History Webcomic / KhaosKomix

* Alex "Murfs" Murphy, a rock-loving friend of Nay [[strike: [[SubvertedTrope deep in the]] TransparentCloset.]]

* AnythingThatMoves: Kelly, speaking above. "[[{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]] says ''no'' to promiscuous sex."
* ArtShift / ArtEvolution / RetCon: The artist has expressed dissatisfaction with the original versions, so the story has been re-written and redrawn from scratch chronologically from the beginning to the end of the current version.

* BigBad: Jamie's Mom in "Jamie's Story". She's [[AbusiveParents pretty much responsible for everything that's wrong with him]], [[spoiler:besides the stuff [[BiggerBad his rapist]] did, of course]].

** DiscriminateAndSwitch: Charlie's mother wasn't actually fazed by her wearing girl's clothes, but getting her ears pierced. Also [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses wearing a dress]].

* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Yeah, [[OneThingLedToAnother And then some...]]

** Also, doesn't the plushie in the first panel [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/nays-story-page-20 here]] look a bit [[{{Naruto}} familiar?]]

** (InUniverse) [[{{Transgender}} Tom]] is the only man (or, in fact, person) Murfs has ever been attracted to. Realizing the implications of this prompts Tom to break up with him.

** And in Jamie's story, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny she is actually shown reading]] [[StylisticSuck badly-written]] [[Literature/HarryPotter Snape/Harry]] slashfic.

** (InUniverse) [[{{Transsexual}} Tom]] is the only man (or, in fact, person) Murfs has ever been attracted to. Realizing the implications of this prompts Tom to break up with him.

* Tom Blake, another friend of Nay, a fantastically handsome [[{{Transsexual}} transgender]] boy who captures the attention of Murfs and almost Nay. [[{{Catchphrase}} Likes guys, but in a gay way]].
* Charlie Trueman, Tom's best friend, a [[{{Transsexual}} transgender]] vegan girl with a gluten allergy.

* AlphaBitch: Amber's "friends".

** This applies to a rather large amount of Khaos' forum members as well.
* ArtShift / ArtEvolution / RetCon: the artist has expressed dissatisfaction with the original versions, so the story has been re-written and redrawn from scratch chronologically from the beginning to the end of the current version.

* AttractiveBentGender: Charlie and Tom.

* CastFullOfGay: Just look at that list above! The author can get [[BerserkButton a wee bit defensive]] about this at times, with the front page at one point saying "this comic contains an equal amount of straight and gay people, but... I only really write about the queer ones."
** Specifically, Steve, Mark and Tom are gay, Amber is a lesbian, Nay and Charlie are bisexual, Alex has SingleTargetSexuality, and Jamie is straight.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Alex, a lot.

* EasySexChange: Averted, as it just doesn't work that way. The two transgender characters have considered operation, but they known it's a long, painful process, and the author also points this out in the FAQ.

* {{Fanservice}}: The "side stories", first featuring Mark and Steve having sex for the first (successful) time, the second detailing an intimate encounter between Nay and Amber, third dealing with an encounter between Tom and Murfs, also adressing the complications of transgender sexuality. The FAQ adresses this:

* FreudianExcuse: This may end up being why Jamie is such a homophobe, if Alex's Story is anything to judge.
** Confirmed towards the end of Charlie's story.

* {{Jerkass}}: Tom, to some. He's unwilling to give Jamie his chance with Charlie (albeit with some good reason) and he does dump Murfs out of nowhere. Worse, he flirts with Murfs while they're broken up (though he does seem remorseful when he's called out on it).
** He also crosses a line by calling Jamie gay, due to his dating Charlie.

* MrFanservice: Tom.

* OpenMindedParent: Charlie's mother, and Tom's mother. Upon seeing Tom bring Alex back she tells Tom in Spanish to use condoms since he can still get pregnant. Parents in general seem to be this in the series.

* ShoutOut: Murfs's sister Kelly has the same technique with computers as Largo from ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}''.

* SlasherSmile: [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/charlies-story-page-30 One more reason]] to be terrified of [[TeensAreMonsters Natalie Geln.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: Natalie and her gang successfully assault and hospitalize both Tom and Charlie. Natalie then threatens to attack Charlie again, possibly at her own home, if she doesn't leave town. [[spoiler:Not only does she opt to flee but Tom follows her shortly thereafter.]]

