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* CainAndabel: The final villain of Wiebe's fun is Voon, master of the Flesher orcs, and the elder brother of Braga.
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* CainAndabel: CainAndAbel: The final villain of Wiebe's fun is Voon, master of the Flesher orcs, and the elder brother of Braga.
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* FanDisservice: Sawyer goes full frontal...while he's being tortured.
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* HangoverSensitivity: Explicitly invoked in the preview and issue #2
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* HandWave: A ShockingSwerve murder is changed in flashback to the first skirmish in a townwide doppelganger attack. * HangoverSensitivity: Explicitly invoked in the preview and issue #2
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''Rat Queens'' is a ComicBook by Kurtis Wiebe for Creator/ImageComics, with artwork by Roc Upchurch. Stjepan Šejić replaced Upchurch as the main artist for issues #9 and #10, with Tess Fowler taking over issues 11-16. In response to fan backlash Wiebe pulled the series for a year, returning in March 2017 with artist Owen Gieni.
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''Rat Queens'' is a ComicBook by Kurtis Wiebe for Creator/ImageComics, with artwork by Roc Upchurch. Stjepan Šejić replaced Upchurch as the main artist for issues #9 and #10, with Tess Fowler taking over issues 11-16. In response to fan backlash Wiebe pulled the series for a year, returning in March 2017 with artist Owen Gieni.Gieni[[note]]This confused issue numbers with original run #1-16, then retool run #1-ongoing. As of retool #10 both runs are canon[[/note]]. In April 2019 Wiebe and Gieni handed off to writer Ryan Ferrier and artist Priscilla Petraites.
* ArcWelding: The High Fantasies arc culminates in an encounter with illusionist Castiwyr. He is revealed as working on behalf of the villain for the Colossal Magic Nothing arc, [[spoiler:Evil Hannah]]. The same villain claims to be [[TheManBehindTheMan behind the Once and Future King.]]
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The Slog Chimp is a legendary monster rumored to live in the swamp and used to frighten children. According to Betty he's a pretty chill guy.
* {{Biomanipulation}}: The Flesher orcs claim to unleash the potential of the mind to reshape the physical form to match. The process is usually lethal but survivors are formidable soldiers.
* CerebusRetcon: The first arc of the retool is High Fantasies, a return-to-form heavy on jokes and quick conflicts rather than an overarching villain. In the Colossal Magic Nothing it's revealed that the closing conflict of High Fantasies was in fact a new villain probing the Queens for psychological weaknesses.
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* TheConscience: Betty for the Queens. Despite her role as the team's rogue and her loose interpretation of property law, Betty is committed to keeping the group together and doing the right thing for people in need.
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* TheConscience: Betty CrystalWeapon: Dee conjures them for the Queens. Despite her role as whole team when steel crumples against the team's rogue and her loose interpretation armor of property law, Betty is committed to keeping the group together and doing the right thing for people in need.Flesher orcs.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: All of them, supposedly. Per Lady Love a mortal ascends to godhood by viewing the world through ancient eyes, effecting some major change on the world, and hearing a prayer to themselves. Per Bilford Bogin if that major change is undone then the god reverts to mortality.
* EurekaMoment: Violet has one in a flashback. She is resigned to an unhappy life trapped by family conventions until she meets a woman who escaped by rejecting the same conventions and realizes that's an option.
* ExtraEyes: N'rygoth has two primary eyes, each surrounded by a circle of smaller eyes.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Deliberately averted. The female characters who are the focus of the party for the most part dress like you would expect professional killers-for-hire to dress. Hannah and Dee's costumes are light, Betty's is cut for maximum freedom of movement, and Violet wears fairly reasonable body armor. They also all have quite distinct and plausible body shapes.
** Not so much in the comic itself, but there's also the "Sexy Men of ''Rat Queens''" fanart images Kurtis and Roc have been posting on the comic's Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter pages when they receive it as a response to the overwhelming prevalence of {{stripperific}} female armor you usually see in fantasy art. Well, maybe not that one of [[ButtMonkey Gary]]....)
