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** Hints that this may be a far-future or alternate Earth, given that the common language is descended from English (retaining the name, but about as intelligible to modern English speakers as modern English would be to Old English) and characters have read aloud from real written works.
* AllThereInTheManual: The cast page explains a number of details about the characters' backgrounds and abilities that otherwise don't get a lot of detail in the story.
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*** The Author also on occasion leaves notes with certain strips that pose as a sort as insight into the makings of individual characters or elaborations on elements of the Archipelago world i.e. information about the inner workings of magic in this setting.
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* WhamLine: At the end of book 7:
--> '''Tuff:''' [[spoiler: No! Blitz is only part of the family line! The heir is his daughter!]]
--> '''Tuff:''' [[spoiler: No! Blitz is only part of the family line! The heir is his daughter!]]
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* WhamEpisode: Book 8. The setup of the book is already pretty surprising, with the reveal that the next heir is [[spoiler: actually Blitz's ''daughter''. But things really heat up when Snow shows up and steals Alice's soul, causing Riley to freak out and attempt to transform, nearly dying in the process. And it gets even worse when Snow murders Holly. Oh, and by the way? Blitz is a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent DRAGON]]. The wham just keeps up until the very end of the book where it's revealed that the final heir is Charlie, or more specifically, Credenza's childhood friend Uru.]]
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** [[spoiler:Later, Tuff for Cassie, when Cassie starts breaking golem heads with rocks.]]
* NonActionGuy: Knull. Snow only keeps him around for his AntiMagic, as an armorer and medic (the latter mainly while Snow is busy), and because he can brew an ''excellent'' cup of tea.
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* AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: Literally, in the form of Dragonfly's necklace that unlocked Credenza's power. Vaniji also has his cane, in which he has invested and concentrated his powers. [[spoiler:To the point that Vaniji's cane becomes an AmuletOfDependency, as he has left nothing for himself.]]
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* CuteLittleFangs: Clair, being the daughter of a half-dragon [[spoiler:and a full dragon]]. Kor could almost count given his small and "huggable" appearance, but he usually only bares them when he looks like he wants to rip out someone's throat with them.
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** Most of the were-creature and beastmen races are technically such as well. Weresharks were engineered using traits from gorillas and Komodo dragons as well as sharks. Fish-people like Cassie were engineered using cuttlefish and [[spoiler:electric eels]], among other things. According to the creator, "This is what comes of being raised watching AnimalPlanet."
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* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Wereshark society is apparently very dark and violent, with an atavistic focus on blood and feeding. Weresharks raised away from their society are perfectly friendly (like Tuff, Riley, and their father), though can have their fight-or-flight instincts easily triggered by a strong scent of blood or the sight of a loved one being injured.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Color is reserved for magical effects, lending them extra strength and making climactic fights bright and dramatic. The [[ADayInTheLimelight side story about Snow]], ''Snowflakes'', was also done in full color.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Color is reserved for magical effects, lending them extra strength and making climactic fights bright and dramatic. The Flashbacks - including ''Snowflakes'', a [[ADayInTheLimelight side story about Snow]], ''Snowflakes'', was also Snow]] set just before the series began - are done in full color.
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* PersonalityPowers: Most people's magic is expressed in some way reflective of their unconscious self and the associations they make with their magic, and cannot consciously change their power any more than most people can consciously change their own personality.
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* SickeninglySweethearts: Alice and Riley are (metaphorically and then literally) all over each other almost from the moment they meet.
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* HeinzHybrid: Vaniji is an "Archipelagan Mutt," a mix of human, Avian, were-cat, and Cloven, which balances out to "looks mostly human with a few vestigial features" like tiny, useless wings and a tail.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Raven spirits and shadowmandyrs. [[spoiler:Subverted in both cases for those released from control of their malevolent forebears, the Great Raven and the Shadowmandyr Queen, respectively. Raven goes on to become heroic, if cranky, while the shadowmandyrs are pretty much animals who were following their Queen's control and eventually jump ship to Simon once she's dead.]]
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* TheBeastmaster: Simon, with his hunting dog June. [[spoiler:And later the shadowmandyrs, once their queen is dead and he's the only "home" and authority they now know.]]
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* HumiliationConga: Through most of book 5, Han ends up embarrassed, screwing up, or otherwise causing trouble for himself out of incompetence or thoughtlessness in nearly every appearance.
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* TheStarscream: Han dabbles, though he mostly limits himself to assuming too much authority in Snow's absence and thinking he could get away with killing Kurr or roughing up Knull. Once or twice, though... [[spoiler:At one point his raven tries to get him to kill Snow, though given they know that Snow ''can't die'', one wonders whether the Great Raven had it out for Han...]]
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* TheAntiChrist: Snow, who is about as close as it gets without literally being the spawn of the Devil, and if you consider the Great Raven close enough to take the title...
* BadassAbnormal: Due to the high individual nature of magic, everyone in the band has a different sort of magic, because of the nature of their mission they are also very powerful.
* BadassNormal: Until Credenza started actually using Dragonfly's necklace she had no magical strength to speak of, but still threw herself into adventure and trouble. Snow also had no real native magical power before he was resurrected by the Great Raven and given the cyborg arm, but was still one of the most feared men in the world.
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* NotSoDifferent: Not explicitly declared, but the parallels between Credenza and Snow are strong. Both are (or were) normal humans with negligible magical gifts and lost their parents, who went through various traumas (death for Snow, and Snow for Credenza), were granted artifacts and powers from the BigGood and BigBad, and often fall back on who they were before their careers as hero and villain - Snow out of pride, Credenza in humility. Where Credenza is able to build people up, Snow breaks them. They're also rather [[MagneticHero magnetic]], a strength they use as much or more than the gifts offered by Dragonfly and the Great Raven.
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* BigBeautifulWoman: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=600 Riley has always preferred something with a little meat on it.]]
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* BeastMan: Even referred to as such, or werebeasts. Known races include werecats (Miss Tabitha the nun), werehyenas and other canines (Kurr), weresharks (Tuff and Riley are half-wereshark), and wereorcas.
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* CassandraTruth-No, Blitz [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=30 didn't kill her.]] He also didn't kill [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=34 that guy]] whose body he was found standing over, literally caught red-handed. Seriously, he didn't kill them.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Avian men are infamously infatuated with women of all species, Tuff and Riley were born from one, and Mikel's wife Deliza is a beast woman.
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** Prince Paollo as well. [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=69 "Ooooh! Butterfly!"]]
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* BadassBoast: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=47 "I am a part of the darkness! A piece of the nightmare! I am older than the ground you walk on, more powerful than the forces of nature that bind this world! I looked down from the stars and I cursed this world and all life on it! I made the great wheel of life turn backwards! No one can strike ME! I AM RAVEN!"]]
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* LouisCypher: The man who broke Lucinda's heart was named Corveau. Also something of a BilingualBonus.
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* FourthWallMailSlot: A [[http://www.formspring.me/ArchipelagoCast Formspring account "answered" by the characters]]. Many are humorous, some are very sweet, and [[http://4ms.me/11comqQ others are]] [[TearJerker downright depressing.]]
