Webcomic / Collar 6

Three girls in latex—what are you waiting for?

Collar 6 is an Animesque webcomic based around the exploits of a household made up of two (voluntary) slavegirls named Laura and Ginger, their owner Mistress Sixx, and the twin maids Stella and Claire.

In the comic's first major arc (concluded), Sixx locked horns with her rival, Mistress Butterfly, over Trina, a former domme whom Butterfly had collared. Butterfly used Sixx's anger to bait her into a wager — she would stake Trina; Sixx would stake her own freedom and everything she owned. Sixx was victorious, but along with revelations about Laura's past, she soon learned that Butterfly's plans involved far more than just the fate of one woman...

The second major story arc (ongoing) sees Trina happy in her place as Sixx's third personal slave. But the rivalry with Butterfly has not yet been concluded, and Sixx may have acquired the unwanted attention of the mysterious Mistress Black Stone.

The comic's official update-schedule has fluctuated over the years, but it has managed to avoid falling into serious Schedule Slip.

While it originated as a technically worksafe series, later pages (and the page ads) have contained nudity, so it is now definitely Not Safe for Work.

Also contains a side story, Owned, about a fairly inexperienced male submissive who wakes up to discover he has signed a slave contract with an equally inexperienced domme. Updates far more irregularly than the main comic.

The comic's original website went down due a sustained DDoS attack, forcing the strip to move to its second home on Tumblr, with the original address acting as a redirect.

In August 2018, it was announced the comic would be on an indefinite hiatus due to money issues and artistic burnout.

In December 2018, with Tumblr's ban on NSFW content, the archive was wiped. It is now on Patreon, DeviantArt, and Pixiv.

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Collar 6 provides examples of:

• Abnormal Ammo: The guns used by Phantoms fire energy bolts made out of dominant energy.
• Absurdly High-Stakes Game: If Sixx loses her bet with Butterfly, all of her titles and assets (which are ... significant) are transferred to Butterfly and she becomes Butterfly's slave.
• Accidental Marriage: The side-story "Owned" revolves around this — a man agreed to a slave contract but doesn't remember it due to head trauma. The Mistress (who apparently knows him / lives near him) is holding him to it. Complicating matters is that he admits, begrudgingly, that he was always too afraid to explore his submissive side and the fact that he is the Mistress's first ever slave. They reconcile and decide to give their future together a chance.
• Achievements in Ignorance:
  • Trina flat out states that Laura shouldn't be able to enter subspace to help Sixx, as she's not a high enough level slave. Laura then calls the idea of a "slave level" absurd and said she she just did it, and had no idea doing so was impossible.
  • And again as Laura fights Butterfly, halting her apparently effortlessly while declaring that none of it makes sense but it doesn't matter, because Butterfly isn't going to hurt anyone else.
• Advanced Ancient Humans: The Atlanteans were this, but wound up causing their own destruction when they tried to take over the rest of the world. The people of Sybion and Michael Kappel's homeland of Zhenvok, as well as many of the other "Puritan" colonies, are descended from them.
• All Girls Like Ponies: Laura is quite enthusiastic (no, not like that) about going to the rubberpony ranch.
• All Men Are Perverts: It's that kind of world.
• All There in the Manual: The “about” section of the Web site explains where the story is taking place, though Word of God is that that's no longer the setting and he'll change it when he gets the time.
• All Women Are Lustful: But of course.
• Alternate Continuity: Crimson Latex.
• Alternate History: C6's history split off from our when the Roman Empire discovered Atlantis — and, more importantly, a hidden repository of sexual magic research therein..
• Anachronism Stew: Owned mentions the Cold War; including the Cuban Missile Crisis; a situation that directly stemmed from the American and USSR proliferation and stockpiling of atomic weaponry following World War II, which itself wouldn't have happened without World War I, despite the setting not having out-and-out armed conflict.
