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* HotScoop: Erin Winters, who has already appeared in ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'' as an awkward teenager and [[SheIsAllGrownUp is all grown up]] now. Jack describes her as being [[PrecociousCrush "sort of hot" and having "hot eyes"]].seems to be developing quite the PrecociousCrush on her, to Linton's dismay.
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* BilingualBonus / {{Foreshadowing}} / MeaningfulName: "Mariposa" is [[spoiler: Spanish for "Butterfly".]]
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* EagleLand: Shelley attempts a RousingSpeech based very literally on this. [[spoiler: See the next entry for how well it works.]]
* GunsAreWorthless:An A [[spoiler: attacking single juvenile moth]] is dispatched with shotguns, but it quickly turns out there are a ''lot'' more of them.other than that.. yeah.
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!! ''THAT''
Another Shelley stand-alone adventure. This time she's in America doing a book-tour. She arrives in Heaven, Arizona just in time for the Lemon Festival, and [[spoiler: an attack by a flock of giant killer moths.]]
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''THAT [[labelnote:*]](Insert blinking black square here)[[/labelnote]]''
Another Shelley stand-alone adventure. This time she's in America (sans intern) doing a book-tour. She arrives in Heaven, Arizona just in time for the town Lemon Festival, and [[spoiler: an attack by a flock of giant killer moths.]]
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Another Shelley stand-alone adventure. This time she's in America doing a book-tour. She arrives in Heaven, Arizona just in time for the Lemon Festival, and [[spoiler: an attack by a flock of giant killer moths.]]
* TheAllegedCar: Shelly bought it off Craigslist for her tour.
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* CaffeineBulletTime: Well, more like Caffeine HyperAwareness, [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20110729 the first time Shauna tries it]].
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* HumansAreBastards: HumansKillWantonly: Shauna seems convinced that this is the moral she's meant to be taking away from [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20111019 this story]], [[SubvertedTrope but the facts keep getting in the way]].
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The webcomic ''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php Bad Machinery]]'' is John Allison's followup to the popular ''ScaryGoRound'', which itself is a followup to ''{{Bobbins}}.'' It takes place in the same strangely charming (and charmingly strange) British town of Tackleford three years after ''ScaryGoRound'' and with some of the old characters from the prior comics.
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[[caption-width-right:335:Left to right: Lottie, Shauna and Mildred.]]
The webcomic ''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php Bad Machinery]]'' is John Allison's followup to the popular ''ScaryGoRound'', which itself is a followup to''{{Bobbins}}.'' ''Bobbins''. It takes place in the same strangely charming (and charmingly strange) British town of Tackleford three years after ''ScaryGoRound'' and with some of the old characters from the prior comics.
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The webcomic ''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php Bad Machinery]]'' is John Allison's followup to the popular ''ScaryGoRound'', which itself is a followup to
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The webcomic ''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php Bad Machinery]]'' is John Allison's followup to the popular ''ScaryGoRound'', which itself is a followup to ''{{Bobbins}}.'' It takes place in the same strangely charming (and charmingly strange) British town of Tackleford three years after ''ScaryGoRound'' and with some of the old characters from the prior comics.
It follows a group of secondary-school (for Americans: middle school) kids; The girls consist of [[PluckyGirl plucky]] ringleader-sleuth Shauna Wickle, the endearingly [[CloudCuckoolander simple]] Charlotte "Lottie" Grote, and [[PreachersKid wild child]] Mildred Haversham. The boys are AdorablyPrecociousChild investigator Jack Finch, [[KidDetective justice-obsessed]] Linton Baxter, and the [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide sensitive]] Sonny Craven. The kids attend Griswalds Grammar School and get into all manner of capers and hijinks typical of living in Tackleford.
Initially focusing on the group of children detectives as a whole, the stories have begun focusing on and developing one or two main characters for a story's duration. The supernatural elements are toned down slightly from ''Scary Go Round'', though it retains John Allison's signature [[SeinfeldianConversation bantering character interaction]] and [[BuffySpeak unique way with words]], though he's said that the language is very complex than ''SGR''[='=]s, partly because of the younger cast and partly because he'd grown out of it.
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!!''BadMachinery'' provides examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Jack, very much so.
* AdultsAreUseless: Played straight and subverted in turn. Notably, Shauna's stepdad Dan tries to help his daughter out when her coat gets stolen, and Glenys [[spoiler: takes Archibald away from Mildred because [[{{Wendigo}} whatever he is]], he's obviously not a dog.]]
