YMMV / Skin Horse

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Tip's actions in the "Tin Soldier" arc made some fans quite suspicious as to whether he planned Chris and Marcie getting together or Moustachio overheating after their Therapy Puppets session, preventing his rampage. So, was he just screwing around, or is he really a Guile Hero with textbook Obfuscating Stupidity?
  • Links to two relevant strips: here and here.
• Archive Panic: Currently, the comic is at over 4300 strips and still updating daily.
• Cargo Ship: Nick/Dr. Lee is a very popular pairing, which the the authors are actually hinting at. Eventually became canon, although Dr. Lee eventually creating him a cloned human body after saving him from Anasigma eliminates the "cargo" aspect.
• Creepy Cute: Most of the basement-dwellers. The Cobras That Want Hugs stand out.
• Crosses the Line Twice Destroying small children is one of the things Anasigma does best!
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Dr. Virginia Lee, a.k.a. Tip's not-a-girlfriend, a.k.a. the smokin' hot Asian chick. Never has so much fan art of a minor supporting character been produced in so little time. Following her appearance, all of the fan art with the cast included her as a main character. She was eventually upgraded to a recurring character.
• Genius Bonus: When being accosted by squirrels, they refer to Tip as long pig.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The sublevel denizens electing the "psychotic xenophobic flesh-hating entity" had a lot of comments after the 2016 US Presidential election.
  • Ditto for an Alternate Universe Tip mentioning "President Trump", along with wildfires and earthquakes in California.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Nera's "It's just like my 'My Little Pony' fanfic!" comment near the end of the "Choose" arc becomes this in light of a My Little Pony fanfic that started publishing a few months later, inspired by this arc.
• Memetic Mutation: In the comments for this comic. "HUGS!"
• Squick: According to Unity, Bubbles sometimes forgets she isn't a water cooler anymore and pees on people. Since she's a robot now it's clean at least, but still.
• Sympathy for the Devil: GODOT shutting down is surprisingly poignant, largely due to Unity's attempts to stop it.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Tip is a man who dresses as a woman, but he sometimes comes off as just a flat-chested woman to those who don't know better. His Gender-Blender Name doesn't help.
• The Woobie: Jonah is Blessed with Suck. Sure, the teen initially thinks his brain damage is awesome, but all those horrible deaths keep sending him back to the most boring movie ever. It's implied that even when he escapes Anasigma, there can be no real Happy Ending, because he hasn't broken from the "Groundhog Day" Loop. A variant of Who Wants to Live Forever??

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