History Webcomic / TrippingOverYou

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Liam's cousin Alfons basically looks like an older version of Liam, only with way lighter hair, a GlassEye, and a PermaStubble. Milo and his father look a lot alike, too.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Nearly everyone has a moment of this sometime.

** Might actually fall into the category of AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. He confesses his feelings after the emotional trauma of what he thought was Liam's date with a girl, and so the setting and circumstances weren't ideal, nor is he exactly eloquent. Which contributes to why the confession is not, at first, [[http://trippingoveryou.com/comic/that-enthusiastic/ received well]].

* CharacterDevelopment: Big time with both Liam and his father Eli. Liam learns to be a bit more relaxed, to let people close to him and openly talk about his feelings and wishes, and Eli goes from ice-cold, distant controll freak who has taken to being called "sir" by his own son to someone who actually puts an effort into understanding and supporting Liam instead of belittling his every descision.
* TheChessmaster: Penny, who orchestrates a meeting between Milo and Liam at the Halloween party in spite of Liam's initial refusals.
* ChivalrousPervert: Milo constantly teases and flirts with Liam before and after they get together, but when Liam asks him to cut down on the PDA he fulfills his request so well that Liam comes to regret it, and ''Liam'' is actually the one to bring up the topic of TheirFirstTime because Milo didn't think he would be interested in it.

* ForgetsToEat: Liam has shown tendencies to do this. Milo also occasionally skips breakfast later in the comic when his two jobs and university are straining him.

* HospitalHottie: Alfons sure is smitten with his nurse.

** Dylan advises Milo to ask his mother for help in regards of a new flat, but once Nora actually is around and trying to help Milo, Dylan criticizes her for being overbearing.

* InUniverseNickname: For some reason, Liam gets a lot of this from his old friends from school. Penny calls him Chip, Viola calls him Lilam, Dick calls him always something made up on his surname ("Schwartzmeister", "Schwartzstop", "Schwartzamundo", "Schwartzorama", ...), though Liam so far hasn't caught up to ''why'' everybody feels the need to nickname him.

* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Milo is partial to a little liquid courage, which Liam is quick to point out. That doesn't stop him from kissing back on two separate occasions.

* TheirFirstTime: Milo and Liam in chapter 5. Complicated by the fact that they have to do some internet research to learn how male-on-male intercourse works.

* UptightLovesWild: Milo is a flamboyant, well-socialized, blithe-spirited actor who loves to make himself the center of a scene; Liam is a bit of a grump when around people, doesn't like to draw attention, and rather sticks to himself and his writing. They're as happy together as can be.

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Occasionally crops up with Liam and his father. His cousin Alfons seems to have German as his mother tongue, so their family might come from German-language area originally.

* UptightLovesWild: Milo is a flamboyant, well-socialized, blithe-spirited actor who loves to make himself the center of a scene; Liam is a bit of a grump when around people, doesn't like to draw attentiona and rather sticks to himself and his writing. They're as happy together as can be.

* AllergicToLove: Archie nearly has an apoplectic fit when it is suggested he might be left alone with the girl he is currently on a date with. [[spoiler:A year later, he is HappilyMarried, [[CharacterDevelopment so]]...]]

* KindHeartedCatLover: Liam dotes on his cat Jojo, who's born without eyes and makes noises like an EldritchAbomination. When he moves in with Milo, Jojo tags along.

* NiceJewishBoy: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Liam. Sure, at the core he ''is'' a decent kid, but around that core are layers and layers of [[DeadpanSnarker cynical snark]], social ineptitude, and [[HotBlooded quite a temper]].

* KissKissSlap: The direction of their argument in the bathroom... [[http://trippingoveryou.com/comic/that-enthusiastic/ Kind of a]] MomentKiller.
* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Milo is partial to a little liquid courage, which Liam is quick to point out. That doesn't stop him from kissing back on two separate occasions.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Liam invites Milo to Archie's date because he's "good with girls", then blows up at him for demonstrating it.