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Mildred and Lee. Lee's one of the rougher boys, but seems genuine in his affection.
* [[AlmostKiss Almost Pash]]: [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20111027 Mildred in detention.]]
* AudibleSharpness: Inverted; [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20110721 Clair's knife]] is so blunt [[UnsoundEffect it goes "BLUNT!" when brandished]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Though brought up to be a GranolaGirl by very liberal parents who tell her to use their real names, Mildred is usually the first to suggest violence or causing trouble. Perhaps it's an outlet, or a form of rebellion.
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Jack's sister Jessica is always looking out for him, even when she teases him mercilessly.
* BourgeoisBohemian: Mildred's parents.
* BrickJoke: [[http://scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20111111 This]] strip is the punchline to a set-up in [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20110601 this one]], from nearly five months earlier.
* BuffySpeak: The whole cast has a very unique way of saying things that borders on this.
* CaffeineBulletTime: Well, more like Caffeine HyperAwareness, [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20110729 the first time Shauna tries it]].
-->'''Amy:''' Coffee is like rocket fuel for your mind, Shauna. It's very good for you.
-->'''Shauna:''' [[AnalogyBackfire Don't most rockets]] ''[[AnalogyBackfire explode?]]''
* ChickMagnet: Jack. His sister's friends find him {{Adorkable}}. Shauna is quite fond of him, as well.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Shauna's older brother Darren from ''ScaryGoRound'' seems to be suffering from this - as of the new series, Humphrey is the only sibling she ever acknowledges having.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Lottie's ideas aren't always the best, she has a habit of trailing off into odd things in her jokes and getting up to silly things.
** Jack is a daydreamer and is also prone to imagining and [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20091019 misinterpretation.]]
* ContinuityNod: Several, both to ''ScaryGoRound'' and to itself.
** Mr. Beckwith, the girls' teacher, is (obviously) Ryan from ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]'', and is now married to Amy Chilton. The two had expressed feelings for the other but by the end of ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]'' nothing had developed.
** Lottie mentions that Mr. Beckwith dated her sister before she left for University.
** Lottie and Shauna decide to do their first school assignment as a Zine, using the equipment Lottie's sister had left her at the end of ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]''.
*** Said sister pays Lottie a visit (starting [[http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20110118 here]]) and goes shopping with her.
** Mad Terry is never named in ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]'' but can be seen in the background, most notably as one of [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Boy]]'s co-workers.
** Amy is still an antiques dealer and seems to still be running out of her shop, [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20100224 Bric A Brac]].
** Panel two of [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20091202 this comic]] even is a ContinuityCavalcade. From left to right, we have:
*** Amy's dad Len Pickering, and Amy herself. Although his appearance has changed a bit (his hair is now grey, and there is more of it in his face), Len should be well known to avid ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]''-readers.
*** Judge Soap, a relatively obscure ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]'' character. He is the father of Amy's employee Melanie.
*** Hamilton Percy, the last known employer of The Boy and Mad Terry from ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]''. He also appeared in an early story arc as the victim of [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Zombie-Shelley's]] craving for brains.
** Shelley's little sister Erin, quite literally PutOnABusToHell in ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]'', has returned to Tackleford. She even seems to have gained Shelley's old job as newspaper journalist.
** Elodie, The Boy's French exchange student, has shown up recently as French assistante for the school.
* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Biscuits.
* CoolPet: Archibald, for both Mildred and Shauna.
* DealWithTheDevil: For Linton and Sonny, asking for help from Erin is this. [[spoiler: Given that she makes them promise her a favor and sign it in blood, and was previously seen ''trapped in Hell'', they may be more correct than they think...]]
* DelusionsOfEloquence: Some of the children stumble into this now and then.
--> '''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20100316 Charlotte]]''': I'm bein' sophisticated, Shauna. Reversin' his psychology.
* FanNickname: Applied in-universe. Jack has names for all the shapes in ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''. And he's written {{fanfiction}} for them.
* FlatWhat: [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20090922 Seen here.]]
* ForbiddenFruit: Mildred ''really'' loves chocolate, as her family doesn't allow her to have it.
--> '''Mildred:''' I'm not allowed computer games...on account of them promoting ''violent stereo tights''. SO IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE PLAY THEM ALL NOW.
