Line #21 Webcomic/TheLittleTrashmaid


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thelittletrashmaid.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Part of our World]]'']]
3	->''"Short comic strips of a mermaid in the modern days~"''
4	-->--Description on Platform/{{Webtoon}}
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6	''The Little Trashmaid'' is a webcomic created by s0s2. It centres around a mermaid named Tidy, and her interaction with all the pollution and garbage in the ocean as well as her human friends Ricky and Spencer.
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8	Can be found on Platform/{{Webtoon}} [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-little-trashmaid/list?title_no=300138 here]], on Platform/DeviantArt [[https://www.deviantart.com/s0s2/gallery/69385071/the-little-trashmaid here]], and on Platform/TapasMedia [[https://tapas.io/series/The-Little-Trashmaid/info here]].
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12	!!This webcomic provides examples of:
13	* AccidentalKiss: Spencer and Ricky get one when they fall after trying to put a seagull's nest back where it fell from. Both of them are red as tomatoes afterwards.
14	* BarbieDollAnatomy: None of the merpeople have visible nipples. Possibly {{justified\|Trope}} since mermaids might not technically be mammals. They ''do'' have navels though...
15	* {{Bathos}}: A work that deals both with the depressing effects of ocean contamination and a ditzy mermaid that finds fascination with all the trash she finds.
16	* BlandNameProduct: Among the candy wrappers that Tidy uses to spell her name are Twax and Mild, and her wardrobe of plastic-bag tops include brands like 11-Twelve, Malmarkt, [=BestPrice=] and Goal. Her dad wears a Chicken King crown.
17	* BucketHelmet: Tidy wears one of these, and carries a trashcan-lid shield and pitchfork when she goes to fight "Ursula"... who is simply a tangled mass of old fishing nets and other trash.
18	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: On seeing a long-sleeved shirt with a SeashellBra design, Tidy (who wears a bottomless shopping bag as a shirt) proceeds to... use the shirt as a shopping bag.
19	* CuteLittleFangs: Tidy has prominent canine teeth compared to her human friends. [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-little-trashmaid/hooked-part-2/viewer?title_no=300138&episode_no=80 Neptaan]] (the boy merperson) goes straight past this into MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
20	* TheDitz: Tidy isn't the brightest bulb thrown into the ocean. Her reaction to being given a bag with a shirt in it was to wear the bag like a shirt.
21	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The comics up to "Mighty Twine" uploaded to Platform/DeviantArt as well as the animated teaser avert the examples in BlandNameProduct seen above, so Tidy's main top is clearly a 7-Eleven bag, and her father is wearing a Burger King crown.
22	* GreenAesop: A more effective example than most. The comic is based around ocean pollution, and the effects it has on marine life. Ricky gets hit with the realization of how big the issue is when he cuts some twine from Tidy's wrist, only for her to promptly bring more animals for him to cut free... by the time the sun sets he ''still'' hasn't finished.
23	* HammerspaceHair: Tidy's hair [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/the-little-trashmaid/a-straw/viewer?title_no=300138&episode_no=34 can contain a phenomenal amount of trash.]]
24	* ImageSong: Tidy has two of them - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckEqHuE3XhE "Fun in the Ocean"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgivp5k-tfw "Just Wonderin'"]].
25	* ImpossiblePickleJar: [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/the-little-trashmaid/working-out/viewer?title_no=300138&episode_no=32 One strip]] features Tidy working out in order to build the muscle to open a jar. She fails and takes it to Ricky for help, who reveals that she was simply turning it the wrong way.
26	%%* LifeOrLimbDecision: [[spoiler:Trashdad in "bandaid"]].
27	* LuminescentBlush: Spencer's and Ricky's faces are entirely red after their AccidentalKiss.
28	* MonsterOrganTrafficking: Downplayed: After Neptaan loses a tooth, Ricky finds he can make a crapload of money selling them to his classmates (they look like shark teeth), leading to Neptaan having empty gums for a while (fortunately he can grow them back and live on applesauce).
29	* MourningAnObject: When Tidy finds a deflated dolphin floatie sinking in the sea, she mistakes it for an actual dead dolphin and holds a funeral for it.
30	* MundaneObjectAmazement: Tidy would be a firm believer in "One man's trash is another man's treasure" if she knew what "trash" was. A lot of comics are about how Tidy is fascinated by the garbage around her, thinking of them as treasures.
31	* MustHaveNicotine: Tidy gets addicted to ''eating'' cigarette butts due to eating some dumped in the ocean.
32	* OceanPunk: has elements of this, the protagonist is a mermaid living in a polluted ocean who [[ScavengedPunk builds stuff out of human junk]].
33	* PictorialSpeechBubble: When characters speak it's generally shown in this way, since [[LanguageBarrier Tidy doesn't understand English, or perhaps human languages in general]].
34	* RedOniBlueOni: Ricky and Spencer, respectively, and it's reflected in the colors they wear. Ricky tends to have a quicker temper, particularly towards Tidy's cluelessness of human life, while Spencer remains calm and keeps Ricky in check.
35	* RunningGag: Tidy's attempts to sing generally end with a full garbage bag being thrown at her.
36	* ShipperOnDeck: Tidy tries to act as a wingmaid for Ricky and Spencer, much to the former's embarrassment.
37	* SeeWater: Averted. Tidy attempts to get Spencer to help with Neptaan's predicament by dragging him down to the seafloor... which fails because his vision is too blurred to make out what she's showing him.
38	* ShoutOut:
39	** Many to ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', such as the title of the comic, font and all.
40	*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z3U2iZhXdg The teaser for the comic]] is a parody of "Part of Your World" with the wave breaking behind Tidy being full of trash and gasoline.
41	*** Ricky's first meeting with Tidy plays out similarly to that of Eric's first meeting with Ariel. In this case, however, his reaction is to freak out and run away.
42	*** From "Fancy Wardrobe Part 2" to "Gas-o-line", Tidy wears a ''The Little Mermaid'' top.
43	*** The "A Mermaid's Tale" two-parter is about Tidy being shown the movie, and being afraid of Ursula. After seeing the aftermath of Tidy's brawl with an Ursula-shaped heap of trash, Ricky and Spencer decide not to show her [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea the sequel]].
44	* SuperFlyReflexes: Tidy is capable of "spitting" down mosquitos like an Archer Fish.
45	* ThatsNoMoon: Inverted. After being shown ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' on Creator/DisneyPlus, Tidy believes that a large black-and-purple octopus-shaped heap of trash is actually Ursula, and has an intense one-sided off-screen fight with it.
46	* TrashOfTheTitans: The coast Tidy lives near is unbelievably polluted, no matter how often Spencer and Ricky try to clean it up. It doesn't help that people literally fling their trash out the car window as they drive past.
47	* WhamEpisode: "Bandaid". [[spoiler:Trashdad was forced to [[LifeOrLimbDecision break off his tail and caudal fin to get free of the net]] as three pairs of eyes watch on]].

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