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* Laws Of Gender Bending: In regard to Lois (Female turned Male) and Marion (Male turned Female):
** FirstLawOfGenderBending: [[spoiler: Marion finally ends up giving up his chance to return to being a male human.]]
** SecondLawOfGenderBending: Downplayed. [[spoiler: While Marion and Lois don't end up turning back, they don't convert either; They both consider themselves to be male and female, respectively, and use the appropriate pronouns despite being in different bodies. It's only species-wise that Marion and Lois sincerely enjoy their new forms over their old forms.]]
** ThirdLawOfGenderBending: Also downplayed. Despite some initial mild angst over what his female body looked like, later art and covers show Marion leaning more into wearing female clothing, even openly wearing a bikini in supplementary art.
** FirstLawOfGenderBending: [[spoiler: Marion finally ends up giving up his chance to return to being a male human.]]
** SecondLawOfGenderBending: Downplayed. [[spoiler: While Marion and Lois don't end up turning back, they don't convert either; They both consider themselves to be male and female, respectively, and use the appropriate pronouns despite being in different bodies. It's only species-wise that Marion and Lois sincerely enjoy their new forms over their old forms.]]
** ThirdLawOfGenderBending: Also downplayed. Despite some initial mild angst over what his female body looked like, later art and covers show Marion leaning more into wearing female clothing, even openly wearing a bikini in supplementary art.
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* ArborealAbode: Jessica the Opposum lives in one. Well, initially she lives in a hole in a tree with a door and minimal furnishings, but after she's reluctantly made the star of a reality show called Flip That Den, it becomes a fully furnished three-story tower with attic bedroom, solar panels and a rainwater tank. It's so nice that she decides she can't possibly live in it when all the other woodland animals are living in ordinary holes, so it becomes a community home.
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* AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation: 'Imaginate' arcs feature the pet characters putting on low-budget plays in their houses retelling the events of various stories, including Macbeth, Guys and Dolls, and Jurassic Park, to name a few.
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* CaninesGamblingInACardGame: Done [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2012/07/20/obligatory-reference/ with the dog cast]] in a strip titled "Obligatory Reference".
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* ContinuityReboot: [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2011/08/12/is-this-the-end-of-spot-again/ Spot (Superdog)]] makes fun of the trope by featuring a villain with an evil plot to reboot the universe so as not to confuse new readers, keeping them relevant forever. Ten years later, he's doing it again.
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* CostumeTestMontage: [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2010/05/24/king-in-a-series-of-costumes-at-the-sears-photo-center/ Pete tries to embarrass King]] by dressing him up in a series of cutesy pet costumes.
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* LastSecondWordSwap: An instant away from revealing he went to school, King swaps 'I used to play that in College' with '[[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2010/02/26/doghouse-rules/ I used to play with a Collie]]'.
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* EyesAreMental: During the Pridelands Imaginate, even shapeshifted into fictional characters, everyone retains their eye color.
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** During the Pridelands Imaginate, even shapeshifted into fictional characters, everyone retains their eyecolor.color.
** Anyone possessed by Dragon will get her signature green eyes.
** During the Pridelands Imaginate, even shapeshifted into fictional characters, everyone retains their eye
** Anyone possessed by Dragon will get her signature green eyes.
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* FunWithHomophones: [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2011/01/07/bait-and-switch/ Kevin confuses tackle (as in, fishing equipment) with tackle (as in, the move), and winds up rather bored at the fishing store he offered to come to.]]
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* FunWithHomophones: FunWithHomophones:
** [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2011/01/07/bait-and-switch/ Kevin confuses tackle (as in, fishing equipment) with tackle (as in, the move), and winds up rather bored at the fishing store he offered to come to.]]
** In one of many animal-based puns, [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2011/06/08/are-you-being-cervid/ Tarot reads a fortune so distressing it causes her to say]] "Oh dear" three times in a row. She then tells [[RevealShot the deer she's speaking to that she sees three of their family members.]]
** [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2011/01/07/bait-and-switch/ Kevin confuses tackle (as in, fishing equipment) with tackle (as in, the move), and winds up rather bored at the fishing store he offered to come to.]]
** In one of many animal-based puns, [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2011/06/08/are-you-being-cervid/ Tarot reads a fortune so distressing it causes her to say]] "Oh dear" three times in a row. She then tells [[RevealShot the deer she's speaking to that she sees three of their family members.]]
