History Webcomic / NotAVillain

* TokenGoodTeammate: {{Deconstructed}}. Kleya wants to enter the game and become a Hero in a desperate attempt to prove to herself and the world that her real self can still be redeemed and do good. After years of struggling to get on the roster, her team immediately gets their group listed as Villainous because each of her partners was unable or unwilling to complete the introduction level without needless carnage, far counterbalancing the good karma Kleya herself got from a perfect ActualPacifist run. The realization that her one chance at making people see that she isn't a monster has been destroyed before she even had a chance to try due to the incompetence and spitefulness of others drives her to nearly RageQuit with near cataclysmic consequences.

* WinTheCrowd: InUniverse, Danni is actually getting some fans after her escape from Jane.

* ExactWords: As said in [[http://navcomic.com/not-a-villain/page-431/ Page 431]], in The Game, how quests operate, or possibly only player-made ones. This fact about them can make them UnintentionallyUnwinable, or possibly, if someone wants to mess up a Kesti, UnwinnableByDesign.

* ExactWords: As said in [[http://navcomic.com/not-a-villain/page-431/ Page 431]], in The Game, how quests operate, or possibly only player-made ones. This fact about them can make them UnwinnableByMistake, or possibly, if someone wants to mess up a Kesti, UnwinnableByDesign.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Dani is an extremely unpopular player, for reasons that are not her fault (for example, coming in because Waterman had been bumped by the team). Her DanceBattler fighting style and her surviving Jane's attack are earning her a couple of new fans, however.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: The Dude]] manages to take on a whole team of adversaries single handedly despite having never actually demonstrated any combat skills previously. While plenty of fans are [[IKnewIt not surprisd]] that he had more capability then demonstrated previously they are less pleased to be teased about that fact without seeing what he did or how he managed it.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[Spoiler: The Dude]] manages to take on a whole team of adversaries single handedly despite having never actually demonstrated any combat skills previously. While plenty of fans are [[IKnewIt not surprisd]] that he had more capability then demonstrated previously they are less pleased to be teased about that fact without seeing what he did or how he managed it.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[Spoiler The Dude]] manages to take on a whole team of advisaries single handedly despite having never actually demonstrated any combat skills previously. While plenty of fans are [[IKnewIt not surprisd]] that he had more capability then demonstrated previously they are less pleased to be teased about that fact without seeing what he did or how he managed it.

** When the dude does switch out of fool mood he [[spoiler takes on an entire team of assasins single handedly]], so it's fair to say he has some competence underlying his idiot persona.

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Kleya Smith is dedicated to role-playing a hero. In the comic's real life, she's a mass murderer and not entirely reformed.

* UnsoundEffect: These occur frequently in the comic.

''[[http://www.navcomic.com/ Not a Villain]]'' is a {{webcomic}} by Aneeka Richins, also the writer of ''[[Literature/ChaosGods The Wanted Child]]''. It tells the story of Kleya Smith, who is attempting to reform her hacker ways in a virtual world where hackers are executed on-spot.

* TheAce: Kleya really ''is'' so good that she has everyone suspecting who she truly is. This is deconstructed a couple of ways, though. She isn't actually ''invincible'' without hacking and there are counters to her strategies and Specials, though only a couple of players are shown to have either the skill or the intelligence to pull that off. And the other problem is that she's good at playing ''as an ace'', and she lacks the skills that players learn by playing at the bottom levels without being able to access high-level Specials or knowing how to gather an arsenal of combat plants.

* CastFromHitPoints: the Game allows {{Special|Attack}}s which [[PointBuildSystem move points between attributes]], allowing characters to cast from any attribute.

* YesNoAnswerInterpretation: In [[http://navcomic.com/not-a-villain/page-566/ Page 566]], Bandit takes Jane's silence as a yes for the rest of the party:
--> '''Bandit:''' Can we declare that means yes?\\

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Kimi makes it clear that if after murdering millions, including her own mother, Kleya seeks forgiveness, she'll kill Kleya herself.

* ThePromise: Kleya's mother made Jake promise that he wouldn't let Kleya's enemies find her. After failing once, he aims to keep that promise whether Kleya [[ForYourOwnGood likes it or not]].

* CatchPhrase: In her previous life, Kleya was fond of the phrase, "Everything goes boom!".

* WorldsBestCharacter: Multiple characters:

* WorldsBestCharacter: From [[http://navcomic.com/not-a-villain/page-229/ page 229]]: Bandit presumably "the best [programmer] in the world". Which Kat is angry at, because she's secretly truly the best.

* IMissMom: Kleya's mother is dead, [[spoiler:and it's Kleya's fault]].

* OlderThanTheyLook: Sandra is implied to be older than the appearance her avatar suggests; her husband is in his sixties and says that she retired a year before the Ending.

* ChildProdigy: Kleya was a hacking, and apparently gaming, prodigy as a child.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Kleya sometimes lapses into this.