] for the list), which behavior All The Tropes has continued.
''xkcd'' is part of the documentation for ''goto'' on the [http://fi.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.goto.php PHP website], and was mentioned [https://web.archive.org/web/20150326223351/http://asset.soup.io/asset/0453/8747_0991_800.png as a ticket in a changelog]<ref>For those curious, [http://xkcd.com/619/ here's #619]</ref>.
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* [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]: [http://xkcd.com/57/ 57: Wait For Me]
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: In-universe, string theorists, liberal arts majors, [http://xkcd.com/610/ 610: Objectivists] (and [http://xkcd.com/1049/ again] at 1049), [http://xkcd.com/590/ 590: typographers] and [http://xkcd.com/114/ 114: computational linguists]. Also, [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|Velociraptors]].
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: [http://xkcd.com/141/ 141: Parody Week], whose strips don't really make fun of anything and, in some cases, could actually have been used by the regular cartoonist except for the artwork. It turns into a deconstruction of parody with the author halting his [[Megatokyo]] parody because he feels sorry for the writer. The author also stops a later [[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]] parody because he respects the writers too much (with the respect transitioning to [[Ho Yay]] and then [[Slash Fic]] before he finishes.)
* [[Aggressive Categorism]]: [http://xkcd.com/385/ 385: How It Works].
{{quote|'''Guy to Guy''': Wow, you suck at math.
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* [[Angrish]]: One comic has a father conditioning his daughter's speech centers to shut down when she's upset. [[Hilarity Ensues]] to say the least: [http://xkcd.com/573/ 573, "Parental Trolling"]
* [[Animal Athlete Loophole]]: There's no rule saying a meerkat can't play [http://www.xkcd.com/115/ rugby!]
* [[Animalistic Abomination]]: [https://xkcd.com/1013/ In this strip], "sheeple" - a term normally employed by soapboxers and cranks addressing the "unwashed masses" - turns out to mean "race of underground-dwelling sheep people". [[Be Careful What You Wish For|Do not wake the Sheeple]].
* [[Anything But That]]: Many of the strips revolve around Randall's fear of velociraptors.
* [[Applied Mathematics]]: It's fond of this.
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