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* DefeatByTransformation: The recurring antagonist of Thomas Milton is finally taken out of the game for good when he comes into contact with one of Pete's cursed coins and is forcibly transformed into a camel. Shortly after, he's picked up by a local zoo, where he spends the remainder of his life. His cohort, Herman Steward, is similarly transformed, but only becomes more villainous after this.
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* CockFight: A particularly brutal one in ''Jungle Fever''. After suppressing his resentment for Jata the entire arc, Fido finally confronts him over his attempting to forcibly wed Sabrina, admiting on live television he's in love with Sabrina, and challenging Jata's right to her. This descends into anarchy as the Wolf Pack get involved with the battle as well, all to even the odds against the OneManArmy that is Jata. Sabrina is distraught most of all by this, and the battle finally ends when she nearly dies after being knocked back into the pool.
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* AnimalJingoism: Not outright hatred, per se, but the Good Ol' Dogs Club only admits dogs, and then there's the InterspeciesRomance taboo...
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* AnimalJingoism: AnimalJingoism:
** Not outright hatred, per se, but the Good Ol' Dogs Club only admits dogs, and then there's the InterspeciesRomancetaboo...taboo...
** If not hatred, dogs are shown to have an instinctive need to chase after squirrels. Marion begs the [=K9PD=] officers he meets to hear him out despite these instincts after Kevin chases him up a tree.
** Not outright hatred, per se, but the Good Ol' Dogs Club only admits dogs, and then there's the InterspeciesRomance
** If not hatred, dogs are shown to have an instinctive need to chase after squirrels. Marion begs the [=K9PD=] officers he meets to hear him out despite these instincts after Kevin chases him up a tree.
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* {{Fingore}}:
** In anger at one of the Milton ferret's financial decisions, Thomas Milton crushes a glass in his hand. When he next appears in disguise, he wears a conspicuous bandage around his hand.
** Similarly, in ''Call O' Th' Wild'', Gale puts her hand over Lucretia's mouth to keep her silent, and the wolf bites it hard enough to draw tears from Gale. Again, Gale wears a bandage around the hand in her next appearance, although she very quickly loses it and shows no sign of damage later.
** In anger at one of the Milton ferret's financial decisions, Thomas Milton crushes a glass in his hand. When he next appears in disguise, he wears a conspicuous bandage around his hand.
** Similarly, in ''Call O' Th' Wild'', Gale puts her hand over Lucretia's mouth to keep her silent, and the wolf bites it hard enough to draw tears from Gale. Again, Gale wears a bandage around the hand in her next appearance, although she very quickly loses it and shows no sign of damage later.
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* CityOfTheDamned: Pandemonium is a massive industrial city in the Bad Place, distinguished by strange spiky architecture and a grueling capitalist system without worker's rights of any kind.
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* FireAndBrimstoneHell: The very first part of The Bad Place we see, next door to CityOfTheDamned Pandemonium, is a massive lava pool where Hellish creatures swim.
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* HarmlessFreezing: Fido spends the majority of the Hot Springs arcs frozen in a block of ice to cement the ClosedCircle setting and show what happens if the rest try to leave during a blizzard. He seems to have thawed out by ''The Maxwell Thing'', and doesn't bring it up afterwards.
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* DeterioratesIntoGibberish: As a result of the lack of oxygen in the jet plane during ''Heckraiser'', one of Tarot's innocuous comments trails off into calm but meaningless words until she finally collapses.
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* BlankWhiteVoid: Dragon's bedroom is located in one of these. How Max gets here is unclear, but he leaves by waking up from it, implying it may have been a SharedDream induced by her.
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** Dragon's bedroom is located in one of these. How Max gets here is unclear, but he leaves by waking up from it, implying it may have been a SharedDream induced byher.her.
** The Celestials and Kix appear in one at the end of ''Heckraiser'', possibly (if the stone Kix stands on is any clue) the remnants of Dragon's temple.
** Dragon's bedroom is located in one of these. How Max gets here is unclear, but he leaves by waking up from it, implying it may have been a SharedDream induced by
** The Celestials and Kix appear in one at the end of ''Heckraiser'', possibly (if the stone Kix stands on is any clue) the remnants of Dragon's temple.
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* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: Entering Dragon's temple in ''Heckraiser'' teleports the cast to a black void filled with floating debris, lit by the glowing blue star-like Mana Pool at the center. As they run around in it, streaks of green light constantly explode around them from Eudoant's attacks. Once [[spoiler: Pete and Dragon reincarnate]], the blue glow becomes even brighter and encompasses the whole battlefield.