* FreeRangeChildren
* GranolaGirl: Mildred's family is vegan, although the trope applies more to her mother Glenys.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Colm rushes into a burning barn to help save the troll after helping to set the mob on him in the first place.]]
* HiddenDepths: TrophyWife Yana Kropotkin [[spoiler: turns out to be a expert hacker.]]
* HotTeacher: Ryan is quite popular with his female students.
** Elodie is a French assistante rather than a teacher, but judging by Linton's reaction she seems to have the hot part down.
** Mrs. Lord fits the bill as well.
* HumansAreBastards: Shauna seems convinced that this is the moral she's meant to be taking away from [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20111019 this story]], [[SubvertedTrope but the facts keep getting in the way]].
* HypnoticEyes: [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20110721 Lem]].
* InterruptedKiss: [[http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20111027 Mildred and a 4th year boy during detention]].
* JustAStupidAccent: Kropotkin and his wife speak Russian-accented English even when talking to each other, even though they [[TranslationConvention presumably do it in Russian]].
* IntrepidReporter: Erin Winters, doubling as a HotScoop. She's better at this job than her sister was, but the kids hate her because she tends to omit their names when she uses their info for reports.
* LighterAndSofter: ''BadMachinery'' has a lot of the same humor as ''ScaryGoRound'', but because it focuses mostly on pre-teens there is significantly less cursing, gore/violence, and sex.
* LittleMissSnarker: Pretty much any female character that you can find. Lottie may possibly have been influenced by older sister Sarah from ''ScaryGoRound''.
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: Colm is a thief and a bit odd with a suspicious hole in his backstory, but everything that gets him in trouble stems from his honest attempts to impress Lottie.]]
* MurderTheHypotenuse:
--> '''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20120221 Mildred:]]''' All I want to know is if he has a girlfriend. And if he does, how I can ''destroy their love''.
* MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad: The intimidating size of Shauna's stepdad convinces Jack that this is not so:
--> '''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20101213 Jack]]:''' All I can think about when I meet her stepdad is...what if something happens and my dad has to fight him?
* NoodleIncident: "The case of Mad Terry".
* OnlySaneMan: Linton is easily the most grounded of the boys. Same with Shauna and the girls.
* PlanetEris: Continuing on from ''ScaryGoRound'', the world is still full of ghosts, weird beasts, magical objects and strange goings-on. A satellite falls on a football pitch... in the middle of a match.
* [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Disguised Pilot]]: (The full trope name does a disservice to Mr Allison.) Shauna and Lottie first appeared in some of the last chapters of ''ScaryGoRound'', which were more like a [[FullyAbsorbedFinale Fully Absorbed Pilot]].
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Lottie. "Grote women have naturally alabaster skin!" And Colm definitely thinks she's a beauty.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Colm may be a thief and a creeper, but he isn't the Firebug.]]
* RelationshipUpgrade: Ryan and Amy, friends from ''ScaryGoRound'', got married in the three-year gap between both series.
** Also happened to [[spoiler: Shauna and Jack, at least for a while.]]
* RetGone: [[spoiler: Erin was sucked into Hell during the course of ''ScaryGoRound'', which caused all the people who knew her to forget about her completely. She's turned up recently (and mysteriously) and the trend seems to have kept, as Ryan had no idea who she was.]]
* TheReveal: Double layered in the first story, as [[spoiler: Mrs. Biscuits is a "likho", a supernatural creature that curses people, but she isn't the cause of Kropotkin's bad luck.]]
* RussianGuySuffersMost: Both Mrs. Biscuits and Mr. Kropotkin have led hard lives in Russia before coming to Britain.
--> '''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20091014 Mrs. Biscuits]]''': I come from Russia years ago. InSovietRussia, you have ''nothing''! Here I have home. Will Russia take it from me? No!\\
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'''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20091022 Kropotkin]]''': In Russia, I make fortune mining lithium. Initially with bare hands. Then a teaspoon. Other miners laugh! They could not break my spirit. When I feel sad, [[GeniusBonus eat some lithium, feel better]]. After a week, I earn enough money to buy shovel. Now I own many mines. Laughing miners? Today they are broken men, too tough to cry.
* SelkiesAndWereseals: "The Case of the Fire Inside" features a selkie whose sealskin is unwittingly stolen by Lottie.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Jack is the quiet, sensitive guy, while Linton is a wannabe manly man and the only boy who really enjoys sports. Sonny is somewhere between the two of them, leaning more towards sensitivity.
