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* JailBake: When Jake and Charles are in jail, the latter accused of killing the former, Modest pretends to be Jake's lawyer and gives him a store-bought swirly cake with a visible hole in it, hinting at its "special ingredient." The police had [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome already checked]] it and found it was just full of Pokémon cards.
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''Modest Medusa'' is a webcomic written by Jake Richmond and featured on Website/TheDuck, although it got [[http://www.modestmedusa.com/ its own website]] on July 29, 2011.
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''Modest Medusa'' is a webcomic written by Jake Richmond and featured on Website/TheDuck, Platform/TheDuck, although it got [[http://www.modestmedusa.com/ its own website]] on July 29, 2011.
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** One arc is called [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack The Kingdom Strikes Back]]. [[spoiler:And just like the StarWars movie, it ends with a complete victory for the villains and utter defeat for the heroes. Of course just like Star Wars, the heroes are down but not out.]]
** The series in general references popular culture left and right, most notably Franchise/{{Pokemon}}. This can be as mundane and literal as standing in line for the [[http://modestmedusa.com/comic/in-line-for-pokemon-black-and-white/ latest Pokemon game release]], or as epic and fantastical as Medusa's magic [[http://modestmedusa.com/comic/there-and-back-again-part-227/ manifesting as Pikachu]].
** The series in general references popular culture left and right, most notably Franchise/{{Pokemon}}. This can be as mundane and literal as standing in line for the [[http://modestmedusa.com/comic/in-line-for-pokemon-black-and-white/ latest Pokemon game release]], or as epic and fantastical as Medusa's magic [[http://modestmedusa.com/comic/there-and-back-again-part-227/ manifesting as Pikachu]].
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** One arc is called [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack "[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack The Kingdom Strikes Back]]. Back]]". [[spoiler:And just like the StarWars ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie, it ends with a complete victory for the villains and utter defeat for the heroes. Of course just like Star Wars, ''Star Wars'', the heroes are down but not out.]]
** The series in general references popular culture left and right, most notablyFranchise/{{Pokemon}}.''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. This can be as mundane and literal as standing in line for the [[http://modestmedusa.com/comic/in-line-for-pokemon-black-and-white/ latest Pokemon game release]], or as epic and fantastical as Medusa's magic [[http://modestmedusa.com/comic/there-and-back-again-part-227/ manifesting as Pikachu]].
** The series in general references popular culture left and right, most notably
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* TheLonelyDoor: There is a free standing door that connects Earth and Yeld. It is notability harder to leave Yeld than enter it.
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* SamusIsAGirl: Toyed with. [[spoiler: The monster under the school who animates the giant inflatable Halloween cat turns out to be controlled by the mermaid Deb. This isn't revealed until they cut away the disguise. Downplayed that we had seen Deb before, but there was no indication she was involved until the end.]]
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* BusCrash: [[spoiler: We largely only see the Prince in season 3. He relents and allows Modest and Jake to return home. Nine real years later we find out he is dead.]]
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* BusCrash: [[spoiler: We largely only see the Prince in season 3. He relents Memory construct aside, we never see him again. In season 8 we learned he has died, which is a year and allows Modest a half later in universe and Jake to return home. Nine real nine years later we find out he is dead.IRL.]]
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* AllThereInThemanual: A significant amount of information about Yeld can be found in TabletopGame/TheMagicalLandOfYeld. This includes information about the different races, the war between the Deep and the Prince, the origin of the different aquatic races, and much more. This includes [[spoiler: the death of the Prince years before it was revealed in the main comic]]. It's really more like 15 manuals at this point.
* BusCrash: [[spoiler: We largely only see the Prince in season 3. He relents and allows Modest and Jake to return home. Nine real years later we find out he is dead.]]
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* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Suddenly and disturbingly. At the beginning of Season 3, Medusa realizes she has hundreds of identical sisters...who are then devoured en masse by their mother. At the ''end'' of Season 3, Marah dies fighting the Prince of Yeld.]]
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* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Suddenly Suddenly and disturbingly. [[spoiler: At the beginning of Season 3, Medusa realizes she has hundreds of identical sisters...who are then devoured en masse by their mother. At the ''end'' of Season 3, Marah dies fighting the Prince of Yeld.]]
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The mermaids are shown to have a wide variety of skin tones, with Jenny and Deb having blue and purple skin respectively. Other mermaids are shown with pink or yellow skin, as well as other shades of blue and purple.
