History Webcomic / CityOfBlank

A webcomic which recently moved from [[Website/TapasMedia Tapastic]] to [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/sf/city-of-blank/list?title_no=1895 Webtoons.]] Updated every Thursday.

* MsFanservice: Lyzz is a mild example, often wearing shorts and short dresses but never things that are ridiculously impractical. She only ever puts on a genuinely revealing outfit when infiltrating a club.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:There are a few hints of Rex being a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-blank]] besides his ability to touch normal Blanks; like how his face wasn't shown (and even the back of his skull was just a black blob) when he took his brother out of a burning house in the first chapter, etc.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: One of the top Blank Hunters wields a combination axe/flamethrower/club. Fully developed blanks are just normal people, [[spoiler: but a newly developed drug lets blanks change their blank space to make their limbs act as weapons]]. While it's true that the only things that can seriously damage the blank space is fire, water, and special weapons with hooked ends to scoop out the blank space, it's hard to see how one could direct the flame well on something like a large battle axe.

* EngineeredHeroics: [[spoiler:The top Blank Hunters pay mobs to abduct people, tear off their masks so the Blanks steal their face, and leave them to suffocate to death. Then they turn in the Blank to a Blank Hunter when the victim's family offers a reward to avenge them, and split the profits]].

* FaceStealer: Blanks, which are the reason masks are so common. Upon sensing an unmasked human, they congregate around the hapless victim in hopes of stealing a face.

* FantasticRacism: Blanks who have successfully stolen faces are reviled by society, since most people don't believe that Blanks can't control their compulsion to steal faces. There's also the fear of mass security breaches from clones of high-ranked people with less stable personalities than their originals, the statistically high death rate of victims of face-stealing due to suffocation from not having a mouth, and [[spoiler:[[EngineeredHeroics the Blank Hunters endorsing murder-by-Blank to make themselves look good by 'avenging' the victims]]]].
** [[spoiler: Rex's mother was a rare subversion of the trope, who accepted the Blank who stole her husband's face as her husband still. Same goes for Jay, who replaced his siblings' big brother.]]

* FreudianExcuse: We don't know exactly what happened, but at some point Lyss suffered a very traumatic experience involving Blanks. Specifically Blanks associated with organized crime. Now she's dead set on getting revenge on the gang's leader. [[spoiler: We later find out that a crime boss blank in the city left her father wheelchair bound, and Bag Girl is all but confirmed to be the blank that stole half of her face.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: If a human and a blank who's developed enough after taking someone's face procreate, it's possible for their children to be human-blank hybrids. Hybrids are corporral, have sentience and can communicate via sign language, retaining their own ego after stealing a face if they end up doing so, while still gaining their face's memories. Unfortunately, as [[spoiler:Rex]] can attest to, they still feel physically compelled to steal an unmasked face even if they find it morally reprehensible (and it's noted that if they ''don't'' find it abhorrent, since they're tangible, they can just walk up to someone and rip their mask off manually).
* IWantThemAlive: Blan Co. goes out of their way to kidnap Rex for his memories.

* KillItWithFire: Fire ''is'' particularly effective at destroying Blank space, but Lyss is rather ''obsessed'' with the idea of setting Blanks on fire, she nearly failed the written portion of the Blank Hunter exam because she put this down as her answer for ''every'' question regarding social interactions with Blanks for example.

* MsFanservice: Lyzz is a midl example, often wearing shorts and short dresses but never things that are ridiculously impractical. She only ever puts on a genuinely revealing outfit when infiltrating a club.

* TheImmune: Blanks who've stolen a face don't have to worry about their faces being stolen. They still wear masks in order to not give away the fact that they're blanks, as blanks with stolen faces are at best sent to special prisons.
* TheBlank: In addition to the identity-less titular Blanks, This is what happens to people whose faces are stolen from a Blank. What's worse, their faces can never be given back, and the victims usually die from suffocation.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Blanks melt in water, so bathrooms come equipped with special water curtain showers which allow people to safely wash their faces and bathe.

* FantasticRacism: Blanks who have successfully stolen faces are reviled by society, since most people don't believe that Blanks can't control their desire to steal faces. There's also the fear of mass security breaches from clones of high-ranked people with less stable personalities than their originals, the statistically high death rate of victims of face-stealing due to suffocation from not having a mouth, and [[spoiler:[[EngineeredHeroics the Blank Hunters endorsing murder-by-Blank to make themselves look good by 'avenging' the victims]]]].

* FreudianExcuse: We don't know exactly what happened, but at some point Lyss suffered a very traumatic experience involving Blanks. Specifically Blanks associated with organized crime. Now she's dead set on getting revenge on the gang's leader. [[spoiler: We later find out that a crime boss blank in the city stole her father's face, and Bag Girl is all but confirmed to be the blank that stole half of her face.]]

