History ComicBook / GoldDigger

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: T'mat wanted to get revenge on Tark and Mesha for their role in Dreadwing's crimes, forgetting or ignoring the fact that he had enslaved them. The arc that followed saw her commit acts of kidnapping, torture, murder, attempted murder and various acts of terrorism. While the comic doesn't justify her actions and she eventually abdicates her throne, she is never formally punished for what she did. All her actions during this arc seemed to be forgotten by the main cast, as they are never brought up again.

*** It wouldn't be so bad if these things were just done as gags all the time, but often they're ''plot relevant'' in working just like the original reference material. Gina's [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Lagann]] knockoff's ability to, well, act just like the Lagann is extremely important in the storyline. Same with the [[{{Transformers}} Matrix of Leadership]] {{Expy}} the Edge Guard have, which was transferred in a [[WholePlotReference whole scene reference]] right down to the use of "'Til all are one." (Granted, the Matrix analogue contained a planetoid-sized spaceship in its own pocket dimension, so it didn't function ''quite'' the same. Still, Fred ''does'' love to riff blatantly on ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie''.)

* BoobsOfSteel: The stronger females tend to have larger breasts (at least within their respective CastHerd)—not that this says much.

''Gold Digger'' is a [[LongRunners long-running]] US comic from Creator/AntarcticPress with [[{{Animesque}} manga-inspired art]], written and drawn by Creator/FredPerry. The first appearance of the characters was in the anthology title ''Mangazine'' Vol. 2 #11 (September, 1991). They then got their own eponymous 4-issue miniseries (September 1992-March 1993). This proved successful enough to make ''Gold Digger'' Vol. 2 an ongoing. 50 regular issues were published between July 1993 and June 1999, plus a number of annuals. These issues were mostly in black-and-white. The series was then relaunched as a full-color series. Vol. 3 started in July 1999 and is still ongoing, becoming one of the flagship series of the company. After a utterly impressive 30 year run, Perry has announced that the series will conclude with Issue #300 in 2022.

--> '''Britanny:''' Do you know how many gals would '''kill''' for [[BuxomIsBetter a nice, firm set]] like '''yours'''??? What man wouldn't fall all over himself just to get to '''talk''' to you? From now on, when you think of guys, think of broad, masculine chests...! ''(Gina looks bewildered.)'' Strong, handsome buns!! Hard, rugged muscles...! ''(A small smile graces Gina's lips.)'' And all of the warm, yummy things you can do with them...! ''(Gina's face breaks into a full-blown, "Uh-oh"-worthy CheshireCatGrin.)''

The story centers around the adventures of the kind, nerdy, and idealistic HotScientist [[GadgeteerGenius inventor]], [[AdventurerArchaeologist archaeologist and explorer]] Gina Diggers; and her BoisterousBruiser, [[ActionFashionista fashionista]], [[LastOfHisKind were-cheetah]] adopted sister/bodyguard, Britanny "Cheetah" Diggers, as they search the world (and others) for relics of the distant past.

* HotScientist: Gina and Penny.

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Xane.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: The human forms for both Britanny "Cheetah" 'Gia and her daughter Tifanny.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Issue 220 features Snuggy, the banished Amazonian sorceress. In order to sate her Amazonian breeding urges, Snuggy kidnaps men (mostly non-human male animals that she [[BalefulPolymorph shapeshifts]] into [[InvertedTrope human form]]) and hypnotizes them into having sex with her. In order to speed up the gestation process, Snuggy uses forbidden magic to rob her partner of nine months of their lives in exchange for her instantly giving birth. This means she keeps men as baby-makers until the magic process ends up killing them (via an apparently inevitable glitch in the spell that takes nine ''centuries'' from their lives sooner or later). While the wrongness of this isn't ignored, the situation is still greatly PlayedForLaughs, and Snuggy gets away with [[KarmaHoudini no comeuppance]] (other than the aforementioned banishment). Even worse, after Madrid and T'mat rescue Dao from her, they do nothing to try and stop her or rescue her other captives. (True, they have a greater mission on their minds at the time, but even if they've considered reporting Snuggy for someone else to punish, no mention is made of it.)

