History WebComic / PennyArcade

* CelebrityParadox: [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2024/03/25/venerable-and-inscrutable One comic]] features Mike and Jerry discussing something that ''Gabe'' told the former.

* UsefulNotes/{{ChildsPlay|Charity}}, a charity that seeks to fight negative gamer stereotypes by providing gaming equipment to children's hospitals.

* UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks: Parodied with a [[http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/1027441488_BeU8W-XL.jpg Dark Age-style Comic Jumper]] [[http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/1027441465_hQRcZ-X2.jpg comic]] done by Gabe, and the subsequent Rob Liefeld pose contest for an Xbox with the Dark Age-style Comic Jumper, which Rob Liefeld even entered but lost due to using photoshop and [[http://penny-arcade.smugmug.com/photos/1029606622_iNZQe-M.jpg this one]] won the contest for being 'disturbing and confusing' just like a real Liefeld artwork.

-->'''Gabe:''' The [[UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable PSP]] is a POS!\\

'''Tycho:''' How about the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoDS DS]]?\\
'''Gabe:''' FYI, I'm keeping my [[UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance SP]].\\

--> '''Reggie Fils-Aime:''' "'''''New''''' [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Zelda]], '''''New''''' [[VideoGame/GoldenEyeWii GoldenEye]], '''''New''''' [[VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand Kirby]], '''''New''''' [[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM Metroid]], '''''New''''' [[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising Kid Icarus]], '''''New''''' [[UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS 3D shit]], no glasses, SantaClaus is real, he's in our booth, and he's '''''giving out fucking handjobs.''''' Nintendo, bitches! '''''We out.'''''"

* ''UsefulNotes/ChildsPlay'', a charity that seeks to fight negative gamer stereotypes by providing gaming equipment to children's hospitals.

* HomoeroticDream:
-->'''Tycho''': Are you having another one of your ComicBook/SpiderMan dreams? [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/03/29 Oh god... I'm not ''in'' it, am I?]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In a ShoutOut to ''Series/Dateline'', Tycho is confronted by Chris Hansen over [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/08/29/to-catch-a-predator-rapture his intentions]] towards a [[Videogame/{{Bioshock}} little sister]].

* ''Webcomic/TheTrenches'', a webcomic about video game quality assurance testers, originally created in collaboration with Scott Kurtz of ''Webcomic/PvP''. (On apparently-permanent hiatus since 2016; all links to the comic have been removed from the main PA site in its most recent redesign.)

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[[caption-width-right:350:Yeah, it's kinda like that.[[note]]Left to right: Fruit Fucker, Gabe, Tycho, Thomas Kemper[[/note]]]]

-->'''Tycho''': Are you having another one of your Franchise/SpiderMan dreams? [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/03/29 Oh god... I'm not ''in'' it, am I?]]

--> '''Gabe''': "Check it out! Franchise/SpiderMan gave me his blood! I got a blood transfusion from Spider-Man!"

* ManOnFire: "[[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/02/27/ I'm not sure that's an effigy]]."
** Complete with MajorInjuryUnderreaction and ShoutOut to TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} in the title.

* LongRunners: [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18/the-sin-of-long-load-times The very first comic was submitted]] on November 18, 1998. To this day, it's still going and is still getting new strips frequently.

[[caption-width-right:350:Yeah, it's kinda like that.[[note]]Left to right: Fruit Fucker, Gabe, Tycho, Twisp[[/note]]]]

* OverprotectiveDad: Anne's parents [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/07/06/ say]] she can't date boys until she's married. [[LogicBomb Wait, what?]] She also brings out the Overprotective Uncle in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/02/13/ Tycho]].
** [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/07/15/ Though she doesn't take it]] [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/07/18/ very well...]]

* CallBack: The [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/07/14/ comic from July 14th, 2010]] has Tycho use the made-up racial slur "chuwero", first mentioned [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/11/10/ three and a half years ago]]. He will also use it on occasion in ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory''.

* [[LongRunners Long-Runner]]: Not the oldest still-updating webcomic, but nevertheless absolutely venerable by the standards of the medium, continuously running (without ScheduleSlip) since fall of 1998.

* SeductiveMummy: Parodied via a scene from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' when [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/12/a-premonition the characters predict]] what would follow up the vampire craze.