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: WordOfGod sorts them into four major tribes, with distinctive physical traits and [[BreathWeapon offensive capabilities]]: Spring ([[PoisonIsCorrosive acid]]), Summer ([[PlayingWithFire fire]]), Fall ([[DeadlyGas poison]]), and Winter ([[AnIcePerson ice]]). The first dragon we're properly introduced to, Kroft, is a Winter dragon, and [[spoiler:Anthony/Blitz]] is a Summer dragon.
* PersonaNonGrata: Tuff and Riley were kicked out of Hidden Island once. They both thought that Tuff caused it (see UnsuspectinglySoused below), but the abbess later mentioned that it was actually because Riley [[CasanovaWannabe kept hitting on the girls there]].
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* SpiderSense: Or rather, "Sharky Sense" as Riley calls it. [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=855 Can be rather intense.]]
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* SpiderSense: Or rather, A common trait among beast-men. Riley refers to it as his "Sharky Sense" as Riley calls it.Sense". [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=855 Can be rather intense.]]]]
* SpotTheImpostor: Between Riley and [[ShapeShifter Han]]. At first, it seems that Tuff spots the difference when Han isn't strong enough to carry Riley's {{BFS}}, but as it turns out...
-->'''Tuff:''' Actually, I only used the sword to distract him. I knew you were real because your pants were unbuttoned.
* SpotTheImpostor: Between Riley and [[ShapeShifter Han]]. At first, it seems that Tuff spots the difference when Han isn't strong enough to carry Riley's {{BFS}}, but as it turns out...
-->'''Tuff:''' Actually, I only used the sword to distract him. I knew you were real because your pants were unbuttoned.
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-->'''Miss Tabitha:''' Oh, please. I live with exactly sixty-five young, hormonal, adolescent girls. I can ''smell'' self-doubt.
-->'''Miss Tabitha:''' Oh, please. I live with exactly sixty-five young, hormonal, adolescent girls. I can ''smell'' self-doubt.
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* ImaginaryFriend: Clair has one, named Claire's [[spoiler:[[ProjectedMan Projected Boy]]]] best friend, Benjamin.
* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:Han]]. Sucks to be you, [[spoiler:Vaniji]].
* TheLostLenore: Depending on how you look at it, Chesska's death kickstarts the entire plot. [[spoiler: If she hadn't died, Anthony/Blitz probably wouldn't have gone off to join the navy, get framed for the death of the captain's fiance, been possessed by a Raven and gone completely insane, meet Credenza, and cause them to leave the island by sneaking aboard Paollo's submarine.]]
* MadnessMantra: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=804 Starting here]], from Vaniji's wife after his hold on her was broken.
-->'''Mona:''' ''The puzzle's all fallen apart. You can't solve it. All the pieces are gone and eaten by the bad children. All gone and eaten. Can't put it back together. I can't see myself anymore. I'm all eaten up.''
* MadnessMantra: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=804 Starting here]], from Vaniji's wife after his hold on her was broken.
-->'''Mona:''' ''The puzzle's all fallen apart. You can't solve it. All the pieces are gone and eaten by the bad children. All gone and eaten. Can't put it back together. I can't see myself anymore. I'm all eaten up.''
* TheMessiah: Credenza.
-->'''Blitz:''' And that is how you will defeat Raven. You'll faith him to death!
-->'''Blitz:''' And that is how you will defeat Raven. You'll faith him to death!
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* RefusedByTheCall: Villainous example: a raven by the name of Steller is unsure why The Great Raven passed him up in favor of choosing Captain Snow as his herald.
* TheRival: Nim to Willium Drake and vice-versa.
* RefusedByTheCall: Villainous example: a raven by the name of Steller is unsure why The Great Raven passed him up in favor of choosing Captain Snow as his herald.
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* StartOfDarkness: Snow as a kid took animals apart to see how they worked and because he thought they did nothing useful. A useful; a lot of sociopaths in the real world also start by killing animals, so it isn't too much of a stretch.stretch. WordOfGod states that he [[spoiler:killed his family]] just to see if he would feel anything while doing so-- he didn't.
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* TheLostLenore: Depending on how you look at it, Chesska's death kickstarts the entire plot. [[spoiler: If she hadn't died, Anthony/Blitz probably wouldn't have gone off to join the navy, get framed for the death of the captain's fiance, been possessed by a Raven and gone completely insane, meet Credenza, and cause them to leave the island by sneaking aboard Paollo's submarine.]]
* TheMessiah: Credenza.
-->'''Blitz'''-And that is how you will defeat Raven. You'll faith him to death!
* TheSoulless: every raven
** Subverted both in that they have no interest in reclaiming their soul, and in that most of them have part of their souls and emotions still intact.
* TheRival: Nim to Willium Drake and vice-versa.
* TheMessiah: Credenza.
-->'''Blitz'''-And that is how you will defeat Raven. You'll faith him to death!
* TheSoulless: every raven
** Subverted both in that they have no interest in reclaiming their soul, and in that most of them have part of their souls and emotions still intact.
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* Frameup: Just before the story actually begins, Anthony/Blitz was blamed for the death of his captain's fiance. [[spoiler: Turns out it was actually the captain himself who killed her when she discovered he was shipping illegal goods.]]
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* TransformationTrinket: Dragons use these to switch between their human forms and their dragon forms. [[spoiler: Blitz's is his watch]]
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** We're not sure what happened at Mikel's 21st birthday party, but when he brings it up in comparison with [[spoiler: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=640 Snow's attack on Castle Quillotia]] ]], you know it has to have been crazy.
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[[caption-width-right:315:Here you will meet demons, Ravens, crazed pirates, and were-sharks. Enjoy the ride!]]
->'''Credenza:''' I wasn't trying to be a hero. I just saw they needed help. How could I turn away from that? I can't just look the other way and pretend there isn't evil at work here.\\
'''Dragonfly:''' I've heard enough. Credenza, I think you might be just the person I've been waiting for.\\
-- '''[[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=463 Book 5, Page 80.]]'''
A webcomic by H. L. Devera.
One cold night, Credenza discovers a man named Blitz washed up on the shores of Ruin Island. Blitz is wounded and on the brink of death, but with Credenza's help is able to recover. The only problem? Blitz has lost his memories as well as his sanity. Archipelago follows Credenza and Blitz's story as they become involved in a colossal battle between good and evil, journey to new parts of the titular Archipelago, and make a few friends along the way.
This webcomic can be found at the official site as well as the creator's deviantART page.
* http://archipelagocomic.com/
* http://thesilvertophat.deviantart.com/
!!Provides Examples Of:
* AbsentMindedProfessor: Holly.
* AccidentalKiss: Willium and Nim [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=146 here.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: Captain Snow in Book 4.5.
* AerithAndBob: Considering the fantasy setting, not terribly shocking.
* AffablyEvil: Captain Snow is this most of the time, making jokes and snide comments; he's [[strike:probably]] very capable of dropping it, though.
* AfterTheEnd: In the back story. There was a {{Magitek}} civilization that built the machines like Snow's arm, guns, the submarines,[[spoiler: the dragon the archipelago is built upon, which the Great Raven, Dragonfly and 4 other {{Magitek}} A.I.s ran.]]. And duct tape! Also genetically engineered the were-animals like were-sharks and probably the others as well.
** Hints that this may be a far-future or alternate Earth, given that the common language is descended from English (retaining the name, but about as intelligible to modern English speakers as modern English would be to Old English) and characters have read aloud from real written works.
