History Webcomic / AliceGrove

* CheshireCatGrin:
** [[spoiler: Church's SlasherSmile is ''far'' too wide for his face.]]
** [[spoiler: Alice gets a similarly inhumanly wide grin as she explains what she is to Jesper.]]
* CompleteImmortality: So far, Alice has demonstrated that she is apparently ageless, and has also tanked a lethally high fall off a wind turbine generator, a direct hit from a fireball, and a ''bullet to the eye'' with only mildly vulgar annoyance. Same with Sedna and Church; the latter even [[spoiler:survived (well, physically at least) being entombed in hardened magma for who knows how many years]]. It's eventually revealed that this is due to [[spoiler:the three of them being able to ignore the laws of physics due to their powers]].
* CriticalResearchFailure: It's lampshaded in universe that Ardent didn't do enough (i.e. any) research on human culture before he came.

* DemonicPossession: {{Subverted|Trope}} [[spoiler:Gavia]] suffers what appears to be a high-tech nanite version of this at the metaphorical hands of the Night Walker, but it eventually just removes her nanotech and leaves, blasting a new crater in the moon in the process

** Ardent came down to the Earth's surface without doing the proper research. Alice eventually speculates it wasn't really his idea to come at all, but that he's an unknowing pawn. This is later [[spoiler: confirmed, though he's not the pawn of the Praeses, as believed.]]

* EmbarrassinglyPainfulSunburn: {{Averted|Trope}}; to keep from getting one, [[spoiler:Gavia gives herself an instant tan, revealing that even without her nanotech, she's still more than a baseline human]].

** [[spoiler:Jesper's bodyguard Mr. Church]]'s eyes go red [[spoiler:just before he attacks Ellie]] and while [[spoiler:he's fighting Alice]].

* InstantArmor: Alice has the ability to summon a suit of {{sentai}}-esque armor in the blink of an eye. It has the side-effect of [[spoiler: chopping off her hair beyond a certain length]]. [[spoiler:Church also shares this ability; Sedna reveals that she was only meant for a support role, so she may not be able to do this like they can.]]

-->Of course. Spread enough seeds and eventually you get a forest.

* PyrrhicVillainy: [[spoiler:Jesper's efforts to talk to the Praeses only ends up getting him and Church killed, and his goal of lifting humanity up would have happened regardless of what he did thanks to the pico-tech infection Ardent and the other Praeses inhabitants are spreading on Earth]].

* TheVirus: Ardent's abilities are the result of [[spoiler:transmissible pico-scale machines, and though their effects are dormant in the ones it didn't originate from, they will presumably activate after a critical mass of humanity is infected]].

Started in September 2014, and concluded July 20, 2017. The first page is [[http://www.alicegrove.com/page/220 here.]]

** After being injured by Church, Sedna tells Gavia that "[they] heal really fast." She wears a sling on her arm for a bit, but quickly sheds it, ''far'' sooner than someone who had their shoulder crushed would. [[spoiler:Alice recovers from having her face partially crushed by Church in a matter of minutes, and Sedna survives tearing her own arm off and the resulting massive blood loss, although it takes her a few minutes to regain consciousness.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:Alice, Sedna, and Church are beings known as "Maxwell's Demons," people who have been quantum-entangled with black holes in order to shunt their personal entropy into it. What this means practically is that [[RealityWarper the laws of physics are "optional" to them.]]]]

* NoPlaceForMeThere: [[spoiler: Alice says that being around when humanity enters its next phase wouldn't be good for them, and decides to leave Earth]].

* ProHumanTranshuman: Alice is ''very'' protective about her little town of baseline humans, and may very well be more transhuman than either Gavia or Ardent, considering she's nigh-invulnerable and ancient. It is eventually revealed [[spoiler: she has a built-in compulsion to serve, and satisfies it by serving "everybody".]]

* PyrrhicVillainy: [[spoiler: Jesper's efforts to talk to the Praeses only ends up getting him and Church killed, and his goal of lifting humanity up would have happened regardless of what he did thanks to the pico-tech infection Ardent and the other Praeses inhabitants are spreading on Earth]].

* SlapSlapKiss: Alice's and Sedna's relationship has shades of this. Sedna is introduced trying to shoot Alice with a variety of hoarded weapons, but [[spoiler:they share Sedna's bed a little later in the chapter, with Sedna only clad in panties]]. That said, the precise nature of their relationship is unclear at this point in the story.

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: Ardent and Gavia learn that their home is an alternate reality created by the Praeses.]]

* EmbarrassinglyPainfulSunburn: {{Averted}Trope}}; to keep from getting one, [[spoiler:Gavia gives herself an instant tan, revealing that even without her nanotech, she's still more than a baseline human]].

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Alice and Church [[spoiler:are able to exchange several punches in micro-gravity. Church also ''talks'' for the first time in a vacuum.]] Ultimately justified in that [[spoiler:Alice and Church are both Maxwell's Demons, and for them, physics is ''optional.'']]