  • SS-style military uniforms (or at least crusher caps) are often used in dominance play. Without Those Wacky Nazis going out and being terrible, terrible people while wearing such outfits, they shouldn't be associated with oppression in the popular consiousness.
  • Despite war being unheard-of in the setting, countries still have militaries and people know what a "bunker-buster" is.
• Ancient Conspiracy: Xor-Talatia has been physically poisoning the world for centuries.
• Art Evolution: From black and white to color. Furthermore, there has definitely been a gradual improvement in style, as the art became far more detailed.
• Artistic License – Biology: Set up in-world — on Sybion, it is assumed to be the woman's fault if she does not produce a male child, even though only the man can contribute the Y-chromosome necessary to make this happen. This is deliberate, since on Sybion men are held to be above reproach.
• Artistic License – Gun Safety: Two people should not be shooting at a target that's in between them. The Rule of Cool is what keeps them safe.
• As Lethal as It Needs to Be: A lot of weapons, like the Phantoms' guns, operate on sexual power, so the amount of damage they do is based on the emotional energy of the user. When one Phantom blasts a target with two rounds in a moment of overwhelming anger yet merely stuns her, another character compliments him on his restraint.
• Ass Shove: Done in Guest Strip Pride #2. (SFW)
  • A disturbing example is implied in the last panel of #261.
• As You Know: Crops up now and then, usually for a quick explanation or two.
• Atlantis: Apparently, the origin of some of the methods of using sexual prowess for spiritual powers. Also the source of the strip's true Big Bad.
• Author Appeal
• Author Avatar: Wolf has said that Gary is her expy.
• Awesome, but Impractical: People in this world apparently live much of their lives in bondage/fetish gear like corsets, latex bodysuits, and ballet boots.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: Averted, in that nipples are clearly visible on topless characters, and played straight in that whenever a bare crotch is shown there is usually no pubic hair, though there is some anatomical detail.
• Barrier Warrior: Laura.
• Batman Gambit: While it wasn't set up intentionally, Trina realizes that Michelle would never let Butterfly take Laura alone.
• Beach Episode: Not in the story yet, but Wolf did make a voting incentive of Sixx on the beach.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Fortunately averted. All the characters who were brutalized in the past have emerged with their spirits and consciences intact. Even Trina.
• Big Bad: First Mistress Butterfly, then her husband Michael Kappel. And then it's revealed that Butterfly had been possessed by the real Big Bad, a malevolent Atlantean spirit, the entire time.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Laura showing up to save Sixx in the middle of Subspace, something that should have been impossible.
  • Then, when when Trina tries to stop Laura, Ginger decks her out of the blue.
• Big "YES!": Ginger invokes said trope.
• Blank White Eyes: Indicate that a character is using hypnomancy, under hypnomancy, or is otherwise entranced.
• Blood from the Mouth: Bleeding from the mouth (or nose) seems to be shorthand for a serious or life-threatening injury, as opposed to the sexy or Amusing Injuries that go with this world's version of BDSM.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Atlantean philosophies seem to have left the people in this world with a very different system of morality than we have in this world, specifically giving much greater autonomy in terms of what people can and can't consent to. For instance, slave contracts (purely symbolic in Real Life BDSM) seem to give actual legal ownership of the "slave" to the "owner," even to the point of allowing the owner to wager the slave (although this is clearly seen as something of an abuse of power). Furthermore, there seems to be less reliance on rule of law as opposed to retribution, and it turns out that Sixx is the authority. As one of the Nine Head Mistresses of the Association that controls the North America, she admittedly makes the laws there.

