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Note: While it’s true that many things are based on actual events, the characters contained within this strip are not meant to be direct analogs for actual people. They are not based off of people living, dead, or undead and any resemblance is coincidental. Nor are they based off of Ferrets.
Because that would be weird.
“Garbage Person?” She’s improving. It used to be “Garbage Monster.”
Then again, maybe the Grouch Anti-Defamation League complained.
Scrappy’s paraphrasing.
She’s used a wide variety and spectrum of garbage based insults most likely.
For reference, their first meeting.
http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2016/12/the-switch/
The next strip he talked about her like she wasn’t there, and based on how casually he threw out the “like us” comment to Scrappy, I figure he’s probably made other borderline bigoted comments he thought he could get away with. Sarah’s not being unreasonable here.
That’s a fair argument. When it comes to webcomics that jump between the perspective of different characters I tend to err on the side of caution and only consider what is directly presented or explicitly implied. We haven’t seen much of Terrence’s negative behavior outside those occasions, so I was willing to at least try giving him the benefit of the doubt…
I’ve met people who come off as a total tool upon first impressions, but later found out they’re just woefully bad at interacting with people and social situations in general. I knew a girl in high school who came off as a snobby brat who bragged about everything, when it turned out she didn’t really have friends her age and spent most of her time with her rather well-off folks and their equally well-off friends. She literally just had no clue that talking about the stuff she got to do during the summer (Disney World trip, the occasional cruise) would be seen as bragging to people less well off.
That said…Terrance does seem to get more flaky as things go on (this said after seeing the following page).