History Webcomic / Nefarious

* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Dr. Cackle is given the coordinates to Apidae's last known location. In his mind, he was expecting a prison. What does he find? A psychiatric hospital with his beloved princess is now completely insane and cared for.]]

* RealityEnsues: As said in "[[http://nefariouslair.com/comic/it-came-from-the-wa-verse-p-7/ It Came from the Wa-Verse Page 7]]", Malachite may have ended a hundred year war when he usurped Tephra's reign, but Sukochi is on the verge of economic turmoil since its main income came from all that warmongering. Plus, nobody on the council is willing to help his kingdom out since they don't believe it could change that much overnight.
** Some of Crow's villainy retired siblings aren't in the best of places. After all, who would hire the kids of a major bad guy who willingly helped their old man? His sister Lark has even been sent to an insane asylum.

* TookALevelInBadass: Mayapple is now the hero of her own kingdom and does it quite well.
** Crow decided to start switching out his grenade arm for things like a giant spiked ball and a drill. He even manages to fight Mack evenly on foot while using the latter!
* TookALevelInJerkass: After losing his job to Mayapple, Mack's been reduced to a petty brute that wants nothing more than to see Crow dead.
** Foxglove takes one too many after Crow sells her out instead of taking her on as an apprentice.

* AppeaseTheVolcanoGod; Kyuutopian natives used to make volcano sacrifices, but for the purpose of rainmaking rather than appeasing a deity. Even Crow agrees this is "messed up".

* ShaggyDogStory: After several issues trying to fight for their freedom and independence, the Kyuutopians are ultimately happy to be [[spoiler:annexed by Mayapple and the Council of Virtue]] as they'd grown weary of the megalomania, madness, and anarchy that resulted in their attempts to keep their land.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At the start of "Prism" Mack has Mayapple and Wayapple in a SpotTheImposter situation with Mack being in his underwear, which raises the question what he was doing when he realized there is an impostor in the first place.

** Princess Foxglove is treated as such by her subjects, to the point where there's no hero for Kyuutopia because they'd gladly let a villain ''[[YouCanKeepHer keep]]'' her if the situation arose. She's actually much more benevolent than her subjects would believe, but neglecting the natives and cutting a deal with their invaders was only done to [[IDidWhatIHadToDo keep the kingdom out of the red]]. Having a ZeroApprovalRating from apparently everybody erodes her remaining benevolence and sanity. [[spoiler:It gets worse when she kidnaps Farrah Day and starts using her power to take over the world. Her people tell her they just want freedom, but Foxglove demands they go for world conquest. And then Farrah Day, who was meant to become a Robot Queen, goes DrunkWithPower.]]

** Emperor Hacken Slash is an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]], being a horned reptilian creature who rules over an empire of similar reptilian creatures. One of his minions, Yorsh, even resembles a buff [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland]].

*** And on that note, Rook mentions that they kept getting beaten up by "a fat carpenter" -- a reference to Mario's [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong earliest job]].

* DeathIsCheap: As the equivalent of a Video Game Protagonist in an RPG world, Mack is resurrected a few days after he is killed, thanks to his magic talking sword. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Foxglove, the sword is less than tolerant of 'hitchhikers', and initially plans on ''erasing her''.]]

** Princess Foxglove is treated as such by her subjects, to the point where there's no hero for Kyuutopia because they'd gladly let a villain ''[[YouCanKeepHer keep]]'' her if the situation arose. She's actually much more benevolent than her subjects would believe, but neglecting the natives and cutting a deal with their invaders was only done to [[IDidWhatIHadToDo keep the kingdom out of the red]]. [[spoiler:It gets worse when she kidnaps Farrah Day and starts using her power to take over the world. Her people tell her they just want freedom but Foxglove demands they go for world conquest.]]

** Some of Crow's villany retired siblings aren't in the best of places. After all, who would hire the kids of a major bad guy who willingly helped their old man? His sister Lark has even been sent to an insane asylum.

* CharacterDeath: After Foxglove launches an attack on Macro City, [[spoiler:she, Mack, and Farrah Day are killed when Mayapple activates the self-destruct of Foxglove's space station -- though Mayapple only intended to destroy Farrah]].

** Emperor Hacken Slash is an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]], being a horned reptilian creature who rules over an empire of similar reptilian creatures. One of his minions, Yorsh, even resembles a buff [[VideoGame/Yoshi|sIsland]].