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* MindOverMatter: This is Sofia's superpower.
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* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: During a power outage, Sofia's eyes are visible as usual. Ben's glow blue, which he explains is because of lights in his glasses. Then Dan comes in, with regular eyes- and glowing green teeth.
-->''Dan, brush your teeth.''

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* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: During a [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2005/02/20/twenty-two/ power outage, outage]], Sofia's eyes are visible as usual. Ben's glow blue, which he explains is because of lights in his glasses. Then Dan comes in, with regular eyes- and glowing green teeth.
-->''Dan, -->''For the love of God, Dan, brush your teeth.''



* ConjoinedEyes: All the characters have these at first. They loose them by %%FIND LINK FINDE LINK FIND LINK!!!

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* ConjoinedEyes: All the characters have these at first. They loose them Characters first appear with separate eyeballs around late 2002. The main characters gradually get them, one by %%FIND LINK FINDE LINK FIND LINK!!!one. Dan is currently the only one of the main and secondary characters to still have conjoined eyes.
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* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: During a power outage, Sofia's eyes are visible as usual. Ben's glow blue, which he explains is because of lights in his glasses. Then Dan comes in, with regular eyes- and glowing green teeth.
-->''Dan, brush your teeth.''


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* ConjoinedEyes: All the characters have these at first. They loose them by %%FIND LINK FINDE LINK FIND LINK!!!
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* HandBlast: [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2000/09/29/zapped/ Ben can do this]].
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* ShockAndAwe: Ben can shoot [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2000/09/29/zapped/ electricity from his hands]].
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* TenPercentOfYourBrain: Sofia uses 11.
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* Intangibility: Kira has this ability.

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* Intangibility: {{Intangibility}}: Kira has this ability.[[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2006/03/22/phase-one/ ability]].
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* RaymanianLimbs: Kira really doesn't have a neck -- a fact that surprises her would-be beheader.

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* RaymanianLimbs: Kira really doesn't have a neck -- a fact that surprises her [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2006/02/27/what-an-airhead/ would-be beheader.beheader]].
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* Intangibility: Kira has this ability.
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* RaymanianLimbs: Kira really doesn't have a neck -- a fact that surprises her would-be beheader.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Happened to Sophia twice -- once from the [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2003/08/13/sim-beach/ dye in the artificial ocean]], and once from [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2013/02/03/why-so-blue-2/ putting a bottle of blue paint too close to her bottle of hair stuff]].

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Happened to Sophia Sofia twice -- once from the [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2003/08/13/sim-beach/ dye in the artificial ocean]], and once from [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2013/02/03/why-so-blue-2/ putting a bottle of blue paint too close to her bottle of hair stuff]].
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Happened to Sophia twice-- once from the [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2003/08/13/sim-beach/ dye in the artificial ocean]], and once from [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2013/02/03/why-so-blue-2/ putting a bottle of blue paint too close to her bottle of hair stuff]].

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Happened to Sophia twice-- twice -- once from the [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2003/08/13/sim-beach/ dye in the artificial ocean]], and once from [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2013/02/03/why-so-blue-2/ putting a bottle of blue paint too close to her bottle of hair stuff]].
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Happened to Sophia twice-- once from the [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2003/08/13/sim-beach/ dye in the artificial ocean]], and once from [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2013/02/03/why-so-blue-2/ putting a bottle of blue paint too close to her bottle of hair stuff]].

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The comic has become (mildly) less ridiculous as time passed, going from gag-a-day to story-arc style. It hasn't quite reached CerebusSyndrome, though, as even the more serious parts still have plenty of humor.

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* CerebusSyndrome: See below.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The comic has become (mildly) less ridiculous as time passed, going from gag-a-day to story-arc style. It hasn't quite reached CerebusSyndrome, though, as even the more serious parts still have plenty of humor.
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* ArtEvolution: [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2005/06/30/fifth-anniversary/ Lampshaded]], combined with SelfDeprecation.