* AllThereInTheManual: The cast page explains a number of details about the characters' backgrounds and abilities that otherwise don't get a lot of detail in the story.
** The Listing of Names could also count as an in-world example.
*** The Author also on occasion leaves notes with certain strips that pose as a sort as insight into the makings of individual characters or elaborations on elements of the Archipelago world i.e. information about the inner workings of magic in this setting.
* AndIMustScream: Those who are posessed by a raven spirit but are captured or simply no longer useful may be Soul Sealed. Essentially the subjects soul is sealed deep within their body and while they remain alive and aware, they cannot move or act in 'any' way at all.
* AntiHero: Based on what people who knew him say, Anthony was an Anti-Hero.
** Also, [[spoiler: Raven]] could qualify as a type II or III.
* AntiMagic: Knull's gift. Possibly the only reason Snow didn't kill him along with the rest if his family. Either that, or because he makes good tea.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Credenza would like for us to know that Captain Snow is a filthy coward, inexcusably evil, and poorly dressed.
* ArtEvolution: Seriously. Compare [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=1 this]] with [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=583 this]].
* ArtificialLimb: Snow has a cyborg arm (which is quickly growing in a cyborg body because he keeps getting injured). For a more bizarre example, Anansi uses scarfs for arms.
* ATasteOfTheLash: [[spoiler: Uru, in Credenza's place.]]
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Blitz likes shinies.
* AuthorAppeal: In the creator's own words, "In case you haven't realized, Archipelago is pretty much one big excuse for me to draw strange animals."
* BadassPreacher: Miss Tabitha is a nun. A rather elderly nun. Do not be fooled by appearances. Do not threaten her abbey's residents. Do NOT tear books in ''her'' library!
* BadassAbnormal: Due to the high individual nature of magic, everyone in the band has a different sort of magic, because of the nature of their mission they are also very powerful.
* BadDreams: Credenza sometimes has these about her childhood
* BallroomBlitz: Book 6. Snow and an army of Ravens attempt a hostile takeover of the Quillotia Castle while King Mikel is hosting a party to welcome home [[spoiler: his long-lost cousins, the Luck brothers.]]
* {{BFS}}: Riley's sword, The Jawbreaker, is so heavy only someone with a (half-)wereshark's strength can lift it.
* BigBad: The Great Raven
* BigBeautifulWoman: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=600 Riley has always preferred something with a little meat on it.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: Uru, to Credenza.
* BigEater: Riley to a T.
* BigGood:Dragonfly [[spoiler: at least he was]]
* BeastMan: Even referred to as such, or werebeasts. Known races include werecats (Miss Tabitha the nun), werehyenas and other canines (Kurr), weresharks (Tuff and Riley are half-wereshark), and wereorcas.
* BlindSeer: ...Kind of. Anansi Padma is blind in one eye, but it doesn't seem relevant at all to her seeing the future. In fact, it was her trying to stop the future from happening that caused her to become blind in one eye and lose her arms.
* BlowingARaspberry: Blitz, to Captain Snow[[spoiler: ''after tearing his mechanical arm off.'']]
* BodyHorror: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=954 Dude]].
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=657 "What if my teeth scare him? What if I drop him?]] [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion What if he explodes?!"]]
* CassandraTruth-No, Blitz [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=30 didn't kill her.]] He also didn't kill [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=34 that guy]] whose body he was found standing over, literally caught red-handed. Seriously, he didn't kill them.
* CatGirl: Miss Tabitha, among others.
* ChekhovsGun: On [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=751 this page,]] and observant reader will notice that when Charlie licks Credenza's cheek, there's a tiny blue magic flash and her scratch is suddenly gone. In the [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=959 next chapter,]] [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=960 this]] [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=961 happens.]]
* CirclingBirdies: Happens quite often.
-->'''Credenza:''' Heh heh... Pweety lights...
** Another time, when Paollo's waking up from a vision
-->'''Tusura:''' Okay, Paollo, how many fingers am i holding up?
-->'''Paollo:''' Look! Stars!
-->'''Tusura:''' Close enough.
** [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=944 Kitchen timers: The blind version of stars.]]
* ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity: On Hidden Island.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: In a word, Blitz.
** Paollo qualifies as well. Also, Mikel. There's also Clair, but she's a child so it's really more of an active imagination.
* ClothingDamage: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=186 "Was it really necessary to get rid of his clothes, or was that just for effect?"]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Different types of magic, different colors.
* CordonBleughChef: This or possibly a combo of it and LethalChef describe Riley's cooking. His signature dish is best described as fish still-kicking cooked into a pancake batter. [[spoiler: Both of these tropes are actually averted, as his dish is delicious, loved but lost by the Pintur family.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: who knew blitz could do [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=491 this]]
** Or, for that matter, [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=957 this]]
* CurseCutShort: Raven, of the injured mid sentence variety.
-->'''Raven:''' Curse it, Snow! You soul thieving son of a B- *Mona wallops with baseball bat* -UHK!
* DeadlyDoctor: Captain Snow. See MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the characters have their moments, but Raven's the most notable.
-->'''Raven:''' Nice try, Riley, but it will take more than halitosis to scare me.
* DealWithTheDevil: Snow, Snow's crew, and every other person possessed by a raven.
* DeathByChildbirth: Poor Chesska.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Color is reserved for magical effects, lending them extra strength and making climactic fights bright and dramatic. The [[ADayInTheLimelight side story about Snow]], ''Snowflakes'', was also done in full color.
** Also, flashbacks are given the color treatment.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:The Shadomandyr Queen uses Simon this way. When the Raven sees Dragonfly he posses Snow so he could kill Dragonfly personally, Snow is angry about this because the terms of the his deal stated no possessions. Oh, and The Raven causes Snow to change into a massive raven with a shock of white feather on his head.]]
** That would be MorphicResonance.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Credenza goes barefoot quite often.
* TheDragon: Snow to the Great Raven. Though Snow is showing signs of being a DragonWithAnAgenda.
* DuctTapeForEverything: You're in the middle of nowhere, and the heart crystal, the only thing that can keep your sub going, is falling apart. So you put it back together with... [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=397 DUCT TAPE!]]
* DullSurprise: Lucinda, to pretty much everything. Justified since she's emotionless.
* DynamicEntry: Credenza is on the beach, surrounded by shadowmandyrs, and then, suddenly.... Blitz emerges from the ocean. Smashing the shadowmandyrs. While riding a hammerhead shark.
* EldritchAbomination: The Raven, somewhat. Riley's dish that combines fish and pancakes but is so raw that that the fish still move, more so.
** Also, [[spoiler: Riley's attempt at transforming into a wereshark]].
* EmotionlessGirl: Lucinda. Justified: she had her heart broken (by a man hinted at having something to do with the Raven, no less), and her price for joining the Raven was to have her heart ''really'' broken, so she couldn't feel pain anymore.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In Snowflakes, we have [[spoiler: Noemi, Captain Snow's wife, and Yula, his daughter.]]
** Snow also seems to be oddly protective of his nephew, Knull.
** Averted, also in Snowflakes when [[spoiler: we see Snow kill his mother in a flashback.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Snow loves tea, and once berated his crew for trying to burn down a tea house. Though he still refrained from warning them when the shop owner proceeded to poison every cup (even his).
* EvilGenius: Snow claims to be trained as a doctor, has jury rigged medical implements using advanced tech, can use magic, and at one point animates bone skeletons.