• Brains and Bondage: The aforementioned two months where the characters ponder their relations and implications.
• Break the Cutie:
  • Sort of done with Laura, although she volunteered for a BDSM relationship, and the experience leaves her far more mature.

• After being captured by Buterfly's minions Laura is put through another serious example at the hands of Evita Kappel. (strip 255#)

• Breather Episode: After the events of the first main arc, a domme trying to break other dommes into unwilling Rubber Ponies almost seems harmless and cute.
• Brick Joke:
  • Gary, a guy who hit on Laura in the 6th strip, shows up again 176 STRIPS LATER!!!
  • And then again another 700 strips later!

• Brother–Sister Incest: Anya's backstory is that her master wanted to watch her have sex with her sister. When she refused, she was handed over to the Order of Denial to be tortured until she changed her mind.

• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Sixx is the owner of an incredibly successful chain of hotels even with her unconventional (by real world standards) habits.
• Call-Back: In case you are wondering what Sixx meant in strip 146, it refers to that one time when she thought Laura used her misguided anger at Ginger to shield herself from the pain of the spanking Sixx gave to her: apparently, it wasn't just anger that protected her.
• Call-Forward: The Mr. Black that helped Laura is Michael Kappel!
• Calling the Old Woman Out: Sixx would like to have a few words with her mother.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Halo!
• Casual Kink: Well, it's that kind of world.
• Cast from Hit Points: Physical injury can also be a source of power. The Order of Denial got its start as the relatively benign "Worshipers of Blood", whose adherents learned to use pain to call on their dominant energy.
• Cast Full of Gay: Though the comic rarely (if ever) touches upon the subject of sexual orientation, it's hard not to notice that most of the dom-sub pairings are same-sex.
• Cat Girl: Linda unwillingly becomes the new house Rubber Kitty, complete with an enchanted cat suit that 'encourages' feline behavior.
• Cerebus Retcon: 978-983 give a little backstory to the first arc and show that some of the Early-Installment Weirdness was Sixx's mishandled way of coping with the stress of her new position as Head Mistress.
• Cerebus Rollercoaster: Sort of. The series started out with gags, then had everyone sit down and spend two months of real time talking about their relationship problems and after that just sort of alternated between silly and serious as called for.
• Chained by Fashion: Not many actual chains, but several characters wear clothing which is padlocked on.
• Character Level: Apparently the Association does this, but Laura just says "What is this, a videogame?"
• Cheated Angle: A lot of the strip's hairstyles, especially those with a large shock of bangs.
• Cheeky Mouth
• Chekhov's Gun: The paixao riaz link that featured prominently in the spanking contest returns at the end of the first major arc. (And since the beginning of the second major arc mentions it almost immediately, we're sure to see it again).
• The Chew Toy:
  • Laura... and she wants it that way.
  • Also Gary, who thinks being hit in the face by a hot chick with an iron paddle is the best thing ever.
• Cleavage Window: Part of Butterfly's outfit. Sixx's Slave Girls also frequently wear catsuits in public with these.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Laura when she sees that Sixx already has a hot slavegirl at home. (The same can be said of said hot slavegirl, Ginger). Becomes much more sympathetic when we learn that Laura escaped from a world where the rich and powerful all collect huge harems.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Anyone puts into the hands of the Order of Denial has been through this, but they are far from the only ones.
• Color-Coded Characters: All the women wear latex, but the colors are mostly unique.
• Combined Energy Attack: This strip.
• Compressed Hair: See Sixx's hair in the page image? When down in a ponytail, it reaches at least to the back of her knees.
• Conveniently Common Kink: The whole planet is run by BDSM organizations.
• Cooking Duel: A spanking contest.
• Cooldown Hug: Well, kinda. Laura administers a hug to Sixx to help her overcome the Butterfly's Mind Breaker effects. Since it takes place in Subspace, it may also count as a Mind Hug.
• Corrupt Church: The Order of Denial started as form of channeling power through Blood Magic (since it was the user's own blood, it was relatively benign). Over time it became just a torture franchise with a religious veneer.
• Corrupt the Cutie: Apparently what happened with Butterfly/Evita Kappel.
• Crapsack World: Averted for the first few hundred strips, where the setting is an innocent Fetish-Fuel Future. And then all sorts of shit gradually hits all sorts of fans, as it is gradually revealed that all governments are locked in a cold war where they are busy murdering and otherwise victimizing innocent people while secretly preparing for genocidal global war... oh, and the whole world is being spiritually poisoned by a demon of bigotry. The more despicable aspects of the governments may or may not have ended with the vanquishing of said demon.
• Crazy-Prepared: Butterfly arrives at the spanking contest with a Dangerous Forbidden Technique designed to break Sixx (even though she didn't know she'd be facing Sixx in the spanking contest) and a smoke bomb for a quick escape.
  • Slightly Lampshaded: Sixx breaks a paddle on Laura's behind.....and breaks out a bigger paddle, much to the chagrin of Laura.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Laura. Oh, so very much Laura.
• Culture Equals Costume: In Sixx's exposition of world history to Laura, the (North American) Global Dominance Association is represented by a blond girl in jeans, the Mesoamerican Union by a girl in a flouncy flamenco dress, the (European) Enlightenment Alliance by a girl in Hellenistic-revival getup, the (Russian) People's Republic of Restriction by a girl in a Soviet-style uniform, and China by a girl in a Qipao.
