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* BystanderSyndrome: This is how Sam goes drinking in bars and nobody even notices he has white fur and rabbit ears.
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* SomebodyElsesProblem: This is how Sam goes drinking in bars and nobody even notices he has white fur and rabbit ears.
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* DoubleStandard: Viv thinks religion is like this. Saying that men in religion who reject paradise or luxury are worshipped, While she [[spoiler:as Eve, rejected Eden and was villified as the reason for centuries of misogeny]]
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* DoubleStandard: Viv thinks religion is like this. Saying that men in religion who reject paradise or luxury are worshipped, worshiped, While she [[spoiler:as Eve, rejected Eden and was villified vilified as the reason for centuries of misogeny]]misogyny]]
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* EveryoneIsBi: Dream!Sam's (a figment of Sandra's imagination) says that everyone is this to some extent. It comes up when Sandra asks why Dream!Crystal is trying to seduce her, and Sam says that Incubus created her by reading Sandra's memories and found Sandra's clandestine feelings for her.
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When Rod Sterling did it, it was interesting
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* AllJustADream: Apparently all this Zebra Girl stuff [[http://www.zebragirl.net/?date=2013-02-23 is just a dream]], Sandra is perfectly normal girl and Sam is a cartoon character; and then [[FourthWallBreaking Sam breaks the fourth wall]]. It's Incubus' attempt at a LotusEaterMachine, and Sandra wasn't fooled for a second.
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* ArtEvolution: Compare [[http://www.zebragirl.net/?date=2000-06-24 this]] to [[http://www.zebragirl.net/ this!]]
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* WhamLine: A major one for the AllMythsAreTrue nature of the 'verse
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* WhamLine: A major one for the AllMythsAreTrue CrossoverCosmology nature of the 'verse
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* YouRemindMeOfX: Viv says that Sandra reminds her of [[spoiler: Lilith. In Jewish lore, Lilith was Adam's first wife, instead of Eve; Lilith left the Garden of Eden because she didn't want to be subservient to Adam.]]
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* YouRemindMeOfX: Viv says that Sandra reminds her of [[spoiler: Lilith. In Jewish lore, Lilith was Adam's first wife, instead of Eve; Lilith left the Garden of Eden because she didn't want to be subservient to Adam.]]Adam, and may be the mother of all demons, which makes sense why Sandra now has her eyes.]]
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* WhamLine: A major one for the AllMythsAreTrue nature of the 'verse
--> Viv: [[spoiler: I could have sat in paradise…]] [[HinduMythology Vishnu travels to Earth, he's a king-!]] [[{{UsefulNotes/Buddhism}} Buddha abandons luxury, he's enlightened.]] [[TheBible Jesus leaves Heaven, he's a ''Messiah'']]. [[spoiler: '''I''' leave [[TheBible the Garden]] I'm a sucker.]]
--> Viv: [[spoiler: I could have sat in paradise…]] [[HinduMythology Vishnu travels to Earth, he's a king-!]] [[{{UsefulNotes/Buddhism}} Buddha abandons luxury, he's enlightened.]] [[TheBible Jesus leaves Heaven, he's a ''Messiah'']]. [[spoiler: '''I''' leave [[TheBible the Garden]] I'm a sucker.]]
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* YouRemindMeOfX: Viv says that Sandra reminds her of [[spoiler: Lilith. In Jewish lore, Lilith was Adam's first wife, instead of Eve; Lilith left the Garden of Eden because she didn't want to be subservient to Adam.]]
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* DoubleStandard: Viv thinks religion is like this. Saying that men in religion who reject paradise or luxury are worshipped, While she [[spoiler:as Eve, rejected Eden and was villified as the reason for centuries of misogeny]]
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: Viv has fought her fair share of monsters and demons thoughout the centuries. Yet is universally despised because [[spoiler:She is Eve, the first woman. However she explains that she resisted the temptation of the fruit, but rejected Eden as she wanted people to be able to stand on their own two feet.]]