* TheVoiceless: Jesper's bodygaurd Mr. Church. [[spoiler:Until, oddly, he and Alice are fighting in the vacuum of Earth orbit and it's revealed what Alice did to him in pre-Blink times.]]

* TheNameless:
** The town Alice is guarding at the start of the story.
** Jesper's bodyguard, finally revealed to be [[spoiler:Church]].

* AllForNothing: Both Alice and Jesper. [[spoiler:Alice's efforts to keep the Grove low-tech in order to prevent another war is invalidated by the Praeses' escapees "awakening" humanity within a few years, while Jesper's plan to bully the Praeses into helping him uplift humanity is rendered moot by those same escapees doing exactly what he'd hoped for.]]

* CryLaughing: Alice does this as the horror of [[spoiler:learning that all of humanity may evolve to a state similar to Ardent within a few years, nullifying her efforts for hundreds of years to keep the Grove low tech in an effort to avoid another war like the one she fought in]] truly sinks in.

* TheNameless: Jesper's bodyguard, finally revealed to be [[spoiler:Mr. Church]].

* ProtagonistTitle: Alice is the main character of ''Alice Grove'', but the "Grove"'s significance hasn't been revealed yet, as neither she nor the town have used it.

* EmbarrassinglyPainfulSunburn: [[spoiler:Gavia reveals that even without her nanotech, she's still more than a baseline human giving herself an instant tan in order to avoid one of these.]]

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler: Gavia and Sedna on the last page, illustrating the passage of time before everyone parts ways.]]
* EyeColourChange: Whenever Alice's type of SuperSoldier majorly manifests their power, their eyes turn blood red.

** [[spoiler:Jesper's bodyguard Mr. Church]]'s eyes go red [[spoiler:just before he attacks Ellie]].

* FlashStep: Alice's [[spoiler:attempt to kill Jesper]] happens in the blink of an eye. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Mr. Church moves between them and catches her wrist before she can land the blow.]]

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler: Gavia and Sedna on the last page, illustrating the passage of time before everyone departs ways.]]

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler: Gavia and Sedna on the last page, illustrating the passage of time before everyone goes their own ways.]]

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Gavia is horrified to discover that her way home isn't working, so she and Ardent are stuck on the surface indefinitely. [[spoiler:They eventually find a working spaceship and return to orbit.]]
** [[spoiler: Until Ardent's infection is confirmed to be beneign, he and Gavin can't go to their old reality.]]

* PryhhicVillainy: [[spoiler: Jesper's efforts to talk to the Praeses only ends up getting him and Church killed, and his goal of lifting humanity up would have happened regardless of what he did thanks to the pico-tech infection Ardent and the other Praeses inhabitants are spreading on Earth]].

* PryhhicVillainy: [[spoiler: Jesper's efforts to talk to the Praeses only ends up getting him and Church killed, and his goal of lifting humanity up would have happened regardless of what he did.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: Both Alice and Jesper. Alice's efforts to keep the Grove low-tech in order to prevent another war is invalidated by the Praeses' escapees "awakening" humanity within a few years, while Jesper's plan to bully the Praeses into helping him uplift humanity is rendered moot by those same escapees doing exactly what he'd hoped for.]]

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Sedna's trying to shoot Alice, [[spoiler:Alice first busts the SMG, then a sniper cannon thing, then a bazooka, then a minigun, and then a musket]].

* CryLaughing: Alice does this as the horror of [[spoiler:learning that all of humanity may evolve to a state similar to Ardent within a few years, [[AllForNothing nullifying her efforts for hundreds of years to keep the Grove low tech]] in an effort to avoid another war like the one she fought in]] truly sinks in.

* CryLaughing: Alice does this as the horror of [[spoiler:learning that all of humanity may evolve to a state similar to Ardent without a few years, nullifying her efforts for hundreds of years to keep the Grove low tech in an effort to avoid another war like the one she fought in]] truly sinks in.

** Ardent came down to the Earth's surface without doing the proper research. Alice eventually speculates it wasn't really his idea to come at all, but that he's an unknowing pawn. This is later [[:confirmed]].

* CryLaughing: Alice does this as the horror of [[spoiler:learning that all of humanity may evolve to a state similar to Ardent without a few years]] truly sinks in.

** Ardent came down to the Earth's surface without doing the proper research. Alice eventually speculates it wasn't really his idea to come at all, but that he's an unknowing pawn. This is yet to be confirmed or disproved.

* Alice's wide-eyed reaction when she puts two and two together about [[spoiler:the people from the other Praeses with the same abilities as Argent]].

* TheVirus: [[spoiler: Ardent's abilities are the result of transmissible pico-scale machines, and though their effects are dormant in the ones it didn't originate from, they will presumably activate after a critical mass of humanity is infected]].