History DealWithTheDevil / WebComics

* In ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'', it's a demon's job to trick mortals into selling their souls.

* Played straight in ''Webcomic/PKComic'' when the giant fish sells his soul to resurrect Chester.

* See this ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' [[http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=594 strip]]
Also [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=854#comic this]].
** And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT1nVisnK7U this]].
* According to ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', Creator/AlanMoore gained his writing abilities from the Devil. The deal was for [[MemeticBadass Moore to stop beating the Devil up during school]].
* Ray Smuckles of ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}'' gains his musical talent (and, arguably, a heap of his subsequent successes) through [[http://achewood.com/?date=11042002 one of these]], but the consequences don't come about until [[http://achewood.com/?date=12012003 over a year later]].
** The ToHellAndBack sequence there also references the Robert Johnson folk-tale. Also, Ray falls ass backwards into money like a pig into mud, it ain't even a thing.
* Used, abused, and put away wet on ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''. Also done seriously.
** One of the earliest strips has Riff and Torg making a deal with a demon for beer and pocket change. Luckily, the demon is short on coins, so they just get the beer and he doesn't get to conquer the world.
** Gwynn makes some kind of a vague deal to get magic power from the ''Book of E-Ville'' early on that continues to haunt her forever in different forms.
** Spoofed [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980927 during the Vampires arc]] when Torg suggests the vampires should stop sneaking around and just openly sell vampirism.
--->'''Lysinda:''' "Foolish Mortal... do you really think humanity would give up its immortal soul forever just to look good?"\\
[[BeatPanel ** thinks about it** ]]\\
'''Lysinda:''' "Sylvia..."\\
'''Sylvia:''' "Infomercials, next quarter, check."

* ''Webcomic/{{Xkcd}}'' was all over this as a way to make fun of End-User License Agreements. [[http://www.xkcd.com/501/]]

* A major plot point in ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}''. People who make the deal have a raven spirit enter their bodies through their left eye, turning that eye black with a red pupil. He's normally very good about fulfilling his end of the deal.

* Mentioned and subverted in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. Caliborn offers Jake English support but denies that this is a Deal With the Devil situation. Caliborn claims that Jake has ''nothing'' to offer Caliborn in return. Caliborn is merely doing this because he believes he and Jake are kindred spirits since they both have terrible social skills and because he believes Jake, being a [[MagikarpPower Page]], can become a WorthyOpponent.

** Also [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=854#comic this]].

* A deal with the devil is what starts the plot of ''Webcomic/MyBestFriendMarneao''. [[IJustWantToHaveFriends Jacob sells his soul in order to gain a best friend]], and he gains it in the form of Marneao, the son of the Lucifer. When a human sell their souls, the demon that accept the contract is bound by contract to give the human whatever it asked. Jacob became sad to hear this, thinking none of the fun they had was for real... [[SubvertedTrope and then it reveals Marneao never accepted his soul]] because no demon would accept Jacob' request, and simply escaped from home.

** Before the Dimension of Pain became the Dimension of Pain, one of the original inhabitants made a pact with the invading LegionsOfHell. She gave them entrance to her city, thinking she could save her lover from dying in the war and flee with him. Naturally, he died anyway and she became cursed to be one of the demons.

* Used, abused, and put away wet on ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''.

** [=HeretiCorp=] is an evil corporation bent on world domination and whatnot. In "Dangerous Days Ahead", we find that [[spoiler: Riff has been working for them as a freelancer for ages without really knowing what they are.]]

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius tries to get one of these deals to get enough power to save their family. This zigzags wildly -- the fiends claim that they don't ''really'' want V's soul for eternity, but just a proof of concept that the different fiend types can work together, so their deal is for X minutes of damnation each fiend for however long V holds onto that fiend's power. But as they point out, V committing Evil acts while DrunkWithPower is on their soul and is likely to lead to their eternal damnation anyway. But the worst snag is ''when'' the contracted damnation will take place; V assumes it will be immediately after their death and before whatever afterlife their alignment earns, but it's actually whenever the [[Pun hell]] the fiends say so, as V learns to their dismay when they try to stop Roy from destroying Girard's Gate.]]

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius tries to get one of these deals to get enough power to save their family. This zigzags wildly -- the fiends claim that they don't ''really'' want V's soul for eternity, but just a proof of concept that the different fiend types can work together, so their deal is for X minutes of damnation each fiend for however long V holds onto that fiend's power. But as they point out, V committing Evil acts while DrunkWithPower is on their soul and is likely to lead to their eternal damnation anyway. But the worst snag is ''when'' the contracted damnation will take place; V assumes it will be immediately after their death and before whatever afterlife their alignment earns, but it's actually whenever the hell the fiends say so, as V learns to their dismay when they try to stop Roy from destroying Girard's Gate.]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'', it's a demon's job to trick mortals into selling their souls.
* In ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo

* In ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'', it's a demon's job to trick mortals into selling their souls.

* According to ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', Creator/AlanMoore gained his writing abilities from the Devil. The deal was [[MemeticBadass Moore not beating the Devil up during school]].

* According to ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', Creator/AlanMoore gained his writing abilities from the Devil. The deal was [[MemeticBadass Moore stopping beating the Devil up during school]].

