History Webcomic / ScaryGoRound

* HeroesWantRedHeads: Subverted; The Boy sticks with Esther despite the attentions of two different redheads, Erin and Elodie.

* MichaelHackson: During what was at the time intended to be the last story in 2009, the mysterious father of the enigmatic figure known as The Child, aka Poh, turns out to be a nameless figure who is clearly Michael Jackson or a close expy. John Allison[[note]]who is admittedly sometimes an UnreliableNarrator[[/note]] says that his original plan was for this character to have done "some wretched deeds", but unfortunately Jackson died while the strips were being created, and the story had to be toned down rather heavily.

'''Lottie:''' There's a paperclip what tells you how to be ''bad''.
* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: Zombie Shelley succumbs to the urge to eat brains, but fortunately:

* MichaelHackson: During what was at the time intended to be the last story in 2009, the mysterious father of the enigmatic figure known as The Child, aka Poh, turns out to be a nameless figure who is clearly Michael Jackson or a close expy. John Allison[[notewho is admittedly sometimes an UnreliableNarrator[[/note]] says that his original plan was for this character to have done "some wretched deeds", but unfortunately Jackson died while the strips were being created, and the story had to be toned down rather heavily.

** Played Straight: The father of [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Poh aka The Child]] is an {{Expy}} of Music/MichaelJackson. Unfortunately during the run of a story arc with him in a more prominent role, the real Michael passed away.

* AbortedArc:"Super Crisis Quests" is a big story where every currently-active character had their own adventure in saving the world from a overarching {{evil plan}}. And according to comment in the print edition, it was a tangled mess of plotting that the author quickly tired of and devised the quickest route out of the story, cutting off a number of intended threads, such as Shelley blasting into space and confronting her [[CloudCuckooLander supposed]] arch-enemy the Moon. Instead, she's caught while trying to steal a spacecraft and told to get lost, and they work around this part.

The lead is once again Shelley Winters--no, not the redoubtable Oscar-winning actress, but the cute, ever-chipper redheaded sometimes-reporter who has an insatiable drive to investigate odd goings-on, to restore justice and order where she senses it is lacking, and apparently to die gruesome, [[BackFromTheDead though temporary]], deaths. It also features Amy Chilton, Shelley's merrily self-involved co-adventurer; the [[WeirdnessMagnet misfortune-laden]] but unflappable Ryan Beckwith; Tim Jones, brilliant inventor and accidental mayor; sassy [[PerkyGoth goth]] girl Esther De Groot and her naive boyfriend [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Boy]]; Fallon Young, [[SpyCatsuit sexy spy]] of questionable competence; Rachel Dukakis-Monteforte, bitchy college student turned Satan's minion; Raffles, the GentlemanThief and Desmond Fishman, one of a race of FishPeople who doesn't know his origin and not sufficiently to find it.

The lead is once again Shelley Winters--no, not the redoubtable Oscar-winning actress, but the cute, ever-chipper redheaded sometimes-reporter who has an insatiable drive to investigate odd goings-on, to restore justice and order where she senses it is lacking, and apparently to die gruesome, [[BackFromTheDead though temporary]], deaths. It also features Amy Chilton, Shelley's merrily self-involved co-adventurer; the [[WeirdnessMagnet misfortune-laden]] but unflappable Ryan Beckwith; Tim Jones, brilliant inventor and accidental mayor; sassy [[PerkyGoth goth]] girl Esther De Groot and her naive boyfriend [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Boy]]; Fallon Young, [[SpyCatsuit sexy spy]] of questionable competence; Rachel Dukakis-Monteforte, bitchy college student turned Satan's minion; and Raffles, the GentlemanThief.

* {{Atlantis}}: Desmond Fishman suddenly thinks he came from Alantis (He's a FishPerson, it might make sense), drawing Shelley and Amy into an adventure to find it.

** Played Straight: The father of [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Poh aka The Child]] is an {{Expy}} of Music/MichaelJackson. [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Unfortunately during the run of a story arc with him in a more prominent role, the real Michael passed away]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: First Tessa and Rachel, and a few secondary characters. Then Ryan, Shelley, Tim and Amy join the cast with Fallon Young joins shortly after. The next major group is the schoolkids -- The Boy, Esther, Sarah, Milford, Carrot, etc. -- and towards the end there's the nascent ''Webcomic/BadMachinery'' characters too. Then there's recurring characters who show up for a storyline and then go OutOfFocus again, like Hugo, Gibbous Moon, or Natalie Durand, and minor characters like Hamilton Percy who pop up only occasionally. When salty old seadog Ernest first appears, there's a note beside the comic reading "I keep creating new characters. I just can't stop."
* LouisCypher: [[spoiler: Crazy Old Ralph.]]
* MadScientist: Tim Jones occasionally, Dai Davies generally, Dr. Petrescu ''totally''.

** Another strip had a display of famous robots including ''QC''s Pintsize. That's [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Marvin the Paranoid Android]] on the left.

** Amid the council staff dressed as ''{{Transformers}}'', Robotania's ambassador "Red Robot" is borrowed from ''Webcomic/DieselSweeties''.

** Ratty from Literature/TheWindInTheWillows shows up in human form to aid Ryan and Amy's escape from the witch.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Repeatedly averted - Shelley's mention of the Government is illustrated with Alistair Darling[[note]]Chancellor Of The Exchequer, at the time[[/note]], UsefulNotes/GordonBrown and UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson. (An earlier mention involved masks of UsefulNotes/TonyBlair and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush.) The President of France in the SGR-verse is Nicolas Sarkozy, the real life President of France, at the time. [[spoiler: The arc featuring him ends with his declaring war on Canada (whose prime minister is, indeed, Stephen Harper). (ItMakesSenseInContext...sort of.) This is never mentioned again.]]

* SpitTake: Invoked:
-->'''Esther:''' Caring comes natural to me. Call me...''the queen of hearts.''\\

** The chief of police does one when Tim reassures him that logic and sense will prevail...then tells him they're looking for a zombie. (With the town being such a WeirdnessMagnet, [[ArbitrarySkepticism you'd think he'd be used to it]].)

** ''The Jeremy Kyle Show'' is scorned when Shelley, Des and his "adopted" mother appear on it.

* TranquilFury: Shelley, here. Not for very long, by the looks of it.

* WhamEpisode: One occurs during the "Into The Woods" plot arc, when [[spoiler: Eustace is accidentally shot, and Erin has to give up her soul and return to full-fledged demonhood to save him.]]

** To Series/TheWire a couple of times. Amy and Shelley inadvertently quote the first lines of [[Music/TomWaits the opening theme]] while in an estate housing block.

** Number 7 on Esther's Most Awesome Ways To Die]] is "Forcing oneself to [[ArchiveBinge read the entire archive]][[invoked]] of [[[NoteFromEd edited due to meanness - John]]]", and the redacted words look suspiciously like (again) "''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''".

** Hansel and Gretal.]] It was later Lampshaded.

** The chief of police does one when Tim reassures him that logic and sense will prevail...then tells him they're looking for a zombie. (With the town being such a WeirdnessMagnet, [[ArbitrarySkepticism you think he'd be used to it]].)