History Mooks / WebComics

* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' has its own set of mooks: The [[ChurchOfHappyology Star Org]]. The organization that [[MookPromotion White Noise was (un)fortunate enough to be expelled from]] is used as a security force on the station, but even some of the villains will pick on these folks... well, maybe just [[spoiler: Veled]]
%%* ''Webcomic/MinionsAtWork''. All of it.
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' the thuggish leader of the local [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Bigfoot]] tribe is ''named'' Mook.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': "Sacrificing minions: is there any problem it can't solve?"
** Deconstructed. It was the [[KnightTemplar Sapphire Guard's]] disregard for goblins that led to [[DragonWithAnAgenda Redcloak's]] [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans mission]]; he later suffers a VillainousBSOD of his own when he realizes he's treated [[FantasticRacism his own hobgoblin mooks the exact same way]].
** It doesn't help that in this universe, goblins and other monster races were created by the gods explicitly to serve as XP fodder for their clerics (as laid out in the prequel book). Redcloak's RageAgainstTheHeavens seems more justified in the light of this revelation.
** Averted in this [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0618.html strip]] when a character rejects her fate as a mook.

* [[http://www.commedia2x00.wordpress.com Commedia 2X00]] has Dottore's island-fortress-lab patrolled by a few different species of robot mook, but the most common seems to be the Nonny: an armless Shyguy wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, speaking entirely in the words "hey" and "nonny". Arlecchino remarks to one that they seem harmless, and it responds by grabbing him with tentacles out of the eye-holes on the mask.
* ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' is set in a RPGMechanicsVerse that revolves around warfare, where most people and creatures (except a few special ones like casters and heirs) are literally created to fill this role. [[GuileHero Parson]] has little HeroicBSOD when he realises that he killed around a small nation worth of soldiers. While others think of them as mere units, Parson considers them real people.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the not-really-flaming fire summons fulfill this role. They are so harmless to Greg and Grace that they use them as training dummies to teach Grace a sleeper hold.
* ''Webcomic/{{Blitzcrafter}}'': The soldiers seem to exist only for two reasons: To look menacing and betray the shiny outside of the city, and to be mowed down in mass by the main character.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': The Underlings are entities created by Sburb, a reality-altering game, to serve as foes of various levels of challenge for players drawn into it. The best matches for this trope are the [[OurImpsAreDifferent Imps]], who are by a wide margin the most numerous, most widespread and least powerful kind, posing a serious threat only in numbers and often not even then.
* ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}'' spends a few strips detailing the [[http://screencuisine.net/hlcomic/index.php?date=2006-05-17 life]] [[http://screencuisine.net/hlcomic/index.php?date=2006-05-18 and]] [[http://screencuisine.net/hlcomic/index.php?date=2006-05-20 death]] of a random Overwatch Soldier. His buddies attempt to avenge him; [[http://screencuisine.net/hlcomic/index.php?date=2006-05-22 it doesn't go well]].
* In ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'' The Sorrow chews out Liquid over his past killing. Liquid's excuse of [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=222 "they're just mooks"]] doesn't fly with him.
-->'''Liquid Snake''': Dude, he's just a goon.\\
'''The Sorrow''': Tell that to Mr. and Mrs. goon!
* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' is actually an attempt to explore the other side of this trope by starting off in a goblin battle camp, with a handful of goblins guarding a chest, and what happens when an adventuring party stumbles upon them. The surviving goblins become adventurers, and attempt to change their lives, making the AlwaysChaoticEvil Elite Guards into mooks.
* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' plays with this, and plays it for laughs. The Doc has no trouble killing guards and mooks. In one comic, there's a guard happily strolling around thinking of his family, when he gets his neck snapped, and the Doctor misunderstands what he was talking about it. When the Doc kills a bunch of Ninja mooks, the mother of one of them calls [[WhatTheHellHero him out on it]]... at the funeral for The Doc's mentor who the ninja mooks had ruthlessly gunned down. Despite this he still has nightmares about killing all those people.
%%* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'': Cueball [[http://xkcd.com/873/ does not enjoy]] his new FPS mod.

* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' has its own set of mooks: The [[ChurchOfHappyology Star Org]]. The organization that [[MookPromotion White Noise was (un)fortunate enough to be expelled from]] is used as a security force on the station, but [[AcceptableReligiousTargets even some of the ''villains'' will pick on these folks]]... well, maybe just [[spoiler: Veled]]

* In ''Webcomic/ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib072.html the attacking forces]]. With [[GlowingEyes Glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red Eyes]]. (Historically, the Ancients protected humanity from "black armies".
* In ''Webcomic/{{Endstone}}'', Jon's [[http://endstone.net/2009/02/05/issue-1-page-1/ Toadmen]].

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3558 Lil' Evil goes looking for them.]]

* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' has its own set of mooks: The [[ChurchOfHappyology Star Org]]. The organization that [[MookPromotion White Noise was (un)fortunate enough to be expelled from]] is used as a security force on the station, but [[AcceptableReligiousTargets even some of the ''villains'' will pick on these folks]].
** ...well, maybe just [[spoiler: Veled]]

* The Urrt in ''Webcomic/TheChallengesOfZona''.

* The Sudanese rebels of ''Webcomic/CryHavoc'' are fought and annihilated seemingly just to prove how dangerous the mercenaries are. The plot only really starts once they are all killed.
* The Frogera serve this role in ''Webcomic/{{Fite}}'', though they seem to be tougher than the average Mook.

* ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' is set in a RPGMechanicsVerse that revolves around warfare, where most people and creatures (except a few special ones like casters and heirs) are literally created to fill this role.
** [[GuileHero Parson]] has little HeroicBSOD when he realises that he killed around a small nation worth of soldiers. While others think of them as mere units, Parson considers them real people.

* The soldiers in ''Webcomic/{{Blitzcrafter}}'' seem to exist only for two reasons: To look menacing and betray the shiny outside of the city, and to be mowed down in mass by the main character.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', this is the in-universe role of the Underlings, especially the Imps.

* Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja: Plays with it, and plays it for laughs. The Doc has no trouble killing guards and mooks. In one comic, there's a guard happily strolling around thinking of his family, when he gets his neck snapped, and the Doctor misunderstands what he was talking about it.
** When the Doc kills a bunch of Ninja mooks, the mother of one of them calls [[WhatTheHellHero him out on it]]... at the funeral for The Doc's mentor who the ninja mooks had ruthlessly gunned down. Despite this he still has nightmares about killing all those people.
* In ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'', Cueball [[http://xkcd.com/873/ does not enjoy]] his new FPS mod.

* ''Webcomic/MinionsAtWork''. All of it.

** Deconstructed. It was the [[KnightTemplar Sapphire Guard's]] disregard for goblins that led to [[DragonWithAnAgenda Redcloak's]] [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans mission]]; he later suffers a VillainousBSOD of his own when he realizes he's treated [[FantasticRacism his own hobgoblin mooks]] [[NotSoDifferent the exact same way]].