* ExplosiveBreeder: Apparently, Moofs.
** [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=77 Do you know what happens if those things get in your submarine and multiply!? (Shudder)]]
* EyeScream: Ravens enter through your left eye to possess you. Not only that, but Blitz (back when he was Anthony Solair) ''stabs his own eye out'' in a effort to keep Raven from possessing him.
* EyeTake: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=836 Both Raven and Credenza on this page.]]
* FaintingSeer: According to Tusura, it often takes a bucket of cold water to snap Paollo out of his visions.
* FantasticRacism: Usually directed against weresharks and related half-bloods. Weresharks are seen as predatory monsters (and culturally, that's not far off the mark) who are better off dead. Tuff and Riley Luck, as half-bloods (they had a human mother), face all the prejudices ascribed to sharkmen, and even their shark kin would kill them as abominations. It's especially bad in Quillotia, the Luck brothers' home city, which is home to a large population of wereorcas, who hate weresharks more than any other race.
* FoodAsBribe: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=263 Riley likes fish pie.]]
** Later, [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=505 Credenza to Raven.]]
-->'''Raven:''' I am an ancient spirit of the dark. You think you can bribe me with a mere pastry?
-->'''Credenza:''' You're a little man made of ectoplasm. And you have a sweet tooth.
-->'''Raven:''' I should never have let you give me candy.
* Frameup: Just before the story actually begins, Anthony/Blitz was blamed for the death of his captain's fiance. [[spoiler: Turns out it was actually the captain himself who killed her when she discovered he was shipping illegal goods.]]
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Credenza, though she makes a special exception for Captain Snow, whom she would gladly personally throttle.
* FiveBadBand
** TheBigBad: The story's Big Bad is actually The Great Raven, but Captain Snow plays this part for the villain band...
** ...and Lucinda acts as his [[TheDragon dragon.]]
** TheEvilGenius: Han.
** TheBrute: Kurr.
** TheDarkChick: Knull.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Credenza. A rare example where the leader is female while the rest of the band is male.
** TheLancer: Raven
** TheSmartGuy: Tuff
** TheBigGuy: Riley
** TheChick: Blitz
* ForeShadowing: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=778 This]] page shows some of the characters from Book 8 before they are introduced.
** Book 2, page 47, Blitz says "Even if they throw me in the ocean, I'll just swim and swim until i find you again." Fifteen pages later, [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=123 guess what happens.]]
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Though the moment where [[spoiler: Snow steals Credenza's soul]] is very intense, it's hard not to laugh at the picture of the pterodactyl with a laser beam coming out of it's mouth in the background. [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=762 Here.]]
* [[GodHelpUsAll God Save Us All]]: [[CloudCuckoolander Paollo]] is the prince of the Solid Tower, the destined ruler of the Eastern Continent! [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=74 In his hands lies the future of our country!]]
* GoshDangItToHeck: Alice is trying to untie a bag rather urgently. It's got lots of tight knots. So Alice, a girl raised around sailors, starts swearing at it like only she can:
-->'''Alice''': Crumbs! Toast crumbs! Toast crumbs with butter and jam you stupid bag!
** WordOfGod says that it's hard to come up with G-rated swears.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Beastmen can mix with humans, though it's rare. Tuff and Riley are half-wereshark. A hybrid can get some beneficial traits like strength, danger-sense, or a powerful sense of smell, but shapeshifting into a more animalistic form is generally right out -- they can try, but it won't be pretty and is probably lethal. Tuff describes the result as looking something like tuna casserole.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Raven gets a soul.]]
* HotSubOnSubAction: Second book, Captain Snow versus the Royal Guard.
* HumanityEnsues: All the A.I.s but The Great Raven in the back-story,[[spoiler: Raven starts at the end of book 6 from Credenza's magic overload, and finishes in book 7, triggered by strong emotions.]]
* HumanShield: [[spoiler: The Shadomandyr Queen uses Simon as one.]]
* HypnoticEyes: Vaniji.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Alice's brother Lio,[[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=661 to Riley.]]
* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler: With Paollo's guards, after they're brainwashed by Vaniji]]
** Played during the beginning, with Credenza/Blitz/Raven
** [[spoiler: With Simon, when he's possessed by the Shadowmandyr Queen]]
* ImaginaryFriend: Clair has one, named Benjamin.
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: Blitz does it [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=653 here]] and [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=853 here.]] [[spoiler: Turns out that the first time he's crying the first time because before his memory loss, he had a wife who died in childbirth. The second time, we know about this... But he doesn't. He had just woken up from a dream which was a memory of his wife. WordOfGod says Blitz doesn't understand his dreams, they just make him sad.]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Riley sprouts lots of little hearts watching the "three time champion of the Ladies of Quillotia Wrestling Federation and Book Club" [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=623 in action.]]
** [[spoiler: Snow and Yula, though Yula was not particularly good, and willingly joined Snow.]]
** [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=946 Riley, there are better times to propose...]]
* InstantBandages: Happens a lot.
** [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=69 Blitz's shiny is still attached to someone.]]
* InsultToRocks: Comparing Vaniji [[spoiler: (Unless Snow's referring to Han?)]] to chopped liver would be an insult to dog food.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler: Tuff, sadly.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: Blitz, to Credenza.
* IronicEcho: 'It's only okay when ''you'' do it.'
* LifeEnergy: One source of magic.
* LightIsNotGood: Played for laughs.
-->'''Riley:''' [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=209 Look! It's like snow, only it's pure evil.]]
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Uru and Credenza.
* LongHairedPrettyboy: Han.
* LossOfIdentity: Blitz.
* TheMerch: What better way to enjoy a cup of tea than to have it served in a [[http://www.cafepress.com/ArchipelagoShop.551986995 mug with a picture of everyon'e favorite undead soul-stealing pirate king?]]
* MindControlEyes: Those controlled/hypnotized by Vaniji. They don't always look like it though.
* MoralityPet: Stretching the definition almost to the breaking point, but Captain Snow's nephew Knull [[spoiler:and his widow Noemi and their daughter Yulalia, who was born shortly after Snow died.]]
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=540 Someone was apparently crazy enough to give Snow a doctorate.]]though his backstory mentions that he was kicked out of med school because he proposed unethical experiment, he still is probably fully trained though.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Holly calls Clair by her mother's name by accident- she wasn't paying attention at the time.
* NiceHat: Pretty much everyone on Quillotia.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Captain Snow is an undead cyborg pirate king.
* NoodleIncident: Nim, after [[spoiler: rescuing Willium from the belly of the Shadomandyr Queen,]] states simply "That was definitely the third weirdest thing to ever happen to me."
* NotUsingTheZWord: The Darkeyes. Not all of them are actually dead bodies, as Snow can form them from whatever material is handy, but they ''look'' like human corpses.
* OceanMadness: Blitz. Apparently he was already going mad as it was- Raven simply hurried the process along.
* OhCrap: Han's expression in [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=619 this page]], for very good reason.
* OrphanageOfLove: All of the nuns are orphans.
* OrphansPlotTrinket: Credenza's hair tie, seemingly.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: Each character has a specific font in their speech balloons to represent their "voices."
** Also, people with a raven spirit are drawn with red eyes.
* ParentalAbandonment: Tuff and Riley's wereshark father disappeared while they were still quite young, and their mother took off to try to find him once they turned 16.