• Curtains Match the Window: Ginger and Mistress Sardonyx.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Michelle's parents, at least as far as her mother seems to think. Her father was killed by an anti-Atlantean faction, and her mother became a government Phantom to protect the world she wanted her daughter to grow up in.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: There are some Atlantean secrets that corrupt the soul just by attempting them, and others that can be used only with great restraint.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Sheesh. It's almost a competition between the characters, especially the minor ones, to see who wins the Most Wretched Backstory award.
• Decompressed Comic: Generally uses about three or four widescreen panels to a strip, so entire weeks can be focused on establishing setting.
• Demonic Possession: Essentially what happened to Butterfly/Evita.
• Determinator: Laura, especially when defending her Mistress.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Butterfly wants to destroy Sixx by any means necessary. Even one of her personal slaves calls her anger "unreasonable." It seems that nothing could possibly justify that kind of hatred, but when everything finally comes to light, we see that Butterfly hates Michelle because of her mother Nora, who captured Michael Kappel, nearly murdered Evita with no provocation, and represents everything wrong with the current world government.
• Does Not Like Men: Laura. Abundantly justified, given her upbringing (though she probably would have preferred women anyway).
• Dominatrix: A fairly common job title in this setting.
• Don't Try This at Home: The comic has warnings that this is a fantasy world, not a guide on BDSM safety.
• Dressed All in Rubber. And latex. And PVC. And leather. And fishnet. And...
• Dumb Blonde: Laura is painfully naive about the world in general and her new role as a slave in particular. Justified by the fact that she grew up in an isolated colony which attempted to keep women from learning anything about sexual power.
• Elemental Powers: Someone manifesting his or her dominant spirit can generate these, particularly fire.
• Emotional Powers: According to Sixx, the only way to express sexual energies as magic is to relax the conscious mind through bondage play and let the subconscious have more control. But then we meet others who can use theirs consciously and on command...
• Empty Eyes: Indicate that the conscious mind isn't 'on' for various reasons. Laura and Ginger get them when forced into subspace by Butterfly; Michael Kappel gets them in his Heroic BSoD; Gunther gets them when trying to remember the more traumatic parts of his Training from Hell.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Mistress Butterfly's personal slaves adore her and she seems to love them genuinely. It turns out that the Butterfly they love is not exactly the same as the Butterfly we know..
• Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Laura's personal slave collar has a band of real gold. Ginger's looks similar but is green. Trina's is black.
• Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: A somewhat necessary evil for the audience, given the unique mechanics behind power-ups and special attacks in this world.
• Exposition Beam: Michael Kappel is fond of getting information across by simply showing others his memories. It's very effective, if somewhat jarring.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Mainly in flashbacks, where the past versions of the characters usually have much shorter hair than the present-day ones.
• The Extremist Was Right: Michael Kappel made the world a vastly better place by performing the World Revolutionizer, though he underestimated the nature of the real enemy and needed our heroes to save the day.
• The Faceless: The Judiciatrix seen in the comic wears a face shield with only a single red eye visible until it breaks.
• Failure Hero: In the second half of the first major arc. The heroes never win a fight, either getting captured or interrupted until they're lead to the next area, and the only reason they didn't spend the entire time imprisoned after the first capture was due to their maids bailing them out. By the end of it, if the plot didn't require Laura being kidnapped and a new villain popping up, they could have just stayed home and everything would have been better.
• Fantastic Firearms: Secret agents utilize Soul Powered firearms modulated by their wielder's emotions to fire orbs of pure Domme energy at enemies. Regular guns were invented some time in the past, but were outlawed for being "barbaric."
• Fantasy Gun Control: Due to the world having achieved everlasting peace, all guns have been banned from public use since the 1900s.
• Fiery Redhead: Sixx. Her surname also heavily implies that she's Irish.
• Filler Strips: For Wolf's 1-week hiatus, done by Pride-kun.
• Flat "What": Sixx tries to break in her new slave with some heavy duty spanking. Her riding crop breaks.
• Free-Love Future: The setting of the comic, where the discovery of lost Atlantean sexual magic techniques meant that sexual energy became the natural resource every country wanted to develop. The Earth is now governed by five major world powers, each with their own take on things.
  • "Puritan" territories, such as Sybion, are the exception. Sexuality is feared there, stolen from the many for the benefit of a few, or both. Most of the main populace finds them hopelessly backward and laughable. Some of them encourage this, since they are lost descendants of the Atlanteans and being ignored by the rest of the world helps them keep their own sexual secrets.
• Gender Rarity Value: Sybion women are taught to revere the men as gods.
• Genius Bruiser: Sixx. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of several obscure topics, manages a hotel chain, and can knock grown men off their feet.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself, Mistress
