History Webcomic / Wonderlab

* PrecisionFStrike: Finn states that [[spoiler:Distorted Catt]] will come for Taii after they learn that Taii has been "shittalking" them.

** Rza, upon realizing [[spoiler: Beebi threw them a fake toy version of the Servant of Wrath's E.G.O. gift, rather than the genuine item.]]

--> If your "world" is about being chained to a nest and eating from a feeder... ...Until you're slaughtered for your meat, hide, and everything else just like livestock, then I'm sick of it. If that's the world you want me to live in, then I'll break these wings and walk on my own two feet!!

--> We are savage dogs, we bite and tear everything to protect our master. If that master ever happens to go nuts, we bite sense into them, and we bite hard. When someone loses their mind, it's the Disciplinary's role to bring them back. That's how we protect the weak and inept.

--> Nothing lasts forever! The universe, the light and the dark; everything comes to an end! So we will end this party, and finish this dance! We will save you!\\\
The heart wasn't in the wrong. That's what I wanted to prove. So I will show it. Even if I'm trampled, snapped, broken, I will stand and speak; that we weren't in the wrong. That in this place, we did our utmost to live with all our hearts. To someday unravel what was twisted.

--> '''Rose''': If your "world" is about being chained to a nest and eating from a feeder... ...Until you're slaughtered for your meat, hide, and everything else just like livestock, then I'm sick of it. If that's the world you want me to live in, then I'll break these wings and walk on my own two feet!!

--> '''Shasha''': We are savage dogs, we bite and tear everything to protect our master. If that master ever happens to go nuts, we bite sense into them, and we bite hard. When someone loses their mind, it's the Disciplinary's role to bring them back. That's how we protect the weak and inept.

** Taii, before battling with [[spoiler:A Party Everlasting]] in Episode 53:
--> '''Taii''': Nothing lasts forever! The universe, the light and the dark; everything comes to an end! So we will end this party, and finish this dance! We will save you!

* ArmlessBiped: The Road Home Abnormality appears in the form of an armless little girl. As there appears to be no arm holes on her dress and no signs of removal, it can probably be assumed she is naturally without them.

* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:All of the Abnormalities contained at O-5681 return for the "A Party Everlasting" arc, which is the final arc before the epilogue.]]

* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim:
** Or rather, [[spoiler:Beat the Distortion Out of Them (i.e Episode 53). It doesn't stick.]]

** One of the Abnormalities in the facility, Penitent Girl, has the ability to possess employees. After which, she will force the possessed individual to ''cut off their own feet and present them while kneeling''. This typically ends up being fatal for the victim.
** In the midst of the fight with The Road Home, Catt manages to cut off her feet. However, this only causes further issues with fighting her. As not only is she still able to move without her feet by floating, she also leaks Black damage from the wounds wherever she goes.

** A Party Everlasting, [[spoiler:the form that Catt takes upon Distorting]], bears an appearance based around a typical pop-culture representation of the titular Alice. It's fair-skinned, with its head is covered in long blonde hair topped with a black bow, and its legs possess knee-length white socks with black Mary Jane shoes. Its body, resembling a chipped upside-down teacup, is also colored blue, a color commonly associated with Alice's dress. Accompaning it is a small, rabbit-like creature that acts as A Party Everlasting's heart [[spoiler:(a reference to how Catt had metaphorically cut out their own heart to survive their workplace)]] which is obviously meant to be a reference to the White Rabbit that Alice pursues throughout the story.

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Purin]] is shown in a brief panel to have lost an arm during [[spoiler: A Party Everlasting's rampage]] while aiding others in escaping.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The strongest human characters are the Department Heads. The Captains are also the strongest members of their respective teams. Shasha makes it explicit early on that, in the event of their death, Catt would be the one set to take over the position of Department Head due to Catt being the strongest after them.

* BadassInANiceSuit: Most of the E.G.O. worn in the comic resemble stylized suits, so most of the combatant characters count as this.

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Episode 25 showcases [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daisygun.png Daisy pointing a gun in what is clearly an improper way]]. Wielding a larger gun in this method with only one hand and zero stability will likely have the gun tilt like crazy, if not outright fly out of your hand, once it's fired. Also, the thumb is positioned in a way where the only way it'd make sense is if either the trigger was meant to be pulled instead of pushed, or if the entire grip was meant to be the trigger (which, even then, would be a problem in its own right).

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Episode 25 showcases [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/421148948577779725/815753210684768256/unknown.png Daisy pointing a gun in what is clearly an improper way]]. Wielding a larger gun in this method with only one hand and zero stability will likely have the gun tilt like crazy, if not outright fly out of your hand, once it's fired. Also, the thumb is positioned in a way where the only way it'd make sense is if either the trigger was meant to be pulled instead of pushed, or if the entire grip was meant to be the trigger (which, even then, would be a problem in its own right).

** The deceased body of one of the Penitent Girl's victims is seen briefly in a body bag, sporting an unsettling grin with eyes wide open.

** The Bottle of Tears, resembling a glass water bottle with a cork made of cake, references the "Eat Me" cake and "Drink Me" bottle that Alice finds and consumes in terms of appearance, while its ability that activates upon eating its cake cork (i.e the bottle cracking and flooding the room with its contents) reference the effects of those items, where the cake makes her grow large enough to flood the room with her tears, and the drink makes her shrink down to where she's able to swim in the resulting pool.

** The Bottle of Tears, which looks like a glass water bottle with a cork made of cake, is a reference to the tea and cakes that the titular Alice finds, which are labeled with "Drink Me" and "Eat Me", respectively. Especially apparent when [[spoiler:Catt attempts to commit suicide by intentionally eating the cake]] and cause the bottle to crack and flood the room, while ribbons reading "Drink Me" float around in the water.
*** Its name also alludes to a portion in the story where Alice, after several size changes due to the aforementioned food and drink, ends up swimming in a pool of her own tears.

