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* AprilFoolsDay: Since joining Webcomic/TheKatbox, Our World has participated in the site's yearly pranks.
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Originally published independently from 2010 to 2013, it joined Webcomic/TheKatbox in 2014 and updates on Tuesdays. On 29 December 2015, the author announced that all of the original pages had finally been posted to The Katbox. From here on, all new pages will be ''new'' pages.
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** Phlegmatic: Pete (with... orange hair. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Dammit]].)
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Formerly available [[http://ourworld.katbox.net/ here]], starting [[http://ourworld.katbox.net/comic/title-page/ here]]. In 2018 the comic went on hiatus, ending Chapter 4 with a cliffhanger. Then the writer and the artist got busy with their lives, and then their host shut down. As of 2021 there were no plans to continue.
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Formerly available [[http://ourworld.katbox.net/ here]], starting [[http://ourworld.katbox.net/comic/title-page/ here]]. In 2018 the comic went on hiatus, ending Chapter 4 with a cliffhanger. Then the writer and the artist got busy with their lives, and then their host shut down. As of 2021 there were There are no plans to continue.
continue, and Kuurion has stated that while he has backups of the comic available, [[https://www.artstation.com/artwork/E52K4 "reposting over a hundred pages isn't worth the effort"]].
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* LoveLetterLunacy: A StalkerWithACrush left a letter in Art's locker, mentioned watching him sleep, invited him to a date, asked to leave the answer ''in the same locker''. [[spoiler:To top it, she was his runaway sister.]]
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* LoveLetterLunacy: A StalkerWithACrush [[LockerMail left a letter in Art's locker, locker]], mentioned watching him sleep, invited him to a date, asked to leave the answer ''in the same locker''. [[spoiler:To top it, she was his runaway sister.]]
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Chapter 1 ends with some faceless observers (bearing the ArcSymbol) attracted by the events around Jill. Chapter 2 ends with them preparing to strike. Chapter 4 (the last published) ends with the four main characters [[spoiler:together with Trilby, Milo and Lina escaping the secret base on an aircraft]] and then their aircraft explodes near the Antarctic shore. Then the creators took a break, [[OrphanedSeries which never ended]].
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* TomatoSurprise: The protagonists are surprised to see mythical [[spoiler:humans]]. But once they get over the surprise, their ideas of [[spoiler:humans]] prove mostly correct, since their mythology is based on facts. Readers, on the other hand, were not told those myths, although there was enough foreshadowing to be able to guess.
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* FurryConfusion: Pete wears bunny slippers.
* GaiasVengeance: [[spoiler:The official mythology says: "Our ancestors rose from the soil and the sea to strike down the humans, who had abused the earth too long." It's close enough to the truth.]]
* GaiasVengeance: [[spoiler:The official mythology says: "Our ancestors rose from the soil and the sea to strike down the humans, who had abused the earth too long." It's close enough to the truth.]]
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* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:The humanoid animals populating Earth are said to be the descendants of humans and the more animalistic [[BeastMan Beast Men]] with superpowers, who destroyed the high-tech civilization.]]
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* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:The humanoid animals populating Earth are said to be the descendants of humans and the more animalistic [[BeastMan Beast Men]] "[[BeastMan first generation hybrids]]" with superpowers, who destroyed the high-tech civilization.]]
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* MarriedToTheJob: Jill shows signs of this. Trilby rarely leave her workshop as she's got nothing left.
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* BiggerOnTheInside: Art Canfield Sr. describes his compact car as this. [[BlatantLies It is not.]]
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* {{Chiaroscuro}}{{Chiaroscuro}}: Many pages have black background with panels fading to black rather than having distinct borders. The more noticeable cases include:
** The early scenes set at the secret high-tech base hide characters' faces in shadows.
** Art's date with a mysterious lady is set in a dimly lit room with her hiding her face in shadows.
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* TheFaceless: Trilby, initially, [[spoiler: and the other humans]]. Art's date, initially.
* FieryRedhead: Alex.
* FlatWhat: A sleep-deprived Art, when Jill asks him if he wants to move in with her and Pete and Alex.
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* FieryRedhead: Alex.
* FlatWhat: A sleep-deprived Art, when Jill asks him if he wants to move in withFunWithAcronyms: EMMA — [=EMulated=] Management Assistant and her predecessor EMMOT — [=EMulated=] Management Assistant and Pete and Alex.Trainer (if Trilby [[UnreliableExposition remembers correctly]]).