** Not so much in the comic itself, but there's also the "Sexy Men of ''Rat Queens''" fanart images Kurtis and Roc have been posting on the comic's Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter pages when they receive it as a response to the overwhelming prevalence of {{stripperific}} female armor you usually see in fantasy art. Well, maybe not that one of [[ButtMonkey Gary]]....)
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* FamilyOfChoice: While some of the Queens have surviving family members, it's stated at several points that they consider the Queens as family. Braga explicity chooses them over her birth family.
* FanDisservice: Sawyer goes full frontal...while he's being tortured.
* {{Fanservice}}: Sometimes.
** Deliberatelyaverted.averted in daily adventuring. The female characters who are the focus of the party for the most part dress like you would expect professional killers-for-hire to dress. Hannah and Dee's costumes are light, Betty's is cut for maximum freedom of movement, and Violet wears fairly reasonable body armor. They also all have quite distinct and plausible body shapes.
**Not so much in the comic itself, but there's Embraced whenever a Queen has a sexual encounter.
** There's also the "Sexy Men of ''Rat Queens''" fanart images Kurtis and Roc have been posting on the comic's Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter pages when they receive it as a response to the overwhelming prevalence of {{stripperific}} female armor you usually see in fantasy art. Well, maybe not that one of [[ButtMonkey Gary]]....)
* FanDisservice: Sawyer goes full frontal...while he's being tortured.
* {{Fanservice}}: Sometimes.
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* FlippingTheBird: Hannah throws a double when she storms through a magic mirror after an ugly conversation with the room's remaining audience.
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* FlippingTheBird: Hannah drops several as expressions of defiance, often while leaving.
** She throws a doublewhen she storms while storming through a the magic mirror after an ugly conversation with at the room's remaining audience.end of the Demons arc.
** Another double when she is attacked by the Colossal Magic Nothing.
** And her bird is the last thing shown when she makes a quick exit near the end of Once and Future King.
** She throws a double
** Another double when she is attacked by the Colossal Magic Nothing.
** And her bird is the last thing shown when she makes a quick exit near the end of Once and Future King.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Inverted with [[spoiler:the cult of N'rygoth]] where humans invoking the god's rituals drain that god's ability to act of its own volition, or even wake up.
* GruesomeGoat: Referenced in a couple places.
** Half-demon children grow goat horns. The more evil the person, the longer and more curled the horns become.
** N'rygoth itself is pictured with horizontal pupils like goat eyes.
** Half-demon children grow goat horns. The more evil the person, the longer and more curled the horns become.
** N'rygoth itself is pictured with horizontal pupils like goat eyes.
* HeroicSacrifice: Bilford Bogin claims he died intentionally to unite the better angels of smidgens. Worship has spilled out to other races also.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: A couple noteworthy examples.
** The Once and Future King rides a giant dog named Professor Fudge.
** The same king's army uses giant crows for long-distance scouting/assassination.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: A couple noteworthy examples.
** The Once and Future King rides a giant dog named Professor Fudge.
** The same king's army uses giant crows for long-distance scouting/assassination.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: A brief one in the Underpit among the Queens when they are turned into PeoplePuppets against each other.
* LocalHangout: The Black Satyr is popular with all the adventuring parties in Palisade. It's run by Maestro, a former adventurer bard, and his daughter Maddie.
* {{Magitek}}: Hannah uses a necromancy-based cell phone. It's powered by souls and can only reach her dead mother.
* MeaningfulEcho: Retool issue #14 sees a desperate Betty praying for the first time since her childhood. Uncertain of divine intervention she reassures herself with Dee's adage.
*** '''Betty:''' Goddess enough.
*** '''Betty:''' Goddess enough.
* MissingChild: Played oddly with [[spoiler:Orc Dave]]. A one-off reveals he had a child. Several issues later the child is discovered and revealed to have been kidnapped in front of the father, who never mentioned it nor took any action to seek out said child.
* NotWorthKilling: In #19 the king arrests the Queens for a show trial and execution but boots their junior member Maddie aside entirely.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Early in #19 Maddie the bard gets kicked offscreen by the king. She reappears in the same issue covered in the blood of the king's army she slaughtered without taking a scratch herself.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Early in #19 Maddie the bard gets kicked offscreen by the king. She reappears in the same issue covered in the blood of the king's army she slaughtered without taking a scratch herself.
