Commander Kitty
Commander Kitty is a weekly Web Comic by Scotty Arsenault featuring the misadventures of a cast of Funny Animals In Space!!
CK is an aspiring spacer, always on the lookout for ways to make a name for himself in the annals of Space History, but... he doesn't always know how to do that. Not that having a ragtag, generally inept crew helps matters. Or snarky AI. Or certain rivals who make him look bad. Or constantly being in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time...
The strip appears to be on hiatus since January 2020.
Tropes used in Commander Kitty include:
- Aborted Arc: The comic ended half way through a story, lay fallow for a year or more, and rebooted when it returned.
- The Ace: Ace starts this way, in relation to Kitty, but it gets deconstructed when Mittens proves to be an even better commander than Ace, and he winds up in a Heroic BSOD.
- Affectionate Parody
- All Just a Dream: The very first scene.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: CK has purple fur.
- Arm Cannon: Turns out those Gazelle dorks really did have good reason to be scared of Nin Wah's prosthetic after all!
- Artificial Limbs: Nin Wah's right arm, until recently. We later find that wasn't really Nin Wah
- Art Shift: Mittens and Fluffy hatch a plan!
- Badass Adorable: Nin Wah certainly has her moments
- Barefoot Cartoon Animals: Pretty much everyone who wasn't a Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal before the reboot. Averted almost completely afterward.
- Biological Mashup: Zenith's constructed boyfriend.
- Cats Are Mean: ...CK doesn't do much to disprove this...
- Character Blog: Commander Kitty and Nin Wah on Twitter!
- Chekhov's Gun: Everything shunted into space...
- Cloning Blues: Explains a lot
- Continuity Reboot: Aww...
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Ace, after the Innocent Innuendo.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Who knew Mittens had it in him to be a Hypercompetent Sidekick with just a little positive reinforcement?
- The Ditz: *cough* Fluffy *cough*
- Double Take: "'GAH!! SPACE ZOMBIES!!!"
- Immediately followed by: "Why did you put a leash on an eggplant?"
- Deadpan Snarker: Why exactly would anyone want an AI with an attitude that bad?
- Dream Sequence: Too bad for CK, huh?
- Evil Twin: The characters who Kitty and Co. would appear to be fighting every time the server returned from downtime were apparently evil versions from a Mirror Universe. How did we know that they were the evil ones? Because Mirror Kitty had a goatee.
- Failed a Spot Check: Ace, at first, is oblivious to Zenith's planetwide brainwashing. But he eventually comes around.
- Four-Fingered Hands: The entire cast.
- Genius Ditz: Mr. Socks
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Lampshaded so very hard.
- Heroic BSOD: Ace seems to be stuck in one at the moment.
- And now he seems to be trying to Murder the Hypotenuse (said hypotenuse being Mittens.)
- Heroic Wannabe: Kitty
- Hive Queen: The Tagged leader.
- Innocent Innuendo: What triggers Ace's jealous rage.
- Insistent Terminology: "It's not a pageant, it's a contest!"
- Is This Thing Still On?: What happens when "Speaker" is the default setting.
- Long Runner: The comic's been going on since some people heading to college were still in grade school.
- Lost Forever: It would seem all of the earlier comics aren't coming back on the site.
- Meaningful Name: Well, Kitty speaks for itself.
- The Tagged Leader, obsessed with creating perfection, is named Zenith.
- Nin Wah apparently means Red Panda.
- The Ace is named... Ace!
- Non Sequitur Thud: Fluffy would kind of reset for a few minutes if asked a non-sequitur question, with a physical thud. Sadly, there's no examples online since the reboot.
- The Nudifier: Ace's adjustments to the teleporter cause this to happen only to Mittens.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Yep.
- Red Panda-ing To The Audience
- Planet Of Cats
- ... Groan
- Punched Across the Room: With a belly, in fact!
- Sexy Man, Instant Harem: This happens to CK early in the story. Or seems to--it's part of the All Just a Dream sequence.
- Shout-Out: Nin Wah doesn't think an awful lot of her new arm.
- Similar Squad: The Velvet Knight, run by Ace. Ace is charming, liked, and respected by his crew, and has a reputation as a spacer who can get the job done. In short, he's everything Kitty wishes to be but just isn't. Needless to say, Kitty doesn't like him one bit.
- Spiteful AI: What is Mouse up to...
- Take That: The most recent character tweets are Kitty asking Daisy Owl and Homestar Runner if he can have their audiences, if they're done with them (as of this writing, neither has updated in months).
- Teleporter Accident: --although I'm sure Nin Wah isn't completely complaining.
- I don't think she's quite as happy about the army of alternate reality Fluffys that it materialised though!
- Thrown Out the Airlock: Until deemed fit to re-enter society.
- The Unintelligible: Dook dook. (Mr. Socks)
- Turned Against Their Masters: It's heavily implied that Zenith is Fortisque's creation. However, Zenith is very much in charge.
- Unwilling Roboticisation: The Tagged
- Weasel Mascot: Socks, though he doesn't really live up to the stereotype.
- Webcomic Time: Just don't ask about the bus. Just don't. Ever.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: CK seems to think he's the hero. Ace is the more likely candidate.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: As of August 2011, Nin Wah. But is averted in this