In The Style Of: Many of his parodies t this trope a little closer. Inverted Trope: Well, if it were a trope It Was His Sled: parodied. I Want My Jetpack: Replace "jetpack" with "ying car" and the trope name's quoted word-for-word. Know Your Vines: Relationship after camping trip: strained. The punchline of depends entirely on you reading the speech bubbles instead of imagining them as spoken dialogue.
Lightbulb Joke: How many audiophiles L Is For Dyslexia: Double subverted in this strip. And then subverted a third time in the Alt Text. Loud of War: Several strips have featured inventive audio revenge on loud car stereos and neighbours who are loud in bed.
Lol Cats: "What are you doing?! Also, "Our love is like a Brontosaurus". Love You and Everybody: I love the whole world. Someone sang the whole comic with accompaniment here. Note that the video was released within hours of the comic. Say what you will about XKCD's fandom, but damn. Manic Pixie Dream Girl: the female character. On the other hand, most characters in the strip have a strong devotion to making life a little weirder from the start, including Black Hat Guy. The appeal of this trope is parodied in comic : "I didn't actually mean be different.
I just want silly and entertaining on command now and then. He blew up her car, for Chrissakes. By moving the mines she had set up to blow up his car. She stole his hat. He likes his hat. Measuring The Marigolds: Subverted in "Beauty". Yes, scientists nd beauty and wonder in their work. It's just not always what everyone else thinks of as beautiful. Michael Bay: Knows the worst-case scenario. Black Hat Guy: Let's make a deal.
You stop trying to tell me where, when, and how I play my movies and music, and I won't crush your homes under my inexorably advancing wall of ice. Mind Screw: Here. Just so you understand how weird this is, the guy on the right is talking to the past, and it's talking back. This strip starts out fairly normal. Then the whole world falls apart all of a sudden.
The small print about "the algorithm" on the home page might also qualify as either an example or a parody: We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently nds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is Banned In China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly nds Jesus. This is not the algorithm. This is close. The story behind that is as follows: In , some billboards popped up in New York with those.
However, they apparently didn't nish it; the phrases didn't return anything relevant on Google. Randall decided to exploit this by having the many bloggers in his fanbase post the sentences as links to xkcd. He added them to the site itself so that the effort wouldn't be misinterpreted as an attempted Googlebomb. It worked; if you Google the phrases, the top results are all references to xkcd.
Mood Whiplash: Too many to fully enumerate. Some examples: segues from a Your Mom gag to something rather heartbreaking. Mundane Made Awesome: In the xkcd-Verse, computer science is revered as if it were a martial art. The story arc is a good example. Making a sandwich! Mundane Utility: Frequently, including lasers to zap squirrels.
Also, using the LHC to cause cancer in helicopters. Never Bareheaded: Black Hat Guy. Except the one time his hat was stolen. Nightmare Fuel: Velociraptors, in-universe. Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: This strip. Examined further in this one. Noodle Implements: Invoked here , to the dismay of the characters. Noodle Incident: Whatever the rest of "Comic fragment" was. Also, he somehow managed to go from upgrading a computer to being stranded out in the middle of the ocean surrounded by sharks.
Then we have Start with trying to one-up some christmas light displays on Youtube. End up ghting raptors with lightsabers, Bill Gates killing Santa, and nally cutting down the Yggdrasil as a Christmas tree.
And however he lost his genetics, rocketry, and stripping licenses in one go. Ofce Sports: What programmers get up to while their code's compiling. This comic says logarithmic scales are for quitters who don't bother with getting enough paper to display their charts properly.
Older Than They Think: In-Universe With the rapid pace of technology and information, everyone assumes that conversation is dying, newspapers are becoming sensationalist garbage, the sanctity of marriage is being threatened, society is collapsing, and things were better in the old days.
This comic shows that people have been believing this for over a century. Ontological Mystery: starts with this, and then puts another layer on top. Organ Theft: Inverted in His ice is stolen Expect to burst out laughing several times during Not from the little tidbits in it,.