* SeriousBusiness: It's not as if firefighting isn't a really serious business in reality, but in this world, you have to have a ''maniacial hatred'' of fire to be in the Fire Brigade.
* ShipTease: The makings of early-teen romance between [[spoiler: Shauna and Jack]] at the end of Chapter 1.
* ShoutOut:
** Lottie dubs a creature "the [[SomethingPositive choo choo bear]] or whatever it is."
** A ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' fan has written "fus ro da" on the back of the bus [[http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20120301 here]].
* SixthRanger: Mildred was this for a while, before becoming part of the main cast.
* SelfMadeMan: Kropotkin - see above in RussianGuySuffersMost.
* TheSmartGuy: Mildred is good with physics and quite clever in general.
** The cast page describes Shauna as "incredibly bright", and she has some surprisingly developed opinions on thing like [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20101213 architecture]] for her age and background.
* SpeechImpediment: Claire hath a LITHP, which therveth only to emphathithe her DRAMATIC PROUNOUNTHMENTTH.
* StalkerWithACrush: Colm has a thing for Lottie. She just thinks he's a creeper.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: Referenced in [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20110301 this strip]]. When the Tackleford townsfolk learn of a troll being about, they start stocking up on pitchforks.
* ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion: There's much more visible class and income differences between the characters than in ''ScaryGoRound'': Sonny is described as "living in wealth and splendor" and his cousin Mildred's family are also upper middle class; Lottie, Linton and Jack appear to be in the middle, and Shauna's family is working class. It's [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20101213 most obvious]] when Jack goes round to Shauna's house.
* UnfortunateNames Mr. Bough (pronounced "boff"). He's also heard just about every joke possible, so any more and it's detention!
* UnsoundEffect: These appear quite often, such as the boys doing STUNTS! on their bikes, or Amy fixing Ryan's hair with the unsound "fuss fuss comb interfere". Don't you wish you could invoke the effect [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20100915 J'ACCUSE]] when you point at someone?
** [[ScottPilgrim Some of us]] must [[http://smartovercoat.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/blog_1008_scottpilgrim_jaccuse.png?w=246&h=332 say it outloud]].
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Their investigations are much more local than "saving the world", but the trope is still the thrust of the comic:
--> '''[[http://coilhouse.net/2010/11/monster-as-metaphor-john-allison-webcomics-genius/ John Allison]]:''' The idea of ''Bad Machinery'' is that the supernatural mysteries are a distraction from the real dangers, which are personal. All through “The Case Of The Good Boy”, [[spoiler: the actual manifest danger is how Jack is being victimised through no fault of his own, and he can’t really ask for help. He’s the good boy!]] No one has spotted this. [[SelfDeprecation I’m probably not doing my job very well, am I?]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Shauna gives one to Lottie after [[spoiler: her plan to help the troll find love gets him hunted down by a mob.]]
* WordSaladTitle: If there's a reason for the name "Bad Machinery", Mr. Allison is keeping it to himself.
* [[WriteWhatYouKnow Draw What You Know]]: Tackleford and Griswald's Grammar School based on the author's local area.
-->'''[[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=24200 John Allison]]:''' I do draw the school I attended, and the town I attended it in. It just makes it easier to draw people walking around, I know what is round each corner! But my school wasn't co-educational, the girls' high school was separate, just up the road.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Jack's sister.
!! ''Murder, She Writes''
A ClosedCircle murder mystery featuring Lottie from ''BadMachinery'' and Shelley from ''ScaryGoRound''. Shelley, now a children's author, is invited to a party in her agent's remote Welsh mansion, and brings along Lottie as her intern. When one of the author is murdered and several of the guests have motives, our heroines investigate.
* AllJustADream: Shelley believes so when she wakes up, but is [[http://scarygoround.com/scare/index.php?date=20111130 quickly disabused of the idea.]]
* AngstWhatAngst: [[invoked]]Despite Shelley's fears, 12-year-old Lottie takes the bloody murder scene in her stride and immediately starts looking for the killer. She [[http://scarygoround.com/scare/index.php?date=20111129 explains with a diagram]] that her "[[KidDetective extreme love of mysteries]]" protects her "[[TheIngenue delicate lady-brain]]" from horror.
--> '''Shelley:''' [[TroublingUnChildhoodBehavior This isn't normal for a girl your age]]. I'm going to freak out for both of us.