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: In universe, Anya's former master certainly thought so. When Anya refused to fuck her own sister they contracted her out to be brainwashed.
• Go-Go Enslavement: One of the first things a Dom will do to a captive is put him or her in an outfit that is more to the Dom's liking, as demonstrated here. Justified, since sexual dominance is power, and forcing someone to dress as you choose gives you the advantage from the start. Further justified since some clothing is enchanted to defend or control its wearer.
• Good Colors, Evil Colors: Done to a degree with different colors of latex. Notably, orange seems to be evil (although we've only seen one "evil" character so far).
• Go Through Me: Both Ginger and Laura for Sixx.
• Graying Morality: It's all fairly black and white at first, but then out come the backstories and government history and it gets all complicated.
• Gunship Rescue: Saves Butterfly in strip #275. And it's epic.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Laura may be naive, but she has a pure heart.
• Happiness in Slavery: Basically every slave other than Trina. Actually, it turns out Trina too, but only due to getting smiles painted on her soul. THEN it gets played straight for her too, since Sixx lets Trina become her third Slave after the first major arc, allowing Trina a level of happiness she'd never had
• Heir Club for Men: The island of Sybion, with the expected blaming of the women who fail to produce a male child.
• Heroic BSoD: Sixx, after hearing that the Association is one of the Order of Denial's clients.
• Hidden Eyes: Characters under emotional stress show this, particularly Trina.
• Hitchhiker Heroes: The Kappels became this after fleeing Italy, traveling in search of Atlantean knowledge and picking up followers here and there, including two personal slaves.
• I Have Your Wife: Butterfly goes through a chain of these. First, she takes Trina to bait Sixx. When that fails, she sends her slaves to kidnap Laura. Then when Sixx (and her mother) come to the rescue, she captures them. Finally, she uses her hold on Sixx to force Nora O'Carroll to give up the location of Michael Kappel.
  • Fittingly, Butterfly is Evita Kappel, who feels the Association started this by taking her husband.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Ginger's feelings towards Sixx, though she turns out to be Not So Stoic.
  • Trina tried to concede the field when she learned that Sixx was taking Laura as her first personal slave. But then she made a deal with Mistress Butterfly, who 'convinced' her that Sixx would be happiest as Butterfly's slave.
• I Will Find You: The nobler side of Mistress Butterfly's motivation — to get her beloved husband back.
• Improbably Female Cast: It was November 2010 before a named male character appeared in the comic. When five of them finally appeared, they turned out to be the members of a Voyeur Club who amuse themselves by ogling Mistresses and slaves. Later, Buttefly's third slave is revealed to be a man named Gunther who has a major role in breaking into the complex holding Michael Kappel and Nora O'Carroll's partner in the Phantoms is a man named Cypress.
  • "Owned" revolves around an unnamed male waking up to discover that he accidentally got "married" to a domina. Further playing with the formula, she's just as inexperienced as he is.
• Info Dump: Here and there. The last act of the first main arc was full of them, though the longest one (Michael Kappel's backstory) was delivered mind-to-mind and apparently took only an instant of real time.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Used by Michelle on a captive to gain an advantage in the spank-off.
• Jerkass: Butterfly.
• Jumping-On Point: Strip #684 (A New Day and a New World), is the beginning of the second major arc, whatever that will be.
• Ki Manipulation: Dominant and submissive spirits, which can only protect against other Ki Manipulation. Except for Laura, whose Submissive Spirit manifests as a physical shield when she's upset.
• King Incognito: Sixx hasn't told many people about her wealth so as not to come across as a spoiled rich woman.
  Laura: But... I thought you said you worked in a hotel? How can you afford this?!
  Sixx: I said I worked in the hotel business. By which I meant I own a few...hundred.
• Kinky Spanking: It's a webcomic about S&M, so it appears as often as is expected.
• Large and in Charge: Word of God says that dominants are taller than submissives.
• Layman's Terms: An occasional end-of-panel gag is to have one character bluntly sum up another character's technical or tactful explanation, resulting in shocked or annoyed looks from the others.
• Legacy Character: Michelle inherited the title of Mistress Sixx from her mother, though she had to demonstrate her dominant qualifications to the other Head Mistresses.
• Lensman Arms Race: Even though the world is officially at peace, each of the five major political powers is quietly trying to discover lost Atlantean sexual techniques that will give it the edge over the others. Anyone who finds out about this is discredited, mind-wiped, or even Killed to Uphold the Masquerade.
• Loophole Abuse: How Sixx plans to win the bet. Sixx, aka Michelle, surrendered her title as Mistress Sixx to Laura, then became Laura's slave so that she will face the spanking. All of her debts and agreements transferred to Laura. Mistress Butterfly, who had never realized this was a possibility, was stunned.
  • Subverted in the same event, since Sixx had taken Ginger as a second personal slave. Both Butterfly and the audience expected Sixx to exploit that loophole — the audience because we've seen it; Butterfly because she had bugged Sixx's house.
• Lost Him in a Card Game: Sixx and Butterfly's wager. If Sixx wins, Butterfly surrenders Trina; if Butterfly wins, Sixx surrenders herself to Butterfly.
• Love Makes You Evil: Both Trina and Butterfly show signs of this, if only because it makes them each desperate enough to do anything that will get her closer to her loved one.