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius tries to get one of these deals to get enough power to save his/her family. Subverted in that the powerful beings that show up to discuss the deal don't actually want V's soul's eternal damnation and act in a shocked way when V suggests that. "Oh no no no no! How would THAT be fair?" Instead, they want control of V's soul for a sharply limited time at a later point - and, not stated outright but presumed, while V's still alive. Which is arguably even worse, given the potential ramifications of having a high-level wizard directly controlled by paragons of Evil in a crucial moment. And to them, V's just a bonus. The real payoff is proving that the factions of evil can cooperate, so that they may storm the upper planes and end the war of Good vs. Evil once and for all.]]
** [[spoiler:[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0634.html "I... I must succeed"]]. These fiends ARE trying to get V's soul; a few comics later they point out that all the evil acts that V is racking up are by V's own choice, and they are making V more "evil-aligned", away from the original true neutral.]]

* Justified (from the demon's point of view) in {{Goblins}}. Demons feed by inflicting suffering on immortal souls, and if they can gain ownership of a soul, it can provide them with nourishment for the rest of eternity. But most of them aren't powerful enough to take souls by force; they need to persuade mortals into giving their souls up willingly.

* Played straight in ''PKComic'' when the giant fish sells his soul to resurrect Chester.

* Subverted / inverted in a storyline of ''{{Fans}}!'': The villain, who had sold his soul to Satan for power and the chance to become a hero to humanity, manipulated Rikk into traveling to an otherworldly realm and also selling his soul to protect his friends and thus get Rikk under his power. However, the villain's plan was flawed in that he had not considered that (a) each individual person encountered the realm -- and the entity within that realm -- in a different way depending on who they were, and that (b) Satan was not the ''only'' celestial being interested in doing deals for souls; [[spoiler:Rikk, being a genuinely selfless person interested only in protecting his loved ones, ''actually'' sold his soul to [[{{God}} The Big Guy Upstairs]], thus enabling him to defeat the villain.]]
* See this ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' [[http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=594 strip]]

* According to ''SomethingPositive'', Creator/AlanMoore gained his writing abilities from the Devil. The deal was [[MemeticBadass Moore stopping beating the Devil up during school]].

* ''{{Sinfest}}'' begins with [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1 this]]...

* ''{{Remember}}'' does this, with Igon's bargain with Levistus. Unusually however, we later see Levistus '''explaining''' his reasons for accepting what at first looks like a bad deal for him.
* ''DemonCandyParallel'' starts off with TWO of these for the same character. The first is when Johnathan accidently sells his soul to Noelle for a Klondike Bar, and the second is when he makes a deal to stay in Hell with Victoria for a year to get his soul back.

* Justifed (from the demon's point of view) in {{Goblins}}. Demons feed by inflicting suffering on immortal souls, and if they can gain ownership of a soul, it can provide them with nourishment for the rest of eternity. But most of them aren't powerful enough to take souls by force; they need to persuade mortals into giving their souls up willingly.

* In SonicTheComicOnline Sonic goes to the Drakon Empire and makes a deal with Master Scholar in order to try and save Mobius from Dr. Zachary and Shadow.
* In {{Zoophobia}}, it's a demon's job to trick mortals into selling their souls.

* Ray Smuckles of ''{{Achewood}}'' gains his musical talent (and, arguably, a heap of his subsequent successes) through [[http://achewood.com/?date=11042002 one of these]], but the consequences don't come about until [[http://achewood.com/?date=12012003 over a year later]].

** In "KITTEN", a Satanic cult has agreed to let Satan have a child with one of them in an attempt to create TheAntiChrist. He ends up becoming drunk and breeding with their cat instead, though.

** One of the earliest strips has Riff and Torg making a deal with the devil for beer and pocket change. Luckily, the devil is short on coins.
** Gwen, oh, Gwen, where do we even begin?
** Riff's deal with [=HeretiCorp=] fits.

** Most of Chapter 56 falls into this pretty perfectly...

* ''Webcomic/Devoto'': The main storyline follows a man who makes a deal with a demon for musical talent.

* According to ''SomethingPositive'', AlanMoore gained his writing abilities from the Devil. The deal was [[MemeticBadass Moore stopping beating the Devil up during school]].

* ''CollegeRoomiesFromHell'' has the devil as a main antagonist. There are two student satanists (Steve and Waldo); it is unclear what they "sold" to obtain it, but they gain certain magical powers (or perhaps hallucinations thereof) from the devil. Eventually, [[spoiler:Mike]] makes a deal with the devil to protect his loved ones at the cost of being controlled by the devil for ten minutes at an unspecified later time. Much later, this leads directly to [[spoiler:him cheating on his fiancee to allegedly conceive the antichrist, the disintegration of his entire circle of friends, and his fatal stabbing.]].

* In SonicTheComicOnline Sonic goes to the Drakon Empire and makes a deal with Master Scholar in order to try and save Mobius from Dr. Zachary and Shadow.

* In ''Webcomic/AvasDemon'', the only way to rid oneself of their demon is to do this, Inverted slightly as the demon and the living participant both have to keep their end of the bargain or they will become a [[TorturedAbomination 'monster of failure']].