History ComicBook / HermanHedning

In short, it's [[WidgetSeries that kind of series.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The dinosaurs are still around, though on their way out, having lost most of their dominance to the mammals. Most notable is Ragnar, a large, blue dinosaur who is Herman's drinking buddy.

* DeathIsCheap: Darnell has said that creating The Holy Laptop was the greatest thing that ever happened to the comic since now he can basically [[KillEmAll obliterate the entire universe and kill of every character if he wants to without any consequences whatsoever.]] It remains to be seen how this will effect any attempts to ''end'' the comic. Luckily Darnell has promised to keep drawing it [[DiedDuringProduction "until he explodes".]]

* {{BFG}}: A lot of these show up.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Herman, Lilleman, Gammelman and the Monkeys.

* DeusExMachina: "The Holy Laptop"

* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: All the damn time.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Ditto.

* ThePigPen: Herman claims that Soap will "dissolve him". He has been seen bathing once though... in a bathtub full of meat. Even his sweat is so toxic that when he was forced to run around for an extended period of time, the resulting ecological damage made several weaker species extinct, and gave several others permanent genetic damage.
** A few strips has him take a yearly bath, which is a serious blow to the ecosystem.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Prehistoric Cockroaches and the Gorillas.
* ProudScholarRaceGuy: The Monkeys.
* ReferenceOverdosed
* RefugeInAudacity: This comic relishes so much in it's own insanity and vulgarity that it still gets away with everything it does.
* RuleOfCool
* RuleOfFunny
* SadistShow

* WorldOfSnark

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Though not if you ask Herman. Currently the most advanced species on Earth, with humanity still in its early stages.

* DeathIsCheap: Darnell has said that creating The Holy Laptop was the greatest thing that ever happened to the comic since now he can basically [[KillEmAll obliterate the entire universe and kill of every character if he wants to without any consequences whatsoever.]] It remains to be seen how this will effect any attempts to ''end'' the comic. Luckily Darnell has promised to keep drawing it [[AuthorExistenceFailure "until he explodes".]]

This comic book series provides examples of:
* AdamAndEve: The only two currently existing normal humans, not counting their children Cain And Abel, who, due to some odd genetic damage caused by Herman's presence in the area, were born looking like him.

* GodIsFlawed: And He knows it. He's a bit of a JerkAss and kind of senile, but he tries his best, and generally keeps things together somewhat, even if his designs don't always work out.

-->'''Monkey no 1:''' "But that means he's.. he's..."
-->'''Monkey no 2:''' "A complete and utter retard? Yes, he's the man we've been looking for!"

* DumbMuscle: The Giants, who were created simply so God (or "the creator", as he is called in ''Herman Hedning'') would have cheap labour to build the world with. Their "salaries" consisted of a "legally guaranteed cheese roll and a pat on the shoulder". After finishing their task, they became unemployed and spent all their time on drinking bad homebrewed beer, fighting and wearing silly T-shirts. With time, a hierarchy rose out of this as the giant with the silliest T-shirt was hailed by the others as king and given a crown made of gold paper they think came from the Gods (it actually fell off the back of a truck). [[http://www.hermanhedning.com/figurer/jatten.jpg The current one is this guy.]]

A 20-year old legacy was brought to an end in 2018, when Jonas Darnell anunced that his publisher had dropped him. He still wants to make more Herman Hedning, so don't expect an end to the comic just yet.

* AliensAreBastards: Most alien races that appear in the series arent exactly pleasant, but the Salesmen Aliens, recurring villains, really take the cake. They are essentially a nomadic race of scam artists who excel at various business ventures that is sure to bring profit to them at the expense of absolutely everyone else.
* ArchEnemy: Herman doesnt exactly endear himself to anyone, but he has an especially adversarial relationship with Satan, The Prehistoric Cockroaches, the Salesmen Aliens and the Monkeys.

* CelestialBureaucracy: There are atleast a dozen or so creation deities around, and even more lesser divine beings, and all of them are trying to keep track of their aspects of creation by hand.

* CreateYourOwnVillain: One strip reveals that Herman actually CREATED Satan when he accidently burned off his angel wings, and God forced him to take up the role as the boss of Hell, rather than letting him back into Heaven.