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* EarFins: The mermaids.
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* KillerRabbit: [[spoiler: Yeld sheep are surprisingly vicious, able to swarm and devour [[https://modestmedusa.com/comic/there-and-back-again-part-38/ an armored fairy]].]]
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** "[[http://www.modestmedusa.com/?p=432 It's a secret]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda to everyone]]."
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** "[[http://www.modestmedusa.com/?p=432 It's a secret]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI to everyone]]."
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* AlternateTimeline: The Tower of Autumn is connected to several timelines and said to allow travel to 100 worlds. [[spoiler: While looking for the Arsenal of Winter, Marah meets the keeper to explains the different outcomes and offers her a chance to slip into a timeline where her counterpart is missing. She also encounters to adult versions of herself, one who chose to return to Earth and the other who kept wondering Yeld rather than facing the Prince. They try to talk her out of fighting him, as all the other Marahs who tried that died.]]
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The comic starts [[http://www.modestmedusa.com/?p=25 here]].
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The comic starts [[http://www.modestmedusa.com/?p=25 here]].
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Urano is part of a band of vampire knights who rebelled against their general when the old king died, in an attempt to save the princess from imprisonment (an act that would give him the nickname "Oath Breaker"). He's unbothered by sunlight, but [[Literature/{{Twilight}} he doesn't sparkle]]. [[spoiler: Marah becomes one herself after inheriting his power as the Oath Breaker.]]
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Urano is part of a band of vampire knights who rebelled against their general when the old king died, in an attempt to save the princess from imprisonment (an act that would give him the nickname "Oath Breaker"). He's unbothered by sunlight, but [[Literature/{{Twilight}} [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga he doesn't sparkle]]. [[spoiler: Marah becomes one herself after inheriting his power as the Oath Breaker.]]
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* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Suddenly and disturbingly. At the beginning of Season 3, Medusa realizes she has hundreds of identical sisters...who are then devoured en masse by their mother. At the ''end'' of Season 3, Marah dies fighting the Prince of Yeld.]]
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* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Suddenly and disturbingly averted. At the beginning of Season 3, Medusa realizes she has hundreds of identical sisters...who are then devoured en masse by their mother. At the ''end'' of Season 3, Marah dies fighting the Prince of Yeld.]]
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-->'''Marah:''' I've got a sword I'll stick so far up your butt, everyone will call you "Sword Butt"!
-->'''Marah:''' Why don't you save [the cash] so you can buy a new butt? 'Cause your old one won't work so well after I kick the crap out of it!
-->'''Marah:''' Why don't you save [the cash] so you can buy a new butt? 'Cause your old one won't work so well after I kick the crap out of it!
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-->'''Marah:''' I've got a sword I'll stick so far up your butt, everyone will call you "Sword Butt"!
-->'''Marah:'''Butt"!\\
'''Marah:''' Why don't you save [the cash] so you can buy a new butt? 'Cause your old one won't work so well after I kick the crap out of it!
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'''Marah:''' Why don't you save [the cash] so you can buy a new butt? 'Cause your old one won't work so well after I kick the crap out of it!
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* CharacterTitleCreaturesByManyOtherNames: With a bit of CallAPegasusAHippogriff, the titular character's species is referred to as "hydra" by the Prince of Yeld. Modest's mother's name is Gorgon, and her daughters all call themselves [[PlanetOfSteves Medusa]] until they decide that's too confusing. They're mostly just the [[OurMonstersAreWeird author's own invention.]]
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It spawned a Website/{{Kickstarter}} [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/603898497/the-magical-land-of-yeld funded]] RPG, ''TabletopGame/TheMagicalLandOfYeld'' about [[KidHero children]] who pass through a mysterious [[PortalDoor door]] and find themselves [[TrappedInAnotherWorld trapped in the world]] of Yeld. A series of miniatures were also [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/731913424/modest-medusa-miniatures funded through a campaign]].
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It spawned a Website/{{Kickstarter}} [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/603898497/the-magical-land-of-yeld funded]] RPG, ''TabletopGame/TheMagicalLandOfYeld'' about [[KidHero children]] who pass through a mysterious [[PortalDoor door]] door and find themselves [[TrappedInAnotherWorld trapped in the world]] of Yeld. A series of miniatures were also [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/731913424/modest-medusa-miniatures funded through a campaign]].