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* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Maddie is subject to these due to her youth and inexperience. Two examples are on Violet's treasure hunt and in combat with the Once and Future King.
* PunishedWithUgly: Castiwyr claims his fishy appearance is due to a curse. As a favor Hannah kisses him to break the curse and he transforms into a drop-dead gorgeous human male. He claims the new form is his true one and equally disgusting. [[TricksterGod But maybe he was just messing with her.]]
* RealityIsOutToLunch: The Far-Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth arc has reality-bending monsters invade Palisade. Participants in one attack warp from charging into the fight to dragging their wounded and dead to cover with no memory of the actual combat.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:Sawyer.Sawyer tends to negotiate between the law-abiding citizenry and rowdy adventurers instead of cracking down.
* PunishedWithUgly: Castiwyr claims his fishy appearance is due to a curse. As a favor Hannah kisses him to break the curse and he transforms into a drop-dead gorgeous human male. He claims the new form is his true one and equally disgusting. [[TricksterGod But maybe he was just messing with her.]]
* RealityIsOutToLunch: The Far-Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth arc has reality-bending monsters invade Palisade. Participants in one attack warp from charging into the fight to dragging their wounded and dead to cover with no memory of the actual combat.
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* SimilarSquad: Violet's brother Barrie draws from her playbook and forms the Cat Kings: an elderly male mage, an outdoorsy extrovert druid, and a silent sentient fungus of questionable utility.
* TheBard: At least three of note.
** One member of the Chorus.
** Maestro, proprietor of the Black Satyr tavern.
** Maddie, Maestro's daughter and the Black Satyr's waitress.
** One member of the Chorus.
** Maestro, proprietor of the Black Satyr tavern.
** Maddie, Maestro's daughter and the Black Satyr's waitress.
* TricksterGod: Castiwyr is introduced as an immortal illusionist jerking mortals around out of boredom. His presence in the gods' domain shows he is a technical god just like Lady Love and Bilford Bogin.
* WeddingFinale: Played for Wiebe's departure from the series at the end of Infernal Path.
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* WorldOfSnarkWildChild: Dalen was taken very young from his father by the Flesher orcs. He's a rare case that survived the biomanipulation process but didn't actually transform. Needless to say growing up around an army of violent monstrosities did nothing for his social skills. His father rescued him and is trying to repair the damage with mixed results.
* WorldOfSnark: The Queens trade barbs with each other, allies, enemies, passersby...
* WorldOfSnark: The Queens trade barbs with each other, allies, enemies, passersby...
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: There's a major character reveal in the second arc where [[spoiler:Hannah shows her demon horns to Sawyer.]] By the retool run a couple arcs later that's routinely shown on the cover art.
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* AmicableExes: It is strongly implied that Hannah and Sawyer are this now. [[spoiler: Not exactly "ex", and more like FriendsWithBenefits, as seen in Issue 6.]]
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* AmicableExes: It is strongly implied that Hannah and Sawyer are this now. [[spoiler: Not [[spoiler:Not exactly "ex", and more like FriendsWithBenefits, as seen in Issue 6.]]
* BabiesEverAfter: Played in the Colossal Magic Nothing arc's flash-forward. Violet and Mathias have five children plus Betty and Faeyri have two more. With domestic bliss in stride they dust off their equipment to go check on [[OneLastJob one small task]] for Violet's clan...
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Smidgeon Dave manages to distract a group of orcs by conjuring an image of a naked orc chick, leaving them ogling until they're impaled by arrows.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Wiebe likes to drop bread crumbs while writing.
** Atheist cleric Dee is asked how she's able to do divine-derived cleric spells despite not believing in gods. She answers, "I'm goddess enough." [[spoiler:In the Infernal Path arc she ascends to godhood herself.]]
** Violet acquires a sword from a dragon's hoard in the Demons arc that gives her a vision of combat with an evil sorceress. [[spoiler:In the Colossal Magic Nothing arc that vision pays off with evil Hannah.]]