* FlatWhat: A sleep-deprived Art, when Jill asks him if he wants to move in with
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:The humanoid animals populating Earth are said to be the descendants of humans and the more animalistic [[BeastMan Beast Men]] with superpowers, who destroyed the high-tech civilization.]]
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* LoveLetterLunacyLoveLetterLunacy: A StalkerWithACrush left a letter in Art's locker, mentioned watching him sleep, invited him to a date, asked to leave the answer ''in the same locker''. [[spoiler:To top it, she was his runaway sister.]]
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* NonconformistDyedHair: Although he's rarely drawn in color, Clyde Kensington has green hair.
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** The mysterious observers are [[spoiler:pureblood humans, whose ancestors lost the Century War. They are hiding on an Antarctic island, maintain a network of spy satellites and monitor Earth population, and are studying the superpowers that decided the outcome of the war.]]
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** Trilby Dobler is named after two characters in LordsOfTheDeep.
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** When Alex and Pete are discussing old teachers at the school they used to attend, the names include Mr. Hodge and Mr. Coogan. Al Hodge and Richard Coogan both used to play the title character in CaptainVideo Series/CaptainVideo - which the comic's writer takes his pen name from.
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* StockSuperPowers: The list goes at least to 77. [[spoiler:Jill is]] "type-15 electrokinetic", which includes throwing objects with lightning effects, but also [[spoiler:allows her to reshape electro-malleable alloy ubiquitous at the human island.]] [[spoiler:Pete is "type-77 berserk", making him resistant to drugs. Both manifest their powers in an unusually mild way, less destructive to the wielder.]]
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Although he's rarely drawn in color, Clyde Kensington has green hair.
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A furry webcomic created and drawn by Kuurion and written by Captain Video (no, not [[CaptainVideo ''that'' Captain Video]]), ''Our World'' follows the misadventures of quiet professional Jill Whitecross, her slacker brother Pete, their mutual friend Art Canfield, and Pete's best friend from grade school who just moved in to live with them. Jill - who has spent her whole life ignoring the fact that she has no memories of her childhood, or where she came from - grapples with unfamiliar aspects of herself as the stress mounts.
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A furry webcomic created and drawn by Kuurion and written by Captain Video (no, not [[CaptainVideo ''that'' Captain Video]]), ''[[Series/CaptainVideo that]]'' one), ''Our World'' follows the misadventures of quiet professional Jill Whitecross, her slacker brother Pete, their mutual friend Art Canfield, and Pete's best friend from grade school who just moved in to live with them. Jill - who has spent her whole life ignoring the fact that she has no memories of her childhood, or where she came from - grapples with unfamiliar aspects of herself as the stress mounts.
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** When Pete and Alex are cleaning his room, they come across Rocky Rickaby's tie from {{Lackadaisy}} and Jenny's teddy bear hat from TheZombieHunters.
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** When Pete and Alex are cleaning his room, they come across Rocky Rickaby's tie from {{Lackadaisy}} ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' and Jenny's teddy bear hat from TheZombieHunters.
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** Alex's bedcovers have the cracked record logo on them associated with Dave Strider inWebcomic/{{Homestuck}}.''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''.
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** Alex as Kick Girl from ''MysteryBabylon''.
** Pete as Viktor Vasko from ''{{Lackadaisy}}''.
** Art as Dakota from ''{{Wrongside}}''.
** Alex as Kick Girl from ''MysteryBabylon''.
** Pete as Viktor Vasko from ''{{Lackadaisy}}''.
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** Jill as Mandy Cheng from ''{{Anthronauts}}''.
''Webcomic/{{Anthronauts}}''.
** Alex as Kick Girl from''MysteryBabylon''.
''Webcomic/MysteryBabylon''.
** Pete as Viktor Vasko from''{{Lackadaisy}}''.
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** Art as Dakota from''{{Wrongside}}''.''Webcomic/{{Wrongside}}''.
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* AffectionateParody: "Mysteries of the Unexplained" to "UnsolvedMysteries." Series/UnsolvedMysteries''.
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* FourthWallMailSlot: Like many of the other [[TheKatbox Katbox]] comics, Our World has a section on the site's forums where the characters can answer fan questions.
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* AprilFoolsDay: Since joining TheKatbox, Our World has participated in the site's yearly pranks.
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* UnmovingPlaid: As seen on Art's shirt in a car trip (albeit with stripes).
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Originally published independently from 2010 to 2013, it joined Webcomic/TheKatbox in 2014 and updates on Tuesdays.
Tuesdays. On 29 December 2015, the author announced that all of the original pages had finally been posted to The Katbox. From here on, all new pages will be ''new'' pages.
