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* ProtagonistJourneytoVillain: Now Hiring's opening page presents the story as Maks's tale of how he "became a monster". Even without the first page spelling it out for the reader, all the discrimination and desperate circumstances Maks faces and the criminal career he's landed in dress his future as one that is fashionably doomed.

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* ProtagonistJourneytoVillain: ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Now Hiring's opening page presents the story as Maks's tale of how he "became a monster". Even without the first page spelling it out for the reader, all the discrimination and desperate circumstances Maks faces and the criminal career he's landed in dress his future as one that is fashionably doomed.
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Nov 27th 2023 at 11:06:29 AM  
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* IDidWhatIHadtoDo: Aisel, Simeon, and Maks alike make permanent decisions as a result of their less-than-legal circumstances.
* LadyLooksLikeaDude: Aisel, the LadyInAPowerSuit, has a short haircut and a penchant for overalls and suit ties.

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* IDidWhatIHadtoDo: IDidWhatIHadToDo: Aisel, Simeon, and Maks alike make permanent decisions as a result of their less-than-legal circumstances.
* LadyLooksLikeaDude: LadyLooksLikeADude: Aisel, the LadyInAPowerSuit, has a short haircut and a penchant for overalls and suit ties.
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Nov 27th 2023 at 10:57:56 AM  
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* Language Barrier: Maks is stumbling through the hoops of learning english with the help of his tutor, Kio.

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* Language Barrier: LanguageBarrier: Maks is stumbling through the hoops of learning english with the help of his tutor, Kio.
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Nov 27th 2023 at 10:57:35 AM  
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* LadyLooksLikeaDude: Aisel, the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LadyInAPowerSuit]], has a short haircut and a penchant for overalls and suit ties.

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* LadyLooksLikeaDude: Aisel, the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LadyInAPowerSuit]], LadyInAPowerSuit, has a short haircut and a penchant for overalls and suit ties.
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Nov 27th 2023 at 10:35:54 AM  
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!!The webcomic has the following examples of:

* ActionGirl
* BigThinShortTrio
* CasuallyPowerfulGiant
* CriminalFoundFamily
* DisposableVagrant
* HeWhoFightsMonsters
* IDidWhatIHadToDo
* LadyLooksLikeADude
* LanguageBarrier
* NotSoDifferentRemark
* PowerAtAPrice
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain
* RedemptionQuest
* SpaceElves
* TeamDad
* TheMafia
* ThePunishmentIsTheCrime
* TheWarOnDrugs
* TooDesperateToBePicky
* TrashyTrueCrime
* TraumaCongaLine

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!!The webcomic has !!Now Hiring contains examples of the following examples of:

