The series ran from 2013 to 2021, split into seven volumes, and can be viewed here
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Twice the Triplets includes examples of:
- Abusive Parents: For a short period, the girls all end up in separate foster homes that range from quirky to this. Poor Hannah gets the worst of it, with her being physically abused and forced to claim it was from "falling in the shower".
- Aerith and Bob: The girls are Summer, Hannah, Dani, Kiley, Skye… and Sunshine.
- Alliterative Name: Dani Dunville and Dacey Dunville.
- Alliterative Family: Downplayed, but exactly half of the kids are named Summer, Skye and Sunshine, and their father was named Steve.
- Alt Text: Every comic uses this for a small comment from the author.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Mikey is this big time to Sean, constantly pranking his older brother and getting away with it as he's his parents favorite.
- Anti-Villain: mrs. Mimsey. She starts off as a seemingly nice old lady who several times offers the eldest triplets to adopt them, but over time she develops an unhealthy obsession with them. In volume 6, her true nature finally shows when she can no longer contain her urges and kidnaps all three girls to force them to live with her. But even when forcing the girls to be at her house (which includes locking them in a cage if needed) and wearing the dresses she made them, she keeps insisting she loves them and wants the best for them. Ultimately, the girls discover Mrs. Mimsey herself was once part of a set of triplets, all daughters to a famous movie star from the silent movie era, but lost her entire family and desperately longs to have one again. When the girls find out, Mrs. Mimsey breaks down sobbing and confesses her motivation for abducting them, after which she lets them go and the girls decide not to report her to the police.
- Bait-and-Switch: After Fred finds Hannah's former abusive foster father and beats him up, back at home he comments how they won't have to deal with him ever again. Cue Hannah, outside by herself, being suddenly kidnapped by an unseen figure... who turns out to be Mrs Mimsy, who is significantly less dangerous (albeit still very troubling, as we learn).
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: Averted. The characters are sometimes shown naked, but they do have realistic nipples and genitalia.
- Bitch Slap: A Running Gag especially in the early volumes involves Dacey slapping Fred in the face and leaving in disgust whenever the girls' antics upset her, leaving Fred with a red hand-shaped imprint on his face.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The Big Three (the three older triplets): Hannah is blonde, Dani is brunette and Summer is Redhead.
- Cheerful Child: All the Little Three are this, but Sunshine has this as her defining trait, fitting her odd name.
- Child Hater: Dacey, at least in the beginning. But once she gets married to Fred, she's obligated to connect with the girls, and after a while this isn't mentioned whatsoever. This trait of her seems to be definitely forgotten when she has children with Fred.
- Dead Guy Junior: Two of three of Fred and Dacey's children are named after his dead brother Steve and her dead mom Olivia. Ironically, the only one to have "Junior" in the name is named after Fred himself.
- Department of Child Disservices: Since Fred is their legal guardian, he frequently gets visits from an inspector named Mrs. Zellner, who clearly does not like him and constantly tries to find reasons that Fred is unfit to look after the girls. In "After After" she even tells herself that it is "time to go break up some families". At the comic's Darkest Hour in Volume 3, she actually succeeds and has all the girls moved to a different foster family where, for various reasons, they are worse off than they were with Fred. Eventually subverted when Fred successfully appeals his case with Mrs. Zellner's boss, who is far more reasonable than she is (and that he's a huge fan of Fred's movie also helps), and overrides her decision, after which the girls are allowed to return home and Mrs. Zellner is taken off the case.
- Fowl-Mouthed Parrot: Swearbird, a bird who doesn't say nothing but Atomic F-Bombs.
- Goofy Print Underwear: In one comic where the main characters give advice on how to avoid being embarrassed, Hannah advises not to wear pony underwear when it's windy.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Hannah is blonde and also kind and helpful.
- I Reject Your Reality: Sean and Mikey's mother absolutely refuses to believe her youngest son is anything other than a perfect little angel. Even after reading about all his bad behaviour in Kiley's diary, she refuses to believe what she just read and thinks Kiley is just trying to make Mikey look bad. It requires both her husband pointing out the flaw in that theory (namely that the book is a diary, which Kiley never intended or expected anyone else would read), and all the girls backing up Sean to finally make her see reason. And even then, she blames herself for not raising Mikey right instead.
- Karma Houdini: Mikey. He's rarely seen not tormenting the others, especially Sean, and he always manages to make Sean look like the bad guy. The most karma he gets is being sprayed by a skunk, beaten up by Sean, and his parents implicitly being less forgiving on him in the future - all of which are lessened by Sean, in all three situations, suffering in some way as well.
- Massively Numbered Siblings: Six, to be exact. A really big crowd. The eventual addition of Chloe makes it seven. They're up to ten total by the end.
- Naked People Are Funny: It's used so many times, it would be too much to list them all:
- "Scenes of Siblinghood" has Sunshine gaming naked. Summer seems to point her lack of shame… but she's referring to Sunshine's high score.
- In "Little Dippers", the family stops a road trip to rest. The Little Three wants to swim, but because they didn't bring swimsuits, Fred (reluctantly) let them swim naked. Dani joins them, but didn't expect a classmate camping next there, and Hilarity ensues
- In "Straight Outta Bath", Dani forgets his clothes in the bedroom, and those suspiciously familiar boys do a visit when she's bathing. When they go play hide and seek with her sisters, she takes advantage of the situation to run to the room, where she throws the towel off… and finds five of the 11 kids hiding there.
- Nephewism: Fred is raising the six children of his dead brother.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: After spending almost all of volume 5 being a Karma Houdini, Mikey sets in motion his own downfall when he steals Kiley's diary and asks his mom to read it to him as he thinks it's a book about poop. In the diary, Kiley has detailed every prank and mean spirited act that Mikey committed throughout the volume, and which his parents never believed when Sean tried to tell them about it.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: In Volume 6 Fred and Harvey befriend Abraham Yoozer in the bar, but eventually learn he was the abusive guy that Hannah was briefly forced to live with. Upon learning this fact, they collectively give him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown and then drop him off home, telling his wife that Abraham " slipped in the shower and hit his head".
- Playing Doctor: In "Fair Exchange", Robbie explains to Sky that he's curious what girls look "down there" and they agree to show each other their parts. Unfortunately for Robbie, Sky thought he was talking about her feet.
- Right Behind Me: In "Visitor", Fred prepares the girls for an inspection by Mrs. Zellner, whom Fred doesn't like. Unfortunately, when he insults her in front of the girls, Zellner was already standing at the front door and heard the whole rant.
- Same-Sex Triplets: There's two sets of triplets and while all of them are girls, they're not identical. Averted with Dacey's babies, who are two boys and one girl.
- Short Teens, Tall Adults: Chloe is significantly shorter than Dacey and other adults.
- Shower of Angst: Fred ends up sitting in this position in the shower at least twice: in "Let's Talk" and "Break". In "Shoplifter", Summer does this after accidentally calling Fred "Dad".
- Spear Counterpart: Volume 6 presents six boys who look and act much like the girls. Fortunately, their mom is still alive.
- Stalker with a Crush: Mrs Zellner becomes this to Fred, only leaving him alone when he gets married.
- Tinkle in the Eye: In "Baby Bath", Hannah and Summer are on the receiving end of this trope when they are tasked with changing Freddie's diaper. Freddie's thoughts reveal he did it on purpose because the girls were laughing at the fact that he was naked.
- Unwanted Assistance: Skye tries to be a good kid, but Fred doesn't need her help.
