History WebComic / Subnormality

* Anvilicious: Mr Rowntree is frequently unsubtle in trying to make a point.

[[http://www.viruscomix.com/subnormality.html Subnormality]] is a webcomic with [[WallOfText a whole lot of words]] created by Winston Rowntree. Created in 2007, this comic is a [[DeconstructorFleet Deconstruction parade,]] where the author deconstructs everything from video game characters to tropes themselves, such as CanNotSpitItOut. Some of his works are hilarious, some are depressing, and others are somewhere in the middle where you can't figure out what you're supposed to gain from it.

* {{Deconstructor Fleet}}: As stated above.

* DivideByZero: [[http://www.viruscomix.com/amtaham.html This strip]] features a scientist who creates an "anti-Gandhi" who is dressed in a fancy business suit, has thick red hair and a beard, and practices "violent nonresistance." The idea is so stupid that [[EarthShatteringKaboom the Earth blows up]].

* {{Equal Opportunity Offender}}

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Rowntree likes to fill the background with various signage and headline gags. As with ''MadMagazine'', these are often funnier than the main dialogue or situation of a given comic.

* [[GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel Godwin's Law Of Time Travel]]: In full force in [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page417.html this strip]]. [[spoiler:In fact, it's used as instantly recognizable evidence that time travel has occurred.]]

* IronicHell: Has been known to play with this one. On one occasion a misfile causes a guy to be signed up for the wrong ironic punishment, which is immediately corrected when [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne he takes offense to being buried in dog feces]] (having always made it a point to clean up after his dog, even if he did kill five people). In another one, Hell's latest tenant frustrates the demon assigned to him for orientation because here, yet again, is some dipshit who thinks a single lifetime of being a dull little guy has given him the guile to outwit millenia-old beings who have honed the craft of eternal suffering; then his attempt to prove his point ends up seriously screwing his pooch.

* MeetCute: {{Deconstructed}}, then [[{{Reconstructed Trope}} reconstructed]] in the [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page548.html comic of the same name]].

* OddFriendship: The Sphinx and Pink Haired Girl. It's working out quite well for them.

* {{Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions}} / {{Belief Makes You Stupid}}: Let's just say that Winston is definitely one of ''those'' Atheists.

* StableTimeLoop: A man is selected by his religious organization to travel back in time in order to conduct an experiment in storytelling. He eventually comes to the realization that he was the founder of this religion.

Rowntree also writes an irregularly updated sister comic for {{Cracked}}.com called Abnormality. Its strips are narrower (to fit the website's layout), generally shorter and rarely plot-driven. Many of them are humorous infographics. [[http://www.cracked.com/members/WinstonRowntree/ they're accessible from Rowntree's author page.]] For convenience all page images taken from Abnormality link to this page. He also contributes to Cracked's ''WebOriginal/AfterHours'' series, providing illustrations for Michael's brain.

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* NoKillLiveOverkill: The guys who clear snow from people's houses with '''''[[http://www.viruscomix.com/page430.html a goddamn 16th century Russian howitzer]]'''''.

* NoKillLiveOverkill: The guys who clear snow from people's houses with '''''[[http://www.viruscomix.com/page430.html a goddamn 16-th century Russian howitzer]]'''''

* MonsterClown: [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page325.html "Heyyy kids! It's me, Sweeny the fucking clown! Who wants to see what the inside of a larynx looks like?"]]

* MonsterClown: [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page325.html "Heyyy kids! It's me, Sweeny the f***ng clown! Who wants to see what the inside of a larynx looks like?"]]

* GeniusBonus: Applied fairly often, such as [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page430.html here]]. The "16th century Russian howitzer" is in fact the 1586-built [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Cannon Tsar Cannon]], and can still be found in present-day Moscow.

Rowntree also writes an irregularly updated sister comic for Cracked.com called Abnormality. Its strips are narrower (to fit the website's layout), generally shorter and rarely plot-driven. Many of them are humorous infographics. [[http://www.cracked.com/members/WinstonRowntree/ they're accessible from Rowntree's author page.]] For convenience all page images taken from Abnormality link to this page.

* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: Subverted, as the Horsemen presented turn out not to be the biblical ones, but the [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page433.html Horsemen of the "Atheist" Apocalypse]], respectively Science, Progress, Reason, and Equality. Rather than heralding the end of the world, they create a utopia.