* TransparentCloset: Alex/Murfs.
** Subverted when the comic finally gets around to his perspective-- he's actually the most confident and self-aware in his sexual identity of the main cast. He objected to being called "gay" simply because he'd never met ''anyone''--male or female--that he was particularly interested in, so it wasn't accurate.

* {{Transsexual}}: Tom and Charlie.

* UnfortunateImplications: (InUniverse) [[{{Transsexual}} Tom]] is the only man (or, in fact, person) Murfs has ever been attracted to. Realizing the implications of this prompts Tom to break up with him.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Murfs [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/alexs-story-page-59 just had one dropped on him]].
** [[{{Nerd}} His natural reaction is to ask if Tom's a Transformer.]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "...I didn't know you were still affected by that."]]

* YaoiFangirl: WordOfGod says that Charlie "likes gay porn".

* Tom Blake, another friend of Nay, a fantastically handsome {{Transsexual}} boy who captures the attention of Murfs and almost Nay. [[{{Catchphrase}} Likes guys, but in a gay way]].
* Charlie Trueman, Tom's best friend, a {{Transsexual}} vegan girl with a gluten allergy.

* AbusiveParents -- Jamie's parents. His dad is shown to be curt in Jamie's story, but nice and apologetic (or at least good at dealing with kids) in Alex's story. But then, he divorces Jamie's mom and more or less cuts Jamie out of his life when he leaves home. [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/jamies-story-page09 Oh and speaking of Jamie's mom....]]

* AlphaBitch -- Amber's "friends".

* AnythingThatMoves -- Kelly, speaking above. "[[{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]] says ''no'' to promiscuous sex."

* ArtShift / ArtEvolution / RetCon -- the artist has expressed dissatisfaction with the original versions, so the story has been re-written and redrawn from scratch chronologically from the beginning to the end of the current version.

* AttractiveBentGender -- Charlie and Tom.

* BiggerIsBetterInBed -- Mark limps for two days after trying sex with Steve without lube. Steve is a bit [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/steves-story-page-32 embarrassed when Mark mentions it]], taking it to GagPenis levels.
* BiTheWay -- Definitely Nay and Charlie, possibly Steve (who's admitted he only calls himself bi because it sounds "less gay") and Murfs (who's so far only professed an attraction to Tom, and ''not'' most men - or at least not Jamie - but he's quite young and doesn't really seem to favor men over women).
* BilingualBonus -- Also counts as a StealthPun. Tom's birth name is "Maria" and "marimacho" is a Spanish equivalent of "tomboy". The "mari-" in it comes from "Maria".
* BlackAndNerdy -- Steve, especially younger-Steve.
* ClusterFBomb -- Jamie.
* CampGay -- [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/steves-story-page-16 Mark, very much]]. Alex also picks up some mannerisms as he becomes interested in Tom; that part of him is "Inner Alex", who shouts inappropriate stuff in regular!Alex's ear.
* CastFullOfGay -- Just look at that list above! The author can get [[BerserkButton a wee bit defensive]] about this at times, with the front page at one point saying "this comic contains an equal amount of straight and gay people, but... I only really write about the queer ones."

* ClosetKey -- A lot of the characters end up being this for each other.
* ColourCodedCharacters -- Sort of. Every major character has their own colour theming (yellow, blue, red, purple, orange, brown, green, and cyan, respectively by chapter order), and it's evident on the title pages for their respective chapters, as well on other page elements for all strips within each chapter. As the comic itself is black and white though, it's rather less evident during the story.
* ComingOutStory -- Steve, Mark, Amber.
* ContrivedCoincidence -- Sometimes the characters start to feel a ''little'' too likely to be gay.
* CoolBigSis -- Kelly

* ADateWithRosiePalms -- Alex, a lot.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey -- Steve and Mark the morning after they got drunk and slept naked in the same bed; Steve freaks out and has no memory of what happened, while Mark (who limps around for the next two days) both claims that they did have sex and that he doesn't remember anything. A clearer picture is painted in Mark's story: [[spoiler:they tried, but failed because they were drunk and inexperienced--Mark remembered everything, but lied about it because Steve freaked out]].