That or simply stare in awe with mouth agape while thinking about how long that had to have taken to make Overly Narrow Superlative: "I love you most out of all the girls in all the world who love me back.
And subverted in Bill Amend's guest strip : Alt Text: Guest comic by Bill Amend of FoxTrot, an inspiration to all us nerdy-physics-majors-turnedcartoonists, of which there are an oddly large number. Time may count as both this and Overly-Long Gag: the image on the strip page changes every hour, forming a stop-motion video with narrative when combined on external sites such as this one.
People discussing it on the forums initially assumed it would go on for a few days, it went beyond that. Then it seemed logical that it would conclude at the end of the week, with a punchline on April 1st. When it became clear that the story was of two people building a sandcastle on the beach, the most common prediction was that upon nishing the sandcastle the tide would wash it away and the scene loop to the beginning, forming a metaphor of some sort.
Eventually the castle was nished and the tide did wash it away, the scene fading to white It has now been going on for almost three months, updating each hour, with no end in sight. Megan: That's what the rst part of not ending looks like.
P-T Parking Payback: "Police reported three dozen cheerful bystanders, yet no one claims to have seen who did it. Person with the Clothing: Black Hat Guy. Pizza Boy Special Delivery: Subverted. Pluto Is Expendable: "It's been two years. I thought those wounds had healed. But I stand by what I said. Pluto never should have been a planet.
Poor Communication Kills: Demonstrated here. Porn Names: Discussed here. Power Perversion Potential: 3D printers. Premature Aggravation: , "Thinking Ahead". Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Five of them, ranked by the likelihood of catching on. Public Secret Message: This strip Punctuated! Quip to Black: Here. The CSI meme version. Record Needle Scratch: Apparently a good name for your daughter.
Red Pill, Blue Pill: parodied. Reference Overdosed: Many comics require the reader to know the reference to get the joke. Notable is the fact that the spin-off comic has more than three times the number of strips than the original. Repeating so the Audience Can Hear: This one. Lampshaded by the Alt Text. Retirony: This strip shows an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to defy the trope, with an ofcer dying the day before his last day on the job, when the department locks retiring ofcers into a heavily protected room for that day.
This strip actually includes the opening score, making for what has to be the most subtle Rickroll ever unless you can read music. They actually rickrolled Rick Astley Subverted in this strip they hire Rick Astley to show up at a party and not sing. Complete with Glasses Pull and Quip to Black. It was only fair. Rule Number One: The rst rule of the tautology club is rst rule of the tautology club. Discussed by name. Running Gag: Cory Doctorow blogging in a hot air balloon from the blogosphere.
Raptors out there now, there vandals not to mess with his jack-o-lantern. Sarcasm Mode: "Try an Internet petition drive those totally work. Schmuck Bait: "Jeffrey is famous as the picture on the Wikipedia article on 'Necrosis' " Science Is Wrong: "No one told you because you're cute when you get into something. Selfcest: You'd think this The hipster graph is going somewhere dramatic, but no. Self-Deprecation: One way to interpret this strip. It's pretty unplayable that's kind of the point with the usual Tetris goals, but a MeFite pointed out the game is actually interesting and reasonably challenging if you try to end the game with as few pieces as you can.
Serial Escalation: There are poster sized comics. There's one or two wall sized comics. But is so big it probably wouldn't t on the oor of a passenger jet hangar. The stick gures are about half an inch tall in a world that is to them 5 miles across.
Trying to nd everything in it is likely to take at least half an hour. Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Wikipedia's propensity for this is discussed in the strip "Malamanteau".
Sexy Shirt Switch: At the bottom of , that girl in biology class wearing one of your shirts rates 4 out of 4 stars on the hotness meter. That girl in biology class wearing one of your mother's shirts rates a Flat "What. Shaped Like Itself: The basis of And According to , Colorado is shaped like its Wikipedia article.
