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* CameraShy: Calvin really, ''really'' hates getting his picture taken, despite being an AttentionWhore most of the time. Whenever his parents try to take a photo of him, he always makes an ugly face at the last second to mess it up.
** In the [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/12/14 December 14, 1988 arc]], Calvin is in a bad mood because he has to wear a suit and tie (which he thinks are "dorky clothes") and get his hair combed for Christmas card photos. His dad keeps trying to take his picture, but he repeatedly makes ugly faces to ruin them.
--->'''Dad''': ''(later, looking at a series of ruined photos)'' We can't send these in our Christmas cards. People will think it's sacrilegeous.
--->'''Mom''': Well, these ''do'' look like Calvin...except for the combed hair.
** The [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/11/11 November 11, 1990 Sunday strip]] is just a long series of Calvin making goofy faces, with only the last panel revealing that they're photos.
--->'''Dad''': That's our son! ''(sigh)''
--->'''Mom''': These pictures will remind us of more than we want to remember.
** Yet another example: in the [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/10/12 October 12, 1990 strip]], Calvin's dad is taking a picture of him, and Calvin holds his smile for a few seconds before making a disgusted face just before the camera goes off.
** In the [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/12/14 December 14, 1988 arc]], Calvin is in a bad mood because he has to wear a suit and tie (which he thinks are "dorky clothes") and get his hair combed for Christmas card photos. His dad keeps trying to take his picture, but he repeatedly makes ugly faces to ruin them.
--->'''Dad''': ''(later, looking at a series of ruined photos)'' We can't send these in our Christmas cards. People will think it's sacrilegeous.
--->'''Mom''': Well, these ''do'' look like Calvin...except for the combed hair.
** The [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/11/11 November 11, 1990 Sunday strip]] is just a long series of Calvin making goofy faces, with only the last panel revealing that they're photos.
--->'''Dad''': That's our son! ''(sigh)''
--->'''Mom''': These pictures will remind us of more than we want to remember.
** Yet another example: in the [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/10/12 October 12, 1990 strip]], Calvin's dad is taking a picture of him, and Calvin holds his smile for a few seconds before making a disgusted face just before the camera goes off.
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* ClueFromEd: Parodied as part of a TakeThat against UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks in one of the violent superhero comics Calvin is reading, where it says "See Ish #374!" when the "hyper-phase distortion blaster" is shown.
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* ClueFromEd: Parodied as part of a TakeThat against UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks in one of the violent superhero comics Calvin is reading, where it says "See Ish #374!" when the "hyper-phase distortion blaster" is shown.
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* AccidentalGoodOutcome: In one strip, Calvin [[SneezeOfDoom sneezes so hard that he sends himself into outer space]]. He lets out another sneeze, thus pushing himself back to earth.
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* AuthorAppeal:
** Watterson seems to have a thing for women with shortish brown hair. He has admitted that he designed Susie Derkins' design on the type of woman that he found attractive (or rather, what they must have been like as kids), and Calvin's Mom isn't much different. It's not a coincidence that they're the love interests of the characters Watterson himself most identifies with (Calvin and Hobbes for Susie, Calvin's Dad for Calvin's Mom.)
** His environmentalist messages, dislike of the consumer culture, and support artistic integrity (admittedly while he was having to keep his syndicate from licensing the strip for merchandise) got quite heavy-handed at times.
** Watterson seems to have a thing for women with shortish brown hair. He has admitted that he designed Susie Derkins' design on the type of woman that he found attractive (or rather, what they must have been like as kids), and Calvin's Mom isn't much different. It's not a coincidence that they're the love interests of the characters Watterson himself most identifies with (Calvin and Hobbes for Susie, Calvin's Dad for Calvin's Mom.)
** His environmentalist messages, dislike of the consumer culture, and support artistic integrity (admittedly while he was having to keep his syndicate from licensing the strip for merchandise) got quite heavy-handed at times.
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** One strip has Calvin imagine himself as an ant who gets tired of slaving away for the colony and decides to stop working and relax, deciding some other chump can do the Queen's bidding. He would not being relaxing for long as forager ants that stop being useful (whether through injury or decision) are killed as soon as the rest of the worker ants take notice of their insubordination.