You can read it [[http://ourworld.katbox.net/ here]] or start [[http://ourworld.katbox.net/comic/title-page/ at the beginning]].
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A furry webcomic created and drawn by Kuurion and written by Captain Video (no, not [[CaptainVideo ''that'' Captain Video]]), ''Our World'' follows the misadventures of quiet professional Jill Whitecross, her slacker brother Pete, their mutual friend Art Canfield, and Pete's best friend from grade school who just moved in to live with them. Jill - who has spent her whole life ignoring the fact that she has no memories of her childhood, or where she came from - grapples with unfamiliar aspects of herself as the stress mounts.
Originally published independently from 2010 to 2013, it joined TheKatbox in 2014 and updates on Tuesdays.
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!!Examples:
* AlternativeCalendar: The given year is 763, [[spoiler: even though the story is set hundreds of years in the future, after TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]
* AscendedExtra: Lloyd, the HandPuppet Alex makes out of her bandaged-up hand, was intended as a temporary gag who became a fan favorite and started showing up in commissioned art of Alex.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Chad Ivington, as seen on the ShowWithinAShow "Mysteries of the Unexplained."
* AffectionateParody: "Mysteries of the Unexplained" to "UnsolvedMysteries."
* AmnesiacHero: Jill, who was found on a beach as a young teenager at the beginning of the comic.
* AprilFoolsDay: Since joining TheKatbox, Our World has participated in the site's yearly pranks.
* ArcSymbol: The logo on the jumpsuit Jill is found wearing. Becomes SigilSpam (see below) when we see the place it - and she - came from.
* ArtEvolution: Because the earliest pages were rewritten, the art style actually regresses a bit before moving forward again.
* BarcodeTattoo: [[spoiler: The strange symbol on the back of Jill's neck is eventually shown to be this.]]
* TheBigGuy: Hank.
* BigBrotherAttraction: [[spoiler: Lina's feelings for Art]].
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The more we see of the Canfields, the further from normal they seem.
* BiggerOnTheInside: Art Canfield Sr. describes his compact car as this. [[BlatantLies It is not.]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: After it's mentioned that Art's sister ran away sometime in the past, she returns as a MysteriousWoman.]]
* {{Chiaroscuro}}
* TheConspiracy: The people Jill escaped from at the beginning of the series are shown to have vast powers and troubling ideologies.
* CowTools: Art Sr. has a waiting room filled with decorations hand-selected to be incomprehensible.
* DCupDistress: Jill wears clothing that minimizes her ample figure, part of her general modesty.
* EccentricMentor: Art Sr., though it's not clear how much he's about being a mentor and how much he just likes being weird in public.
* TheFaceless: Trilby, initially, [[spoiler: and the other humans]].
* ForbiddenZone: Exploring the [[spoiler: oddly modern]] ruins seems to be a one-way ticket to a mysertious disappearance.
* FourTempermentEnsemble: The main cast:
** Sanguine: Alex (with color-coordinated red hair)
** Choleric: Art (with color-coordinated yellow hair)
** Melancholic: Jill (with color-coordinated black hair)
** Phlegmatic: Pete (with... orange hair. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Dammit]].)
* FourthWallMailSlot: Like many of the other [[TheKatbox Katbox]] comics, Our World has a section on the site's forums where the characters can answer fan questions.
* FieryRedhead: Alex.
* FlatWhat: A sleep-deprived Art, when Jill asks him if he wants to move in with her and Pete and Alex.
* FurryComic
* GeniusBonus (often by way of MeaningfulName):
** Art goes to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect "Cafe Westermarck"]] only to end up on a BlindDate with [[spoiler: his sister]]. He is not pleased.
** The last name "Canfield" was selected by Captain Video for the sake of an obscure throwaway joke: Art Sr.'s real estate business is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_ocean Canfield Ocean]] Estates. This ended up with RealLife UnintendedConsequences by causing the comic page with that name to start showing up on search engine returns for "Canfield ocean," bringing in traffic from a probably very confused PeripheryDemographic.
** One of Art Canfield Sr.'s strange office decorations is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle Klein bottle]].
* GenkiGirl: Alex, to the mixed reaction of those around her.
* GirlsWithMoustaches: Alex, during a poorly thought-out ImpersonationGambit intended to get her into a museum at senior citizen rates.
* GrumpyOldMan: Cornelius and Ezra, the two old guys who seem to live at the park.