* DreadlockRasta -- Steve
* EasySexChange -- Averted, as it just doesn't work that way. The two Transsexual characters have considered operation, but they known it's a long, painful process, and the author also points this out in the FAQ.

* ElegantGothicLolita -- Charlie.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName / FullNameUltimatum -- "CHARLIE MOONBEAM TRUEMAN!"
** DiscriminateAndSwitch -- Charlies mother wasn't actually fazed by her wearing girl's clothes, but getting her ears pierced. Also [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses wearing a dress]].
* EroticDream / HomoeroticDream -- Amber had one of Nay, which made her realise her feelings. Steve also had several of Mark, but tried to fight them off with cold showers.
* {{Fanservice}} -- The "side stories", first featuring Mark and Steve having sex for the first (successful) time, the second detailing an intimate encounter between Nay and Amber, third dealing with an encounter between Tom and Murfs, also adressing the complications of transgender sexuality. The FAQ adresses this:

* FreudianExcuse -- This may end up being why Jamie is such a homophobe, if Alex's Story is anything to judge.

* ImportantHaircut -- [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/toms-story-page-22 Tom getting a boy hair-cut]], Charlie's hair cut when she gets attacked and [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/alexs-story-page-31 Alex getting one emulating his sister]], to get confidence. Also, [[spoiler:Jamie's hair is short in the final page of his story]].
* TheInternetIsForPorn -- How Steve finds out he likes guys, and what Alex does after he gets mesmerized by Tom.

* KarmaHoudini -- So far, Natalie and her friends, who look to be in the clear without ever receiving their come-uppance. There's also Jamie's mom who practices some seriously questionable parenting but hasn't received any retribution -- yet.
* KissingUnderTheInfluence -- Yeah, [[OneThingLedToAnother And then some...]]
* KnightTemplarParent -- Amber's mother. Jamie's mother, who could also be considered an EvilMatriarch.
* LipstickLesbian -- Amber.

* PairTheSpares -- When Mark and Amber were dating, they tried to set up Nay and Steve at a double date. Backfired, and resulted with both pairing up with their respective "spares".

* TheRashomon -- Every chapter is from a new character's view point, explaining the events so far, and (except for Tom's) continuing from there.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure -- [[FanNickname Steve's Dad!]] Also his mother, the Murphy adults, and Tom's mother.

* SchoolgirlLesbians -- Amber's mother regards Amber's relationship with Nay as a youthful experiment.
* ShoutOut -- Murfs's sister Kelly has the same technique with computers as Largo from ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}''.

* SingleTargetSexuality -- Alex/Murfs was not really attracted to anyone before meeting Tom. He does not consider himself Gay, but Tom-o-Sexual.

* StraightGay -- Steve, who's only intersection with any stereotype is an enthusiasm for baking; granted, he claims to be bi, but even admitted to the audience that that was only because it "sounded less gay."

* TransparentCloset -- Alex/Murfs.
** Subverted when the comic finally gets around to his perspective--he's actually the most confident and self-aware in his sexual identity of the main cast. He objected to being called "gay" simply because he'd never met ''anyone''--male or female--that he was particularly interested in, so it wasn't accurate.

* {{Transsexual}} -- Tom and Charlie.

* TraumaticHaircut -- [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/toms-story-page-46 Charlie's hair got forcibly cut]]. [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/charlies-story-page-31 In a seriously frightening way.]]

* UnfortunateImplications -- (InUniverse) [[{{Transsexual}} Tom]] is the only man (or, in fact, person) Murfs has ever been attracted to. Realizing the implications of this prompts Tom to break up with him.
** (InUniverse) Jamie is very homophobic ([[CharacterDevelopment he's getting better]]), and starts dating Charlie, a transgirl. Tom, apparently without thinking about it, decides that this must mean he's gay and in denial. This implies that Charlie is male, something Tom, of all people, should know isn't true.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal -- Murfs [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/alexs-story-page-59 just had one dropped on him]].

* WebcomicTime -- References to current events, or more likely, current pop culture pop up in story in anachronistic order. WordOfGod says it's intentional; the timeline is fluid and happening "now".