• Magnetic Hero: Sixx, and probably Michael and Evita Kappel as well.
• Master of Disguise: Evita Kappel. Looking at her in strip #254 its almost impossible to tell that's Mistress Butterfly
• Master of None: Strip #202 mentions that switches — persons who can just as easily be dom or sub — tend to be weaker than those who specialize.
• Meaningful Rename: Several characters take new names for themselves, especially when the name they had before wasn't really a name (e.g. Gunther was "Project Vojna").
• Meido/French Maid: First Ginger, now Stella and Claire.
• Mind-Control Eyes: Laura while under Butterfly's control.
• Moment Killer: Expertly demonstrated by Claire.
• Mother Russia Makes You Strong: Strip 160 reveals that Michelle's superhuman Ninja Maids served a Russian tsar before. Obviously. It's also stated that even Russian subs tend to have a bit of a dominant streak.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Spanking contest!
• My God, What Have I Done?: When Sixx realized that she’d been pitting Laura and Ginger against each other, and was wrong to have done so much to Laura without getting her informed consent first.
  • Retconned... sorta. Sixx later admits it was an intentional (and admittedly poorly thought out) attempt to test Laura for a mythological super-submissive power. When Laura appeared to not have it, Sixx regretted her actions. Turns out Laura does have a special power, in the form of a shield, which Sixx successfully reveals by forcing Laura into a bout of BDSM-meets-Exhibitionism in front of a gaggle of perverted losers in the park... the same ones from the first few pages of the comic.
• Mysterious Past:
  • All the characters to an extent (the author milked the fact that we didn't know that much about their past to create suspicion that there might be a traitor), now being fully played up with Butterfly, who as it turns out has only been in the Association for two years, Michelle has no idea who she is, and for some reason wants revenge against Michelle.
  • Laura has this too. Only it's even more so than before — Laura has nearly no official history, and is openly unable to explain where she grew up, even what country she lived in before moving to the BDSM dominated area. Later on, it's covered, and fully explained. Laura lived in a "Puritan Territory" called Sybion north of the Azores (literally the middle of nowhere), where the women were never taught about their sexual energy because otherwise they would take over the island and probably enslave the powerless men.
• Neglectful Precursors: The Atlanteans left the world no clear guide for the use of sexual energy — everyone else had to pick the knowledge out from the remains of their library, and a great deal was lost.
  • Abusive Precursors: But then we learn that they didn't want anyone but themselves to know the power of sexual energy.
• Ninja Maid: Sixx's new maids are perfectly capable of apprehending a trained intelligence agent. Ginger knows how to throw a punch, too.
• No Endor Holocaust: Michael's power apparently has people at a distance just run on auto-pilot while its power take place, as opposed to others in close proximity who fall into a trance.
• No-Sell: Some techniques exploit a person's submissive energy. These have no effect on characters who are purely dominant (e.g. Sixx). (Presumably there are dominance techniques that would fail against a pure submissive as well).
• Not Brainwashed: Trina claims that she took Butterfly's collar willingly. She did make the initial deal freely (if under emotional stress), but Butterfly then exploited her fear of sharp objects to break her and then applied enough brainwashing to make Trina willing to do anything she wanted, including handing over information that would make it easier to break Sixx.
• Not in the Face!: Word for word. One of the rare cases where the character ends up NOT getting hit in the face.
• "Not So Different" Remark: As the first major arc wraps up, Michael Kappel wonders if he was no better than his ancestors. Laura is the one to disagree.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Butterfly in spades! Compare her early appearances where she seemed simply bitchy to the sheer nightmare she becomes. And then the reader learns why she's the way she is..
• No Woman's Land: Sybion of the Puritan Territories, which among other things has the Marital Rape License as the norm.
• Nun Too Holy: The Order of Denial, which, amongst other things were professional torture technicians, brainwashers, and nonconsensual slavers.
• Oddly Common Rarity: Purely dominant (or submissive) souls are supposedly so rare that only a handful exist in the entire world. At the climax of the first major arc, four of them are standing in the same room. Possibly justified, since two of them are special agents who were chosen for that mission because they have pure souls and one of them is the mother of the third person.
• Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: Averted. Michael Kappel's backstory nicely explains where all the equipment and henchmen came from.
• Oh, Crap!: Trina after Sixx pulls a switcheroo at the spanking context, and pretty much everyone (except Laura) who is unfortunate to go up against Butterfly afterward.
  • Gingers reaction when Butterfly summons a whole lot of armed backup, And again when she finds herself forcibly pushed into subspace.
  • Alice and Anya's reaction when Sixx's maid shows up, to take her mistress home.
  • Xor-Talatia when Sixx comes up with the idea of revealing his Evil Plan to literally everybody in the entire world.
• One-Hour Work Week: Michelle talks about her overwhelming responsibilities as Mistress Sixx, but we never see her do any of them.
• One-Way Visor: The Judicatrix
• Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: The unnamed male character in Owned, who always wanted to enter a submissive relationship but was always too scared of the implications to do so. He opened up to a dominant woman^note who it is implied he knows or lives in the same building as, who enters into a slave contract with him. Unfortunately, immediately afterwards he walks into a metal bar, causing him to forget the entire evening. It's then shown on page 4 that she's no different — he's her first submissive, too.
