History Webcomic / HarkAVagrant

''[[http://www.harkavagrant.com/ Hark! A Vagrant]]'' is a largely history-based {{Webcomic}} by KateBeaton best known for its historical comics, which are one-shots of varying length focusing on historical events or figures. There are occasionally other kinds of comics, including comics in which Beaton visits her younger self, a few comics about a pony called "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Fat Pony]]", and a story about a sailor who meets a mermaid. There is little continuity and each comic is a standalone strip. Also, rather than use AltText, Beaton usually accompanies each comic with a short paragraph.

'''{{Macbeth}}''': [[LampshadeHanging Dang, that's manly]].

* PrecisionFStrike: By [[JuliusCaesar Marc Antony]], [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=307 of all people]].
* ProfessionalButtKisser: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=262 Joking portrayal of Shakespeare]] from him likely writing ''{{Macbeth}}'' to appeal to King James I.

** [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=288 Javert is in]] [[SlashFic slash fiction]] and [[{{Crossover}} Javert is in]] [[{{Rent}} the wrong musical]].

* AmericaWinsTheWar: Apparently it's kind of surreal for Beaton (a Canadian) [[http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=292 when she watches WWII movies.]]

* AmericaWinsTheWar: Apparently it's kind of surreal for Beaton (a Canadian) when she watches WWII movies.

** "[[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=73 You should see the garbage you try to pass off as comics]]!"

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=327 Because of]] the FoeYay.

* AnythingThatMoves: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=56 Lord Byron]] seems to have moved beyond even this:

** [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=327 And taken here to exorbitant levels]].

* AntiquatedLinguistics: Consistently [[AvertedTrope averted]]. No matter what time period the comic is set in, all characters use modern English.
** Except in the strip namer comic, with Kate and the [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=132 vagrant]]. Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: NancyDrew, [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=278 in]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=279 four]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=293 Gorey]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=317 Covers]] collections.

* FoeYay: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=265 NEMESIS]]

* {{Hipster}}s: They [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=228 ruin]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=229 everything]].
** It also demonstrates that hipsters are OlderThanYouThink.

* SelfDeprecation: "[[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=73 You should see the garbage you try to pass off as comics]]!"

* StayInTheKitchen: Regarding ''TheYellowWallpaper'', an early work of American feminist literature (and a Gothic horror story):

* TitleDrop: In [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=132 this]] comic, though it's more likely the website was named after that line.
** Interestingly, this strip was not contained in the book of the same name.

* WrongGenreSavvy: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=288 Javert is in]] [[SlashFic slash fiction]] and [[{{Crossover}} Javert is in]] [[{{Rent}} the wrong musical]].
** Also those '20s gangsters with the black spot.

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Because of the FoeYay.

* OverTheShoulderPose: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=311 The strong female characters take this as a challenge.]]

* OtherMeAnnoysMe

* ProfessionalButtKisser: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=262 Joking portrayal of Shakespeare]] from him likely writing {{Macbeth}} to appeal to King James I.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=40 A humourous portrayal of Musashi]] in his duel against Kojiro, being late to his duel and forgetting his sword so he uses an oar (You can't expect me to remember everything!") while Kojiro is annoyed because he told him there was precisely two things they needed for their duel beforehand (dudes and swords). [[RuleOfFunny Kate Beaton notes he actually carved the oar into a sword intentionally, but it was funnier this way]]. Kojiro is naturally annoyed at losing to such a person.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=40 A humourous portrayal of Mushashi]] in his duel against Kojiro, being late to his duel and forgetting his sword so he uses an oar (You can't expect me to remember everything!") while Kojiro is annoyed because he told him there was precisely two things they needed for their duel beforehand (dudes and swords). [[RuleOfFunny Kate Beaton notes he actually carved the oar into a sword intentionally, but it was funnier this way]]. Kojiro is naturally annoyed at losing to such a person.

* HoYay: And how Victorian scholars [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=164 couldn't handle it]].
** Also played with in this [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=264 follow-up]] to the above-referenced Holmes comic.
** And some with [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=295 Sexy Batman]]. [[HoYay/{{Batman}} Appropriately enough]].

** [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=327 And taken here to exorbitant levels.]]

* GoodLookingPrivates: Parodied in some [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=292 World War II comics.]]

* [[YourMom Your Wife]]: [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=316 Tycho's rude response]] to Kepler suggesting the possibility that the sun might orbit around the earth as opposed to him believing in the opposite.

''Hark! A Vagrant'' is a largely history-based {{Webcomic}} by KateBeaton best known for its historical comics, which are one-shots of varying length focusing on historical events or figures. There are occasionally other kinds of comics, including comics in which Beaton visits her younger self, a few comics about a pony called "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Fat Pony]]", and a story about a sailor who meets a mermaid. There is little continuity and each comic is a standalone strip. Also, rather than use AltText, Beaton usually accompanies each comic with a short paragraph. ''Hark! A Vagrant'' can be found [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/ here]].

* OverlyLongTitle: ''{{Sense and Sensibility}} [[{{Pride and Prejudice}} and Mister Darcy]] [[{{ptitle5tvtdb76}} and Sharks]] [[RecycledInSpace In Space]] [[BadassBiker Riding Motorcycles]] [[TimeTravel Plus There Is a Time Machine]]''. JaneAusten [[INeedAFreakingDrink is not impressed]].