* PeopleJars: [[spoiler: Dragonfly is in one of these when the gang finds him.]]
* PowerGivesYouWings: Raven wings, specifically.
* PetBabyWildAnimal: According to Paolin, Credenza has brought home countless dangerous, injured beasts home.
* PregnantHostage: [[spoiler: The King's wife during Snow's attack on Quillotia; she goes into labor as soon as the battle is over.]]
* PunnyName: Tuff Luck
* PutOnABus: Prince Paollo's guards
** [[spoiler:TheBusCameBack: In book 7, when they go to Paper Island to find Kor, they also find Paollo's guards, all brainwashed by Vaniji.]]
* CrowsAndRavens: No actual ravens, but the BigBad is called The Raven and looks distinctly birdlike.
* RealMenWearPink: Han always sews before a battle, despite being one of the most threatening of Snow's crew.
* RebusBubble: used [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=9 here]] and [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=801 here]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Great Raven and those under his power.
* RedRightHand: take note of anyone who is missing their left eye especially if it happened recently.
* RunningGag: "If you support *insert topic relevant to the current strip here*, vote for Archipelago!"
* SealedEvilInACan: The Great Raven.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Captain Snow.
* SenseFreak: [[spoiler: Raven after becoming fully human.]] More specifically, he's interested in taste. WordOfGod says he has a very detailed diary of everything he's ever eaten and whether he likes it or not.
* SharkMan: A whole species of them with a culture that all about violence and blood. Tuff and Riley's dad was a nicer one.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Credenza, at the royal dinner in Quillotia
* ShoutOut:
** Prince Paollo quotes a Beatles song and Macbeth.
** Snow reads Poe's "Conqueror Worm" to [[spoiler:his daughter Yulalia.]]
** Credenza sings "That's Amore" and "Somewhere Out There."
** Also, on [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=467 this page,]] what Blitz says to [[spoiler:Dragonfly]]: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Do you have anything in your bag for ME Mr. Wizard?]]
** Vaniji misquotes Hamlet [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=891 here]].
** In one of the promotion messages below the comic, it's asked if you support [[MuppetTreasureIsland "sailing for adventure on the big blue wet thing"]].
* SlapSlapKiss: From [[spoiler:Noemi, Snow's wife, to Snow]], and followed by another slap.
* SlaveBrand: Captain Snow has one he occasionally uses on slaves or underlings. [[spoiler: Credenza has the brand on her arm.]]
* SmellsSexy: [[spoiler: When they meet him, Dragonfly gives Riley the scent of his mate. Later, he finds the person with that scent, who also happens to be an heir.]]
* SomethingPerson: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=679 It's Laundry Pants Man!]]
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Great Raven, partially to avoid confusion with Raven, partially because it sounds cooler.
* SpiderSense: Or rather, "Sharky Sense" as Riley calls it. [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=855 Can be rather intense.]]
* StartOfDarkness: Snow as a kid took animals apart to see how they worked and because he thought they did nothing useful. A lot of sociopaths in the real world also start by killing animals, so it isn't too much of a stretch.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Credenza looks a lot like her parents. She also looks like the [[spoiler: younger Dragonfly, and both have the same magic. Even her soul has dragonfly wings.]]
** Between Knull and Snow [[spoiler:and Yulalia]].
** And also, [[spoiler:Claire]] looks a lot like her mother [[spoiler: Chesska]] and her father [[spoiler: Blitz/Anthony]].
* SubmarinePirates: Captain Snow and his crew.
* SuicideAttack: [[spoiler: Captain Vander tries to pull one on the Luck brothers.]]
* SymbolSwearing: Occasionally.
* TalkativeLoon: Blitz again, particularly in the beginning.
* TarotMotifs: Willium Drake uses magical cards resembling Tarot cards.
* TeamMom: Credenza.
-->'''Raven:''' What makes that woman think she can order us around like that?
-->'''Blitz:''' The way we always do what she says.
* TeleporterAccident: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=6 How about that stretcher?]]
* TheLostLenore: Depending on how you look at it, Chesska's death kickstarts the entire plot. [[spoiler: If she hadn't died, Anthony/Blitz probably wouldn't have gone off to join the navy, get framed for the death of the captain's fiance, been possessed by a Raven and gone completely insane, meet Credenza, and cause them to leave the island by sneaking aboard Paollo's submarine.]]
* TheMessiah: Credenza.
-->'''Blitz'''-And that is how you will defeat Raven. You'll faith him to death!
* TheSoulless: every raven
** Subverted both in that they have no interest in reclaiming their soul, and in that most of them have part of their souls and emotions still intact.
* TheRival: Nim to Willium Drake and vice-versa.
* ThousandYardStare: Those whose souls have been removed from their bodies.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Avians average maybe a meter in height. WordOfGod says that a "running joke in the Archipelago is that the only reason the Avians haven't wiped out all competing humanoid races is that they like tall women."
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Blitz. Eventually explained as something far deeper than as normally presented: when Raven came to possess him, he slashed out his own eye, an act which cut off Raven's escape route and damaged the spirit, which in turn damaged Blitz's mind. He's got almost no hope of getting his original memory back (which may be for the best).
* UnsuspectinglySoused: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=239 Gregor Samsa is a giant potato!]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: All full-blooded werebeasts have a human and animal form. Half-bloods could, in theory, but it would probably kill them. Han pulls off a simpler version with his appearance through garments sewn from magical materials.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: On at least one occasion the author has stated that Raven was originally going to be an occasional mook who would pop up now and again to throw a wrench into the situation for our intrepid heroes but that the author than pictured him and Credenza conversing and that his present character personality and role there in, evolved from that.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Han, when he's portrayed in black and white. In color he's actually blonde.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Snow had already died when the Great Raven conscripted him into service, and part of their deal is now that he ''can't'' die again. He finds this takes a great deal of excitement out of his second life.
* WhyAreYouLookingAtMeLikeThat: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=246 Can't be surprised, huh?]]
* WingedHumanoid: A lot, actually. There's Avians, those possessed by the Ravens seem to able to sprout magic wings, and Raven.
* WitchDoctor: Jan.
* WolverineClaws: Lucinda uses them [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=774 here]], [[spoiler:though it only causes the book to get mad.]]
* WrittenSoundEffect: Quite often.
[[caption-width-right:315:Here you will meet demons, Ravens, crazed pirates, and were-sharks. Enjoy the ride!]]
->'''Credenza:''' I wasn't trying to be a hero. I just saw they needed help. How could I turn away from that? I can't just look the other way and pretend there isn't evil at work here.\\
'''Dragonfly:''' I've heard enough. Credenza, I think you might be just the person I've been waiting for.\\
-- '''[[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=463 Book 5, Page 80.]]'''
A webcomic by H. L. Devera.
One cold night, Credenza discovers a man named Blitz washed up on the shores of Ruin Island. Blitz is wounded and on the brink of death, but with Credenza's help is able to recover. The only problem? Blitz has lost his memories as well as his sanity. Archipelago follows Credenza and Blitz's story as they become involved in a colossal battle between good and evil, journey to new parts of the titular Archipelago, and make a few friends along the way.
This webcomic can be found at the official site as well as the creator's deviantART page.