** Atheist cleric Dee is asked how she's able to do divine-derived cleric spells despite not believing in gods. She answers, "I'm goddess enough." [[spoiler:In the Infernal Path arc she ascends to godhood herself.]]
** Violet acquires a sword from a dragon's hoard in the Demons arc that gives her a vision of combat with an evil sorceress. [[spoiler:In the Colossal Magic Nothing arc that vision pays off with evil Hannah.]]
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* OneLastJob: In the flash-forward of the Colossal Magic Nothing arc, Violet leads the gang to dust off their equipment to run down some troubling reports at the edge of her clan's territory...
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** Later arcs reintroduced the axed elements as an alternate timeline now making an attack on the retooled timeline.
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* SixthRanger: As of the first issue the Rat Queens are one of several adventuring parties competing in Palisade, also including Braga of the Peaches party. By the High Fantasies arc Braga was officially inducted into the Queens.
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* IdenticallyNamedGroup: The Four Daves are an adventuring party composed of men all named Dave. To tell them apart, they're referred to by their species (Human Dave, Orc Dave, etc.)
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* FlatEarthAtheist: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Dee. Dee is an atheist but she seems to be reasonable in why she doesn't believe in the gods (explicitly citing the god she was raised to serve as ridiculous), and the world has not given particular reason for either belief or disbelief in any gods. In Dee's words, "I'm Goddess enough for me."
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* FlatEarthAtheist: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Dee. Dee is an atheist but she seems to be reasonable in why she doesn't believe in the gods (explicitly citing the god she was raised to serve as ridiculous), and the world has not given particular reason for either belief or disbelief in any gods. In Dee's words, "I'm Goddess enough for me."" She also retains some cultural traditions even if she doesn't believe in the religious component of them, such as showing respect to the dead with a prayer position--she tells her husband that she doesn't need to be a believer to find such things important and comforting.
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* TrickedToDeath: Betty carries a bag of candy mixed with poison just in case her stuff gets stolen. It pays off when she's captured by goblins who immediately gorge themselves and die.
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* CainAndabel: The final villain of Wiebe's fun is Voon, master of the Flesher orcs, and the elder brother of Braga.
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* MoralMyopia: Voon believes Braga has to pay for her betrayal of him, and how dare she go after him when he's family. The fact that Voon ''tried to murder her'' before her transition, murdered her lover and has no compunction trying to torture Braga to death is kind of lost on him.
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* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler: Braga was the recipient of this back before she transitioned and the heir to an orc clan. For the most part, she likes it better that way]].
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* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler: Braga was the recipient of this back before she transitioned and was the heir to an orc clan. For the most part, she likes it better that way]].
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* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler: Braga was the recipient of this back when she was male and the heir to an orc clan. For the most part, she likes it better that way]].
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* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler: Braga was the recipient of this back when before she was male transitioned and the heir to an orc clan. For the most part, she likes it better that way]].
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* BaitAndSwitchBoss: Played twice in quick succession: the Queens are sent to wipe out a goblin hold, which turns into an ambush by an elite assassin, who is himself squished by a troll, who ''then'' attacks the party.
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* TheConscience: Betty for the Queens. Despite her role as the team's rogue and her loose interpretation of property law, Betty is committed to keeping the group together and doing the right thing for people in need.
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* FacialMarkings: the followers of N'Rygoth get facial tattoos above and below their eyes as they advance in the cult.
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''Rat Queens'' is a ComicBook by Kurtis Wiebe for Creator/ImageComics, with artwork by Roc Upchurch. Stjepan Šejić replaced Upchurch as the main artist for issues #9 and #10, with Tess Fowler taking over issues 11-15. In response to fan backlash Wiebe pulled the series for a year, returning in March 2017 with artist Owen Gieni.
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''Rat Queens'' is a ComicBook by Kurtis Wiebe for Creator/ImageComics, with artwork by Roc Upchurch. Stjepan Šejić replaced Upchurch as the main artist for issues #9 and #10, with Tess Fowler taking over issues 11-15.11-16. In response to fan backlash Wiebe pulled the series for a year, returning in March 2017 with artist Owen Gieni.