* DeathIsCheap: Darnell has said that creating The Holy Laptop was the greatest thing that ever happened to the Comic since now he can basically [[KillEmAll obliterate the entire universe and kill of every character if he wants to without any consequences whatsoever.]] It remains to be seen how this will effect any attempts to ''end'' the comic. Luckily Darnell has promised to keep drawing it [[AuthorExistenceFailure "until he explodes".]]

* TheDevilIsALoser: "Lucifer Satansson" started out as a moderately dignified villain. Now he is prehaps the biggest most pathetic ButtMonkey loser of the whole cast and thats saying something since everyone is a ButtMonkey to some degree in Herman Hedning. Low points include stealing Gammelman's ultra-magnetic ring just to be a JerkAss wich not only ended with him being bombarded by cutlery and steel junk but losing his ringfinger to chemical corrosion too. Another time Herman called health inspection on him after he had found out that the only reason the Devil could tolerate living in hell was because of his suit wich was insulated with pure Asbestos. He did give him another one though - and noted that the Devil probably wont be quite as happy when he finds out that it's made of [[FromBadToWorse wool]].

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The dinosaurs are still around, though on their way out, having lost most of their dominance to the mammals. Most notable is Ragnar, a large, blue dinosaur who is Hermans drinking buddy.

* EyeObscuringHat: Herman all the time. One strip revolved around the Author trying to force him to remove the helmet, which resulted in several fakeouts. First what looked like a censorship blur (actually a horde of flies infesting Hermans hair), then a cluster of eyes that turned out to be frog eggs Herman was saving as a snack. Finally, Herman got fed up and seemingly revealed a pair of angry, bloodshot eyes just to get the Author off his back, only to leave behind a pair of eyeglasses as he leaves.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Loads and loads of Monsters of different persuasions make an appearance.

* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: Happens frequently. In the episode "Matrizk" the boys manages to enter "the real world" by gradually phasing out everything that makes them Comic Book characters: colours, lines and speechbubbles until all that is left is pure blackness. Upon entering the real world Lilleman is run over and killed by angry StreetSamurai who proceed to chase Herman and Gammelman until they happen upon Jonas Darnell who explains to them that even this is a fictious dreamworld and that they can never be anything but Comic Book Characters. He proceeds to revive Lilleman from a Pizzabox and then sends them back to their own world with no memories of the incident - except that now Herman has a craving for Pizza whenever he looks at Lilleman!
* FunWithAcronyms: The Magazine includes a section called the "homepages" where Darnell writes articles about various things in a not especially serious way. One such article concerned how "the latest research" had proven that the Vikings were the ones to invent Cell Phone technology and that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenor T.E.L.E.N.O.R]] was an acronym that stod for "Death to Creator/SnorriSturluson the lying bastard". Darnell added that "the Vikings weren't especially talented linguists but they compensated for that by being pretty damn aggressive."

* GodIsFlawed: And He knows it. He's a bit of a JerkAss and kind of senile, but he tries his best, and generally keeps things together somewhat, even if his designs dont always work out.

* ThePigPen: Herman claims that Soap will "dissolve him". He has been seen bathing once though... in a bathtub full of meat. Even his sweat is so toxic that when he was forced to run around for an extended period of time, the resulting ecogolical damage made several weaker species extinct, and gave several others permanent genetic damage.

* RefugeInAudacity: This comic relishes so much in it's own insanity and vulgarity that it still get's away with everything it does.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: As noted earlier, [[FatBastard he is not very picky]], but if he had to choose Herman prefers pure Lard. And beer.
* YankTheDogsChain: The Devil and The Apocalypse constantly have their hopes and dreams snatched away. Not that they dont deserve it.
* YourMindMakesItReal: In the setting, Gods are created when a person belives in them enough, and this works retroactively. Once enough people belive in them, they will suddenly always have existed. Infant Gods appear in the Olympus Daycare according to the comics version of the Christian God, and he himself says he doesnt know who thought him up, just that he did.

* WomenAreWiser: In the prologue to one of the collected editions where the creation of Hermans world is described, the narrator talks about how God created Adam. God soon realized that his creation didnt have the sense to last long on his own, and created a mate for him, Eve. In the actual comic, the two arent particularly different, common-sense wise anyway.