Many, but of particular note is this one. It gets worse. Click the comic itself. Earlier than that, we have "In Popular Culture". It's very subtle, but take a look at the works listed as examples.
Any of them look familiar? Calvin And Hobbes say Hi. In the rst "" comic, one character poses the question, "How does she type with oven mitts on? The nal "" comic has the line "You'd make a great dread pirate, Roberts. The Alt Text on this one Treader. In the same one, it also has someone asking how long it'll take the u to reach Madagascar. Strip Games. See the Alt Text? Jason Fox makes a cameo appearance in this strip. Also, a Creeper can be found in one of the caves.
And you're still alive in the worst possible hell Big Brother realizes he's trapped. Sickeningly Sweethearts: Black Hat Guy and his equally sociopathic girlfriend, when they think no one's watching. God help you if you catch them at it. Silent Scenery Panel: The occasional landscape drawings. So Bad Its Horrible: Conversed here. Something Person: Etymology-man!
Sophisticated as Hell: Strip 36 And this one This happens a lot. Check this strip. Special Edition Title: On October 26, , the site was temporarily redesigned in a retraux early 90's style in dubious honor of the end of Geocities. Complete with broken HTML! Spin The Earth Backwards: Sort of. Spy Speak: Parodied. You'll understand. Starsh Alien: Whatever the entity in Steroids is. The point is that there are too many stars. It's been freaking me out.
Stealth Pun: Ahem. This strip. In this strip , where an audience member lampshades its use. In this strip , beneath Black Hat Guy's tool bench is a box labelled "drills" and a box labelled "non-drills". This strip shows a guy deriding a few people playing Rock Band, telling them it doesn't make them cool Swallowed a Fly: This strip, referencing a similar example in Serenity.
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Getting Crap Past the Radar contains the occasional legitimate entry, if you're lucky enough to stumble across it. I'm not sure that applies to Fridge Brilliance. I'm going to use this opportunity to post my favorite WMG entry. I hope to God that's one of those WMGs that aren't meant to be serious I really do!
It's just so perfect, in how utterly it misunderstands what a deconstruction is to not understanding the actual conventions of Toku to the utter pretentiousness of it. I didn't realize those entries were not legitimate Then again, I stay with a limited pool of games and shows Although I really should have guessed that Joker one since the oni tropes are opposites, aren't they?
Or was that one even there last I read it? Even 4chan has one. You could stop it there and it'd be fine, I think. Except she's fictional, and they're treating it like someone standing up against rape. Anyways, back to Fridge Ass Pull: "As different as the Disney movie is from the original book, you could justify it by saying that the Disney version is the version that Clopin is telling to the kids he's performing for, while the book's version is closer to what really happened.
Sometimes it's interesting, but mostly it's just people declaring their fanwanks canon. The first time you see them, they throw a few dozen planes and landing craft at Rio with or without potential partisans inside the city in an attempt to decapitate the Brazilian leadership and gain dominance over Latin America. Naturally, you a pilot for the local PMC , Artemis, which has just signed a "lucrative" contract with the Brazilians tear them to shreds, save the Brazilians, and earn tons of money for Artemis while LT has botched their first strike and now has to await a counterattacked coupled with American intervention against them.
All well and good, right? But pay attention to the briefing for that mission: it says that Las Trinidad's PMC ie "Mercenary" units have been put on high alert, so chances are that the LT units you killed off at Rio and in the few other missions later were not "home-grown" units dedicated to LT's agenda, but rather mercenaries with no permanent loyalties and who are thus disposable.
So, after their defeat by Artemis at Rio forces LT on the defensive, what do they do? Keep this in mind. Naturally, you being the patriotic, pro-American gamer that you are, desert and start kicking Artemis around. This naturally ticks Uncle Sam off likely since Artemis is probably American-based, is largely run and staffed by Americans, and is in violation of the Reykjavik accords , and thus they demand that Artemis disarm.
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