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* ArtShift: Inevitable when Stjepan Sejic took over art duties from Roc Upchurch (see [[Trivia/RatQueens the Trivia page]]), and then again when Tess Fowler took over from Sejic.
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* ArtShift: Inevitable when Stjepan Sejic took over art duties from Roc Upchurch (see [[Trivia/RatQueens the Trivia page]]), and then again when Tess Fowler took over from Sejic. Sejic, and ''again'' when Owen Gieni stepped in for the retool.
* TheAtoner: Sawyer had a criminal past before he joined Palisade's law-and-order.
* TheAtoner: Sawyer had a criminal past before he joined Palisade's law-and-order.
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* DarkSecret: [[spoiler: Sawyer is apparently responsible for the death of the wife of the leader of the merchant guild, and is heavily implied to be a former member of the assassin group.]]
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* DarkSecret: [[spoiler: Sawyer Sawyer]] is apparently responsible for the death of the wife of the leader of the merchant guild, and is heavily implied to be a former member of the assassin group.]]
* PathOfInspiration: A bizarrely inverted example in the N'rygoth cult that started as a straight ReligionOfEvil, but the worshippers got less fanatical and stopped being evil. [[spoiler: In fact, the cult's rituals are designed to slowly '''kill''' the chained Eldritch Abomination. Only the High Priest knows the full truth.]]
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* ReligionOfEvil: Subverted with the worshipers of N'rygoth. Dee's family seem quite nice, but Kiah is aware that the religion's relics and incantations can be twisted to evil by a man with malicious intent -- much like any religion that ''doesn't'' worship an EldritchAbomination.
** PathOfInspiration: A bizarrely inverted example. [[spoiler:The N'rygoth cult started as a straight ReligionOfEvil, but the worshippers got less fanatical and stopped being evil. But in fact, the cult's rituals are designed to slowly '''kill''' the chained Eldritch Abomination. Only the High Priest knows the full truth.]]
* {{Retool}}: In 2016 Wiebe put the series on hold for a year. He came back with a new artist in March 2017 by just ignoring the least popular parts of the third arc and bringing everyone back to base.
* TheRival: The Peaches, introduced in the first story arc, may be this for the Rat Queens, but more likely it's just that Hannah and Tizzie, the leader of the Peaches, get under each other's skins. A flashback shows that (unsurprisingly) they used to be close friends when they were in school, and in times when things get too dangerous for them to remember that they hate each other they have exceptional teamwork abilities.
** PathOfInspiration: A bizarrely inverted example. [[spoiler:The N'rygoth cult started as a straight ReligionOfEvil, but the worshippers got less fanatical and stopped being evil. But in fact, the cult's rituals are designed to slowly '''kill''' the chained Eldritch Abomination. Only the High Priest knows the full truth.]]
* {{Retool}}: In 2016 Wiebe put the series on hold for a year. He came back with a new artist in March 2017 by just ignoring the least popular parts of the third arc and bringing everyone back to base.
* TheRival: The Peaches, introduced in the first story arc, may be this for the Rat Queens, but more likely it's just that Hannah and Tizzie, the leader of the Peaches, get under each other's skins. A flashback shows that (unsurprisingly) they used to be close friends when they were in school, and in times when things get too dangerous for them to remember that they hate each other they have exceptional teamwork abilities.
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* ReligionOfEvil: Subverted with the worshipers of N'rygoth. Dee's family seem quite nice, but Kiah is aware that the religion's relics and incantations can be twisted to evil by a man with malicious intent -- much like any religion that ''doesn't'' worship an EldritchAbomination.
** PathOfInspiration: A bizarrely inverted example. [[spoiler:TheEldritchAbomination. [[spoiler:Later revealed as an inversion: N'rygoth cult started as a straight ReligionOfEvil, '''is''' an evil alien god, but the worshippers got less fanatical cultists' worship and stopped being evil. But in fact, the cult's rituals are designed to slowly '''kill''' the chained Eldritch Abomination. Only the High Priest knows the full truth.spellcasting drains its power.]]