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* CartoonDogBreed: Only a few select dog characters have named breeds, such as Tarot being a Pomeranian and Duchess being a Saluki. The vast majority of the rest are only hand-waved away as 'Mutts', and a few come with fanciful fur patterns, although none veer into AmazingTechnicolorWildlife like the cat Grape does.
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* BadDate: Combined with TerribleIntervieweesMontage. Bino arranges one of these for Sasha on purpose after she delivers him a DearJohnLetter, trying to make every other male dog in town look bad on purpose so she'll get back with him. It doesn't fly.
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* BlindingCameraFlash: [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2015/09/07/blinded-by-the-light/ Peanut pulls one off on a sabercat while time travelling]], seemingly accidentally, although with Peanut it's hard to tell.
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* CuttingTheKnot: Running out of time to solve puzzles in a Temple Crashing and left with one class of his choosing, Peanut chooses the class 'Puzzle Master' and simply solves the remaining ones automatically.
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* EnterStageWindow: [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2012/02/10/cats-in-the-cradle/ Res comes to see Grape when she locks her door this way,]] climbing in through the open window to her room.
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* FedToTheBeast: As a kitten, Max barely avoided being fed to an alligator thanks to the help of Grape.
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* FreudianCouch: Sabrina owns one, and allows Teoxihuitl to rest on it for therapy when he comes to her.
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* JumpingOnAGrenade: [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2011/06/27/the-big-one/ During the water war, Max tries to do this with a water balloon.]] Unsurprisingly, he survives.
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* LeeroyJenkins: In a moment of panic during ''Temple Crashers 2'', Res charges in to fight The Forgotten while Tarot is already trying to hold it off. The Forgotten is able to latch onto this fear initially, but the action pays off thanks to Res' strength preventing The Forgotten from entering Earth.
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* CerebusRetcon: Lucretia's remark to Miles: "Our life sucks." When introduced years earlier, it was just a funny, succinct way of explaining why Miles' pack chose to enter civilization rather than remain in the wild. When [[CallBack called back to]] much later on, it was in the context of [[spoiler:showing how the friendship between Miles and Gale ended, implying it's his fault]].
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** Lucretia's remark to Miles: "Our life sucks." When introduced years earlier, it was just a funny, succinct way of explaining why Miles' pack chose to enter civilization rather than remain in the wild. When [[CallBack called back to]] much later on, it was in the context of [[spoiler:showing how the friendship between Miles and Gale ended, implying it's hisfault]].fault]].
** Steward's comedic exasperation at the ferrets for their insane financial decisions, including their only accepting him as steward because of the pun, is PlayedForLaughs initially. We later find out [[spoiler: just how badly trying to keep up with them affected him, to the point where he helped Thomas Milton rob them in a desperate attempt to put the Milton fortune in the hands of someone (he thought) more deserving. After this goes awry and Steward is reduced to a literal animal living in squalor, it can be hard to laugh along at his grievances that led up to it.]]
** Lucretia's remark to Miles: "Our life sucks." When introduced years earlier, it was just a funny, succinct way of explaining why Miles' pack chose to enter civilization rather than remain in the wild. When [[CallBack called back to]] much later on, it was in the context of [[spoiler:showing how the friendship between Miles and Gale ended, implying it's his
** Steward's comedic exasperation at the ferrets for their insane financial decisions, including their only accepting him as steward because of the pun, is PlayedForLaughs initially. We later find out [[spoiler: just how badly trying to keep up with them affected him, to the point where he helped Thomas Milton rob them in a desperate attempt to put the Milton fortune in the hands of someone (he thought) more deserving. After this goes awry and Steward is reduced to a literal animal living in squalor, it can be hard to laugh along at his grievances that led up to it.]]
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** Pete and Dragon are siblings, which was revealed so nonchalantly many newer readers may not even be aware it was meant to be a twist.
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* DawnOfAnEra: By the end of the comic, [[spoiler: all of Earth's Celestial protectors are gone, save for the GrimReaper Cerberus and possibly Bahamut. TheMasquerade broke and Humanity now knows that magic(k) is real, but the only person left alive who can understand it fully is Tarot, who is content to only interfere as much as she needs to while she enjoys her new life as a mother. Animals are gaining human rights, meaning Marion can finally go to college, and King may be able to get a job]]. Despite Tarot's assurance to Sabrina that not much will change, quite a lot already has.
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* GiantRobotHandsSaveLives: Kitsune saves [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2022/03/01/along-came-jones/ Lois]] from a massive fall in this way, casually catching her with one of his giant hands with no ill effects to her.
