History YMMV / PhoebeAndHerUnicorn

* TechnologyMarchesOn:
** Done periodically for a gag, such as when Marigold offers to take Phoebe to a record store. "[[WhatAreRecords What's a record?]]"
** [[http://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2012/11/20 Phoebe finds mom's corded telephone.]]

** Sue, for being hilariously CuteAndPsycho.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: [[http://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2013/05/26 One comic]] involved Phoebe feeding bread to ducks while pointing out that they're more interested in the bread than the rainbow she's sitting on. Many readers pointed out that [[ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare feeding ducks bread is bad for them]], so three years later, Dana released a strip that acknowledges this.

* GirlShowGhetto: The animated adaptation was canned because Nickelodeon said that shows with female protagonists don't sell well to boys. The majority of social media was ''not'' happy about this, and users were able to list dozens of successful shows with female leads, some of which were ''on Nickelodeon''.

* GirlShowGhetto: The animated adaptation was canned because Nickelodeon said that shows with female protagonists don't sell well to boys.

* EnsembleDarkhorse

** Glorpie, a six-legged, three-eyed, dragon/rat hybrid-type creature, is very much this. Phoebe becomes attached to it for this reason.

** Glorpie, a six-legged, three-eyed, dragon/rat hybrid-type creature, is very much this. Phoebe becomes attached to it for this reason.
* WereStillRelevantDammit: The August 2016 arc where Marigold plays a unicorn equivalent of ''VideoGame/PokemonGo''. Thankfully, it only lasted three strips.
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* UglyCute: [[http://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2013/11/02#.Unjx5lP4K1M Goblins]].
** Glorpie, a six-legged, three-eyed, dragon/rat hybrid-type creature, is very much this. Phoebe becomes attached to them for this reason.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Sue, for being hilariously CuteAndPsycho.

* AwesomeEgo: Yes, she can't stop talking about how awesome and beautiful she is, but the fans love her anyway, probably because they agree with her. As Phoebe [[https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2019/02/23 puts it]], "Everybody's got flaws, and there are worse ones than being way too awesome and realizing it."

* CounterpartComparison:
** To ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', according to some comments on Go Comics.com. Personality-wise, Hobbes and Marigold share an endearing sense of kindness mixed with playfulness and a healthy appreciation of themselves, along with a dim view of humanity. That said, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils can allow herself to be seen and admired by humans, whereas Hobbes appears to be purely a figment of Calvin's imagination. And Phoebe isn't nearly as menacing or as bad in school as Calvin; neither does she have Calvin's [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes ridiculous vocabulary]]. The strip itself also isn't quite as political as C&H. (You won't see Phoebe calling her parents communists, for starters.) And Dana Claire Simpson is not even close to being as [[ReclusiveArtist reclusive]] or opposed to licensing as Bill Watterson is famous for. This is also a bit HeartwarmingInHindsight as Watterson had earlier said that he would love to see a popular comic strip for girls created by a woman.
** Not as obvious as the above, but Dakota is comparable to Susie Derkins due to her and Phoebe's love/hate relationship being similar to Calvin and Susie's.
** Incidentally, Dana has admitted that the strip has a unicorn because she was a fan of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
** The comic strip can also be seen as a kid-friendly, non-romantic counterpart of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''. Just with a unicorn buddy instead of a dragon maid.

** Many fans are also ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' fans due to the similarities between the titular characters of each comic, as mentioned above under CounterpartComparison.