However, note that mentioning the killing of dogs *is* a running gag. There's also an entire Halloween special (Mr. Poofers Must Die!") dedicated to attempting to kill an imaginary dog, but nobody can do it.
When viewed in their original Flash format, these are usually optional and must be found by the viewer. On YouTube, they play after a fake "related videos" screen.
In sbemail #159, retirement, Strong Sad is seen wearing a dress, as well as having a beard he normally doesn't have, likely a reference to the "bearded lady" trope.
Fictional species and illnesses feature in various toons, and although none of them are allegories for anything in the real world, jokes are made at the expense of their physiology and symptoms respectively.
In the Sbemail 'virus', Strong Bad accidently downloads hundreds of thousands of viruses on his computer by accident, causing the world's scenes, the characters and the website itself to become glitched and faulty.
Yes, but they are never used for any kind of self harm. The episode "yes, wrestling" depicts a character with a razor blade apparently embedded into their skin, which itself is a reference to self-inflicted cuts professional wrestlers use to believably bleed during a match, but the blade in question appears to be a prop for a costume rather than a real blade piercing the character's skin.
Teen Girl Squad, a comic drawn by Strong Bad, features recurring characters being killed off repeatedly. A flashback shows two characters who only ever appeared in the original Homestar Runner storybook being crushed by a small building falling on them to explain why they didn't appear again.
The Jibblies Painting, a painting which is found in Strong Mad's closet and appears uncommonly throughout the series, depicts a demon-like figure holding a torch.
Homestar and Marzipan, who are (sometimes) dating, are often mean or even violent to eachother - though this is usually slapstick in tone and played for laughs. Strong Bad is also often rude and mean to his younger brother, Strong Sad, which is also played for laughs.
Teen Girl Squad often shows crudely drawn cartoon girls dying in slapstick fashion, but the deaths are usually accidents or disasters, not malicious attacks.
In "Characters from Yonder Website," it's revealed at the end that the characters were drinking expired Smarty Juice, which caused them to pass out and hallucinate themselves as characters in the titular children's show. Strong Sad also joins in at the end. The Smarty Juice the characters were drinking could be seen as a type of drug similar to LSD/acid, but it's all played for laughs. (http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Drugs)
In "Homestar Enters The Spooky Woods" an illustration of a dead raccoon is shown and its more realistic than the rest of the shows art style so it can be jarring
there are vague hints at Señor Cardgage potentially being a kiddie fiddler in the Sbemail 'licensed', where Cardgage is known to own a 'shady daycare'. Strong Bad explicitly states that it is 'the kind that are open 24 hours and are surrounded by barbed wire'. This entire segment is played out as a joke, and Cardgage is not proven to be a paedophile.
A handful of scenes suggest that Homestar Runner shaves, however; this is shown to not be stubble but a puff of cinnamon he has put on his face to give the illusion of facial hair. Strong Bad claims to be growing a mustache, but this is a throwaway gag.
Characters catch fire at times but it's purely slapstick and they are never seriously harmed. Characters in the Teen Girl Squad comic are occasionally burned.
in "different town", strong bad mentions that he wants the king of town to be buried alive while surrounded by peas, and in "somber vacation", strong sad mentions burying himself alive in sand.
http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Buried_Alive
A character falls in a bottomless pit, but in a post-credits scene we discover that she hasn't yet died and is having a conversation with somebody else down there. The implication is that she's still going to die after the episode ends.
On one occasion, the word "leotard" is used as a verb in a sentence that can cause it to be misheard as the R-slur, but it's very incidental and not likely to be intended to be read that way.
Marzipan and Homestar have an on-again/off-again relationship, but at least once Marzipan went on a date with someone else while it was presumably on-again.
No - Strong Bad is shown playing a crooked cop in some home movies, and The Poopsmith is implied to moonlight as The King of Town's muscle, depicted in a villainous light.
No - although the character Strong Mad has been debated to be autism coded, if it were the case he likely wouldn't be considered a misrepresentation of it.
Characters' ages are never stated. The King of Town is depicted with a more mature voice than the rest of the cast and shown to be out of touch, but it's never made clear if it's anything to do with age.
One of Strong Bad's main character traits is his tendency to objectify women. However, he is depicted as being pathetic for this, and he never actually harasses anyone for it.
On the rare occasion something bad happens that has lasting consequences, it's played for laughs (like the "deaths" of Strong Bad's various personal computers) and no one is shown to meaningfully suffer as a result for any extended period of time.
The King of Town, in Doomy Tales of the Macabre. In Where my Hat is At, Strong Sad is found at the bottom of a pool cemented in concrete, but he survives.
In various scenes depicting the in-universe home movies in the Dangeresque series, titular character Dangeresque is shown to have a "nunchuk gun." This gun is never fired, either in "reality" or within the movie-within-the-cartoon.
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