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* NotSoHarmless: Lord Incubus. Remember that little skull-headed demon Jack released from the book that wanted to take over the world, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness only to get flushed down a dimensional portal shaped like a toilet]]? Yeah, he's back. And he's genuinely frightening this time.
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* NotSoHarmless: NotSoHarmlessVillain: Lord Incubus. Remember that little skull-headed demon Jack released from the book that wanted to take over the world, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness only to get flushed down a dimensional portal shaped like a toilet]]? Yeah, he's back. And he's genuinely frightening this time.
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* StabTheSalad: Confronting [[spoiler: Sandra in her newly-recovered demonic form]], Viv produces an object which appears to be some sort of bolo-weapon, but turns out to be a magical swing.
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* StabTheSalad: Confronting [[spoiler: Sandra in her newly-recovered demonic form]], Viv produces an object which appears to be some sort of bolo-weapon, but turns out to be which she uses as a magical swing.swing. Then subverted, when it's further revealed that yes, it ''does'' also serve as a bolo.
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* StabTheSalad: Confronting [[spoiler: Sandra in her newly-recovered demonic form]], Viv produces an object which appears to be some sort of bolo-weapon, but turns out to be a magical swing.
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* WeirdnessMagnet: [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Jack, who states that "magic attracts magic"
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* WeirdnessMagnet: [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] Lampshaded]] by Jack, who states that "magic attracts magic"
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* WhatTheHellHero: Sandra has a fit because Viv won't help her save Mabel from Incubus, but Viv throws it right back in her face, pointing out her concern that Sandra is no better than Incubus.
-->'''Sandra''': "I thought we were friends! I ''told'' you what I was like as a demon."
-->'''Viv''': "Yeah, and you told me how you treated your friends."
-->'''Sandra''': [[HeelRealization ...]]
-->'''Sandra''': "I thought we were friends! I ''told'' you what I was like as a demon."
-->'''Viv''': "Yeah, and you told me how you treated your friends."
-->'''Sandra''': [[HeelRealization ...]]
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* BeYourself: After Viv and Incubus trying to get Sandra to become human or demon, [[http://www.zebragirl.net/?date=2012-09-15 Mabel tells Sandra]] that she is not Viv or Incubus but her own person.
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* FailedASpotCheck [=/=] ForgotAboutHisPowers: When Incubus kidnaps Mabel, [[http://www.zebragirl.net/index.php?date=2012-10-12 Viv tells Sandra]] to go after them, but she says she can't without her demon powers. Whether she didn't notice or forgot in the carnage, Mabel's BeYourself speech has reawakened Sandra's Zebra Girl form. The cackling when Viv points it out can be heard for miles.
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That Mabel knows or doesn\'t know Incubus\'s true name is irrelevant here : the problem here comes from the fact that Mabel doesn\'t remember her own true name, while Incubus knows her, thus granting him power over her.
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* IKnowYourTrueName: [[http://www.zebragirl.net/?date=2012-09-30 Incubus]] grabs Mabel and claims he has power over her because he knows her true name, while she doesn't know his.
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* IKnowYourTrueName: [[http://www.zebragirl.net/?date=2012-09-30 Incubus]] grabs Mabel and claims he has power over her because he knows her true name, while she doesn't know his.doesn't.
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* IKnowYourTrueName: [[http://www.zebragirl.net/?date=2012-09-30 Incubus]] grabs Mabel and claims he has power over her because he knows her true name, while she doesn't know his.
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That was just meant to show that Sandra\'s finally resolved her identity crisis; there\'s nothing sinister about it.
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** From hope to horror: During one scene, it seems that Mabel [[spoiler:has convinced Sarah to not listen to Lord Incubus. This is a light scene, with Sarah featuring a genuine smile, with Lord Incubus being slowly draw away, his voice no longer reaching Sarah. In the next comic, she turns back into her demon appareance, and the comic ends with a shot of Lord Incubus's giant (and full of teeths) grin.]]