** Wiki/TVTropes and Website/KnowYourMeme are mentioned in the 2010 Halloween special:

* LovableSexManiac: Britanny (until her marriage; then, she concentrates all her considerable energy on Strypp) and Gina. Ironically, the latter used to be a {{Geek}}y ShrinkingViolet, until her [[TheLadette more outgoing]] sister Britanny had enough of her reclusive attitude and, to make a long story short, broke her out of her box. The result? Gina became "boy-crazy" ''[[UpToEleven even by "boy-crazy extraordinaire" Britanny's personal standards]]''. The latter doesn't know whether or not she should regret "helping" her sister.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: ...and loads. There's a tie-in comic with one-to-three page write-ups on the characters that have appeared in the series. There have been ''23'' issues published so far (though only the first 17 are on the characters; the rest focus on locations). The first 17 issues of this Guide to the GD Universe have now been collected into [[{{Doorstopper}} a two-inch-thick tome]].
** CastHerd: The characters tend to come in sub-groups–the Edge Guard, Lord Talon and minions (though he seems to have grown out of his arch-enemy phase and now counts himself among Tiffany and Pojo's classmates at their super-smart school), Agency Zero–who can hold down whole arcs or even mini-series by themselves.
** Array personifies this trope [[MesACrowd all by herself]], and [[IHaveManyNames herself]], and [[MindHive herself]], and [[TheConspiracy herself]], and [[DoppelgangerAttack herself]], and [[LivingWeapon herself]]... but they're all on the same side: ''her side!''

* OutOfFocus: Frequently, thanks to the aforementioned LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. At one point in the series, an entire year's worth of comics passed with only brief cameos from Gina and Brittany, AKA ''the main characters''.

* {{Meganekko}}: Gina, for more than several issues now.

* HeelFaceTurn: Redemption is a major running theme in this comic. Many of Gina and Britanny's enemies become their best friends and allies. Mesha, Tark, Brianna, Penny, Charlotte, Jetta...[[spoiler:Pee Wee, G'Nolga, Madrid, the Lich King, actually Patriarch Jonathan Diggers...]] Although it should be noted that of the above, plenty of them were either {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s or just a {{Jerkass}} (with Penny as one bitchy but not really that horrid rival), had outside influences compelling them to villainy (like Charlotte or [[spoiler: Jonathan, also called the Lich King]]), or did suffer extremely before turning around (Madrid) while still having to genuinely show such change.

* PetTheDog: Regular antagonist [[EnfanteTerrible Erwin "Pee Wee" Talon]] protects the newly orphaned Charlotte and takes her in for purely altruistic reasons in an AlternateUniverse.

* TerribleTrio: Multiple cases; Erwin "Pee Wee" Talon actually has two sets on his payroll. They're each other's PsychoRangers.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Gina, Penny, Lord "Pee-Wee" Talon, and many others.

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Gina, Penny, Pee-Wee, etc.

** However, the ''Gold Digger'' world at large isn't exactly "normal". Hyper-tech, HumongousMecha, and pest exterminators who deal with super-powered rodents are all ''background elements'' of the world. This is strongly exemplified when ChildProdigy supervillain Pee-Wee, a boy who has made his own genetically modified mages and muscle(wo)man bodyguards, goes to an advanced school for super-folk and finds himself ''falling behind''.

** DivergentCharacterEvolution: This tends to happen when a ShoutOut sticks around. For example Gespenst, the Lagann-machine mentioned in the Shout Out entry below tends to stay connected to the robot body she later built for it, and has been becoming a character in his own right.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Oracle, Azalea

* BaldWomen: Zelda, one of Talon's employees. In no way detracts from her AmazonianBeauty status.

* TvTropesWillRuinYourLife: Mentioned in the 2010 Halloween special:
--> Gina: Oogh...mental note: Marathon sessions at "TV Tropes" and "Know Your Meme" are ''not'' conducive to proper sleep!

''Gold Digger'' is a [[LongRunners long-running]] US comic from Creator/AntarcticPress with [[{{Animesque}} manga-inspired art]], written and drawn by Creator/FredPerry. The first appearance of the characters was in the anthology title ''Mangazine'' Vol. 2 #11 (September, 1991). They then got their own eponymous 4-issue miniseries (September 1992-March 1993). This proved successful enough to make ''Gold Digger'' Vol. 2 an ongoing. 50 regular issues were published between July 1993 and June 1999, plus a number of annuals. These issues were mostly in black-and-white. The series was then relaunched as a full-color series. Vol. 3 started in July 1999 and is still ongoing, becoming one of the flagship series of the company. After a utterly impressive 40 year run, Perry has announced that the series will conclude with Issue #300 in 2022.