* SuicideBySea: [[spoiler:During their breakdown in Episode 22, Catt attempts to invoke a variation of this by eating the cake on top of the Bottle of Tears to activate its latent abilities and allowing Catt to quietly drown within the water that promptly floods the unit. However, since Catt was too physically and mentally strong to be killed by the Abnormality at that point, it wound up a BungledSuicide instead.]]

* SymbolicSereneSubmersion: A dark version of this trope comes into play during the flashback that is the Bottle of Tears episode, [[spoiler:where Catt attempts suicide by activating the Bottle of Tears's latent ability. Past-Catt is then gives an unsettlingly calm smile as they serenely float in the water produced and resign themself to their fate, symbolizing the beginning of Catt's attempts to abandon their heart and let all their emotions wash away from them.]]

* SymbolicSereneSubmersion: A dark version of this trope comes into play during the flashback that is the Bottle of Tears episode, [[spoiler:where Catt attempts suicide by eating the cake on top of the Bottle and making it spill the water within to the point of flooding the unit with water. Past-Catt is then gives an unsettlingly calm smile as they serenely float in the water and resign themself to their fate, symbolizing the beginning of Catt's attempts to abandon their heart and let all their emotions wash away from them.]]

** Rza has this reaction when they realize that [[spoiler: Beebi threw them a fake toy version of the Servant of Wrath's E.G.O. gift, rather than the genuine item.]] And immediately runs after to try and stop them.

** Purin takes a nonfatal version of this, as they get hit in the head with three WHITE damage bullets by Pygmalion simultaneously and are sent into a Panic. Thankfully they get better.

* LapPillow: After Pygmalion has been defeated, Beebi and Beozzi run up to the site and find Purin (after having their Panic calmed) resting with their head on Daisy's lap.

* FlatWhat: In episode 35, Catt discovers Rose and Taii prepared to stay overnight in their room to assist them with managing the Drowned Sisters. And after finding the two at their door with pillows and blankets, Catt's only reaction is a totally deadpan "What."

** In episode 35, after learning Catt is taking up the responsibility of tending to the Drowned Sisters and their tales of woe after hours alone, Rose and Taii decide to sleep with them in their dorm room to help them with the night shift. Treating the whole thing like a makeup sleepover after their time to play around in the previous arc was cut short.

** Episode 43 marks the arrival of the Staining Rose to Facility O-5681. The Department Heads are shown to be very terrified of the rose after reading over its Managerial Methods, and would rather not deal with it. At this point, they could either reject the rose and deal with the punishment that would be issued by HQ as a result of their actions, or accept the rose and try to deal with it in the best way they can. They go with the second option.

* ChromaticArrangement: The secondary PowerTrio of Joe, Daisy, and Shasha have a color scheme within this theme. With Shasha being red, Joe having blue, and Daisy representing both yellow and green (due to their blonde hair and the green heavily present in their E.G.O.).

** Pretty much all of "A Party Everlasting" and the first half of "Flower" counts. [[spoiler:Catt goes to confront the Manager over the suffering taking place in O-5681, only to discover that said Manager was DeadAllAlong. As a result, Catt hits a DespairEventHorizon, which is when they hear a "beautiful voice" (i.e, Carmen) call out to them. When Taii returns to the corporation to try and find Catt, they are attacked by Catt, who has ''become a Distortion''. The now-Distorted Catt then proceeds to wreck the facility in such a way that causes nearly all the Abnormalities to breach containment and start attacking the employees. Eventually, [[BigDamnHeroes Taii]] arrives on the scene, decked out in the E.G.O. of Staining Rose. Then Taii proceeds to engage in an IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight with Catt, which seems to return the latter to normal. ...[[HopeSpot Except]] it only lasts for a short period before Catt ends up re-distorting, before leaving the facility through a hole in the floor alongside various Abnormalities.]]

* TheNeedsOfTheMany: The Staining Rose Abnormality necessitates that one employee has to give their exclusive attention to it in order to appease it. Lest it cause the deaths of everyone else in its housing facility. [[spoiler: By the end of its process, the employee set to tend to it is doomed to die.]]

** The former head of the Information Team was killed off in the prologue without a proper introduction, which includes not being named.
** The temporary head of the Information Team (shown in Episode 6) was never given a name.

** The Staining Rose Abnormality [[spoiler:--with how it starts dripping with red when it begins the process of killing the employee performing work on it--]] appears to take inspiration from the portion of the book where Alice witnesses a group of playing cards painting over white roses with red paint.

** A Party Everlasting, [[spoiler:the form that Catt takes upon Distorting]], bears an appearance based around a typical pop-culture representation of the titular Alice. It's fair-skinned, with its head is covered in long blonde hair topped with a black bow, and its legs possess knee-length white socks with black Mary Jane shoes. Its body, resembling a chipped upside-down teacup, is also colored blue, a color commonly associated with Alice's dress. Accompanied it is a small, rabbit-like creature that acts as A Party Everlasting's heart [[spoiler:(a reference to how Catt had metaphorically cut out their own heart to survive their workplace)]] which is obviously meant to be a reference to the White Rabbit that Alice pursues throughout the story.

* MissionBriefing: In order to prepare Agents for their work with new Abnormalities, information about said Abnormalities will be explained to them so that they'll be handled properly: typically this will be delivered by either a Department Head or a Team Captain. The briefings usually consist of the Abnormality's name, some of its notable traits or abilities, and what kind of work will be performed on it to draw the most Enkephalin from it.