YMMV / Dudim In The Family

• Adorkable: Certain characters such as Dustin or Cruise can come across like this in their straight man roles. Dustin especially (when he's not depicted as a wall of flesh, anyway) has a tendency to be the most grounded and socially awkward of the main cast.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Just how much of Dudim's psychotic episodes are genuine and how much of it is him having fun? Dudim's character has very childlike interests and fascinations, and it's entirely possible that he's just messing around when he screams and flops around the way he does.
  • Langton is shown in a very early strip to be unamused at everyone's dumbfounded reaction to his accent, so why would he continue to play it up in future appearances? Perhaps he's more interested in amusing people than anything else and plays up his accent and antiquated speech as a joke.
  • Dustin's tendencies to get Drunk On Power in the earlier arcs may just be a symptom of the Burger King Crown artifact rather than an actual character trait of his. It's left deliberately ambiguous if that was the case, though.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: In a comic with all too many absurdities injected very deliberately, a "masturbation clinic" seems like just another made-up concept that's far too ridiculous to be true. They're very real.
• Angst? What Angst?: The Slice of Life nature of the comic is undeterred by the gang's many life-threatening stories and incidents, most of which are mentioned only in passing and during other arcs.
• Arc Fatigue: Tim Rogers, an overarching, genuinely threatening super villain who was first alluded to/introduced way back in 2013 before the comic even began, but still has yet to actively take the main characters on directly. His only appearance to date was at the very end of the Time Travel arc, wherein it's implied that Madox was merely a disguise Tim Rogers took on in past appearances.
• Ass Pull: Basically every contrived Deus ex Machina used to end an arc is almost always a painfully obvious way to end the necessity of dragging the story along any further. Special mention goes to the "Win The Game Automatically" button Dudim presses in the Family Feud arc.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • The ending of Part 2's Burger King Crown arc derails the climax of the story for a shot-for-shot recreation of an episode of SpongeBob.
  • Tying with Deus ex Machina a bit, the ending of the Dark Matter arc reveals that Friendly's badge is a LifeAlert monitor that he uses to somehow summon a flying space ambulance to aid the stranded gang.
• Designated Villain: Not so much villain as just antagonistic role, but the other main characters' frustrations with Dudim's antics are more often than not extremely justified, even though it's portrayed as if they're being grouchy.
• Retroactive Recognition: The Cruise Elroy depicted/fictionalized here is the very same Cruise Elroy behind the indie game Annalynn.

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