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** From hope to horror: During one scene, it seems that Mabel [[spoiler:has convinced Sarah to not listen to Lord Incubus. This is a light scene, with Sarah featuring a genuine smile, with Lord Incubus being slowly draw away, his voice no longer reaching Sarah. In the next comic, she turns back into her demon appareance, and the comic ends with a shot of Lord Incubus's giant (and full of teeths) grin.]]
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* TheCorrupter: Lord Incubus jumps into this role with gusto for the Subfusc arc.
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* TakeAThirdOption: The Subfusc arc consists of Sandra grappling between her opposing natures as demon and human, with Lord Incubus and Viv trying to win her over to their respective sides. The one who finally wins her over is [[spoiler: Mad Mabel, whose mental state is likewise confused.]]
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* TheWoobie: Crystal every now and then, and Mabel.
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* TheWoobie: Crystal every now and then, and Mabel.
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* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:Sandra, once she begins to act without restraints as a demon.]]
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* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Sandra does this to her entire town once she fully embraces her demon nature. Things get really serious when you realize that she imprisons and ''tortures'' (at least, mentally) Sam.]]
** [[spoiler:Once being turn back into an human again (albeit it may only be temporarly), Sandra steals Mabel's thimble from her, just because she can. However, this time, she takes pity on Mabel and give it back. This is the first sign of humanity she has showed in months.]]
** [[spoiler:Once being turn back into an human again (albeit it may only be temporarly), Sandra steals Mabel's thimble from her, just because she can. However, this time, she takes pity on Mabel and give it back. This is the first sign of humanity she has showed in months.]]
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* TheUnfettered: The nature of a demon, and what Sandra and Lord Incubus find so awesome about it.
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* NotSoHarmless: Lord Incubus. Remember that little skull-headed demon Jack released from the book that wanted to take over the world, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness only to get flushed down a dimensional portal shaped like a toilet]]? Yeah, he's back. And he's genuinely frightening this time.
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* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: They change at will, but only during the night. They can grow to any size while transformed, and discard all excessive mass when turning back, leaving behind a pile of unidentified organic compound.
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* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: They change at will, but only during the night. They can grow to any size while transformed, and discard all excessive mass when turning back, leaving behind which quickly decomposes into a pile puddle of unidentified unidentifieable organic compound.
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** Recently, Sandra's repeated attempts to make a DealWithTheDevil around the 1st of April would lead up to a joke strip of her getting turned into a [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic pony]].
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''Love. Hate. SpontaneousCombustion.''
''[[http://www.zebragirl.net Zebra Girl]]'' tells the story of three roommates (Sandra, Jack, and Crystal) whose lives are irrevocably transformed when they discover an ancient magical tome in their attic. When the book is slammed shut after an accidental demon-summoning, Sandra finds herself transformed into the eponymous Zebra Girl, a demon with black-and-white striped skin, hooves for feet, long, wicked talons, acidic bodily fluids, and the ability to set things on fire with her mind. Jack, blaming himself for the incident, devotes himself to the study of magic in hopes of finding a way to cure Sandra of her transformation, and along the way becomes a powerful archmage and the only hope of restoring magic to the world at large. (Or possibly ''staving off'' a magical apocalypse; Sandra isn't the only demon running around..) And Crystal... well, is Crystal.
Started out as a rather dark gag-a-day strip, but gets afflicted with CerebusSyndrome in record time, as Sandra and the others discover that being transformed into/living with a demon is most emphatically ''not'' all fun and games. By all accounts, this has only made it better, as the storyline takes various twists and turns and the world gradually warps around the protagonist trio, thrusting them into the middle of a veritable supernatural maelstrom that they attract simply by existing in their current states.
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!!''ZebraGirl'' provides examples of:
* AliceAllusion: Mabel, to the point that she may very well ''be'' Alice; white rabbits, falling down holes, misremembering poetry, winning her own thimble in a race ... even her name alludes to a scene where Alice becomes unsure of her identity and wonders if she's a girl she knows instead.