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* ArtEvolution: [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2005/06/30/fifth-anniversary/ Lampshaded]], combined Lampshades it]], combining it with SelfDeprecation.some SelfDeprecation:



* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The comic has become (mildly) less ridiculous as time passed, going from gag-a-day to story-arc style. It hasn't quite reached CerberusSyndrome, though, as even the more serious parts still have plenty of humor.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The comic has become (mildly) less ridiculous as time passed, going from gag-a-day to story-arc style. It hasn't quite reached CerberusSyndrome, CerebusSyndrome, though, as even the more serious parts still have plenty of humor.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The comic has become (mildly) less ridiculous as time passed, going from gag-a-day to story-arc style. It hasn't quite reached CerberusSyndrome, though, as even the more serious parts still have plenty of humor.
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* ArtEvolution: [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2005/06/30/fifth-anniversary/ Lampshaded]], combined with SelfDeprecation.
-->''"God, could you imagine if someone was '''always''' changing the look of their comic?" "Eh, they probably wouldn't last very long."''
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* TemporalParadox: Zig-zagged.


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* TimeyWimeyBall: How time travel works, and the rules it follows, has changed a few times.
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* LanguageDrift: {{Scrabble}} is basically unplayable for Ben because of this.
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Ben is dismayed to find his pop-culture knowledge is horribly out of date. And Scrabble has become essentially unplayable for him because of all the words added to the dictionary.


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* TimeMachine: There are a few.
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* StableTimeLoop: We get one [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2011/04/01/infinitas/ here.]]

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* ThirdLineSomeWaiting: There is an occasional detour from "Adventures In The Future with Ben and Dan" to "Adventures In Space with bounty hunters and alien mobsters", and "Waffledog" will occasionally receive a few pages here and there. There are also a few minor characters that get their own sporadic mini-plots.

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* RippleEffectProofMemory: Ben [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2010/09/14/fourth-dimension-blues/ wonders if this is possible]] when he realizes that he just [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2010/08/09/dont-copy-that-floppy/ accidentally gave someone the blueprints for his time machine]], goes back to their apartment, and [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2010/08/28/epoch-fail/ finds a construction zone in its place]]. If she altered the past enough that she no longer lives there, how can he remember meeting her there, since he wouldn't have met her there?
* ThirdLineSomeWaiting: There is an occasional detour from "Adventures In The Future with Ben and Dan" to "Adventures In Space with bounty hunters and alien mobsters", and "Waffledog" will occasionally receive a few pages here and there. There are also a few minor characters that get their own sporadic mini-plots.1- or 2-page mini-arcs.
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* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: Parodied.
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* OurTimeMachineIsDifferent: We've seen a car, a Stargate-esque portal, and a [[MentalTimeTravel brain swapper]], so far.
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* MentalTimeTravel: Used by Mizkit in one of his attempts to get back at Ben.
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* TheFuture: The setting of the story.
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* AlternateUniverse: There are a few of these, but they haven't played a major part so far.
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* ThirdLineSomeWaiting: There is an occasional detour from "Adventures In The Future with Ben and Dan" to "Adventures In Space with bounty hunters and alien mobsters", and "Waffledog" will occasionally receive a few pages here and there. There are also a few minor characters that get their own sporadic mini-plots.

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A boy and his dog time travel to the future. Hilarity ensues.
''[[http://www.breakpointcity.com/ Link]]''

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A boy and his dog time travel to the future. Hilarity ensues.
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ensues. [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/ Link]]''Read it here.]]



!!''Breakpoint City'' provide examples of:

* ABoyAndHisX: Ben and Dan
* GrandTheftMe: During one arc
* BadSanta: There is [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2005/12/17/rhyming-is-hard/ an arc]] of this

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!!''Breakpoint City'' provide provides examples of:

* ABoyAndHisX: Ben The comic's protagonists are Ben, a kid genius, and Dan
* GrandTheftMe: During one arc
his pet dog Dan, a waffle iron master.
* BadSanta: There is The crew [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2005/12/17/rhyming-is-hard/ "saves"]] Christmas from a grumpy, exhausted Santa.
* GrandTheftMe: Rival inventor Mizkit switches times and places with Ben in
an arc]] attempt to tarnish Ben's reputation [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2002/11/20/out-of-the-vault/ in one arc]].
* TranslatorCollar: Dan wears one made by Ben, but is obsolete because vocal implants are trivial to get for animals. That collar becomes more
of thisa plot point in [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2004/08/13/solo/ Episode 502]].
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A boy and his dog time travel to the future. Hilarity ensues.
''[[http://www.breakpointcity.com/ Link]]''
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!!''Breakpoint City'' provide examples of:

* ABoyAndHisX: Ben and Dan
* GrandTheftMe: During one arc
* BadSanta: There is [[http://www.breakpointcity.com/archives/2005/12/17/rhyming-is-hard/ an arc]] of this
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