* TheBigBoard
* CanYouHearMeNow: Bad mobile phone reception because of the storm and the mansion's remoteness prevents anyone calling the police. [[spoiler: Lottie and Shelley manage to call them after solving the mystery, surprising everyone by finding a landline - hidden in a cupboard because no-one uses it any more.]]
* {{Jaccuse}}: [[http://scarygoround.com/scare/index.php?date=20111205 Emitted by Lottie]], like [[{{Spiderman}} Spidey-sense]]. She says it out loud once [[http://scarygoround.com/scare/index.php?date=20111222 the truth is out]].
* IHaveToIronMyDog: Derek attempts to [[http://scarygoround.com/scare/index.php?date=20111207 get out]] of a long rant.
* OneLiner: Judy [[http://scarygoround.com/scare/index.php?date=20111121 faces down the competition]].
--> '''Shelley:''' Make a note, Charlotte. That was a zinger of the old school.
* ModestyBedsheet: Played straight as a SceneryCensor; however, evidently fails in-universe as Lottie later mentions her "accidental willy sighting"
* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The title is refers to ''MurderSheWrote'', of course.
* RightThroughTheWall:
--> '''Lottie:''' What do you think they were doing? Moving furniture? \\
'''Shelley:''' [[SureLetsGoWithThat Um, yes]]. Feng shui is very important.
* SnowedIn
* SpotlightStealingSquad: The "cover" splash panel originally described ''Murder, She Writes'' as "A Shelley Winters story", but Shelley appears to have passed out of the CompetenceZone, and mostly takes a back seat to Lottie's investigating.
* StartToCorpse: the "corpse clock" is lampshaded in TheRant.
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It follows a group of secondary-school (for Americans: middle school) kids; The girls consist of [[PluckyGirl plucky]] ringleader-sleuth Shauna Wickle, the endearingly [[CloudCuckoolander simple]] Charlotte "Lottie" Grote, and [[PreachersKid wild child]] Mildred Haversham. The boys are AdorablyPrecociousChild investigator Jack Finch, [[KidDetective justice-obsessed]] Linton Baxter, and the [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide sensitive]] Sonny Craven. The kids attend Griswalds Grammar School and get into all manner of capers and hijinks typical of living in Tackleford.
Initially focusing on the group of children detectives as a whole, the stories have begun focusing on and developing one or two main characters for a story's duration. The supernatural elements are toned down slightly from ''Scary Go Round'', though it retains John Allison's signature [[SeinfeldianConversation bantering character interaction]] and [[BuffySpeak unique way with words]], though he's said that the language is very complex than ''SGR''[='=]s, partly because of the younger cast and partly because he'd grown out of it.
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!!''BadMachinery'' provides examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Jack, very much so.
* AdultsAreUseless: Played straight and subverted in turn. Notably, Shauna's stepdad Dan tries to help his daughter out when her coat gets stolen, and Glenys [[spoiler: takes Archibald away from Mildred because [[{{Wendigo}} whatever he is]], he's obviously not a dog.]]
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Mildred and Lee. Lee's one of the rougher boys, but seems genuine in his affection.
* [[AlmostKiss Almost Pash]]: [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20111027 Mildred in detention.]]
* AudibleSharpness: Inverted; [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20110721 Clair's knife]] is so blunt [[UnsoundEffect it goes "BLUNT!" when brandished]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Though brought up to be a GranolaGirl by very liberal parents who tell her to use their real names, Mildred is usually the first to suggest violence or causing trouble. Perhaps it's an outlet, or a form of rebellion.
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Jack's sister Jessica is always looking out for him, even when she teases him mercilessly.
* BourgeoisBohemian: Mildred's parents.
* BrickJoke: [[http://scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20111111 This]] strip is the punchline to a set-up in [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20110601 this one]], from nearly five months earlier.
* BuffySpeak: The whole cast has a very unique way of saying things that borders on this.
* CaffeineBulletTime: Well, more like Caffeine HyperAwareness, [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20110729 the first time Shauna tries it]].
-->'''Amy:''' Coffee is like rocket fuel for your mind, Shauna. It's very good for you.
-->'''Shauna:''' [[AnalogyBackfire Don't most rockets]] ''[[AnalogyBackfire explode?]]''
* ChickMagnet: Jack. His sister's friends find him {{Adorkable}}. Shauna is quite fond of him, as well.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Shauna's older brother Darren from ''ScaryGoRound'' seems to be suffering from this - as of the new series, Humphrey is the only sibling she ever acknowledges having.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Lottie's ideas aren't always the best, she has a habit of trailing off into odd things in her jokes and getting up to silly things.
