History WebComic / RiceBoy

* BadassAdorable: Admit it, Rice Boy's like [[LordofTheRings Frodo]], sweet-natured, cute, huggable and brave. Also Gerund.

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->''I'm just Rice Boy. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. All I can do is grow plants and watch sunsets and listen to stories.''

%% * {{Badass}}: T.O.E and Golgo.

* NeverGetsDrunk: Calabash and T.O.E. drink vodka and whiskey as if it was water.

** Although, it should be remembered that Golgo [[spoiler: (aka Angel-Eye) used to be a searcher like T.O.E and Calabash. He's been around thousands of years, so she may not be his biological his sister.]]

** Although Golgo, [[spoiler: aka Angel-Eye, is a searcher like T.O.E and Calabash. He's been around thousands of years. She isn't really his sister.]]

* EldritchAbomination: Father Dimmon, former ruler of the Lonely Land whose hands are nailed to the ground.

* PinballProtagonist: Rice Boy, per WordOfGod (http://riceboycomic.tumblr.com/).

The only problem is Rice Boy says he can't do it.

* BigEater: Gerund can't stop himself from eating all the supplies Rice Boy brought with him for his journey.

%% * MouseWorld: The Trill-Folk.
* NeverGetsDrunk: Calabash and T.O.E. drink vodka as if it was water.

%% * PinballProtagonist: Rice Boy.

%% * BeneathTheEarth: The Kingdom of Seen.
%% * BigBad: King Spatch.
%% * BigGood: T.O.E.
%% * BigEater: Gerund.

%% * CartoonCreature: Almost everybody on Overside.

* FlatWorld: The Overside and Underside. This story takes place mostly in the former.

%% * GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: The Bleach Beast]].
%% * GoodEyesEvilEyes: Golgo's robotic eye.
%% * HeroicSacrifice [[spoiler:Parod.]]

** T.O.E, Calabash, and Golgo, all of them being immortal and relevant in many legends and history books.

* HorseOfADifferentColor: The Frog-men use giant lizards, and Maquìn has a horse-like creature that's able to contract its entire body into its cubical head.

* InvisibleAnatomy: Rice Boy picks flowers and makes tea. Somehow.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces: Races described or at least pictured include the Blackbirds, Dimmons, Fin-Folk, Fluters, Frog-Men, Gaundts, Gorrkans, Hornèds, Ice-Striders, Machine Men, people of Seen, people of Taragi, Rhed, Sahtans, Shade-Kin, Sirpah, Trills, War-Men, and White Formless.
%% * LordErrorProne: Prince Yureg, the Prince of Satuar.
%%% * MagicalLand

* MissionFromGod: T-O-E and Calabash are following [[spoiler: the Avatar of Time's]] orders. They only continue this mission because if they don't their immortality will be lost.

* ProphecyTwist: [[spoiler: T-O-E fulfilled the prophecy in his own way due to it's vague defining. Thus he restores the third Avater after Golgo stabs him on the Iron Tower.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gortch, the late father of the late [[VillainWithGoodPublicity King Spatch]].
%%% * TheQuest

%% * SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Calabash.]]

%% * ShockAndAwe: T.O.E.

* SmokingIsCool: T-O-E is a chain-smoking robot. Don't ask how it works, but it ''looks'' cool.

%% * SupportingLeader: T-O-E. [[spoiler: Or so he thinks.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Rice Boy after [[spoiler: he learns the Trill language]].
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: T-O-E was the fulfiller.]]

%% * WhiteGloves: T-O-E.
* %% WhoWantsToLiveForever: Calabash, T-O-E.
* WordsCanBreakMyBones : Literally, after [[spoiler:Rice Boy [[TookALevelInBadass learns to speak the Trill language]].]]

* AGodAmI: Spatch, though in his case it's more A ChosenOne Am I.

* AncientKeeper: In the library of the Kingdom of Seen.

* {{Badass}}: T.O.E and Golgo.

* BadassLongcoat: T-O-E.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo / ChosenOne: Played with. Over the years hundreds of people were declared to be the fulfiller until they finally found the right one. [[spoiler: In the end, both [[http://www.rice-boy.com/see/index.php?c=420 T-O-E and Rice Boy met the requirements to be Fulfiller]], but T-O-E is the one who dies first.]]
* BeneathTheEarth: The Kingdom of Seen.
* BigBad: King Spatch.
* BigGood: T.O.E.
* BigEater: Gerund.