* SingleTargetSexuality: Liam fits either in this camp or IfItsYouItsOkay with Milo; Milo is the only person he shows any attraction to in the comic, and WordOfGod is that he's either uncertain or uncomfortable labelling himself.

* AbuseMistake: Hebert thinks Milo's being mistreated by his boyfriend, because he seems so unhappy and because he has a black eye on his audition tape for acting class. Milo is actually just going through a tough time college- and jobwise, and his boyfriend does everything to support him. And while it ''was'' Liam who hit him the black eye a back then, that happened before they even were together, and Milo's behavior then makes Liam's lapse in temper slightly more justified.

* AllergicToLove: Archie nearly has an apoplectic fit when it is suggested he might be left alone with the girl he is currently on a date with.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Liam, repeatedly. He's shown in the flashbacks to have started out with long hair only to cut it off because his father "said [[LongHairIsFeminine it made me look like a poof]]" cut off his long hair. In the present day, he confirms that he's growing his hair out but that his father wants him to cut it again
* ForgetsToEat: Liam has shown tendencies to do this. Milo also occasionally skips breakfast later in comic when his two jobs and university are wearing him.

* ObliviousToLove: Liam in the first chapter.

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* ForgetsToEat: Liam has shown tendencies to do this.

* HandBehindHead

* OppositesAttract

* UptightLovesWild

** Liam to his father: [[spoiler:"And I've been so nervous I've gone a whole year not telling you--I'm dating a guy. And I'm sick of the person I am when I'm lying about it."]]

''[[http://www.trippingoveryou.com Tripping Over You]]'' is a SliceOfLife webcomic by Suzana H. and Owen W. that centers on Milo and Liam, two British boarding school students with radically contrasting personalities, and how they deal with being in a (mostly) secret relationship and the odd mix of humor and drama that ensues from their daily lives and their friends' too.

* SnowedIn: Milo and Liam end up in this situation in chapter 9. It leads to them discussing the issue of Liam still keeping his relationship under closure and Milo disliking the constant lies.

* KissKissSlap: [[http://trippingoveryou.com/comic/that-enthusiastic/ Kind of a]] MomentKiller.

* TenMinutesInTheCloset: Milo and Liam's version of this in the bathroom, which ends rather [[KissKissSlap unsatisfactorily]].

* AbuseMistake: Hebert thinks Milo's being mistreated by his boyfriend, because he seems so unhappy and because he has a black eye on his audition tape for acting class. Milo is actually just going through a tough time college- and jobwise, and his boyfriend does everything to support him. And while it wa

* AllGaysLoveTheater: Milo, who receives homophobic insults from other students for his participation in theatre alone. Subverted with Liam, who is indifferent about the school plays until he learns that Milo is acting in them.
** Leads to this hilarious discussion with his slightly homophobic mom:

* LonelyRichKid: It's implied Liam's been seeing a therapist for some time before the strip begins.

** Might actually fall into the category of AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. He confesses his feelings after the emotional trauma of what he thought was Liam's date with a girl, and so the setting and circumstances weren't ideal, nor is he exactly eloquent. Which contributes to why the confession is not, at first, received well [[http://trippingoveryou.com/comic/that-enthusiastic/]].

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Alfons, made worse by him having only one eye, Milo, and he apparently learned it from his father Dylan.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Penny and Kat.

* TwiceShy: Archie and Chloe. They are a match made in the most awkward of heavens.

---> '''Milo''': [[SarcasmMode Wait, which? My dance career? Or theatre?]]

* CoolBigBro: Actually he's Liam's cousin who stays with him and his father for a while, but Alfons fulfills this role; he's laidback, supportive of Liam, tries to give him some good advice, and covers up for his occasional sneaking-out--to-meet-his-boyfriend.

* ComingOutStory

* BiTheWay: Liam fits either in this camp or IfItsYouItsOkay with Milo; Milo is the only person he shows any attraction to in the comic, and WordOfGod is that he's either uncertain or uncomfortable labelling himself.

* TheChessmaster: Penny, who orchestrates a meeting between Milo and Liam at the Halloween party in spite of Liam's initial refusals.