** Jack is a daydreamer and is also prone to imagining and [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20091019 misinterpretation.]]
* ContinuityNod: Several, both to ''ScaryGoRound'' and to itself.
** Mr. Beckwith, the girls' teacher, is (obviously) Ryan from ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]'', and is now married to Amy Chilton. The two had expressed feelings for the other but by the end of ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]'' nothing had developed.
** Lottie mentions that Mr. Beckwith dated her sister before she left for University.
** Lottie and Shauna decide to do their first school assignment as a Zine, using the equipment Lottie's sister had left her at the end of ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]''.
*** Said sister pays Lottie a visit (starting [[http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20110118 here]]) and goes shopping with her.
** Mad Terry is never named in ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]'' but can be seen in the background, most notably as one of [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Boy]]'s co-workers.
** Amy is still an antiques dealer and seems to still be running out of her shop, [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20100224 Bric A Brac]].
** Panel two of [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20091202 this comic]] even is a ContinuityCavalcade. From left to right, we have:
*** Amy's dad Len Pickering, and Amy herself. Although his appearance has changed a bit (his hair is now grey, and there is more of it in his face), Len should be well known to avid ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]''-readers.
*** Judge Soap, a relatively obscure ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]'' character. He is the father of Amy's employee Melanie.
*** Hamilton Percy, the last known employer of The Boy and Mad Terry from ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]''. He also appeared in an early story arc as the victim of [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Zombie-Shelley's]] craving for brains.
** Shelley's little sister Erin, quite literally PutOnABusToHell in ''[[ScaryGoRound SGR]]'', has returned to Tackleford. She even seems to have gained Shelley's old job as newspaper journalist.
** Elodie, The Boy's French exchange student, has shown up recently as French assistante for the school.
* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Biscuits.
* CoolPet: Archibald, for both Mildred and Shauna.
* DealWithTheDevil: For Linton and Sonny, asking for help from Erin is this. [[spoiler: Given that she makes them promise her a favor and sign it in blood, and was previously seen ''trapped in Hell'', they may be more correct than they think...]]
* DelusionsOfEloquence: Some of the children stumble into this now and then.
--> '''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20100316 Charlotte]]''': I'm bein' sophisticated, Shauna. Reversin' his psychology.
* FanNickname: Applied in-universe. Jack has names for all the shapes in ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''. And he's written {{fanfiction}} for them.
* FlatWhat: [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20090922 Seen here.]]
* ForbiddenFruit: Mildred ''really'' loves chocolate, as her family doesn't allow her to have it.
--> '''Mildred:''' I'm not allowed computer games...on account of them promoting ''violent stereo tights''. SO IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE PLAY THEM ALL NOW.
* FreeRangeChildren
* GranolaGirl: Mildred's family is vegan, although the trope applies more to her mother Glenys.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Colm rushes into a burning barn to help save the troll after helping to set the mob on him in the first place.]]
* HiddenDepths: TrophyWife Yana Kropotkin [[spoiler: turns out to be a expert hacker.]]
* HotTeacher: Ryan is quite popular with his female students.
** Elodie is a French assistante rather than a teacher, but judging by Linton's reaction she seems to have the hot part down.
** Mrs. Lord fits the bill as well.
* HumansAreBastards: Shauna seems convinced that this is the moral she's meant to be taking away from [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20111019 this story]], [[SubvertedTrope but the facts keep getting in the way]].
* HypnoticEyes: [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20110721 Lem]].
* InterruptedKiss: [[http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20111027 Mildred and a 4th year boy during detention]].
* JustAStupidAccent: Kropotkin and his wife speak Russian-accented English even when talking to each other, even though they [[TranslationConvention presumably do it in Russian]].
* IntrepidReporter: Erin Winters, doubling as a HotScoop. She's better at this job than her sister was, but the kids hate her because she tends to omit their names when she uses their info for reports.
* LighterAndSofter: ''BadMachinery'' has a lot of the same humor as ''ScaryGoRound'', but because it focuses mostly on pre-teens there is significantly less cursing, gore/violence, and sex.
* LittleMissSnarker: Pretty much any female character that you can find. Lottie may possibly have been influenced by older sister Sarah from ''ScaryGoRound''.
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: Colm is a thief and a bit odd with a suspicious hole in his backstory, but everything that gets him in trouble stems from his honest attempts to impress Lottie.]]
