History ComicStrip / HagarTheHorrible

* AnachronismStew: Hägar has encountered Myth/KingArthur, Myth/RobinHood, UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun, Theatre/RichardIII, and Lady Godiva in various strips.

''Hägar the Horrible'' is a classic comic strip about a red-bearded Viking, created by Dik Browne in 1973.

''Hägar the Horrible'' is a classic comic strip created by Dik Browne in 1973, about a red-bearded Viking. He is married to Helga, who is a formidable woman with bigger horns on her helmet than he has on his. The rest of Hägar's family consists of his young son Hamlet, and a daughter called Honi who is just old enough to be TheIngenue. His best friend is a short guy called Lucky Eddie. This is a gag-a-day Strip set in DarkAgeEurope covering both Viking invasions and sieges (he regularly harasses castles) and Hägar's home life.

''Hägar the Horrible'' is a classic comic strip about a red-bearded Viking. He is married to Helga, who is a formidable woman with bigger horns on her helmet than he has on his. The rest of Hägar's family consists of his young son Hamlet, and a daughter called Honi who is just old enough to be TheIngenue. His best friend is a short guy called Lucky Eddie. This is a gag-a-day Strip set in DarkAgeEurope covering both Viking invasions and sieges (he regularly harasses castles) and Hägar's home life.

* RapePillageAndBurn: Hagar his crew pillages a lot, and occasionally burn, but they spare the women. Kids read the strip, after all. (Well, except maybe [[http://hagarthehorrible.com/comics/october-10-2015/ this strip]], but the victim doesn't look all-that unhappy about it.) There are a lot of jokes about this; for example, in a strip, Hagar is leading an army with siege engines and a battering ram against a castle, but it has a sign that says, "No looting and pillaging allowed!" Hagar says, "Gee, I kinda hate to turn back now..."

* IronicNickname: Lucky Eddie - one longer story does explain he used to be extremely lucky until he was cursed.

* IWasQuiteALooker: Helga apparently used to be beautiful, according to some snarky comments by her husband- it also explains where Honi came from.

* HornyVikings: And in this strip, if a Viking tells a lie, his horns fall off. (Hagar tends to go through a lot of helmets.)

* RapePillageAndBurn: Hagar his crew pillages a lot, and occasionally burn, but they spare the women. (Kids read the strip, after all.) There are a lot of jokes about this; for example, in a strip, Hagar is leading an army with siege engines and a battering ram against a castle, but it has a sign that says, "No looting and pillaging allowed!" Hagar says, "Gee, I kinda hate to turn back now..."

* AnimatedAdaptation: Creator/HannaBarbera did a very good one, which aired as a half-hour TV special back in the 1980s, with Creator/PeterCullen voicing Hägar. Sadly, [[OneEpisodeWonder it never got turned into a series]].

!! Tropes in ''Hägar the Horrible'':

* GenderBlenderName: "Hagar" is actually a feminine name, according to Literature/TheBible.
** In Scandinavia it has a fairly masculine sound, though...
** And ''ä'' is not ''a''.

* ThePigPen: Hagar's occasional ally Dirty Dirk.

* WhenIWasYourAge: Also parodied. Hamlet is 12, and his grandfather tells him that in his time, kids had to grow up faster, and he himself had been 20 at Hamlet's age.

* AnachronismStew: Hägar has encountered Literature/KingArthur, Literature/RobinHood, UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun, Theatre/RichardIII, and Lady Godiva in various strips.

'''Hägar the Horrible''' is a classic comic strip about a red-bearded Viking. He is married to Helga, who is a formidable woman with bigger horns on her helmet than he has on his. The rest of Hägar's family consists of his young son Hamlet, and a daughter called Honi who is just old enough to be TheIngenue. His best friend is a short guy called Lucky Eddie. This is a gag-a-day Strip set in DarkAgeEurope covering both Viking invasions and sieges (he regularly harasses castles) and Hägar's home life.

* AnimatedAdaptation: {{Hanna-Barbera}} did a very good one, which aired as a half-hour TV special back in the 1980s, with Creator/PeterCullen voicing Hägar. Sadly, [[OneEpisodeWonder it never got turned into a series]].

* BritainVersusTheUK: In one strip, after being blown off course and shipwrecked, Hägar thinks he has landed in England and sends Lucky Eddie ashore proclaiming he loves the English. Turns out they have actually landed in [[ViolentGlaswegian Scotland]], and [[HilarityEnsues Violence Ensues]].

* AnimatedAdaptation: {{Hanna-Barbera}} did a very good one, which aired as a half-hour TV special back in the 1980s, with PeterCullen voicing Hägar. Sadly, [[OneEpisodeWonder it never got turned into a series]].

* AnachronismStew: Hägar has encountered KingArthur, RobinHood, AttilaTheHun, Theatre/RichardIII, and Lady Godiva in various strips.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Inevitable in a comic strip with this premise. For one thing, {{Attila}} keeps making appearances (and is referred to even more), even though he died three hundred years before the Vikings began to sail around Europe. Browne stretched this trope even further once, when Hägar met ''Nostradamus!!''

* AnachronismStew: Hägar has encountered KingArthur, RobinHood, AttilaTheHun and Theatre/RichardIII in various strips.

* OutlivedItsCreator: Dik Browne died years ago, and the strip has been worked on by his son since then.

* HornyVikings

** The Finnish name of the strip is ''Harald Hirmuinen'' (Harald the Horrible) - Harald is a genuine Viking name. His best pal is ''Orm Onnekas'' (Orm the Lucky) in Finnish.

* SadlyMythtaken