* AlternateUniverse: The "Angels With Dirty Fur" arc, where the gang is trapped in a parallel cartoon universe gone horribly, horribly wrong.
* AnimatedActors: Sam's home universe is built around the trope ... or used to be, anyway.
* TheAtoner: Jack.
* CerebusRetcon: Jack. Fire. [[spoiler:Apparently he thinks he deserves it.]]
** More importantly, he feels it relieves Sandra of her stress and keeps her from falling over the edge.
* CerebusSyndrome (Amazingly, considering how dark the comic began)
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] [[http://www.zebragirl.net/?date=2003-01-17 in this strip]] by Sandra.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mad Mabel from the Subfusc. Implied to be either an imaginary friend or an alternate personality who was shed from someone in the real world, she has trouble making it through a whole thought without several bizarre tangents.
* ColorCodedWizardry: Made even more impressive because the comic is black and white.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Struggling against this is a major part of the series.
* TheDitz: Crystal.
* DroolHello: A variant where the victim is smoking and the monster coughs.
* EnemyWithin: Mr. Chalk, who haunts Sandra's dreams and taunts her with her lost humanity.
* EvilOverlord: Tool.
* FaceHeelTurn: Sandra, one of the very few examples of this with the main character of the strip.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: It took a long time to happen, but this may wind up being Sandra's ultimate fate.
* FullyEmbracedFiend: Sandra pretty much lost this battle once the professor pushed her to it, though there seem to be forces in play that are struggling to remind her of her humanity now that she got sucked into Limbo.
* GenreSavvy: Sam, extremely so; it comes from his time on a TV show.
** The rest of the group has acquired a good supply, as evidenced by how every last one of them guesses Wally's true nature the instant they hear his name.
* GiantMook: [[http://zebragirl.net/?date=2010-08-13 "Iyam a ]][[http://zebragirl.net/?date=2010-09-06 gigantic hired thug."]]
* HairRaisingHare: Black Betty.
** She and Pooka Zin are apparently members of an entire ''species'' of these, the Vorpal Pook.
* HealingFactor: Jack, a side-effect of being constantly fried and healed near the start of the comic.
* HeelFaceTurn: Wally; gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by [[MetaGuy Sam]], who refers to Wally as a "classic 'switch sides' kind of character"
--> '''"Switch sides or I'll kick your ass!"'''
* {{Hellfire}}: Zebra Girl can summon it.
* IronicEcho: "Doesn't it worry you that I'm not worried?"
* KnightInSourArmor: Sam.
* KnightTemplar: Prof. Broadshoulders.
* MetaGuy: Sam, to epic levels.
-->'''Tawny,''' immediately after Sam meets Sanda and Crystal: "God... Next you're going to tell me you've met humans!"
-->'''Sam''': "No."
-->'''Tawny''': "What?"
-->'''Sam''': "I'm not going to do that. The joke where you hypothesize some really unlikely scenario and get more and more specific, not knowing you're exactly describing actual events, while I stand here all awkward from your inexplicable outburst of irony."
* MismatchedEyes: Wally.
* MoodWhiplash: ''And now:'' '''HUMOR!'''
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: They change at will, but only during the night. They can grow to any size while transformed, and discard all excessive mass when turning back, leaving behind a pile of unidentified organic compound.
* PerkyGoth: Crystal, more recently.
* RhymesOnADime: Apparently, Sam has the skill, [[http://www.zebragirl.net/?date=2008-06-13 although he uses it but rarely.]]
* RunningGag: TwoWords: Jack. Fire.
* ScheduleSlip: At this point, it's down to no more than one or, occasionally, two a month. This is not aided by Joe England's predilection for long form comics heavily shaded with crosshatching done with micron pens.
** It eventually went back to a weekly schedule, with the latest arc having a much simpler style.
* ShoutOut: A number of cameos, usually involving the Maginet.
** Hell, that entire arc bears more than a few similarities to ''SerialExperimentsLain'' ... albeit without as much MindScrew.
* SomebodyElsesProblem: This is how Sam goes drinking in bars and nobody even notices he has white fur and rabbit ears.