* TheBlank: T.O.E.
* BountyHunter: Golgo.
* BreakTheCutie: Rice Boy. Gerund for some.
* BrotherSisterIncest: [[http://www.rice-boy.com/see/index.php?c=152 As seen here.]]

* CartoonCreature: Almost everybody on Overside.
* TheChooserOfTheOne: T.O.E.'s role.
* CorruptChurch: The Church of Spatch.

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: The Bleach Beast]].
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Golgo's robotic eye.
* HeroicSacrifice [[spoiler:Parod.]]

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Rice Boy and Gerund become this.

* LordErrorProne: Prince Yureg, the Prince of Satuar.

* MessianicArchetype: The Fulfiller of Ridrom's prophecy.

* MouseWorld: The Trill-Folk.

* PinballProtagonist: Rice Boy.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld:

* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Calabash.]]

* ShockAndAwe: T.O.E.

* TheStoic: T-O-E.
* SupportingLeader: T-O-E. [[spoiler: Or so he thinks.]]

* [[spoiler: ThereIsAnother]]

* WhiteGloves: T-O-E.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Calabash, T-O-E.

** Unintentional, at that. Dahm asked his friends what he should name the bounty hunter; they suggested Golgo, after the protagonist of ''{{Golgo 13}}'', and Dahm used it, only learning of the reference later.

''[[http://www.rice-boy.com/ Rice Boy]]'' is a surreal fantasy comic by Evan Dahm. It began April 1, 2006, and finished May 14, 2008. It was the first comic set in {{Overside}}. The comic is available as a webcomic, in softcover, and in hardcover.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The 'vaguely-defined' prophecy is fulfilled and Spatch is defeated. But T.O.E. [[TheHeroDies is stabbed by Golgo]] for the last time while trying to save Rice Boy. Rice Boy, in tears, rests his head on [[TearJerker T.O.E.'s lifeless body]].]] Afterward is the epilogue.

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%%% * ProphecyTwist

%%% * TwistEnding

* TheMessiah: Rice Boy, kind and humble to a fault.

%%% * EarnYourHappyEnding

%%% * InvisibleAnatomy

%%% * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld

%%% * SceneryPorn

** T-O-E's screen-face tends to show old frames from 1920s-40s cartoons and movies... or [[Webcomic/Achewood Roast Beef]].

* SupportingLeader: T.O.E. [[spoiler: Or so he thinks.]]

After the conclusion of ''Rice Boy'', Dahm began other webcomic series based in the same world. ''OrderOfTales'', which is now completed, is a loosely-connected prequel to ''Rice Boy''. The third and current webcomic set in Overside is ''{{Vattu}}''.

* MechanicalLifeforms: The Machine Men. They can smoke, they grow as they age, and one of them nearly dies of ''poisoning''. ''OrderOfTales'' includes a story about them evolving into their metal form from rock material.

* DeadLittleSister: T.O.E.'s brothers, apparently 'taken' by the beast. Perhaps meant as a parallel to Gerund losing his brother to the same creature. [[spoiler: Except not. The beast is harmless, working for Parod, who is manifestly not dangerous, and apparently makes strangers into apprentices. T.O.E. never learns of this though...]]

%%% * LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces

* EarnYourHappyEnding

* InvisibleAnatomy

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces

* MagicalLand

* MissionFromGod

* ProphecyTwist

* TheQuest
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld

* SceneryPorn

* TwistEnding

--> '''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel BREAK.]]'''

The One Electronic is a mechanical man on a [[Main/{{MissionFromGod}} Mission From God]]: he is [[TheChooserOfTheOne searching for the Fulfiller of the Prophecy of Ridrom]], and he will not die as long as he continues searching. Unfortunately, T-O-E has been searching for 3,000 years, and every candidate for the position of Fulfiller has been a spectacular failure. When his latest candidate dies, T-O-E once again finds a replacement: the humble little pawn-shaped Rice Boy.

* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: The comic has one page of gratuitous brother-sister incest, in a story that's otherwise completely free of sex and innuendo.

* {{Badass Adorable}}: Admit it, Rice Boy's like [[LordofTheRings Frodo]], sweet-natured, cute, huggable and brave. Also Gerund.

* {{Big Bad}}: King Spatch.
* {{Big Good}}: T.O.E.

* {{Death Seeker}}: [[spoiler: It turns out T.O.E. is one of these, suffering a bout of {{Who Wants To Live Forever}}.]]

** [[TheGoodTheBadandTheUgly Angel-Eye saying "one name is as good as another."]]

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