* http://archipelagocomic.com/
* http://thesilvertophat.deviantart.com/
!!Provides Examples Of:
* AbsentMindedProfessor: Holly.
* AccidentalKiss: Willium and Nim [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=146 here.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: Captain Snow in Book 4.5.
* AerithAndBob: Considering the fantasy setting, not terribly shocking.
* AffablyEvil: Captain Snow is this most of the time, making jokes and snide comments; he's [[strike:probably]] very capable of dropping it, though.
* AfterTheEnd: In the back story. There was a {{Magitek}} civilization that built the machines like Snow's arm, guns, the submarines,[[spoiler: the dragon the archipelago is built upon, which the Great Raven, Dragonfly and 4 other {{Magitek}} A.I.s ran.]]. And duct tape! Also genetically engineered the were-animals like were-sharks and probably the others as well.
** Hints that this may be a far-future or alternate Earth, given that the common language is descended from English (retaining the name, but about as intelligible to modern English speakers as modern English would be to Old English) and characters have read aloud from real written works.
* AllThereInTheManual: The cast page explains a number of details about the characters' backgrounds and abilities that otherwise don't get a lot of detail in the story.
** The Listing of Names could also count as an in-world example.
*** The Author also on occasion leaves notes with certain strips that pose as a sort as insight into the makings of individual characters or elaborations on elements of the Archipelago world i.e. information about the inner workings of magic in this setting.
* AndIMustScream: Those who are posessed by a raven spirit but are captured or simply no longer useful may be Soul Sealed. Essentially the subjects soul is sealed deep within their body and while they remain alive and aware, they cannot move or act in 'any' way at all.
* AntiHero: Based on what people who knew him say, Anthony was an Anti-Hero.
** Also, [[spoiler: Raven]] could qualify as a type II or III.
* AntiMagic: Knull's gift. Possibly the only reason Snow didn't kill him along with the rest if his family. Either that, or because he makes good tea.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Credenza would like for us to know that Captain Snow is a filthy coward, inexcusably evil, and poorly dressed.
* ArtEvolution: Seriously. Compare [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=1 this]] with [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=583 this]].
* ArtificialLimb: Snow has a cyborg arm (which is quickly growing in a cyborg body because he keeps getting injured). For a more bizarre example, Anansi uses scarfs for arms.
* ATasteOfTheLash: [[spoiler: Uru, in Credenza's place.]]
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Blitz likes shinies.
* AuthorAppeal: In the creator's own words, "In case you haven't realized, Archipelago is pretty much one big excuse for me to draw strange animals."
* BadassPreacher: Miss Tabitha is a nun. A rather elderly nun. Do not be fooled by appearances. Do not threaten her abbey's residents. Do NOT tear books in ''her'' library!
* BadassAbnormal: Due to the high individual nature of magic, everyone in the band has a different sort of magic, because of the nature of their mission they are also very powerful.
* BadDreams: Credenza sometimes has these about her childhood
* BallroomBlitz: Book 6. Snow and an army of Ravens attempt a hostile takeover of the Quillotia Castle while King Mikel is hosting a party to welcome home [[spoiler: his long-lost cousins, the Luck brothers.]]
* {{BFS}}: Riley's sword, The Jawbreaker, is so heavy only someone with a (half-)wereshark's strength can lift it.
* BigBad: The Great Raven
* BigBeautifulWoman: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=600 Riley has always preferred something with a little meat on it.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: Uru, to Credenza.
* BigEater: Riley to a T.
* BigGood:Dragonfly [[spoiler: at least he was]]
* BeastMan: Even referred to as such, or werebeasts. Known races include werecats (Miss Tabitha the nun), werehyenas and other canines (Kurr), weresharks (Tuff and Riley are half-wereshark), and wereorcas.
* BlindSeer: ...Kind of. Anansi Padma is blind in one eye, but it doesn't seem relevant at all to her seeing the future. In fact, it was her trying to stop the future from happening that caused her to become blind in one eye and lose her arms.
* BlowingARaspberry: Blitz, to Captain Snow[[spoiler: ''after tearing his mechanical arm off.'']]
* BodyHorror: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=954 Dude]].
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=657 "What if my teeth scare him? What if I drop him?]] [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion What if he explodes?!"]]
* CassandraTruth-No, Blitz [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=30 didn't kill her.]] He also didn't kill [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=34 that guy]] whose body he was found standing over, literally caught red-handed. Seriously, he didn't kill them.
* CatGirl: Miss Tabitha, among others.
* ChekhovsGun: On [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=751 this page,]] and observant reader will notice that when Charlie licks Credenza's cheek, there's a tiny blue magic flash and her scratch is suddenly gone. In the [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=959 next chapter,]] [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=960 this]] [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=961 happens.]]
* CirclingBirdies: Happens quite often.
-->'''Credenza:''' Heh heh... Pweety lights...
** Another time, when Paollo's waking up from a vision
-->'''Tusura:''' Okay, Paollo, how many fingers am i holding up?
-->'''Paollo:''' Look! Stars!
-->'''Tusura:''' Close enough.
** [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=944 Kitchen timers: The blind version of stars.]]
* ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity: On Hidden Island.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: In a word, Blitz.
** Paollo qualifies as well. Also, Mikel. There's also Clair, but she's a child so it's really more of an active imagination.
* ClothingDamage: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=186 "Was it really necessary to get rid of his clothes, or was that just for effect?"]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Different types of magic, different colors.
* CordonBleughChef: This or possibly a combo of it and LethalChef describe Riley's cooking. His signature dish is best described as fish still-kicking cooked into a pancake batter. [[spoiler: Both of these tropes are actually averted, as his dish is delicious, loved but lost by the Pintur family.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: who knew blitz could do [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=491 this]]
** Or, for that matter, [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=957 this]]
* CurseCutShort: Raven, of the injured mid sentence variety.
-->'''Raven:''' Curse it, Snow! You soul thieving son of a B- *Mona wallops with baseball bat* -UHK!
* DeadlyDoctor: Captain Snow. See MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the characters have their moments, but Raven's the most notable.
-->'''Raven:''' Nice try, Riley, but it will take more than halitosis to scare me.
* DealWithTheDevil: Snow, Snow's crew, and every other person possessed by a raven.
* DeathByChildbirth: Poor Chesska.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Color is reserved for magical effects, lending them extra strength and making climactic fights bright and dramatic. The [[ADayInTheLimelight side story about Snow]], ''Snowflakes'', was also done in full color.
** Also, flashbacks are given the color treatment.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:The Shadomandyr Queen uses Simon this way. When the Raven sees Dragonfly he posses Snow so he could kill Dragonfly personally, Snow is angry about this because the terms of the his deal stated no possessions. Oh, and The Raven causes Snow to change into a massive raven with a shock of white feather on his head.]]
** That would be MorphicResonance.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Credenza goes barefoot quite often.
* TheDragon: Snow to the Great Raven. Though Snow is showing signs of being a DragonWithAnAgenda.
* DuctTapeForEverything: You're in the middle of nowhere, and the heart crystal, the only thing that can keep your sub going, is falling apart. So you put it back together with... [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=397 DUCT TAPE!]]
* DullSurprise: Lucinda, to pretty much everything. Justified since she's emotionless.
* DynamicEntry: Credenza is on the beach, surrounded by shadowmandyrs, and then, suddenly.... Blitz emerges from the ocean. Smashing the shadowmandyrs. While riding a hammerhead shark.