* MurderTheHypotenuse:
--> '''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20120221 Mildred:]]''' All I want to know is if he has a girlfriend. And if he does, how I can ''destroy their love''.
* MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad: The intimidating size of Shauna's stepdad convinces Jack that this is not so:
--> '''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20101213 Jack]]:''' All I can think about when I meet her stepdad is...what if something happens and my dad has to fight him?
* NoodleIncident: "The case of Mad Terry".
* OnlySaneMan: Linton is easily the most grounded of the boys. Same with Shauna and the girls.
* PlanetEris: Continuing on from ''ScaryGoRound'', the world is still full of ghosts, weird beasts, magical objects and strange goings-on. A satellite falls on a football pitch... in the middle of a match.
* [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Disguised Pilot]]: (The full trope name does a disservice to Mr Allison.) Shauna and Lottie first appeared in some of the last chapters of ''ScaryGoRound'', which were more like a [[FullyAbsorbedFinale Fully Absorbed Pilot]].
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Lottie. "Grote women have naturally alabaster skin!" And Colm definitely thinks she's a beauty.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Colm may be a thief and a creeper, but he isn't the Firebug.]]
* RelationshipUpgrade: Ryan and Amy, friends from ''ScaryGoRound'', got married in the three-year gap between both series.
** Also happened to [[spoiler: Shauna and Jack, at least for a while.]]
* RetGone: [[spoiler: Erin was sucked into Hell during the course of ''ScaryGoRound'', which caused all the people who knew her to forget about her completely. She's turned up recently (and mysteriously) and the trend seems to have kept, as Ryan had no idea who she was.]]
* TheReveal: Double layered in the first story, as [[spoiler: Mrs. Biscuits is a "likho", a supernatural creature that curses people, but she isn't the cause of Kropotkin's bad luck.]]
* RussianGuySuffersMost: Both Mrs. Biscuits and Mr. Kropotkin have led hard lives in Russia before coming to Britain.
--> '''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20091014 Mrs. Biscuits]]''': I come from Russia years ago. InSovietRussia, you have ''nothing''! Here I have home. Will Russia take it from me? No!\\
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'''[[http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20091022 Kropotkin]]''': In Russia, I make fortune mining lithium. Initially with bare hands. Then a teaspoon. Other miners laugh! They could not break my spirit. When I feel sad, [[GeniusBonus eat some lithium, feel better]]. After a week, I earn enough money to buy shovel. Now I own many mines. Laughing miners? Today they are broken men, too tough to cry.
* SelkiesAndWereseals: "The Case of the Fire Inside" features a selkie whose sealskin is unwittingly stolen by Lottie.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Jack is the quiet, sensitive guy, while Linton is a wannabe manly man and the only boy who really enjoys sports. Sonny is somewhere between the two of them, leaning more towards sensitivity.
* SeriousBusiness: It's not as if firefighting isn't a really serious business in reality, but in this world, you have to have a ''maniacial hatred'' of fire to be in the Fire Brigade.
* ShipTease: The makings of early-teen romance between [[spoiler: Shauna and Jack]] at the end of Chapter 1.
* ShoutOut:
** Lottie dubs a creature "the [[SomethingPositive choo choo bear]] or whatever it is."
** A ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' fan has written "fus ro da" on the back of the bus [[http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20120301 here]].
* SixthRanger: Mildred was this for a while, before becoming part of the main cast.
* SelfMadeMan: Kropotkin - see above in RussianGuySuffersMost.
* TheSmartGuy: Mildred is good with physics and quite clever in general.
** The cast page describes Shauna as "incredibly bright", and she has some surprisingly developed opinions on thing like [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20101213 architecture]] for her age and background.
* SpeechImpediment: Claire hath a LITHP, which therveth only to emphathithe her DRAMATIC PROUNOUNTHMENTTH.
* StalkerWithACrush: Colm has a thing for Lottie. She just thinks he's a creeper.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: Referenced in [[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20110301 this strip]]. When the Tackleford townsfolk learn of a troll being about, they start stocking up on pitchforks.
* ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion: There's much more visible class and income differences between the characters than in ''ScaryGoRound'': Sonny is described as "living in wealth and splendor" and his cousin Mildred's family are also upper middle class; Lottie, Linton and Jack appear to be in the middle, and Shauna's family is working class. It's [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20101213 most obvious]] when Jack goes round to Shauna's house.
