History ArmorPiercingQuestion / Webcomics

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': While Duane complains about the unfairness of lives spent struggling after talking like his time in the military was righteous Ilganyag asks him a question that stops his rant:

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Elliot [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2018-04-06 does this]] to [[spoiler:Magus]], asking him "If the only issue is strength, can't you just make default physical forms stronger without making them male?" His "That's just the way we do things" response is rather telling.

When she later tells the question to Allison, it's [[spoiler: basically just AndThenWhat -- after you've conquered the evil of the world with violence of your own, then what? Will you be able to give up your power and your violent ways?]] The thing is, Allison has been hit with the same question before, and this time, she's basically able to shrug it off: there are some things you don't need to answer before you get there. Of course, there's a difference here in that Allison is not slaughtering everyone for ends justifying the means, she's just fighting the bad guys, mostly. Anyhow, in this longer perspective, it ends up being a {{subversion}}.

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': At the Name Hunt Station, [[TheHero Bam]] has to fight [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname "Kaiser"]], who runs the place in an unending quest to make amends to her family, who showed her a lot of love until the point she failed their expectations and then abandoned her. Now, she lives by stealing the names of others and making them her servants or ransoming them off; the money goes to her family, who are deliberately ''not'' using it to pay off the debt that would free her. Bam asks her whether, after a thousand years of service, she still remembers the names of the family she so fervently serves, and she replies that of course she does. Then he asks her whether she remembers her ''own'' name. The realisation that she doesn't makes her see the absurdity of the whole thing.

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': At the Name Hunt Station, [[TheHero Bam]] has to fight [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname "Kaiser"]], who runs the place in an unending quest to make amends to her family, who showed her a lot of love until the point she failed their expectations and then abandoned her. Now, she lives by stealing the names of others and making them her servants or ransoming them off; the money goes to her family, who are deliberately ''not'' using it to pay off the debt that would free her. She's already been at it for a thousand years, still hoping for redemption. Bam asks her whether she remembers the names of the family she so fervently serves, and she replies that of course she does. Then he asks her whether she remembers her ''own'' name. The realisation that she doesn't makes her see the absurdity of the whole thing.

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': At the Name Hunt Station, [[TheHero Bam]] has to fight [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname "Kaiser"]], who runs the place in an unending quest to make amends to her family, who showed her a lot of love until the point she failed their expectations and then abandoned her. Now, she lives by stealing the names of others and making them her servants or ransoming them off; the money goes to her family, who are deliberately ''not'' using it to pay off the debt that would free her. Bam asks her whether she remembers the names of the family she so fervently serves, and she replies that of course she does. Then he asks her whether she remembers her ''own'' name. The realisation that she doesn't makes her see the absurdity of the whole thing.

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': At the Name Hunt Station, [[TheHero Bam]] has to fight [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname "Kaiser"]], who runs the place in an unending quest to make amends to her family, who showed her a lot of love until the point she failed their expectations and then abandoned her. Now, she lives by stealing the names of others and making them her servants or ransoming them off; the money goes to her family, who are deliberately ''not'' using it to pay off the debt that would free her. Bam asks her whether she remembers the names of the family she so fervently serves, and she replies that of course she does. Then he asks her whether she remembers her ''own'' name and the realisation that she doesn't makes her see the absurdity of the whole thing.

** Maya derided her teacher's moral lessons as weak. She abandoned her relatives to be slaughtered by the other warlords tearing the multiverse apart and became one of them. Her career as a MyopicConqueror was highly successful, but her mentor's words still bugged her and forced her to ask WasItReallyWorthIt She returned to her mentor to show off all of her accomplishments and affirm that it was. We do not hear exactly what question Meti asked, but it completely broke Maya's will and caused her to abandon her empire for a simple life as a mother and farmer.

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', as Tarvek prepares to escape Sturmhalten with Lucrezia-Agatha, inadvertently asks one of these of her. "It's difficult, leaving... all this behind, not knowing when I'll return. You ever get like that?" He doesn't see [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060922 her reaction]], but the expression on her face is one of the few times we see a real emotion on Lucrezia's face.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Rose actually renders [[DeadpanSnarker Dave]] [[TheAce Strider]] ''speechless''.
-->'''TT:''' Have you ever looked into the sky without your shades?

-->'''Florence:''' ''[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2000/fc01959.htm Have you met Mr. Kornada?]]''\\
'''Mr. Raibert:''' ''[[OhCrap Yes. Hmm... Yes.]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck It is possible that we have a problem here.]]''