* EldritchAbomination: The Raven, somewhat. Riley's dish that combines fish and pancakes but is so raw that that the fish still move, more so.
** Also, [[spoiler: Riley's attempt at transforming into a wereshark]].
* EmotionlessGirl: Lucinda. Justified: she had her heart broken (by a man hinted at having something to do with the Raven, no less), and her price for joining the Raven was to have her heart ''really'' broken, so she couldn't feel pain anymore.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In Snowflakes, we have [[spoiler: Noemi, Captain Snow's wife, and Yula, his daughter.]]
** Snow also seems to be oddly protective of his nephew, Knull.
** Averted, also in Snowflakes when [[spoiler: we see Snow kill his mother in a flashback.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Snow loves tea, and once berated his crew for trying to burn down a tea house. Though he still refrained from warning them when the shop owner proceeded to poison every cup (even his).
* EvilGenius: Snow claims to be trained as a doctor, has jury rigged medical implements using advanced tech, can use magic, and at one point animates bone skeletons.
* ExplosiveBreeder: Apparently, Moofs.
** [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=77 Do you know what happens if those things get in your submarine and multiply!? (Shudder)]]
* EyeScream: Ravens enter through your left eye to possess you. Not only that, but Blitz (back when he was Anthony Solair) ''stabs his own eye out'' in a effort to keep Raven from possessing him.
* EyeTake: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=836 Both Raven and Credenza on this page.]]
* FaintingSeer: According to Tusura, it often takes a bucket of cold water to snap Paollo out of his visions.
* FantasticRacism: Usually directed against weresharks and related half-bloods. Weresharks are seen as predatory monsters (and culturally, that's not far off the mark) who are better off dead. Tuff and Riley Luck, as half-bloods (they had a human mother), face all the prejudices ascribed to sharkmen, and even their shark kin would kill them as abominations. It's especially bad in Quillotia, the Luck brothers' home city, which is home to a large population of wereorcas, who hate weresharks more than any other race.
* FoodAsBribe: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=263 Riley likes fish pie.]]
** Later, [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=505 Credenza to Raven.]]
-->'''Raven:''' I am an ancient spirit of the dark. You think you can bribe me with a mere pastry?
-->'''Credenza:''' You're a little man made of ectoplasm. And you have a sweet tooth.
-->'''Raven:''' I should never have let you give me candy.
* Frameup: Just before the story actually begins, Anthony/Blitz was blamed for the death of his captain's fiance. [[spoiler: Turns out it was actually the captain himself who killed her when she discovered he was shipping illegal goods.]]
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Credenza, though she makes a special exception for Captain Snow, whom she would gladly personally throttle.
* FiveBadBand
** TheBigBad: The story's Big Bad is actually The Great Raven, but Captain Snow plays this part for the villain band...
** ...and Lucinda acts as his [[TheDragon dragon.]]
** TheEvilGenius: Han.
** TheBrute: Kurr.
** TheDarkChick: Knull.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Credenza. A rare example where the leader is female while the rest of the band is male.
** TheLancer: Raven
** TheSmartGuy: Tuff
** TheBigGuy: Riley
** TheChick: Blitz
* ForeShadowing: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=778 This]] page shows some of the characters from Book 8 before they are introduced.
** Book 2, page 47, Blitz says "Even if they throw me in the ocean, I'll just swim and swim until i find you again." Fifteen pages later, [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=123 guess what happens.]]
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Though the moment where [[spoiler: Snow steals Credenza's soul]] is very intense, it's hard not to laugh at the picture of the pterodactyl with a laser beam coming out of it's mouth in the background. [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=762 Here.]]
* [[GodHelpUsAll God Save Us All]]: [[CloudCuckoolander Paollo]] is the prince of the Solid Tower, the destined ruler of the Eastern Continent! [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=74 In his hands lies the future of our country!]]
* GoshDangItToHeck: Alice is trying to untie a bag rather urgently. It's got lots of tight knots. So Alice, a girl raised around sailors, starts swearing at it like only she can:
-->'''Alice''': Crumbs! Toast crumbs! Toast crumbs with butter and jam you stupid bag!
** WordOfGod says that it's hard to come up with G-rated swears.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Beastmen can mix with humans, though it's rare. Tuff and Riley are half-wereshark. A hybrid can get some beneficial traits like strength, danger-sense, or a powerful sense of smell, but shapeshifting into a more animalistic form is generally right out -- they can try, but it won't be pretty and is probably lethal. Tuff describes the result as looking something like tuna casserole.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Raven gets a soul.]]
* HotSubOnSubAction: Second book, Captain Snow versus the Royal Guard.
* HumanityEnsues: All the A.I.s but The Great Raven in the back-story,[[spoiler: Raven starts at the end of book 6 from Credenza's magic overload, and finishes in book 7, triggered by strong emotions.]]
* HumanShield: [[spoiler: The Shadomandyr Queen uses Simon as one.]]
* HypnoticEyes: Vaniji.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Alice's brother Lio,[[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=661 to Riley.]]
* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler: With Paollo's guards, after they're brainwashed by Vaniji]]
** Played during the beginning, with Credenza/Blitz/Raven
** [[spoiler: With Simon, when he's possessed by the Shadowmandyr Queen]]
* ImaginaryFriend: Clair has one, named Benjamin.
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: Blitz does it [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=653 here]] and [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=853 here.]] [[spoiler: Turns out that the first time he's crying the first time because before his memory loss, he had a wife who died in childbirth. The second time, we know about this... But he doesn't. He had just woken up from a dream which was a memory of his wife. WordOfGod says Blitz doesn't understand his dreams, they just make him sad.]]
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Riley sprouts lots of little hearts watching the "three time champion of the Ladies of Quillotia Wrestling Federation and Book Club" [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=623 in action.]]
** [[spoiler: Snow and Yula, though Yula was not particularly good, and willingly joined Snow.]]
** [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=946 Riley, there are better times to propose...]]
* InstantBandages: Happens a lot.
** [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=69 Blitz's shiny is still attached to someone.]]
* InsultToRocks: Comparing Vaniji [[spoiler: (Unless Snow's referring to Han?)]] to chopped liver would be an insult to dog food.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler: Tuff, sadly.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: Blitz, to Credenza.
* IronicEcho: 'It's only okay when ''you'' do it.'
* LifeEnergy: One source of magic.
* LightIsNotGood: Played for laughs.
-->'''Riley:''' [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=209 Look! It's like snow, only it's pure evil.]]
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Uru and Credenza.
* LongHairedPrettyboy: Han.
* LossOfIdentity: Blitz.
* TheMerch: What better way to enjoy a cup of tea than to have it served in a [[http://www.cafepress.com/ArchipelagoShop.551986995 mug with a picture of everyon'e favorite undead soul-stealing pirate king?]]
* MindControlEyes: Those controlled/hypnotized by Vaniji. They don't always look like it though.
* MoralityPet: Stretching the definition almost to the breaking point, but Captain Snow's nephew Knull [[spoiler:and his widow Noemi and their daughter Yulalia, who was born shortly after Snow died.]]
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=540 Someone was apparently crazy enough to give Snow a doctorate.]]though his backstory mentions that he was kicked out of med school because he proposed unethical experiment, he still is probably fully trained though.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Holly calls Clair by her mother's name by accident- she wasn't paying attention at the time.