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Both on the official [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/info/cast/cast09.php cast page]] and on '''this very wiki''', Zola's Minions are called "A bunch of guys in funny hats who appear to be along to carry the equipment and get killed". Although in this case, the CannonFodder is fed to the sadistic and insane trap-filled [[GeniusLoci castle]], rather than the hero(in)es.
** Subverted in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' by Master Payne, who [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050803 points out]] that, even when dealing with faceless, mindlessly aggressive monsters, there can be ugly problems.
* Lampshaded in [[http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2009/02/28 this]] ''Tom the Dancing Bug''.
-->ARG! My hopes and dreams!
* Parodied in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/19/ this]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip. A mook is not so happy with his boss' escapades and is thinking about switching sides and--oops.
* [[spoiler:Bowser]] sings about the tragic plight of the minion in ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/200-odetominions/ strip 200]].
--> These minions clock in from 9 to 5// to provide for their wives// not knowing' it'd be the last day// of their liiiives!
** An earlier strip [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2009/03/17/148-stomp1/ with multiple endings]] also featured this trope.
** This comic, "[[http://www.dorkly.com/comic/2727/the-price-of-koopa-heroism The Price Of Koopa Heroism]]" also addresses the same theme.
* In one of the ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' based ''Dark Legacy'' webcomics strip, a gnome is killing kobolds and gathering their ears for a quest. Upon killing a kobold, the gnome checks the kobold's wallet, and sees a picture of his wife and kid. The gnome seems heartwrenched to learn that he just killed a family man... but then he kills the wife and the kid for ''their'' ears.
* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0784.html In this strip]] of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Elan celebrates when the Allosaurus eats the {{Mooks}} instead of two JerkAss bounty hunters. "Hooray! The people whose names I know are saved!"
* ''Walkbot Comics'' [[http://www.walkbot.net/?webcomic_post=last-forever view]] on the issue:
-->'''Walkbot''': Hey, Dino, can robots last ''forever''?
-->'''Dino''': Maybe, but most of the time, [[JustAMachine a robot's sole purpose]] is to be ''killed'', just like ''[[ExpendableClone clones]]'' and ''[[ConservationOfNinjutsu ninjas]]''.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'', especially during the final two issues, the characters are more than happy to mow down hundreds of Jerkops and Decepticlones. However, during the ninth issue, it's revealed that the Jerkops were actually ''brainwashed people''. But, for Chris, Sonichu and the like, that's okay, because they were in his way of Chris' great Love Quest.
* ''Webcomic/MushroomGo'' shows the nature of a mook in a flashback. [[spoiler:Too bad the mook in question is Captain Martello's father.]]
* Analyzed by characters in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', chapter "Aylee", when Torg and Aylee are hiding in an alternative dimension where Earth has been overrun by mysterious, fairly mindless-seeming "ghouls". They spend some time killing them practically for fun in creative ways, until Aylee starts feeling bad about it and mentions it to Torg, who says he just felt like taking a break from previous moral ambiguity by messing with straight-up bad guys, but they should probably stop. It all causes additional guilt later when it's finally revealed just what the ghouls are.
* Touched on in {{Webcomic/Guidestuck}} when Jaspers [[spoiler: prototypes Bec's pet dog, forcing the imps to take on the appearance of his dog Jade.]]
* Webcomic/AFairytaleForTheDemonLord: Plays with and Deconstructs it. The Knights are all nameless, sometimes unthinking, cannon fodder, and if they perform heroic deeds, [[NominalImportance they get an name and identity]]. The main character is a knight who rejected the mindset and a name after saving the princess. As time goes on, he shows no remorse killing knights who get in his way, or are even witnesses. In one of the backup stories, a random soldier is seen digging up the remains of dozens of nameless knights under his command to bury them properly, with blank tombstones reflecting their nature. [[spoiler: It's really [[NotQuiteDead Balder]] who seeks to go out and kill the protagonist, and give them names on their tombstones written in his blood to honor them.]]
* Lampshaded, in the context of ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', in [[http://nonadventures.com/2016/06/04/soldier-of-misfortune/ this]] ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' strip.

* ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}'' spends a few strips detailing the [[http://screencuisine.net/hlcomic/index.php?date=2006-05-17 life]] [[http://screencuisine.net/hlcomic/index.php?date=2006-05-18 and]] [http://screencuisine.net/hlcomic/index.php?date=2006-05-20 death]] of a random Overwatch Soldier. His buddies attempt to avenge him; [[http://screencuisine.net/hlcomic/index.php?date=2006-05-22 it doesn't go well]].

** Redcloak's entire motivation for siding with Xykon is to prevent goblins and their ilk from being killed as mere cannon fodder for the heroes.
* The sudanesse rebels of ''Webcomic/CryHavoc'' are fought and annihilated seemingly just to prove how dangerous the mercenaries are. The plot only really starts once they are all killed.

* ''MinionsAtWork''. All of it.
* In ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' the thuggish leader of the local [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Bigfoot]] tribe is ''named'' Mook.
* The Urrt in ''TheChallengesOfZona''.

* The sudanesse rebels of ''CryHavoc'' are fought and annihilated seemingly just to prove how dangerous the mercenaries are. The plot only really starts once they are all killed.
* The Frogera serve this role in ''{{Fite}}'', though they seem to be tougher than the average Mook.
* In ''ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib072.html the attacking forces]]. With [[GlowingEyes Glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red Eyes]]. (Historically, the Ancients protected humanity from "black armies".
* In ''{{Endstone}}'', Jon's [[http://endstone.net/2009/02/05/issue-1-page-1/ Toadmen]].
* ''MinionComics'' focuses on a group of completely incompetent Mooks undermining their evil overlord.
* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3558 Lil' Evil goes looking for them.]]