History Characters / SluggyFreelance

* CanNotSpitItOut - Torg's crush on Zoë, which has been going for at least eight years. To be fair, he did spit it out to a parallel earth Zoë; [[spoiler:it didn't end well, and he doesn't want to put the home-dimension Zoe at risk.]] Given the survival/sanity records of his girlfriends, not spitting it out is fairly sensible.

* BaldWomen: For some time. (While changed into a camel, she bit off Gwynn's hair; Gwynn retaliated with a spell that made Zoe lose all of her hair.)

* [[spoiler:FateWorseThanDeath: Thought to be KilledOffForReal, Zoe is revealed to be alive...unconscious and permanently hooked up to life support. Her body is far too weak for morphine so she spends her conscious hours screaming in pain. The worst part? Her injures are so severe that ''her body will never heal''.]]
** [[spoiler:It's gotten worse. Technology in that city actually ''can'' heal her body, and has. Unfortunately, it didn't have a similar "snapshot" of her mind. She's a perfectly healthy body - with a blank mind sitting inside. The Zoe they knew is gone; all that is left is her living husk.]]

* MyNameIsNotDurwood - Almost always refers to Torg as 'nerdboy' (though he has used his real name a handful of times). Also often refers to Zoe and indeed any woman as 'toots'.

Formerly the cast's neighbor at the apartment complex, now a vampire WalkingTheEarth. He is the former owner of Kiki and still feels very protective of her. Has a crush on Zoe. Must steer clear of Riff, who tries to stake him whenever he spots him.

* MurderTheHypotenuse - Oasis has this as her default mode of dealing with any and all challengers for Torg's affection. She once tried this with Gwynn under the mistaken impression that Gwynn was Zoe. The most recent story, bROKEN, sees her finally identifying Zoe correctly... and believing Torg was "mistaken" when he said he didn't love Zoe.

* MoralEventHorizon - More for the readers than the characters themselves, it's either when he [[spoiler: crushes Alt-Zoe with a building that was meant for Torg]], or when he [[spoiler: kills Mosp for getting in his way.]]

The first true BigBad of the series, K'Z'K (often called Kiske, much to his chagrin) is an extremely powerful demon Torg and Riff accidentally unleashed while playing with the Book of Evil. Although defeated by Torg and Zoe, he did not die, but instead his lingering will latched onto a depressed Gwynne and attempted to corrupt her into his new host before once again being vanished. Although his status as BigBad has long since been passed over to Hereti Corp, he is still a constant presence in the comic, as his demonic servants have now formed a cult to free him from his banishment...

* NakedFirstImpression - Named one of the books, "Game called on account of naked chick."

** [[spoiler:Well, that's what he thought, at any rate. Turns out his tech was just stolen by HeretiCorp.]]

* ProperlyParanoid: ...Then again, both Aylee and Sam are members of extremely powerful species who do ''eat'' people (though Aylee has evolved beyond that need) and, at times, have become threats due to inability to fully resist such hunger. At the very least, the weapons and gadgets he made out of said paranoia ''have'' saved the group's bacon multiple times.

**** [[spoiler:And she got better due to the results of Riff's amazing BatmanGambit]]
* [[spoiler:[[HesJustHiding She's Just Hiding]]: Just ask most of the fans. Turns out she was, but is in ''far'' worse shape than most thought.]]

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, except that he'll cheerfully feast off even his friends without bothering to, y'know, ask. Not that he hasn't actually defended them against threats, but he's a bit of a threat himself at times.
* SuperLoser

* [[spoiler:SixthRanger: While technically filling in for Riff as TheLancer, she will probably get this role if everyone comes back.]]

* SpikesOfVillainy - All over him.
* OrcusOnHisThrone - Horribus' attempts to retrieve Torg involve sending his minions one by one, each Hallowe'en. Justified as dimensional transport gives him stomach problems, and the one time he goes after Torg himself he ends up spending that Hallowe'en... [[ToiletHumour on a throne]].

** Riff's little shopping trip in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020602 this strip]] hung a big honkin' lampshade on it.

* [[spoiler:XanatosGambit: Riff pulls off an epic one at the end of 4U City Red.]]

**** [[spoiler:And she got better due to the results of Riff's amazing XanatosGambit]]

** [[spoiler:It's gotten worse. Technology in that city actually ''can'' heal her body, and has. Unfortunately, it didn't have a similar "snapshot" of her mind. She's a perfectly healthy body - with a blank mind sitting inside. The Zoe they knew is gone.]]

* ITasteDelicious - They're chocolate-flavored

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe - Two notable forms Aylee has used.

* TheLeisureSuitLarry

* ThirdPersonPerson - Sam's da man! (Though he doesn't always do this - just when he's trying to [[TheLeisureSuitLarry charm the ladies]].)

* {{Flanderization}} - Bun-bun used to be strong, clever, and [[strike: a bit]] very anti-social, but still could be dealt with and suffered losses just as frequently as wins (Zoë once simply punted him through a wall). He's since become so ridiculously powerful and skilled that it literally took a heavily lampshaded DeusExMachina to defeat him.

A time traveler from an alternate timeline where K'Z'K took over the world. He is an expert in inflatable technology and alternates between a cowardly AntiHero and (mostly) [[strike:sym]]pathetic villain.

* CatchPhrase: "Time to die, nerdboy!" and similar, along with his switchblade's distinctive 'ka-click!' sound effect.

* NotSoAboveItAll - Zoë sometimes dives head-first into the weirdness eagerly.

* {{Flanderization}} - Bun-bun used to be strong, clever, and [[strike: a bit]] very anti-social, but still could be dealt with and suffered losses just as frequently as wins (Zoë once simply punted him through a wall). He's since become so ridiculously powerful and skilled that it literally took a heavily lampshaded DeusExMachina to defeat him.

* CanNotSpitItOut - Torg's crush on Zoë, which has been going for at least eight years. To be fair, he did spit it out to a parallel earth Zoë; [[spoiler:it didn't end well, and he doesn't want to put the home-dimension Zoe at risk.]] Given the survival/sanity records of his girlfriends, not spitting it out is fairly sensible.

** He was already {{Wangst}}ing when he got to 4U, because he [[spoiler:felt responsible for Zoë's death, since he didn't know Oasis can create explosions with her mind, and assumed his experimental prototype was to blame.]]

'''Zoe'''

* TheChosenOne - Zoë was foretold to be the "Storm Breaker," who will defeat the demon K'Z'K. [[spoiler: It's 'She will bring about' the defeat of K'Z'K. Thanks to the end of [[WhamEpisode bROKEN]] it seems that she's the catalyst that pushes Torg (and Chaz) closer and closer to the fight with K'Z'K.]]

* ProperlyParanoid: ...Then again, both Aylee and Sam are members of extremely powerful species who do ''eat'' people (though Aylee has evolved beyond that need) and, at times, have become threats due to inability to fully resist such hunger. At the very least, the weapons and gadgets he made out of said paranoia ''hav'' saved the group's bacon multiple times.

* ProperlyParanoid: ...Then again, the weapons and gadgets he made out of said paranoia ''has'' saved the group's bacon multiple times.