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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: It's not completely clear, but it's hinted that Doc may be one of these to Pirta. And [[Girls Have Cooties|Kasi]] is definitely this to Jinx. For now.

* [[Alcohol Hic]]:

** Before that, Doc fitted a regular M2A3 Bradley IFV with a hot tub, complete with girls and probably an entertainment system, as a gift for the Army after the [[Real Life]] capture of Saddam Hussein, in 2003.

* [[Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] by Jinx who has convinced his dad to buy him a chain saw. As well as doing... other [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1425.html things].

* [[BFG]]:

** ''Paintball'' guns! Most would be illegal in the sport, especially the railgun and rocket-launcher.

* [[Big Ball of Violence]]: [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb559.html Nobody outshops Doc on] [[wikipedia:Black Friday (shopping)|Black Friday.]]

* [[Big Eater]]: Doc, granted he is a polar bear but once he ate an entire deep-fried ''walrus''.

* [[Bland-Name Product]]/[[Brand X]]: Khil and [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1427.html Khil Jr.] [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaws]].

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] - Leaving the frame, [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb972.html here].

* [[Girls with Moustaches]]: [[Only Sane Woman|Sandy]] greets a customer to Doc's shop, and is told by the customer that he wants to deal with a male employee. She ducks behind the counter, and comes back up with [[Paper-Thin Disguise|a fake moustache]] on her face, asking again if she can help him.

* [[The Grim Reaper]]: The standard skeleton in a cloak showed up a couple times in one-shots to pick up a marker, while Doc came face to face with a [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1088.html somewhat less traditional psychopomp] at the end of the "Doc ODs on caffeine arc".

* [[Hand or Object Underwear]]: Used in [http://the-whiteboard.com/autoaf07.html this] strip.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Mrs. Cheetah.

* [[Meat Versus Veggies]]: "Vegies are what food eats". Poor Rainman, who is a rabbit in a cast full of carnivores.

* [[Misapplied Phlebotinum]]: Multiple cases. Doc uses a teleporter to get pizza delivered to his shop, and Roger once built a Tokamak fusion reactor into an Autococker.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Pirta, in-universe at least. The fact that she favors scanty clothing (even in Alaska) and her feline anatomy means she's always walking on her toes (and therefore looks like she's always wearing ''very'' high heels) may imply this for real life readers as well, or at least [[Author Appeal|for the author]]. (Considering Doc is at the very least... ''fascinated''... with her, this is not likely unintentional.)

* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Goes to ridiculous levels when the refrigerator full of Mountain Dew is crushed, the coffee machine wasn't fixed from its ''last'' misadventure, and Doc resorts to drinking energy drinks. By the [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1058.html 5-gallon bucket].

** Now that she's gotten a proper arc, Tawny is in this role too as the counterpoint to Snowshoe.

** Jake, in almost every situation, is far more level-headed than his friends, and is often frustrated by their extremes (see Roger dragging him off during the [[PvP]]/The Whiteboard crossover).

* [[Open Mouth, Insert Foot]]: Swampy, [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb591.html here].

* [[Paintball Episode]]: The author knows the game inside-and-out. He makes markers for the game!

* [[Shout-Out]]: Quite a few of them are for fairly old movies and old TV series:

** [[Dirty Harry]] gets a nod [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb578.html here].

** The [[wikipedia:Siege of Bastogne|Siege]] of [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1186.html Bastogne].

** There's also the "Webcomic of the Week" footnotes beneath the comics, which give shout out's to other webcomics that Doc reads.

* [[Take That]]:

** [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb319.html Taking a swing at journalists who claim paintball is a war simulator.]

* [[Taught by Television]]: Sandy, who had no prior experience with paintballing, is shown repairing a marker at Doc's shop after months of reading the shop's e-mail, and says she figures [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb481.html she could probably build a whole nuclear reactor] because of that experience.

* [[This Means War]]: Kasi (the young cheetah girl) says to Doc, after he dumped a bunch of snow on her, "[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1184.html You realize, of course...] that this means '''War'''."

* [[Through a Face Full of Fur]]: [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb567.html Sandy]

* [[Time Machine]]: The product of a drunken night of inventing.

* [[Toilet Humor]]: Poked fun at in [http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb905.html this strip].

* [[Tomboy]]: Kasi, apparently one of the reasons she and Jinx get along so well.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food|Trademark Favorite Drink]]: Mountain Dew! Which Doc has his own brewing plant for, and makes several times stronger than the commercial variety.

* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: Some shout-outs are fairly old or obscure (or both) and there is some science which can be difficult to understand, such as Doc's explanation of teleporter physics.

* [[Visual Pun]]: Like many a [[Time Travel]] story, a time travel arc in May 2011 contains a [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1368.html pair o' Docs].<ref>Play on "parodox", for those who missed the "pun" part.</ref>

** [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb101.html WWJMBD]<ref>John Moses Browning, often considered one of the gods of the firearm world.</ref>

** Pirta asks herself what Doc would do, in a 1 vs 1 face-off against Tawny on the field, in [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1515.html this strip.]

* [[What You Are in the Dark]]: When given the chance to wipe off a hit and not be seen, Rainman calls himself out.

{{quote|[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb360.html "Integrity means doing what's right, even if nobody is looking."] }}

** Was getting socked for sneaking a kiss from Sandy worth it? According to Swampy, [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb405.html "Oh God yes"].

** For the sake of an [[April Fools' Day]] gag, apparently sneaking in a look at [[Shower Scene|Pirta in the shower]] [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autoaf2012.html wasn't worth it to Roger and Doc.]

* [[Write What You Know]]: The author's [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/misc/latod.html biography] makes it pretty clear that he knows what he's talking about (he even owned a paintball field for a couple years).

* [[You Do NOT Want to Know]]: A common reaction by the regulars when Sandy or Pirta<ref>moreso the latter, not having been around the gang for as long as the former</ref> asks about any particular weirdness happening.

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