* NiceHat: Pretty much everyone on Quillotia.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Captain Snow is an undead cyborg pirate king.
* NoodleIncident: Nim, after [[spoiler: rescuing Willium from the belly of the Shadomandyr Queen,]] states simply "That was definitely the third weirdest thing to ever happen to me."
* NotUsingTheZWord: The Darkeyes. Not all of them are actually dead bodies, as Snow can form them from whatever material is handy, but they ''look'' like human corpses.
* OceanMadness: Blitz. Apparently he was already going mad as it was- Raven simply hurried the process along.
* OhCrap: Han's expression in [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=619 this page]], for very good reason.
* OrphanageOfLove: All of the nuns are orphans.
* OrphansPlotTrinket: Credenza's hair tie, seemingly.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: Each character has a specific font in their speech balloons to represent their "voices."
** Also, people with a raven spirit are drawn with red eyes.
* ParentalAbandonment: Tuff and Riley's wereshark father disappeared while they were still quite young, and their mother took off to try to find him once they turned 16.
* PeopleJars: [[spoiler: Dragonfly is in one of these when the gang finds him.]]
* PowerGivesYouWings: Raven wings, specifically.
* PetBabyWildAnimal: According to Paolin, Credenza has brought home countless dangerous, injured beasts home.
* PregnantHostage: [[spoiler: The King's wife during Snow's attack on Quillotia; she goes into labor as soon as the battle is over.]]
* PunnyName: Tuff Luck
* PutOnABus: Prince Paollo's guards
** [[spoiler:TheBusCameBack: In book 7, when they go to Paper Island to find Kor, they also find Paollo's guards, all brainwashed by Vaniji.]]
* CrowsAndRavens: No actual ravens, but the BigBad is called The Raven and looks distinctly birdlike.
* RealMenWearPink: Han always sews before a battle, despite being one of the most threatening of Snow's crew.
* RebusBubble: used [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=9 here]] and [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=801 here]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Great Raven and those under his power.
* RedRightHand: take note of anyone who is missing their left eye especially if it happened recently.
* RunningGag: "If you support *insert topic relevant to the current strip here*, vote for Archipelago!"
* SealedEvilInACan: The Great Raven.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Captain Snow.
* SenseFreak: [[spoiler: Raven after becoming fully human.]] More specifically, he's interested in taste. WordOfGod says he has a very detailed diary of everything he's ever eaten and whether he likes it or not.
* SharkMan: A whole species of them with a culture that all about violence and blood. Tuff and Riley's dad was a nicer one.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Credenza, at the royal dinner in Quillotia
* ShoutOut:
** Prince Paollo quotes a Beatles song and Macbeth.
** Snow reads Poe's "Conqueror Worm" to [[spoiler:his daughter Yulalia.]]
** Credenza sings "That's Amore" and "Somewhere Out There."
** Also, on [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=467 this page,]] what Blitz says to [[spoiler:Dragonfly]]: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Do you have anything in your bag for ME Mr. Wizard?]]
** Vaniji misquotes Hamlet [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=891 here]].
** In one of the promotion messages below the comic, it's asked if you support [[MuppetTreasureIsland "sailing for adventure on the big blue wet thing"]].
* SlapSlapKiss: From [[spoiler:Noemi, Snow's wife, to Snow]], and followed by another slap.
* SlaveBrand: Captain Snow has one he occasionally uses on slaves or underlings. [[spoiler: Credenza has the brand on her arm.]]
* SmellsSexy: [[spoiler: When they meet him, Dragonfly gives Riley the scent of his mate. Later, he finds the person with that scent, who also happens to be an heir.]]
* SomethingPerson: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=679 It's Laundry Pants Man!]]
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Great Raven, partially to avoid confusion with Raven, partially because it sounds cooler.
* SpiderSense: Or rather, "Sharky Sense" as Riley calls it. [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=855 Can be rather intense.]]
* StartOfDarkness: Snow as a kid took animals apart to see how they worked and because he thought they did nothing useful. A lot of sociopaths in the real world also start by killing animals, so it isn't too much of a stretch.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Credenza looks a lot like her parents. She also looks like the [[spoiler: younger Dragonfly, and both have the same magic. Even her soul has dragonfly wings.]]
** Between Knull and Snow [[spoiler:and Yulalia]].
** And also, [[spoiler:Claire]] looks a lot like her mother [[spoiler: Chesska]] and her father [[spoiler: Blitz/Anthony]].
* SubmarinePirates: Captain Snow and his crew.
* SuicideAttack: [[spoiler: Captain Vander tries to pull one on the Luck brothers.]]
* SymbolSwearing: Occasionally.
* TalkativeLoon: Blitz again, particularly in the beginning.
* TarotMotifs: Willium Drake uses magical cards resembling Tarot cards.
* TeamMom: Credenza.
-->'''Raven:''' What makes that woman think she can order us around like that?
-->'''Blitz:''' The way we always do what she says.
* TeleporterAccident: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=6 How about that stretcher?]]
* TheLostLenore: Depending on how you look at it, Chesska's death kickstarts the entire plot. [[spoiler: If she hadn't died, Anthony/Blitz probably wouldn't have gone off to join the navy, get framed for the death of the captain's fiance, been possessed by a Raven and gone completely insane, meet Credenza, and cause them to leave the island by sneaking aboard Paollo's submarine.]]
* TheMessiah: Credenza.
-->'''Blitz'''-And that is how you will defeat Raven. You'll faith him to death!
* TheSoulless: every raven
** Subverted both in that they have no interest in reclaiming their soul, and in that most of them have part of their souls and emotions still intact.
* TheRival: Nim to Willium Drake and vice-versa.
* ThousandYardStare: Those whose souls have been removed from their bodies.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Avians average maybe a meter in height. WordOfGod says that a "running joke in the Archipelago is that the only reason the Avians haven't wiped out all competing humanoid races is that they like tall women."
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Blitz. Eventually explained as something far deeper than as normally presented: when Raven came to possess him, he slashed out his own eye, an act which cut off Raven's escape route and damaged the spirit, which in turn damaged Blitz's mind. He's got almost no hope of getting his original memory back (which may be for the best).
* UnsuspectinglySoused: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=239 Gregor Samsa is a giant potato!]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: All full-blooded werebeasts have a human and animal form. Half-bloods could, in theory, but it would probably kill them. Han pulls off a simpler version with his appearance through garments sewn from magical materials.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: On at least one occasion the author has stated that Raven was originally going to be an occasional mook who would pop up now and again to throw a wrench into the situation for our intrepid heroes but that the author than pictured him and Credenza conversing and that his present character personality and role there in, evolved from that.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Han, when he's portrayed in black and white. In color he's actually blonde.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Snow had already died when the Great Raven conscripted him into service, and part of their deal is now that he ''can't'' die again. He finds this takes a great deal of excitement out of his second life.
* WhyAreYouLookingAtMeLikeThat: [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=246 Can't be surprised, huh?]]
* WingedHumanoid: A lot, actually. There's Avians, those possessed by the Ravens seem to able to sprout magic wings, and Raven.
* WitchDoctor: Jan.
* WolverineClaws: Lucinda uses them [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=774 here]], [[spoiler:though it only causes the book to get mad.]]
* WrittenSoundEffect: Quite often.