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** The series in general references popular culture left and right, most notably Franchise/{{Pokemon}}. This can be as mundane and literal as standing in line for the [[http://modestmedusa.com/comic/in-line-for-pokemon-black-and-white/ latest Pokemon game release]], or as epic and fantastical as Medusa's magic [[http://modestmedusa.com/comic/there-and-back-again-part-227/ manifesting as Pikachu]].
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It spawned a Website/{{Kickstarter}} [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/603898497/the-magical-land-of-yeld funded]] RPG, ''TabletopGame/TheMagicalLandOfYeld'' about children who pass through a mysterious door and find themselves trapped in the world of Yeld. A series of miniatures were also [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/731913424/modest-medusa-miniatures funded through a campaign]].
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It spawned a Website/{{Kickstarter}} [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/603898497/the-magical-land-of-yeld funded]] RPG, ''TabletopGame/TheMagicalLandOfYeld'' about children [[KidHero children]] who pass through a mysterious door [[PortalDoor door]] and find themselves [[TrappedInAnotherWorld trapped in the world world]] of Yeld. A series of miniatures were also [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/731913424/modest-medusa-miniatures funded through a campaign]].
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: They are still incorporeal as you'd expect from a ghost, but they are {{Cthulhumanoid}}s, mind-readers, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and they put people in cocoons to eat them]].
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* AlphaBitch: The mermaids
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* AlphaBitch: The mermaidsmermaids.
* AnArmAndALeg: Charles, Jake's housemate, gets his arm sewn off by the chainsaw unicorn. In the first season, nonetheless!
* AnArmAndALeg: Charles, Jake's housemate, gets his arm sewn off by the chainsaw unicorn. In the first season, nonetheless!
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** "Return to Yeld". Modest visits her sisters who are in the care of her aunt, Naga. While visiting Naga's cave with the first of her sisters to transform Modest learns the startling truth: [[spoiler: because she has 'boy hair' she will NOT turn into a giant snake. Instead she is a rare type of medusa that will simply grow up, becoming a woman with snake hair and a snake lower half, skilled with spells and able to help her sisters have children.]]
*** When battling one of the Prince's goons Modest FINALLY taps into her magic... [[spoiler: and creates a Pikachu that battles and defeats her enemy.]]
*** Finally, with Aunt Naga dead, all hope looks lost until [[spoiler: Marah, now a Drudge Angel herself, arrives and resurrects her. She then later reveals that she can't return home yet but that Modest will see her again.]]
*** When battling one of the Prince's goons Modest FINALLY taps into her magic... [[spoiler: and creates a Pikachu that battles and defeats her enemy.]]
*** Finally, with Aunt Naga dead, all hope looks lost until [[spoiler: Marah, now a Drudge Angel herself, arrives and resurrects her. She then later reveals that she can't return home yet but that Modest will see her again.]]
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* BaconAddiction: Even the Medusa's hair-snakes agree-- everything is better with bacon!
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** One arc is called [[TheEmpireStrikesBack The Kingdom Strikes Back]]. [[spoiler:And just like the StarWars movie, it ends with a complete victory for the villains and utter defeat for the heroes. Of course just like Star Wars, the heroes are down but not out.]]
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** One arc is called [[TheEmpireStrikesBack [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack The Kingdom Strikes Back]]. [[spoiler:And just like the StarWars movie, it ends with a complete victory for the villains and utter defeat for the heroes. Of course just like Star Wars, the heroes are down but not out.]]
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The Medusa loves [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocodile chocodiles]].
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* WeirdnessCensor: Marah's mother completely ignores the fact that the Medusa's, well, a medusa.
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* WeirdnessCensor: Marah's mother completely ignores the fact that the Medusa's, well, a medusa. Lampshaded by Jake, who mentions that most people don't really seem to care that she's green, has a tail instead of legs, and has snakes for hair. The few who ''aren't'' cool with it just seem to mind their own business until she leaves.
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* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The introduction of Medusa's [[BigBad mother]].]]
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-->'''Jake:''' I spent hours trying to communicate with you! I fed you an entire box of chocodiles! And you could talk the whole time?
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-->'''Jake:''' I spent hours trying to communicate with you! I fed you an entire box of chocodiles! Chocodiles! And you could talk the whole time?
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* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Rather than be little winged humans or child-like creatures, these fairies are more like bear-cats the size of a tool shed. They're also nigh-invincible [[spoiler: unless you go for the [[EyeScream eyes]] or [[EarAche ears]]]].