* {{Retool}}: In 2016 Wiebe put the series on hold for a year. He came back with a new artist in March 2017 by just ignoring the least popular parts of the third arc and bringing everyone back tobase.
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* {{Revenge}}: Several villains.
** [[spoiler:Bernadette]] hires assassins to kill the mercenary adventurers of Palisade for brawling in the streets and destroying property.
** [[spoiler:Gerrig Lake]] is driven to kill his wife's murderer.
** [[spoiler:Evil Hannah]] seeks vengeance against the Queens for perceived lack of loyalty.
* TheRival: ThePeaches, Peaches introduced in the first story arc, arc may be this for the Rat Queens, but more likely it's just that Hannah and Tizzie, the leader of the Peaches, get under each other's skins. A flashback shows that (unsurprisingly) they used to be close friends when they were in school, and in times when things get too dangerous for them to remember that they hate each other they have exceptional teamwork abilities.
** PathOfInspiration: A bizarrely inverted example. [[spoiler:The
* {{Retool}}: In 2016 Wiebe put the series on hold for a year. He came back with a new artist in March 2017 by just ignoring the least popular parts of the third arc and bringing everyone back to
* {{Revenge}}: Several villains.
** [[spoiler:Bernadette]] hires assassins to kill the mercenary adventurers of Palisade for brawling in the streets and destroying property.
** [[spoiler:Gerrig Lake]] is driven to kill his wife's murderer.
** [[spoiler:Evil Hannah]] seeks vengeance against the Queens for perceived lack of loyalty.
* TheRival: The
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* OurElvesAreBetter: Definitely Averted. Hannah and Tizzie are just as aggressive, alcoholic, violent, and shallow as the others surrounding them.
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* OurElvesAreBetter: Definitely Averted. Hannah and Tizzie are just as aggressive, alcoholic, violent, and shallow as the others surrounding them. Hannah's father appears grey-haired and wrinkled, indicating that they age just like any other race. The only obvious physiological difference between elves and humans is their pointy ears.
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** Although, in defiance of the trope name, they seem not to grow hair above their upper lips, and will usually have a full beard ''without'' a mustache.
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''Rat Queens'' is a ComicBook by Kurtis Wiebe for Creator/ImageComics, with artwork by Roc Upchurch. Stjepan Šejić replaced Upchurch as the main artist for issues #9 and #10, with Tess Fowler taking over after that. Set in and around the fantasy town of Palisade, Rat Queens follows the adventures of a typical adventuring party on a quest for gold and glory. The storytelling tone is light and playful, weaving between {{deconstruction}} and {{reconstruction}} freely, and tropes are played with, averted, inverted and turned inside out.
The Rat Queens are a group of beer-swilling, loudly foul-mouthed, destructive mercenaries operating out of the tiny town of Palisade. A fairly standard setup for a comic book that's not taking the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' world too seriously, but with the twist that all four of said mercenaries (and a near-majority of their allies and rivals in Palisade as well) are women.
The Rat Queens are a group of beer-swilling, loudly foul-mouthed, destructive mercenaries operating out of the tiny town of Palisade. A fairly standard setup for a comic book that's not taking the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' world too seriously, but with the twist that all four of said mercenaries (and a near-majority of their allies and rivals in Palisade as well) are women.
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''Rat Queens'' is a ComicBook by Kurtis Wiebe for Creator/ImageComics, with artwork by Roc Upchurch. Stjepan Šejić replaced Upchurch as the main artist for issues #9 and #10, with Tess Fowler taking over after that. Set in and around issues 11-15. In response to fan backlash Wiebe pulled the fantasy town of Palisade, series for a year, returning in March 2017 with artist Owen Gieni.
Rat Queens follows the adventures of a typical adventuring party on a quest for gold and glory. The storytelling tone is light and playful, weaving between {{deconstruction}} and {{reconstruction}} freely, and tropes are played with, averted, inverted and turned insideout.
out. The Rat Queens themselves are a group of beer-swilling, loudly foul-mouthed, destructive mercenaries operating out of the tiny town of Palisade. A fairly standard setup for a comic book that's not taking the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' world too seriously, but with the twist that all four of said mercenaries (and a near-majority majority of their allies and rivals in Palisade as well) rivals) are women.