* HalloweenCosplay: Done in 2011, where the four main characters dressed up as characters from other webcomics:
**Jill as Mandy Cheng from ''{{Anthronauts}}''.
**Alex as Kick Girl from ''MysteryBabylon''.
**Pete as Viktor Vasko from ''{{Lackadaisy}}''.
**Art as Dakota from ''{{Wrongside}}''.
* TheHermit: Trilby Dobler.
* HimeCut: On Trilby.
* IncompetenceInc: Jill's coworkers Clyde and Lisa are shown to be capable professionals... occasionally.
* LoveLetterLunacy
* MadeASlave: Milo is still pretty new to this predicament when he's first introduced.
* MarriedToTheJob: Jill shows signs of this.
* NoodleIncident: Pete alludes to one when saying Alex is unlikely to play with matches.
* PortTown: Selicia is on the sea.
* TheQuietOne: Art's department store coworker, Hank.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Seen briefly while Jill is house hunting and visits the former home of "the [[MadArtist mad poet]] Carthwait Carrothers."
* RestrainingBolt: Milo's shackles.
* TheReveal: A couple:
** Trilby is a [[spoiler: human]].
** Art's big date is [[spoiler: his sister,]] although he doesn't know that going into it.
* RuinsOfTheModernAge: The artifacts Pete and Alex see in the museum include [[spoiler: a stealth bomber]].
* SicklyGreenGlow: [[spoiler: Pre-retcon, Jill generates an aura in that color when her powers first activate.]]
* SigilSpam: The triskelion used by [[spoiler: the humans.]]
* ShoutOut: Numerous:
** When Alex and Pete are discussing old teachers at the school they used to attend, the names include Mr. Hodge and Mr. Coogan. Al Hodge and Richard Coogan both used to play the title character in CaptainVideo - which the comic's writer takes his pen name from.
** Trilby Dobler is named after two characters in LordsOfTheDeep.
** When Pete and Alex are cleaning his room, they come across Rocky Rickaby's tie from {{Lackadaisy}} and Jenny's teddy bear hat from TheZombieHunters.
**Alex's bedcovers have the cracked record logo on them associated with Dave Strider in {{Homestuck}}.
* TragicKeepsake: Trilby's locket, which she talks about enough to establish that she doesn't want to talk about it.
* WallOfBlather: Art's speech on pointing out the feedback survey at the bottom of each customer's receipt.
** This is actually an example of WriteWhatYouKnow on the part of Captain Video, who used to give a slightly shorter version of this same speech, which he wrote, when he was an employee at Sears. Kuurion had him pad it out a little in order to get the full wall of text.
* WrenchWench: Trilby Dobler, who is shown to basically live in her shop.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Although he's rarely drawn in color, Clyde Kensington has green hair.
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* AlternativeCalendar: The given year is 763, [[spoiler: even though the story is set hundreds of years in the future, after TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]
* AscendedExtra: Lloyd, the HandPuppet Alex makes out of her bandaged-up hand, was intended as a temporary gag who became a fan favorite and started showing up in commissioned art of Alex.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Chad Ivington, as seen on the ShowWithinAShow "Mysteries of the Unexplained."
* AffectionateParody: "Mysteries of the Unexplained" to "UnsolvedMysteries."
* AmnesiacHero: Jill, who was found on a beach as a young teenager at the beginning of the comic.
* AprilFoolsDay: Since joining TheKatbox, Our World has participated in the site's yearly pranks.
* ArcSymbol: The logo on the jumpsuit Jill is found wearing. Becomes SigilSpam (see below) when we see the place it - and she - came from.
* ArtEvolution: Because the earliest pages were rewritten, the art style actually regresses a bit before moving forward again.
* BarcodeTattoo: [[spoiler: The strange symbol on the back of Jill's neck is eventually shown to be this.]]
* TheBigGuy: Hank.
* BigBrotherAttraction: [[spoiler: Lina's feelings for Art]].
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The more we see of the Canfields, the further from normal they seem.
* BiggerOnTheInside: Art Canfield Sr. describes his compact car as this. [[BlatantLies It is not.]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: After it's mentioned that Art's sister ran away sometime in the past, she returns as a MysteriousWoman.]]
* {{Chiaroscuro}}
* TheConspiracy: The people Jill escaped from at the beginning of the series are shown to have vast powers and troubling ideologies.
* CowTools: Art Sr. has a waiting room filled with decorations hand-selected to be incomprehensible.
* DCupDistress: Jill wears clothing that minimizes her ample figure, part of her general modesty.
* EccentricMentor: Art Sr., though it's not clear how much he's about being a mentor and how much he just likes being weird in public.