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* ActionGirl
ActionGirl: Aisel, a criminal kingpin whose hands are as red as her suit.
* BigThinShortTrio
BigThinShortTrio: Maks and his partners in crime, Sheep and Woods.
* CasuallyPowerfulGiant
CasuallyPowerfulGiant: Maks's punches [[https://nowhiring.cfw.me/comics/132/ knock teeth loose]] and he [[https://nowhiring.cfw.me/comics/136/ catches punches and tosses people down like little dolls]]. He also can just [[https://nowhiring.cfw.me/comics/40/ rip whatever you may have out of your hands]] if he needs you to stop hitting him.
* CriminalFoundFamily
CriminalFoundFamily: Over time, Maks [[https://nowhiring.cfw.me/comics/143/ starts to find a place of semi-belonging]] among the partners in crime he was initially so keen to distrust thanks to his status as an outcast.
* DisposableVagrant
DisposableVagrant: Crow recognizes Maks's desperate situation and [[https://nowhiring.cfw.me/comics/50/ hires him as a courier of dubious deliveries in one of Maks's many rock bottoms]]. Crow might not know that Maks is on the knife's edge of eviction from a literal shed in the back of someone else's property, but he knows desparation when he sees it.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters
HeWhoFightsMonsters: Although Now Hiring is in its first few chapters, the trajectory of the plot is explained in [[https://nowhiring.cfw.me/comics/3#content-start the first page]] with Maks as a narrator: "I became what I hate. But maybe there's still time."
* IDidWhatIHadToDo
IDidWhatIHadtoDo: Aisel, Simeon, and Maks alike make permanent decisions as a result of their less-than-legal circumstances.
* LadyLooksLikeADude
LadyLooksLikeaDude: Aisel, the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LadyInAPowerSuit]], has a short haircut and a penchant for overalls and suit ties.
* LanguageBarrier
Language Barrier: Maks is stumbling through the hoops of learning english with the help of his tutor, Kio.
* NotSoDifferentRemark
NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler: Late in the employ of Aisel, she tells Maks that she and him are very alike. Both monsters who just make the best of what they are.]]
* PowerAtAPrice
PowerAtAPrice: The Amka perform a skill called 'matter pulling', which Maks cannot perform without enduring some nasty side-effects.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain
ProtagonistJourneytoVillain: Now Hiring's opening page presents the story as Maks's tale of how he "became a monster". Even without the first page spelling it out for the reader, all the discrimination and desperate circumstances Maks faces and the criminal career he's landed in dress his future as one that is fashionably doomed.
* RedemptionQuest
RedemptionQuest: As stated in the introduction page, Maks says he's become a monster, "but maybe there's still time."
* SpaceElves
SpaceElves: The Amka race are gigantic pointy-eared beings capable of an ability called 'matter pulling' which is packaged like an innate, magical power.
* TeamDad
TeamDad: Woods is depicted giving Maks mentoring feedback and holding Sheep (generally) accountable.
* TheMafia
TheMafia: Now Hiring follows the machinations of the fictional Veinard mob empire and its downfall.
* ThePunishmentIsTheCrime
TooDesperateToBePicky: When Maks first gets his job as a courier for Crow, Crow holds his obviously desperate situation over his head to pressure him into obeisance.
* TheWarOnDrugs
TrashyTrueCrime: [[spoiler: Late-game, Kio dips into being the voyeur of some of the results of Maks' actions and is later questioned by the FBI for her assumed guilt by association.]]
* TooDesperateToBePicky
* TrashyTrueCrime
* TraumaCongaLineTraumaCongaLine: Maks. Born during a civil war to an alien race whose homeworld had been destroyed, rejected by his father due to his "failures", and subjected to discrimination and abuse throughout his life. Even the weather hates Maks, whose alien physiology reacts to water like it's battery acid.
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Nov 25th 2023 at 5:57:36 PM  
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At the crossroads of danger and opportunity, two strangers forge a bloody pact built on control and brutality--Maks, a struggling alien refugee, and Aisel , kingpin of the criminal underworld. Nothing good follows.

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At the crossroads of danger and opportunity, two strangers forge a bloody pact built on control and brutality--Maks, a struggling alien refugee, and Aisel , kingpin of the criminal underworld. Nothing good follows.follows.

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!!The webcomic has the following examples of:

* ActionGirl
* BigThinShortTrio
* CasuallyPowerfulGiant
* CriminalFoundFamily
* DisposableVagrant
* HeWhoFightsMonsters
* IDidWhatIHadToDo
* LadyLooksLikeADude
* LanguageBarrier
* NotSoDifferentRemark
* PowerAtAPrice
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain
* RedemptionQuest
* SpaceElves
* TeamDad
* TheMafia
* ThePunishmentIsTheCrime
* TheWarOnDrugs
* TooDesperateToBePicky
* TrashyTrueCrime
* TraumaCongaLine
BMR

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Now Hiring is an 80s crime-thriller set in an alternate world where aliens made human contact in antiquity.

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[[https://nowhiring.cfw.me/ Now Hiring Hiring]] is an 80s crime-thriller set in an alternate world where aliens made human contact in antiquity.
BMR

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Nov 25th 2023 at 5:34:29 PM  
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Now Hiring is an 80s crime-thriller set in an alternate world where aliens made human contact in antiquity.

At the crossroads of danger and opportunity, two strangers forge a bloody pact built on control and brutality--Maks, a struggling alien refugee, and Aisel , kingpin of the criminal underworld. Nothing good follows.

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