• Personality Powers: On a deeper level than this trope tends to go: your inner drives and instincts dictate whether your spiritual energy comes out as aggressive dominant powers or defensive submissive powers.
• Pet the Dog: Butterfly may be a horrible bitch, but her two rescued slave girls love her.
• Planet of Hats: BDSM is the main theme of the planet.
• Playing with Fire: Butterfly. Surprisingly a villain example who is not a Pyromaniac.
  • Trina as well.
• Power Limiter: The suits worn by the women of Sybion.
• Potty Emergency: Conversed in Strip 84.
  Butterfly: How long have you been immobilized now, slut?
  Trina: Twelve hours, mistress.
  Butterfly: Oh my, I bet you're just dying to have a stretch. [...] I hope you didn't have a lot of water beforehand, either.
• Prehensile Hair: The Judiciatrix's metal ponytail. The Judiciatrix we see out of uniform has much shorter hair, but Word of God says that Judiciatrices can change the length of their hair at will (as can Sixx, since she's had some training).
• Property of Love: ...virtually all tropes related to BDSM at any level apply to this comic, let's just leave it at that.
• Psychoactive Powers: Laura's shield technique seems to work only when she's angry.
• Rank Inflation: According to strip 157, the Association ranks the Mistresses by their power. Butterfly was originally believed to be grade D, but recent strips revealed her being well over S.
• Red Mage: Although they're called "Switches." Some people can harness Dominant and Submissive magics equally. However, true to the Red Mage trope, they can't harness either to their fullest potential.
• The Rival: Laura/Ginger, Sixx/Butterfly.
• Safe Word: "Halo" for Laura and "ginger ale" for Ginger. Sixx, aka Michelle, has one, but we don't know it yet. In a Guest Strip "Red" was used by a girl who may or may not be Trina, but ignored by Butterfly (who was clearly identified by her insignia).
• Scars Are Forever: Alice has a wicked set of scars (strip #306) on her back, from her time being held by The Order of Denial. Anya has them as well, though hers are a bit... lower down (strip #325).
• Seme/Uke: Discussed in terms of dominant and submissive spirits, but it's also acknowledged (#202) that it's very rare for anyone to be completely dominant or completely submissive, and the real life concept of switches is discussed.
• Sealed Evil in a Can/Sealed Good in a Can: Michael Kappel, being held in suspended animation. The government believes he will destroy the world, while his followers believe that he will save it. Michael himself isn't sure whether he'll be the savior or destroyer, and as much as he wants to be the savior he knows he could be either of them.
• Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: Subverted, since pretty much everyone dresses the same. If anything, the villains are slightly more covered.
• Serious Business: The Association — short for the Global Dominance Association — is a BDSM society and the North American government. Everyone in its employ is both a government official and a dominant or submissive in a world where sexual dominance and submission include certain supernatural abilities. Without regulation, that's a recipe for super-villainy. Even with regulation, there are certain individuals who end up going that way anyways.
• Shock and Awe: "Electroplay" is just another tool in a Dominant's arsenal. When Ginger reveals a secret fetish for shockplay, Butterfly uses this knowledge to forcibly send her into subspace.
• Shout-Out:
  • Judiciatricies look a lot like Elite Combine.
  • There are Pokémon Centers with a BDSM logo instead of a Pokeball.
  • The pistol to Butterfly's head looks an awful lot like a bolter.
• Sister-Sister Incest: Anya's master wanted to watch her have sex with her sister. She refused.
• Slapstick: Amusing Injuries for everyone!
• Slasher Smile: Butterfly throws some very scary ones after showing her true colours.
• Slave Collar: Nearly everyone wears collars, whether for fetish or fashion. The collar of a personal slave is considered the mark of a permanent commitment, like a wedding ring.
• Smoke Out: When the Spanking Contest goes awry, Butterfly makes her exit with a smoke bomb.
• Soul Power: Magic requires one to utilize their soul to affect reality. The reason for the S&M Fetish-Fuel Future is because everyone's soul is either Dominant or Submissive in some way, dictating wether they're a sadist or a masochist, and the easiest way to achieve communion with it is to embrace a sexual fetish to relax the mind, then perform a ritual to impress upon the soul what they want to happen. These rituals often take the form of S&M play.
• Stealth Pun: North America is home to the "Global Dominance Association". Think about it for a second.
• Spiritual Successor: To Wolf's previous comic, Crimson Latex. The two share some characters, but continuity was completely rebooted, and the style is very different. Furthermore, the personalities were far different, with Stella (called "Stellvia") showing a personality much more like Ginger's (Ginger not yet existing), Claire (called Eclair) seeming to hate Stella, and Laura not being nearly as freaked out by the extremes of her new life.
• Stockholm Syndrome: Trina. Or is it?
• Stealth Pun: "Brace yourselves, slaves."
• Strip Buffer: Wolf was working without one, but has recently gotten ahead.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Michelle and her mother, which partially explains why Butterfly hates her so much.
• Sudden Anatomy:
  • Character irises, which are usually just colored circles with a large white highlight, lose the highlight and gain a black pupil when the character is showing his or her dominant spirit.
  • On page 799, the characters were drawn with visible lips, but Wolf must have disliked the effect because she phased it out after about ten strips.