Rat Queens follows the adventures of a typical adventuring party on a quest for gold and glory. The storytelling tone is light and playful, weaving between {{deconstruction}} and {{reconstruction}} freely, and tropes are played with, averted, inverted and turned inside
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* {{Retool}}: In 2016 Wiebe put the series on hold for a year. He came back with a new artist in March 2017 by just ignoring the least popular parts of the third arc and bringing everyone back to base.
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* FlippingTheBird: Hannah throws a double when she storms through a magic mirror after an ugly conversation with the room's remaining audience.
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* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: The Queens have a rough time in the ''Demons'' arc. When one member's history of violence is exposed by an outsider, she cops to it but claims that part of her life is over. She's then countered by another Queen proving that ''it's not'', then rejects their help while claiming they're rejecting her. [[CliffHanger All this building to the end of issue 15 with the remaining Queens sailing away.]]
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** Braga definitely qualifies as this as well, capable of ''slaughtering'' legions of orcs on her own (though having the Queens as backup didn't hurt), while consciously lapsing into a some-what controlled blood-rage. That, and her reputation as [[TheDreaded "The Bastard"]] amongst the orc people proceeds her.
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** Braga definitely qualifies as this as well, capable of ''slaughtering'' legions of orcs on her own (though having the Queens as backup didn't hurt), while consciously lapsing into a some-what controlled blood-rage. That, and her reputation as [[TheDreaded "The Bastard"]] amongst the orc people proceeds precedes her.
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* ImprobablyFemaleCast: The main party, though this isn't the case with the other adventuring parties.
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* ImprobablyFemaleCast: The main party, though this isn't the case with the other adventuring parties.
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* ShoutOut: The '''Bro'''ther Po'''nies,''' to the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fandom. Given what happens to them, it could also be taken as a TakeThat.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** The '''Bro'''ther Po'''nies,''' to theWesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom. Given what happens to them, it could also be taken as a TakeThat.TakeThat.
** In the opening of the final issue, we see some of the Queens at a bar where [[WebVideo/CriticalRole an oddly familiar looking group of adventurers are hanging]].
** The '''Bro'''ther Po'''nies,''' to the
** In the opening of the final issue, we see some of the Queens at a bar where [[WebVideo/CriticalRole an oddly familiar looking group of adventurers are hanging]].
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* SociallyAwkwardHero: Dee definitely counts as one of these, primarily during things like parties. When the Queens host a party in celebration for royally trouncing orc ass, she sinks into a chair near the back of the room and buries her nose in a book.
-->'''Dee:''' Okay, Dee. Just, breathe. You love to party. You love strangers. You love mingling and small talk.
-->'''Random Douche:''' Hey, look at you hiding away by your-
-->'''Dee:''' [-Go away.-]
-->'''Random Douche:''' Pardon?
-->'''Dee:''' This is my party. This book is good. It asks no questions. The book lets me engage it on my own terms.
-->'''Random Douche:''' Okayyyy. ''(Leaves)''
-->'''Dee:''' Social Dee strikes again.
** It should be noted that Dee [[spoiler:is also married, a fact she had kept a secret from the rest of the Rat Queens]].
-->'''Dee:''' Okay, Dee. Just, breathe. You love to party. You love strangers. You love mingling and small talk.
-->'''Random Douche:''' Hey, look at you hiding away by your-
-->'''Dee:''' [-Go away.-]
-->'''Random Douche:''' Pardon?
-->'''Dee:''' This is my party. This book is good. It asks no questions. The book lets me engage it on my own terms.
-->'''Random Douche:''' Okayyyy. ''(Leaves)''
-->'''Dee:''' Social Dee strikes again.
** It should be noted that Dee [[spoiler:is also married, a fact she had kept a secret from the rest of the Rat Queens]].
