History Webcomic / AliceGrove

* CriticalResearchFailure: It's lampshaded in-universe that Ardent didn't do enough (i.e. any) research on human culture before he came.

* 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 nano-tech infection Ardent and the other Praeses inhabitants are spreading on Earth]].

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Without even having to do anything! Jesper Pate's attempt to strongarm the Praeses into helping him uplift humanity is rendered pointless, since the individuals that escaped from the Praeses are going to do what he wanted, anyway. [[PyrrhicVillainy Too bad he's too dead to appreciate it...]]]]

The comic tarted in September 2014, and concluded July 20, 2017.

Started in September 2014, and concluded July 20, 2017.

Started in September 2014, and concluded July 20, 2017. The first page is [[http://www.alicegrove.com/page/220 here]]. It can also be read [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/alice1.html here]].

''[[http://www.alicegrove.com Alice Grove]]'' is a webcomic by Creator/JephJacques of ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', focusing on a woman named Alice. She's regarded as a "witch" by the locals in her small unnamed town, meaning she's highly respected and sometimes revered as a miracle worker. One day, after falling from a wind turbine she was working on, she's called to a nearby farm to deal with a strange occurrence: a nearly naked young man with pointed ears, blue skin and a tail, has appeared in a field, fast asleep. This strange man, Ardent, is soon joined by his sister Gavia, who is extremely pale and red-eyed, and floats in the air thanks to nanomachines.

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* TheLostWoods: These surround the town where Ardent and Gavia land. They're full of such things as giant carnivorous plants, large flightless birds, eyeless deer that see heat, and an enormous nanotech construct.

''[[http://www.alicegrove.com Alice Grove]]'' is a webcomic by Jeph Jacques of ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', focusing on a woman named Alice. She's regarded as a "witch" by the locals in her small unnamed town, meaning she's highly respected and sometimes revered as a miracle worker. One day, after falling from a wind turbine she was working on, she's called to a nearby farm to deal with a strange occurrence: a nearly naked young man with pointed ears, blue skin and a tail, has appeared in a field, fast asleep. This strange man, Ardent, is soon joined by his sister Gavia, who is extremely pale and red-eyed, and floats in the air thanks to nanomachines.

* PastoralScienceFiction: The initial setting for the webcomic where alice is fixing up windmills to give her community solar power. All the seemingly supernatural elements are rooted in (admittedly advanced) science.

* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Alice [[https://www.alicegrove.com/post/162944349299/mystery-solved thinks]] that [[spoiler:the AIs]] did this, [[spoiler:used their new abilities to cause the Blink, and later gave Ardent his abilities as a form of reparations to help get mankind to a higher technology level again]].

** [[spoiler:Alice, Sedna and Mr. Church are all shown with their eyes turning red when sufficiently angered.]]
** Taken further as [[spoiler:Alice explains to Jesper [[HumanoidAbomination what she]] [[RealityWarper really is]]]], paired with HellishPupils and the most terrifying SlasherSmile in the comic to date.

* 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, and at the very end of the comic they part on friendly terms. The precise nature of their relationship is never revealed]].

** Taken UpToEleven as [[spoiler:Alice explains to Jesper [[HumanoidAbomination what she]] [[RealityWarper really is]]]], paired with HellishPupils and the most terrifying SlasherSmile in the comic to date.

* 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, able to displace the effects of physics upon their body to the inside of a black hole at will]]

* PoweredByABlackHole: The title character and other [[AfterTheEnd pre-apocalyptic]] {{Super Soldier}}s are [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything quantum entangled]] with black holes to [[https://www.alicegrove.com/post/162825065129/oh-ok fuel]] their [[SuperStrength strength]], [[SuperSpeed speed]], and [[SuperToughness toughess]].

* PlantAliens: The first description we have of the Praeses is "Talking Trees," and every Praesis Gavia calls out for is named for a genus or family of trees. [[spoiler:[[http://www.alicegrove.com/image/157454464924 When we finally see one]], it looks like a rootless tree at least the size of a major city. It's eventually revealed to be Ardent and Gavia's home Praeses, called Cupressaceae, which happens to be the name of the family that cypress trees come from. Later, Laridia reveals that the Praeses travel space as seedlings, "taking root" on planets with life and creating inner realities based on that life.]]

* PreMortemOneLiner: Alice says that [[spoiler:most of the 6 billion human deaths and 200 million AI deaths in the pre-Blink war were because of her]] before killing [[spoiler:Jesper]].

** Part of Alice's PTSD is that she has this sentiment as well [[spoiler:to the tune of millions of AIs and '''billions''' of human casualties]].

** 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]].

* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Alice thinks that the AIs did this, used their new abilities to cause the Blink, and later gave Ardent his abilities as a form of reparations to help get mankind to a higher technology level again]].

* AllForNothing: Both Alice and Jesper. [[spoiler:Alice's efforts to keep her town 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.]]

* GalacticConquerer: [[spoiler:Jasper wishes that humanity was colonizing the galaxy instead of stagnating on Earth.]]

* GrievousHarmWithABody: When Church starts to attack [[spoiler:after Gavia's blade in Jasper's chest vanishes, Sedna tears off her own right arm and then breaks it in two]], stripping most of the flesh off to leave the broken bone exposed. [[spoiler:She catches up to Church and stabs him through the neck, then apparently drives the bone into his head.]]

* OddFriendship: Maybe "friendship" isn't exactly the right word, but Jasper gives absolutely no reason to have earned Mr. Church's vigilant protection. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that it's due to Church's programmed compulsion to serve.]]

** The expression on [[spoiler:Church]]'s face turns to one when he takes a pipe upside the head without flinching [[spoiler:and his right eye goes red like Sedna's eyes did]]. Considering his completely neutral expression up to that point, it's ''very'' unnerving. [[spoiler:It comes back when he attacks Alice while they're in space, and when he is lunging at her again after Gavia's nano-blade in Jasper's chest goes away.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Jasper believes that human society has been stagnating on Earth since the Blink and wants to get the Praeses to help him pull humanity out of its current MedievalStasis.]] Alice coldly puts paid to his ambitions [[spoiler:once she can freely confront him]].

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

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Ardent (mostly) only wears his red boxer-briefs.

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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Everything in the forest outside of Alice's little town, apparently. When the three take a sojourn out of the town, a "bat-sloth" creature lands on Ardent's head and Alice pre-emptively kills it in between pages, then details how it'd eat Ardent's face. Later he almost gets eaten by a giant chameleon, requiring Gavia to kill it with her nanofire. There's also the giant nanocloud Night Walker [[spoiler:which initially is just eerie but turns out to be even more dangerous]].