• Super-Deformed: Frequent, sometimes giving hints at characterization — for example, the mistress in Owned looks downright evil... until you see her Chibi form, which is fairly attractive.
• Supernatural Sensitivity: Some characters have the power to see others' sexual auras. Crosses over with The Empath, since emotions also color the aura.
• Sympathetic Sentient Weapon: The People's Republic of Restriction had (has?) a program designed to turn unwanted youngsters into these. (Ostensibly they're Super Soldiers, but since their training is both hellish and depersonalizing, it fits this trope.)
• Take a Third Option: Instead of sending Laura or Ginger into the spanking contest, Sixx sent herself!
• Take That!: Sixx sums up Laura's description of Sybion's religion and culture as, "Yep, that sounds like a male-oriented religious society alright..."
• Talking Is a Free Action: Lots of mid-battle banter going on there.
• Time Skip: It was more or less a necessity. The first year worth of strips took up a single day, and the contest was three weeks off. So, we got a Training Montage.
• Torture Technicians: The Order of Denial, an isolated monastic quasi-religious order which believes that pain is worship. They make money by breaking people of unwanted habits and behaviors — with no real quibbles about the specifics as long as the client is willing to pay.
• Training from Hell: Well, being trained in pain tolerance is pretty much always going to fall under this category.
• Training Montage: Timeskipping to the spanking contest.
• True Companions: Laura, Ginger, and Sixx, after an initial period of suspicion. This later expands as the whole Sixx household becomes Fire-Forged Friends. (And also proves to be true of the Butterfly household, for similar reasons).
• Unequal Rites: Defied. Dominant and Submissive magics work together like cogwheels, and certain rare individual can do both. However, psionics and Blood Magic, which the Big Bad and The Dragon specialize in, are outright considered impossible, as opposed to the soul-based Dom/Sub magic types.
• Unholy Matrimony: The Kappels appear to be an example of this when first introduced, but it turns out the truth is rather more complex.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Laura has enormous submissive energy but has never been taught how to use it.
• Unobtainium: Paixao riaz, a powerful herb which is incredibly rare.
• Unreliable Narrator: Trina and Butterfly have given mutually exclusive versions of events leading up to the spanking contest. Word of God has confirmed that that both stories were correct: Trina did take Butterfly's collar willingly, but Butterfly broke her with torture nonetheless, just because she is a bitch like that.
• Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Refreshingly subverted when Laura finds out that Alice is a trans woman, and instead of it being played for laughs or for shock value, Laura affirms Alice's identity as a woman.
• Vague Age: The main cast looks about 18-28. Michael Kappel is the only one with a stated age (he is said to be 35 in a flashback that happened about five years before the comic began), and Sixx's mother can safely be assumed to be somewhere in her forties.
• Villains Out Shopping: Well, Mistress out taking her slave for a walk.
• Wall of Text: The Order of Denial priest, by his own admission, has a tendency to ramble during his info-dumps.
• Webcomic Time: The five minutes of the spanking contest took several months of real time. The forum goers humorously compared the timespan to that of the destruction of Planet Namek. Even the author joked about having Frieza cameo as a form of Lampshade Hanging.
  • Exaggerated with Michael Kappel giving his backstory to the heroes, which is said to take no more then an instant to those who experienced it, but took well over a hundred strips to detail.
  • Not counting the three weeks between Butterfly's initial challenge and the spanking contest, the events of the first arc took about three days of comic time, six years of real time.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Michael Kappel and his followers.
• Wham Line: Strip #1080 reveals an old nemesis isn't as gone as the characters thought.
  Ginger: Who's outside?
  Sixx: XOR!!!
• Whatevermancy: Rubbermancy, hypnomancy, and doubtless we'll learn of other arts in the same theme.
• Whip of Dominance: A riding crop is a standard-issue sexual weapon for the Dominatrix characters, and in one scene Sixx uses an actual whip.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Often, usually to indicate surprise, fear, or as part of your run-of-the-mill Face Fault. When paired with glowing eyes, these indicate a character going into Subspace or otherwise manifesting the Submissive Spirit.
  • The "abject horror" version appears in #210, when Sixx realizes just what kind of home life Laura experienced in the "Puritan territory" she grew up in.
• Worf Effect: The Judicatrix seems to have been introduced as an implacable enforcer for the Association exclusively for the purpose of being beaten by Butterfly, showing off the latter's strength.
  • Happens again to Madame Crimson Whip, who brings this up and justifies it.
• Worthy Opponent: Laura and Ginger early on. They since seem to have melded together with Sixx into True Companions.
• Would Not Hurt A Child: While everyone in the strip is fair game for torture, drama, brainwashing, and various injuries (funny or not), they are all legal adults. Even the Order of Denial would not take "customers" under the age of 19.
• Wrecked Weapon: If a crop is a weapon.
  • Happens again when Butterfly attempts to hit Sixx while she is channeling Laura's submissive aura, and it seems to be Laura's special ability.
• Writing for the Trade:
  • The strips are very short, and even with the fairly regular schedule, it can get a bit frustrating waiting (the author has a day job). Reading them marathon-style, though, is a lot of fun.
  • The author posted in October 2010 that the length of the "spanking contest" arc had made him realize he needed to work on his pacing.

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