* UnfortunateNames Mr. Bough (pronounced "boff"). He's also heard just about every joke possible, so any more and it's detention!
* UnsoundEffect: These appear quite often, such as the boys doing STUNTS! on their bikes, or Amy fixing Ryan's hair with the unsound "fuss fuss comb interfere". Don't you wish you could invoke the effect [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20100915 J'ACCUSE]] when you point at someone?
** [[ScottPilgrim Some of us]] must [[http://smartovercoat.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/blog_1008_scottpilgrim_jaccuse.png?w=246&h=332 say it outloud]].
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Their investigations are much more local than "saving the world", but the trope is still the thrust of the comic:
--> '''[[http://coilhouse.net/2010/11/monster-as-metaphor-john-allison-webcomics-genius/ John Allison]]:''' The idea of ''Bad Machinery'' is that the supernatural mysteries are a distraction from the real dangers, which are personal. All through “The Case Of The Good Boy”, [[spoiler: the actual manifest danger is how Jack is being victimised through no fault of his own, and he can’t really ask for help. He’s the good boy!]] No one has spotted this. [[SelfDeprecation I’m probably not doing my job very well, am I?]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Shauna gives one to Lottie after [[spoiler: her plan to help the troll find love gets him hunted down by a mob.]]
* WordSaladTitle: If there's a reason for the name "Bad Machinery", Mr. Allison is keeping it to himself.
* [[WriteWhatYouKnow Draw What You Know]]: Tackleford and Griswald's Grammar School based on the author's local area.
-->'''[[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=24200 John Allison]]:''' I do draw the school I attended, and the town I attended it in. It just makes it easier to draw people walking around, I know what is round each corner! But my school wasn't co-educational, the girls' high school was separate, just up the road.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Jack's sister.
!! ''Murder, She Writes''
A ClosedCircle murder mystery featuring Lottie from ''BadMachinery'' and Shelley from ''ScaryGoRound''. Shelley, now a children's author, is invited to a party in her agent's remote Welsh mansion, and brings along Lottie as her intern. When one of the author is murdered and several of the guests have motives, our heroines investigate.
* AllJustADream: Shelley believes so when she wakes up, but is [[http://scarygoround.com/scare/index.php?date=20111130 quickly disabused of the idea.]]
* AngstWhatAngst: [[invoked]]Despite Shelley's fears, 12-year-old Lottie takes the bloody murder scene in her stride and immediately starts looking for the killer. She [[http://scarygoround.com/scare/index.php?date=20111129 explains with a diagram]] that her "[[KidDetective extreme love of mysteries]]" protects her "[[TheIngenue delicate lady-brain]]" from horror.
--> '''Shelley:''' [[TroublingUnChildhoodBehavior This isn't normal for a girl your age]]. I'm going to freak out for both of us.
* TheBigBoard
* CanYouHearMeNow: Bad mobile phone reception because of the storm and the mansion's remoteness prevents anyone calling the police. [[spoiler: Lottie and Shelley manage to call them after solving the mystery, surprising everyone by finding a landline - hidden in a cupboard because no-one uses it any more.]]
* {{Jaccuse}}: [[http://scarygoround.com/scare/index.php?date=20111205 Emitted by Lottie]], like [[{{Spiderman}} Spidey-sense]]. She says it out loud once [[http://scarygoround.com/scare/index.php?date=20111222 the truth is out]].
* IHaveToIronMyDog: Derek attempts to [[http://scarygoround.com/scare/index.php?date=20111207 get out]] of a long rant.
* OneLiner: Judy [[http://scarygoround.com/scare/index.php?date=20111121 faces down the competition]].
--> '''Shelley:''' Make a note, Charlotte. That was a zinger of the old school.
* ModestyBedsheet: Played straight as a SceneryCensor; however, evidently fails in-universe as Lottie later mentions her "accidental willy sighting"
* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The title is refers to ''MurderSheWrote'', of course.
* RightThroughTheWall:
--> '''Lottie:''' What do you think they were doing? Moving furniture? \\
'''Shelley:''' [[SureLetsGoWithThat Um, yes]]. Feng shui is very important.
* SnowedIn
* SpotlightStealingSquad: The "cover" splash panel originally described ''Murder, She Writes'' as "A Shelley Winters story", but Shelley appears to have passed out of the CompetenceZone, and mostly takes a back seat to Lottie's investigating.
* StartToCorpse: the "corpse clock" is lampshaded in TheRant.
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