* SugarApocalypse: What happened to Sam's world.
* StagesOfMonsterGrief
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Invoked by Sam, who is a giant anthropomorphic rabbit. He actually counts on people rationalizing him as a hallucination, some guy in a costume, or whatever they can think up. He has yet to be proven wrong.
** Subverted by Sandra herself, who spends a good portion of the early comics just trying to be able to go out without attracting TOO much attention, settling on what is quite nearly an outright monk's robe with incredibly long sleeves whose hood completely covers her face in shadow. Anyone who DOES get a look at it, she explains away the facial markings as "make-up to cover up burns".
* UrbanFantasy
* WeirdnessMagnet: [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Jack, who states that "magic attracts magic"
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Professor Broadshoulders, who is determined to rid the world of demons, no matter who he has to kill or damn to Hell to do it. [[spoiler:Including himself.]]
* WingedHumanoid: Sandra.
* WhiteGloves: Sam: comes in handy when the werewolves tie him up.
* WorthIt: Approached by a GiantMook, Sandra fights back by throwing hot coffee at his crotch, he then throws her off a roof. [[http://zebragirl.net/?date=2010-10-22 Sandra says it was worth it]].
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''[[http://www.zebragirl.net Zebra Girl]]'' tells the story of three roommates (Sandra, Jack, and Crystal) whose lives are irrevocably transformed when they discover an ancient magical tome in their attic. When the book is slammed shut after an accidental demon-summoning, Sandra finds herself transformed into the eponymous Zebra Girl, a demon with black-and-white striped skin, hooves for feet, long, wicked talons, acidic bodily fluids, and the ability to set things on fire with her mind. Jack, blaming himself for the incident, devotes himself to the study of magic in hopes of finding a way to cure Sandra of her transformation, and along the way becomes a powerful archmage and the only hope of restoring magic to the world at large. (Or possibly ''staving off'' a magical apocalypse; Sandra isn't the only demon running around..) And Crystal... well, is Crystal.
Started out as a rather dark gag-a-day strip, but gets afflicted with CerebusSyndrome in record time, as Sandra and the others discover that being transformed into/living with a demon is most emphatically ''not'' all fun and games. By all accounts, this has only made it better, as the storyline takes various twists and turns and the world gradually warps around the protagonist trio, thrusting them into the middle of a veritable supernatural maelstrom that they attract simply by existing in their current states.
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!!''ZebraGirl'' provides examples of:
* AliceAllusion: Mabel, to the point that she may very well ''be'' Alice; white rabbits, falling down holes, misremembering poetry, winning her own thimble in a race ... even her name alludes to a scene where Alice becomes unsure of her identity and wonders if she's a girl she knows instead.
* AlternateUniverse: The "Angels With Dirty Fur" arc, where the gang is trapped in a parallel cartoon universe gone horribly, horribly wrong.
* AnimatedActors: Sam's home universe is built around the trope ... or used to be, anyway.
* TheAtoner: Jack.
* CerebusRetcon: Jack. Fire. [[spoiler:Apparently he thinks he deserves it.]]
** More importantly, he feels it relieves Sandra of her stress and keeps her from falling over the edge.
* CerebusSyndrome (Amazingly, considering how dark the comic began)
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] [[http://www.zebragirl.net/?date=2003-01-17 in this strip]] by Sandra.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mad Mabel from the Subfusc. Implied to be either an imaginary friend or an alternate personality who was shed from someone in the real world, she has trouble making it through a whole thought without several bizarre tangents.
* ColorCodedWizardry: Made even more impressive because the comic is black and white.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Struggling against this is a major part of the series.
* TheDitz: Crystal.
* DroolHello: A variant where the victim is smoking and the monster coughs.
* EnemyWithin: Mr. Chalk, who haunts Sandra's dreams and taunts her with her lost humanity.
* EvilOverlord: Tool.
* FaceHeelTurn: Sandra, one of the very few examples of this with the main character of the strip.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: It took a long time to happen, but this may wind up being Sandra's ultimate fate.