* WhatDidIDoLastNight -- [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/steves-story-page-28 Steve and Mark here]], and [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/toms-story-page-11 Tom/Maria and some guy here]].
* WhatTheHellHero -- Mark calls out Steve for [[spoiler: punching Jamie after they both come out to to him and he doesn't take it well. Everyone else that doesn't like Jamie even seems to agree it wasn't a good idea to come out to him in public.]]

* NamesTheSame: Alex is not a [[Film/RoboCop1987 cybernetic cop from Detroit]].

* NamesTheSame -- Alex is not a [[Film/RoboCop1987 cybernetic cop from Detroit]].
* OpenMindedParent -- Charlie's mother, and Tom's mother. Upon seeing Tom bring Alex back she tells Tom in Spanish to use condoms since he can still get pregnant. Parents in general seem to be this in the series.

** [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/jamies-story-page-45psd I'm so]] [[NeonGenesisEvangelion fucked up.]]

* ShoutOut -- Murfs's sister Kelly has the same technique with computers as Largo from ''[[Main/{{Megatokyo}} Megatokyo]]''.

* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: The reason Jamie is so homophobic is because he was raped by a homosexual man in his youth. It turns out that his homophobia is the ''least'' of his problems]]...

* BiggerIsBetterInBed -- Mark limps for two days after trying sex with Steve without lube. Steve is a bit [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/cgi-bin/comic.cgi?chp=3&page=47 embarrassed when Mark mentions it]], taking it to GagPenis levels.

* EasySexChange -- Averted, as it just doesn't work that way. The two Transsexual characters have considered the operation, but they known it's a long, painful process, and the author also points this out in the FAQ.

* HalfwayPlotSwitch -- The first three chapters are all about cisgendered people struggling with their (non-cis) sexualities, but in the third, two {{Transsexual}}s are introduced, and by the end of the fourth chapter the {{Gayngst}} of the first three has come to seem downright petty, with Amber's threat to out Charlie to her boyfriend if Charlie outs her to Nay treated as an extreme KickTheDog moment. Tellingly, it's not even the outing she objects to, but the fact that she doesn't expect Nay to reciprocate her feelings fully.

* BigBad: Jamie's Mom in "Jamie's Story". She's pretty much responsible for everything that's wrong with him, [[spoiler:besides the stuff [[BiggerBad his rapist]] did, of course]].

* Jamie Davies, Steve's homophobic {{Jerkass}} of a friend who ends up dating Charlie not knowing her secret. [[spoiler: [[EverybodyKnewAlready Or so it seems]], at first]].

** And in Jamie's story, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny she is actually shown reading]] [[StylisticSuck badly-written]] [[HarryPotter Snape/Harry]] slashfic.

* Jamie Davies, Steve's homophobic {{Jerkass}} of a friend who ends up dating Charlie not knowing her secret. [[spoiler: [[TheNotSecret Or so it seems]], at first]].

* DepravedBisexual: Averted with Charlie and Nay.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse -- What do Mark's parents - who were ''not'' happy about his brother being gay - think about him coming out?
** For that matter, the brother was supposed to call Mark when he got situated after being kicked out of his house. At least 3 months elapses between him getting kicked out and the present in the comic. Did he end up homeless, dead or worse -- retconned?

Each Arc tells the story [[TheRashomon from the current narrator's viewpoint]]. As of Wednesday, November 2nd of 2013, the full story has come to an end. The author, Tab, has started a new comic called [[http://www.discordcomics.com/ Shades of A.]]

Each Arc tells the story [[TheRashomon from the current narrator's viewpoint]]. As of Thursday, November 22nd of 2012, Steve, Mark, Amber, Nay, Tom, Alex, Charlie, and Jamie's stories are all complete.

* DroppedABridgetOnHim -- Murfs [[http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/alexs-story-page-59 just had one dropped on him]].
** [[{{Nerd}} His natural reaction is to ask if Tom's a Transformer.]]

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience -- Sort of. Every major character has their own colour theming (yellow, blue, red, purple, orange, brown, green, and cyan, respectively by chapter order), and it's evident on the title pages for their respective chapters, as well on other page elements for all strips within each chapter. As the comic itself is black and white though, it's rather less evident during the story.