''Gold Digger'' is a [[LongRunners long-running]] US comic from Creator/AntarcticPress with [[{{Animesque}} manga-inspired art]], written and drawn by Creator/FredPerry. The first appearance of the characters was in the anthology title ''Mangazine'' Vol. 2 #11 (September, 1991). They then got their own eponymous 4-issue miniseries (September 1992-March 1993). This proved successful enough to make ''Gold Digger'' Vol. 2 an ongoing. 50 regular issues were published between July 1993 and June 1999, plus a number of annuals. These issues were mostly in black-and-white. The series was then relaunched as a full-color series. Vol. 3 started in July 1999 and is still ongoing, becoming one of the flagship series of the company. Perry has announced that the series will conclude with Issue #300 in 2022.

** More recent storylines have included prehistoric CaptainErsatz versions of the WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}, WesternAnimation/JayceAndTheWheeledWarriors, the WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}, Franchise/GIJoe's Cobra (earlier, one of Dark Bird's crew is a former member), WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake and WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite as a psi-bard and prism battle priestess, respectively, and [[WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons Sheila and the Dungeon Master]]. Fred ''likes'' his Captain Ersatzes.
** The whole series sometimes appears to thrive on this, from species to certain characters. The beauty of it, at least for characters who reappear frequently, is that after the initial joke of their first appearance, they rapidly develop their own personalities so that their initial expy status becomes negligible, while still allowing the joke to work. ''E.g.,'' an orange-and-black werejaguar named ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} is introduced, but is thereafter almost always addressed as just "Gar," and his personality is nothing like Jim Davis's cat. His sister Sheila borrows a hefty amount of stuff from the ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'' cartoon character (being the team's redheaded "stealth specialist", for example), but other details go in a different direction (such as her human form being an AmazonianBeauty).

''Gold Digger'' is a [[LongRunners long-running]] US comic from Creator/AntarcticPress with [[{{Animesque}} manga-inspired art]], written and drawn by Fred Perry. The first appearance of the characters was in the anthology title ''Mangazine'' Vol. 2 #11 (September, 1991). They then got their own eponymous 4-issue miniseries (September 1992-March 1993). This proved successful enough to make ''Gold Digger'' Vol. 2 an ongoing. 50 regular issues were published between July 1993 and June 1999, plus a number of annuals. These issues were mostly in black-and-white. The series was then relaunched as a full-color series. Vol. 3 started in July 1999 and is still ongoing, becoming one of the flagship series of the company. Perry has announced that the series will conclude with Issue #300 in 2022.

* FeministFantasy: Probably one of the most tolerant and evenhanded comics around. The female characters are smart, capable, funny, goofy, distinctive, well-rounded, and memorable, in a diverse and amusing manner reminiscent of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' or ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', and avoid the bland and forced "[[PositiveDiscrimination Strong Female Characters]]" pitfalls. Fred makes a continuous effort to represent different body types and give female readers evenhanded "beefcake" treatment.

''Gold Digger'' is a [[LongRunners long-running]] US comic from Creator/AntarcticPress with [[{{Animesque}} manga-inspired art]], written and drawn by Fred Perry. The first appearance of the characters was in the anthology title ''Mangazine'' Vol. 2 #11 (September, 1991). They then got their own eponymous 4-issue miniseries (September 1992-March 1993). This proved successful enough to make ''Gold Digger'' Vol. 2 an ongoing. 50 regular issues were published between July 1993 and June 1999, plus a number of annuals. These issues were mostly in black-and-white. The series was then relaunched as a full-color series. Vol. 3 started in July 1999 and is still ongoing, becoming one of the flagship series of the company.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Good lord, Issue 259. It doesn't so much get crap past the radar as it detonates the radar and runs away laughing. Gina and Nez are transported into the bodies of expies of Megatron and Optimus respectively, and first find themselves 'uplinked' in vehicle mode, with Nez's 'plug' in Gina's port. Judging by their reaction, Fred just showed two cars having sex.
** It gets better. Nez never puts away his 'plug' in robot mode, and the 'Seekers' are visibly in awe of said plug. Nez is walking around with his dick out through most of the issue.