* FullyEmbracedFiend: Sandra pretty much lost this battle once the professor pushed her to it, though there seem to be forces in play that are struggling to remind her of her humanity now that she got sucked into Limbo.
* GenreSavvy: Sam, extremely so; it comes from his time on a TV show.
** The rest of the group has acquired a good supply, as evidenced by how every last one of them guesses Wally's true nature the instant they hear his name.
* GiantMook: [[http://zebragirl.net/?date=2010-08-13 "Iyam a ]][[http://zebragirl.net/?date=2010-09-06 gigantic hired thug."]]
* HairRaisingHare: Black Betty.
** She and Pooka Zin are apparently members of an entire ''species'' of these, the Vorpal Pook.
* HealingFactor: Jack, a side-effect of being constantly fried and healed near the start of the comic.
* HeelFaceTurn: Wally; gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by [[MetaGuy Sam]], who refers to Wally as a "classic 'switch sides' kind of character"
--> '''"Switch sides or I'll kick your ass!"'''
* {{Hellfire}}: Zebra Girl can summon it.
* IronicEcho: "Doesn't it worry you that I'm not worried?"
* KnightInSourArmor: Sam.
* KnightTemplar: Prof. Broadshoulders.
* MetaGuy: Sam, to epic levels.
-->'''Tawny,''' immediately after Sam meets Sanda and Crystal: "God... Next you're going to tell me you've met humans!"
-->'''Sam''': "No."
-->'''Tawny''': "What?"
-->'''Sam''': "I'm not going to do that. The joke where you hypothesize some really unlikely scenario and get more and more specific, not knowing you're exactly describing actual events, while I stand here all awkward from your inexplicable outburst of irony."
* MismatchedEyes: Wally.
* MoodWhiplash: ''And now:'' '''HUMOR!'''
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: They change at will, but only during the night. They can grow to any size while transformed, and discard all excessive mass when turning back, leaving behind a pile of unidentified organic compound.
* PerkyGoth: Crystal, more recently.
* RhymesOnADime: Apparently, Sam has the skill, [[http://www.zebragirl.net/?date=2008-06-13 although he uses it but rarely.]]
* RunningGag: TwoWords: Jack. Fire.
* ScheduleSlip: At this point, it's down to no more than one or, occasionally, two a month. This is not aided by Joe England's predilection for long form comics heavily shaded with crosshatching done with micron pens.
** It eventually went back to a weekly schedule, with the latest arc having a much simpler style.
* ShoutOut: A number of cameos, usually involving the Maginet.
** Hell, that entire arc bears more than a few similarities to ''SerialExperimentsLain'' ... albeit without as much MindScrew.
* SomebodyElsesProblem: This is how Sam goes drinking in bars and nobody even notices he has white fur and rabbit ears.
* SugarApocalypse: What happened to Sam's world.
* StagesOfMonsterGrief
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Invoked by Sam, who is a giant anthropomorphic rabbit. He actually counts on people rationalizing him as a hallucination, some guy in a costume, or whatever they can think up. He has yet to be proven wrong.
** Subverted by Sandra herself, who spends a good portion of the early comics just trying to be able to go out without attracting TOO much attention, settling on what is quite nearly an outright monk's robe with incredibly long sleeves whose hood completely covers her face in shadow. Anyone who DOES get a look at it, she explains away the facial markings as "make-up to cover up burns".
* UrbanFantasy
* WeirdnessMagnet: [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Jack, who states that "magic attracts magic"
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Professor Broadshoulders, who is determined to rid the world of demons, no matter who he has to kill or damn to Hell to do it. [[spoiler:Including himself.]]
* WingedHumanoid: Sandra.
* WhiteGloves: Sam: comes in handy when the werewolves tie him up.
* WorthIt: Approached by a GiantMook, Sandra fights back by throwing hot coffee at his crotch, he then throws her off a roof. [[http://zebragirl.net/?date=2010-10-22 Sandra says it was worth it]].
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