* TheFaceless: Trilby, initially, [[spoiler: and the other humans]].
* ForbiddenZone: Exploring the [[spoiler: oddly modern]] ruins seems to be a one-way ticket to a mysertious disappearance.
* FourTempermentEnsemble: The main cast:
** Sanguine: Alex (with color-coordinated red hair)
** Choleric: Art (with color-coordinated yellow hair)
** Melancholic: Jill (with color-coordinated black hair)
** Phlegmatic: Pete (with... orange hair. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Dammit]].)
* FourthWallMailSlot: Like many of the other [[TheKatbox Katbox]] comics, Our World has a section on the site's forums where the characters can answer fan questions.
* FieryRedhead: Alex.
* FlatWhat: A sleep-deprived Art, when Jill asks him if he wants to move in with her and Pete and Alex.
* FurryComic
* GeniusBonus (often by way of MeaningfulName):
** Art goes to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect "Cafe Westermarck"]] only to end up on a BlindDate with [[spoiler: his sister]]. He is not pleased.
** The last name "Canfield" was selected by Captain Video for the sake of an obscure throwaway joke: Art Sr.'s real estate business is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_ocean Canfield Ocean]] Estates. This ended up with RealLife UnintendedConsequences by causing the comic page with that name to start showing up on search engine returns for "Canfield ocean," bringing in traffic from a probably very confused PeripheryDemographic.
** One of Art Canfield Sr.'s strange office decorations is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle Klein bottle]].
* GenkiGirl: Alex, to the mixed reaction of those around her.
* GirlsWithMoustaches: Alex, during a poorly thought-out ImpersonationGambit intended to get her into a museum at senior citizen rates.
* GrumpyOldMan: Cornelius and Ezra, the two old guys who seem to live at the park.
* HalloweenCosplay: Done in 2011, where the four main characters dressed up as characters from other webcomics:
**Jill as Mandy Cheng from ''{{Anthronauts}}''.
**Alex as Kick Girl from ''MysteryBabylon''.
**Pete as Viktor Vasko from ''{{Lackadaisy}}''.
**Art as Dakota from ''{{Wrongside}}''.
* TheHermit: Trilby Dobler.
* HimeCut: On Trilby.
* IncompetenceInc: Jill's coworkers Clyde and Lisa are shown to be capable professionals... occasionally.
* LoveLetterLunacy
* MadeASlave: Milo is still pretty new to this predicament when he's first introduced.
* MarriedToTheJob: Jill shows signs of this.
* NoodleIncident: Pete alludes to one when saying Alex is unlikely to play with matches.
* PortTown: Selicia is on the sea.
* TheQuietOne: Art's department store coworker, Hank.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Seen briefly while Jill is house hunting and visits the former home of "the [[MadArtist mad poet]] Carthwait Carrothers."
* RestrainingBolt: Milo's shackles.
* TheReveal: A couple:
** Trilby is a [[spoiler: human]].
** Art's big date is [[spoiler: his sister,]] although he doesn't know that going into it.
* RuinsOfTheModernAge: The artifacts Pete and Alex see in the museum include [[spoiler: a stealth bomber]].
* SicklyGreenGlow: [[spoiler: Pre-retcon, Jill generates an aura in that color when her powers first activate.]]
* SigilSpam: The triskelion used by [[spoiler: the humans.]]
* ShoutOut: Numerous:
** When Alex and Pete are discussing old teachers at the school they used to attend, the names include Mr. Hodge and Mr. Coogan. Al Hodge and Richard Coogan both used to play the title character in CaptainVideo - which the comic's writer takes his pen name from.
** Trilby Dobler is named after two characters in LordsOfTheDeep.
** When Pete and Alex are cleaning his room, they come across Rocky Rickaby's tie from {{Lackadaisy}} and Jenny's teddy bear hat from TheZombieHunters.
**Alex's bedcovers have the cracked record logo on them associated with Dave Strider in {{Homestuck}}.
* TragicKeepsake: Trilby's locket, which she talks about enough to establish that she doesn't want to talk about it.
* WallOfBlather: Art's speech on pointing out the feedback survey at the bottom of each customer's receipt.
** This is actually an example of WriteWhatYouKnow on the part of Captain Video, who used to give a slightly shorter version of this same speech, which he wrote, when he was an employee at Sears. Kuurion had him pad it out a little in order to get the full wall of text.
* WrenchWench: Trilby Dobler, who is shown to basically live in her shop.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Although he's rarely drawn in color, Clyde Kensington has green hair.
