History Webcomic / Megatokyo

* SerialTweaker: Gallager seems to be an artistic version of this; next time you watch the live stream of him drawing the comic, try and count all of the time he goes back to redraw some minor detail that he's already drawn multiple times before.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Piro to Miho during their confrontation at the Cave of Evil:
--> "Do you even care?"
** And later on, [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1407 Kimiko to Miho]]. It causes the latter to reassess her entire worldview.
--> "What about what happens to you in ''his'' story?"

* {{GIRL}}: used straight, inverted then inverted ''again''. Miho struck up a relationship with Piro's female alter ego online, using a male avatar. [[spoiler:She revealed her true identity, letting him see photos of her when she was ill, then broke up with Piro by claiming [[{{GIRL}} she was a man]] after all and the photos were of someone else]]. Bad form, Miho, ''bad form''.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Or rather omninous, if you're Largo\

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Dom and Ed.

* ZettaiRyouiki:
** Just about every female character has had an A-grade at one time or another. And if you've clicked all the links on this page thus far, you've probably seen it for about half of them already (heck, Kimiko's got it in the page image here). [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1103 Here's one more for you.]]
** Also, Piro's online avatar, [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/229 Pirogoeth]].

Has gained a great deal of infamy for its [[ScheduleSlip erratic schedule]], along with the [[FillerStrips Dead Piro Days (DPDs)]] and stick-figure Shirt Guy Dom (SGD) comics (a takeoff on the "Shirt Guy Tom" comics from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'').

In 2013 creator Fred Gallagher launched a [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fredrin/megatokyo-visual-novel-game Kickstarter]] for a Visual Novel game based on the comic. The funding request was wildly successful but for a variety of reasons the game never shipped and now appears abandoned. Gallagher continues to publish new Megatokyo comics as of 2020.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Or rather omninous, if you're Largo
* CityOfWeirdos: Invading hordes, HumongousMecha, and Rent-A-Zillas are so common that no one is surprised any more.
** It's worth noting that most people [[InvisibleToNormals don't notice these things]].

* HairDecorations: [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/970 Piroko]], [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/748 Yuki]], [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1078 Miho]]... well probably all of them, really.

Creator Fred Gallagher is now working on a VisualNovel based on the comic. [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fredrin/megatokyo-visual-novel-game The project]] reached its initial Website/{{Kickstarter}} funding goal in ''[[https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/fredrin/megatokyo-visual-novel-game/ 3 hours!]]''

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[-[[caption-width-right:325:From left to right, foreground: Kimiko, Erika, Largo, and Piro. From left to right, background: Ed, Junpei, Ping, Miho, Seraphim, and Dom.]]-]

One of the most successful {{webcomics}} around, and one of the easiest to find in brick-and-mortar bookstores, ''[[http://www.megatokyo.com MegaTokyo]]'' is also one of the most confusing. The story starts off when two [[OccidentalOtaku American video game otaku]] -- Piro and Largo -- hop on a one-way flight to Japan, then find themselves unable to get back after a credit-card-maxing shopping spree.

** [[https://megatokyo.com/strip/1557 "You did just fine. Until you quit, you stupid twonk."]] And immediately in the strip afterwards [[https://megatokyo.com/strip/1558 "Why are you uncovering her and why are you doing her voice?"]] And suddenly [[spoiler: Moeko and Erika]] become alot more interesting.

* AscendedMeme: Largo [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1262 took out several blocks of the Tokyo power grid]] with a '''weaponized {{Rickroll}}'''.

* RickRoll: [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1262 On a Largo-scale.]]

* LogicBomb: ''Averted'' in at least [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/707 one instance]]. Ping is momentarily frozen since two equally important people need her help, but she works through it logically and quickly reaches a conclusion. [[YouFailLogicForever It was the wrong conclusion]], [[JustifiedTrope but that's because she started with a flawed basis]] (Piro didn't need help anywhere near [[BreakTheCutie as much as Miho did]]).

** And the black sheep of the Franchise/{{Gamera}} family.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Fred loves to load up his backgrounds with these. This [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/670 page]] is an excellent example, and also includes a subtle example of BreadEggsBreadedEggs[[note]] Chasing fans with a forklift, while wearing a bunny-suit, then with a forklift while wearing a bunny-suit[[/note]].

** And there's also ''[[http://www.projectafterforums.com/index.php?showtopic=1287 Negatokyo]]''.

Fred is now working on a VisualNovel based on the comic. [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fredrin/megatokyo-visual-novel-game The project]] reached its initial Website/{{Kickstarter}} funding goal in ''[[https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/fredrin/megatokyo-visual-novel-game/ 3 hours!]]''

One of the most successful {{webcomics}} around, and one of the easiest to find in brick-and-mortar bookstores, ''[[http://www.megatokyo.com Megatokyo]]'' is also one of the most confusing. The story starts off when two [[OccidentalOtaku American video game otaku]] -- Piro and Largo -- hop on a one-way flight to Japan, then find themselves unable to get back after a credit-card-maxing shopping spree.

!!''Megatokyo'' contains examples of:

* AlternateUniverse: Often, between the chapters there will be a short story with the Megatokyo characters in different settings, such as in [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/731 Circuity]] or [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/973 unMod]].

* FillerStrip: Dead Piro Day. Also, there are short "omake" stories using Megatokyo characters in popular anime or original stories Fred wrote himself. The ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' one strongly insinuates that the "omakes" are [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Ping's dreams]].

* RuleThirtyFour: Early in the run, Fred (in)famously said that if he saw porn of Megatokyo characters, he would stop producing the comic. As it turns out, this declaration only dissuaded his fan base, whereas it served as ''incentive'' for the sizable population who dislike Megatokyo.
** He has apparently since dropped this threat ever since A) it became clear most of the folks doing it were just trying to get him to cancel the comic, and B) his own NSFW artwork was brought to light.

* ScheduleSlip: There's a reason Megatokyo fans are widely considered some of the most patient and forgiving people in the webcomic world. Megatokyo is in the running for the distinction of being the most notorious still-ongoing webcomic example of the phenomenon, especially since the birth of Gallagher's son.

** In the fifth collection of Megatokyo, Gallagher [=FINALLY=] detailed [[WordOfGod his explanation for this phenomenon]]: "[[http://wikitokyo.org/wiki/What_is_Megatokyo_all_about%3F ...the main theme of Megatokyo is how everyone has different perceptions of the world around them...]]" Everyone sees the world slightly differently. Piro and Largo are on the extreme ends of the scale--Piro only sees "mundane" things (and dismisses the fantastic things as mundane things) and [[CrazyAwesome Largo]] only [[CloudCuckooLander sees "fantastic" things]], and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation comes up with fantastic explanations for the mundane things he sees]]. Everyone else is somewhere else on this scale, nearly always between those two extremes. In this world, there are no {{Muggles}}: Piro can't see Largo's world and Largo can't see Piro's world, and they both think the other is crazy. [[spoiler:It's only through gradual immersion that Piro finally ends up dealing with the horde after Miho.]]

** Waltah, the bartender from Cave of Evil is an obvious reference to to a certain buttler from {{Hellsing}}, right down to his dress and hairstyle.

-->'''Masamichi'': Why the hell is the alarm turned off on this thing???\\
'''underling'': Because yours is always going off, sir?

Fred is now working on a VisualNovel based on the comic. [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fredrin/megatokyo-visual-novel-game The project]] reached its initial {{Kickstarter}} funding goal in ''[[https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/fredrin/megatokyo-visual-novel-game/ 3 hours!]]''

* ExtendedDisarming: Yuki and Largo in the [=unMod=] omake.