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* SociallyAwkwardHero: Dee definitely counts as one of these, primarily during things like parties. When the Queens host a party in celebration for royally trouncing orc ass, she sinks into a chair near the back of the room and buries her nose in a book.
book. It should be noted that Dee [[spoiler:is also married, a fact she had kept a secret from the rest of the Rat Queens]].
-->'''Dee:''' Okay, Dee. Just, breathe. You love to party. You love strangers. You love mingling and smalltalk.
-->'''Randomtalk.\\
'''Random Douche:''' Hey, look at you hiding away byyour-
-->'''Dee:'''your--\\
'''Dee:''' [-Go away.-]
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'''Random Douche:'''Pardon?
-->'''Dee:'''Pardon?\\
'''Dee:''' This is my party. This book is good. It asks no questions. The book lets me engage it on my ownterms.
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'''Random Douche:''' Okayyyy.''(Leaves)''
-->'''Dee:'''''[leaves]''\\
'''Dee:''' Social Dee strikesagain.
** It should be noted that Dee [[spoiler:is also married, a fact she had kept a secret from the rest of the Rat Queens]].again.
-->'''Dee:''' Okay, Dee. Just, breathe. You love to party. You love strangers. You love mingling and small
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'''Random Douche:''' Hey, look at you hiding away by
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'''Dee:''' [-Go away.
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'''Dee:''' This is my party. This book is good. It asks no questions. The book lets me engage it on my own
-->'''Random
'''Random Douche:''' Okayyyy.
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'''Dee:''' Social Dee strikes
** It should be noted that Dee [[spoiler:is also married, a fact she had kept a secret from the rest of the Rat Queens]].
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''Rat Queens'' is a ComicBook by Kurtis Wiebe for ImageComics, with artwork by Roc Upchurch. Stjepan Šejić replaced Upchurch as the main artist for issues #9 and #10, with Tess Fowler taking over after that. Set in and around the fantasy town of Palisade, Rat Queens follows the adventures of a typical adventuring party on a quest for gold and glory. The storytelling tone is light and playful, weaving between {{deconstruction}} and {{reconstruction}} freely, and tropes are played with, averted, inverted and turned inside out.
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''Rat Queens'' is a ComicBook by Kurtis Wiebe for ImageComics, Creator/ImageComics, with artwork by Roc Upchurch. Stjepan Šejić replaced Upchurch as the main artist for issues #9 and #10, with Tess Fowler taking over after that. Set in and around the fantasy town of Palisade, Rat Queens follows the adventures of a typical adventuring party on a quest for gold and glory. The storytelling tone is light and playful, weaving between {{deconstruction}} and {{reconstruction}} freely, and tropes are played with, averted, inverted and turned inside out.
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** PathOfInspiration: A bizarrely inverted example. [[spoiler:The N'rygoth cult started as a straight ReligionOfEvil, but the worshippers got less fanatical and stopped being evil. But in fact, the cult's rituals are designed to slowly '''kill''' the chained Eldritch Abomination. Only the High Priest knows the full truth.]]
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* GirlsWithMustaches: Female dwarves in general grow beards, if they don't shave like Violet (who is shown with a magnificent one in flashback).
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* BoobyTrap: In the third arc goblins devour Betty's bag of candy and die horribly, revealing that it also contains deadly poison.
-->'''Violet''': I have eaten candy out of that bag! More than once!
-->'''Betty''': Why do you think I told you not to eat the green ones?
-->'''Violet''': I have eaten candy out of that bag! More than once!
-->'''Betty''': Why do you think I told you not to eat the green ones?
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The big fight at the end of the second arc shows Braga swinging a man by his feet as a weapon.
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* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Violet has this opinion in-universe regarding clean-shaving for Dwarf women.
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* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Violet has this opinion in-universe regarding clean-shaving for Dwarf women. She started shaving her beard as an act of social defiance, but when facial shaving became popular among young dwarves she let her beard grow back.
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* KnightOfCerebus: While the Rat Queens had faced serious threats, the story took a much darker tone with the third arc, which resulted in [[spoiler: Hannah [[FaceHeelTurn going full evil]], Dee's brother getting killed and Dee unaware of this, and the party ditching Hannah, oh and they failed out to accomplish what they were trying to do in the first place.]]