* FreudianExcuse: We don't know exactly what happened, but at some point Lyss suffered a very traumatic experience involving Blanks. Specifically Blanks associated with organized crime. Now she's dead set on getting revenge on the gang's leader. [[spoiler: We later find out that a crime boss blank in the city stole her father's face, and Bag Girl is heavily implied to have stolen the face of a family member of hers. Another Blank may even have stolen a part of ''her'' face.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: If a human and a blank who's developed enough after taking someone's face procreate, it's possible for their children to be human-blank hybrids. Hybrids are corporral, have sentience and can communicate via sign language, retaining their own ego after stealing a face if they end up doing so, while still gaining their face's memories. Unfortunately, as [[spoiler:Rex]] can attest to, they still feel physically compelled to steal an unmasked face even if they find it morally comprehensible (and it's noted that if they ''don't'' find it abhorrent, since they're tangible, they can just walk up to someone and rip their mask off manually).

* LivingMacGuffin: Due to the Blan Co's desire to capture Rex alive, he becomes this to those looking to turn him into them for profit.

* BrokenPedestal: Kingly insults the newcomer Lizzy for trying to be a Blank Hunter just like her, because she doesn't have what it takes to thrive in a cutthroat business. Lizzy instantly shifts from Kingly fangirl to angry rival.
* CanineCompanion: Shnee gets a belly rub for every like on an episode. He's also trained to warn Rex about Blanks before they bump into him.

* AndIMustScream: When a person's face gets stolen, their face turns into a cohesive slab of flesh, covering their eyes, nose and mouth. This usually kills them.

A webcomic which recently moved from [[TapasMedia Tapastic]] to [[https://cc.naver.com/cc?a=sch.akw&r=&i=&bw=1440&px=1170&py=116&sx=1170&sy=116&m=1&nsc=decide.me&g=en_en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.webtoons.com%2FepisodeList%3FtitleNo%3D1895 Webtoons.]] Updated every Thursday.

* AndIMustScream: When a person's face gets stolen, their face turns into a cohesive slab of flesh, covering their eyes, nose and mouth.

* FantasticRacism: Blanks who have successfully stolen faces are reviled by society, since it seems like most people don't know that Blanks can't control their desire to steal faces.
** [[spoiler: Rex's mother was a rare subversion of the trope, who accepted the Blank who stole her husband's face as her husband still.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:There are a few hints of Rex being a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-blank]] besides his ability to touch normal Blanks; like how his face wasn't shown when he took his brother out of a burning house in the first chapter, etc.]]
* FreudianExcuse: We don't know exactly what happened, but at some point Lyss suffered a very traumatic experience involving Blanks. Specifically Blanks associated with organized crime. Now she's dead set on getting revenge on the gang's leader. [[spoiler: We later find out that a crime boss blank in the city stole her father's face, and Bag Girl is heavily implied to have stolen the face of a family member of hers.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Blanks can't control their urges to steal faces, so this is a common response amongst Blanks who have successfully do so to normal people.

* TheBlank: This is what happens to people whose faces are stolen. What's worse, their faces can never be given back, and the victims usually die from suffocation.

* FreudianExcuse: We don't know exactly what happened, but at some point Lyss suffered a very traumatic experience involving Blanks. Specifically Blanks associated with organized crime. Now she's dead set on getting revenge on the gang's leader.

* AwesomeButImpractical: One of the top Blank Hunters wields a combination axe/flamethrower/club. Fully developed blanks are just normal people, [[spoiler: but a select few hybrids can change their shapes to make their limbs act as weapons]]. While it's true that the only things that can seriously damage the blank space is fire, water, and special weapons with hooked ends to scoop out the blank space, it's hard to see how one could direct the flame well on something like a large battle axe.

* BlessedWithSuck: [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Blanks]] are fully sentient, but as [[spoiler:Rex]] can attest to, they’re still drawn to unmasked humans like normal Blanks. Even if they detest the very thought of trying to steal someone’s face, their body reacts by itself.

* HalfHumanHybrid: If a human and a blank who's developed enough after taking someone's face procreate, it's possible for their children to be human-blank hybrids. Hybrids have sentience and can communicate via sign language, retaining their own ego after stealing a face if they end up doing so, while still gaining their face's memories. Unfortunately, as [[spoiler:Rex]] can attest to, they still feel physically compelled to steal an unmasked face even if they find it morally comprehensible (and it's noted that if they ''don't'' find it abhorrent, since they're tangible, they can just walk up to someone and rip their mask off manually).