History YMMV / Shortpacked

** Fuckface the iguana, despite simply sitting around with one facial expression. (This is usually in contrast to Malaya, who is [[TheScrappy less popular]].)

** Lucy, for both for her stance on superheroines and her chewing out of [[TheScrappy Malaya]].

** Malaya for some. Some find her grating and annoying and hate her constant bitching while contributing nothing. The fact that she was created as the result of a fan's bitching doesn't help matters.
** It really says something when her pet iguana, Fuckface, is a [[EnsembleDarkhorse vastly more popular character]] despite doing nothing but sitting around with the same facial expression.
** Roz also had this, with many of her appearances (Especially when she interacts with Jacob) causing fans to leave many negative comments for her.

%%* TakeThatScrappy: [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/low-hanging-fruit Lucy doesn't take Malaya's shit.]]
* VillainDecay:
** Though Mike was already showing a bit of a soft side in ''[[Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky It's Walky!]]'', his relationship with Amber sanded off more than a few of his rougher edges. He hasn't stopped being a jerk by any means, but his more manipulative, soul-crushing tendencies have largely disappeared. Not only was last big gambit only to convince Amber he was too big of a dick for her to be romantically involved with so she could be happy without him, not only did he need to be drunk to do it because "normal" Mike loved her too much to give her up, but it ''didn't even work.''
** Faz even moreso. A few months after his first appearance, he gradually lost any semblance of power and has been so thoroughly defanged that he can no longer plausibly threaten anybody. He's just a ButtMonkey now.

* AudienceAlienatingEra: The "Coming of the Second Eton" plot was so widely reviled that even Willis himself mocked it.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Willis doesn't tend to be very subtle about his points.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: And several times after that. Unsurprisingly, [[HeroicComedicSociopath Mike]] seems to spawn a lot of this.
-->'''Mike:''' Oh, like ''you've'' never sung the Ninja Turtles theme while raping somebody.
* DontShootTheMessage: The messages and morals expressed in the strips aren't bad, they just seem delivered in a poor manner.

* TheScrappy: Malaya for some. Some find her grating and annoying and hate her constant bitching while contributing nothing. The fact that she was created as the result of a fan's bitching doesn't help matters.

* TakeThatScrappy: [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/low-hanging-fruit Lucy doesn't take Malaya's shit.]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

** The punchline in the last panel of [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/a-36 this strip]] was made long before we found out about Amber's past.

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* DorkAge: The "Coming of the Second Eton" plot was so widely reviled that even Willis himself mocked it.

* UnfortunateImplications: The famous "False Equivalence" strip has a female character putting a StrawMisogynist in his place. However, [[http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Shortpacked#Downfall critics]] took umbrage with the fact that the strip generalized women to the point that it implied that all women prefer a certain body type. This is made worse by the fact that the mouthpiece for the strip used the phrase "female such as myself," which creates an air of "white knighting", considering the strip was penned by a straight male.

* WhatAnIdiot: In [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/ferdy-and-gabe Ferdy and Gabe]], Ken uses his Masterpiece Soundwave to homage certain G1 scenes where unsuspecting people would find Soundwave in his tape-recorder mode and take him into secure locations. Attempting to reenact this ends with a random person finding an unattended $250 toy and taking it home with them. Ken admits he didn't think that through.

* JustHereForGodzilla: There are a few who only know of the comic's existence because it parodied Frank Miller and Batman (and that one of its Batman memes was subsequently acknowledged by one of the ''[[VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame LEGO Batman]]'' games). They're often surprised that the comic has an actual plot and characters, and that most of the jokes in the strip ''aren't'' about Batman.

** Though Mike was already showing a bit of a soft side in ''[[RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky It's Walky!]]'', his relationship with Amber sanded off more than a few of his rougher edges. He hasn't stopped being a jerk by any means, but his more manipulative, soul-crushing tendencies have largely disappeared. Not only was last big gambit only to convince Amber he was too big of a dick for her to be romantically involved with so she could be happy without him, not only did he need to be drunk to do it because "normal" Mike loved her too much to give her up, but it ''didn't even work.''

* CrazyAwesome: '''Galasso.''' The man doesn't understand enough about biology to know the difference between a man and a woman, and yet he somehow managed to bring back Jesus Christ and Ronald Reagan from the dead purely to generate free publicity for his toy store.

** Then there's the backlash concerning his stopping the comic to use Roz as a mouthpiece to chastise the readers who were confused about the function of certain part of a dildo in a previous comic of ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge''. It's not so much the fact that the comic attempted to educate readers on the topic as it is [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=2086 the amount of condescension and calling them 12-year-olds for not knowing something that not all of them found useful]] (in-character or not).
** [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1556 The False Equivalence comic]] has fans divided. Some think Amber makes a good point about how both male and female characters alike are drawn to appeal to men, others feel that the bias she's supposing is nonexistent, and still others have raised other objections over how accurate the Batman Amber draws is to women's desires.

** Panel 6 of [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=817 this strip]]. Even though it's just a joke, it makes anyone who has the later strips cringe.
** The punchline in the last panel of [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=41this strip]] was made long before we found out about Amber's past.
** One [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=142 strip]] had Willis asking his readers to send him porn of Allison Mack. In 2018, Mack was arrested due to her involvement in recruiting for NXIVM, a cult accused of sex trafficking.

** In April of 2006, a [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=225 strip called Bingo was released]], which was about Ethan showing a Internet argument-losing bingo featuring overused and illogical internet arguments, and one of these arguments was "Claiming to represent the fandom as a whole". Then, five years later, in December 2, which strip was released? The [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1556 False Equivalence]] strip, in which Amber makes generalizations about male and female comic-book fans. Whoops.
** In an [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=272 early strip]] Ethan discusses re-run syndrome, and wonders which of the cast would stick around. Robin states it will obviously be her, but the strip suggests Ninja Rick. Cut to 2014, and Ethan and Amber have left Shortpacked, while Ninja Rick has faded into the background. Guess Robin was right.
** During a 2006 arc where Galasso wants to have his daughter, Conquest, produce a grandchild to continue his empire, [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=275 he goes to Robin]]. Robin responds by telling Galasso that she's "fairly confident that's impossible for me to do." Come 2014, and with the help of Rosenthal's technological skills, [[spoiler: Leslie impregnated Robin.]]

** Though it's not from the "main" storyline: "[[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace I'm Batman]] [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=7 and I can breathe in space.]]"
** "[[Creator/FrankMiller whoreswhores]][[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=183 whores]]". So pervasive is this meme that as soon as the Miller-directed ''The Spirit'' teaser trailer came out, most of the comments on [=YouTube=] were along the lines of "whores". The teaser didn't feature any actual whorelike behavior, but the actual trailer did. By then everyone had used up all their ammo.
** ''[[DeusAngstMachina Funky Cancercancer]]'' has become the accepted FanNickname for ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'' following the [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=445 parody strip]].
** [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=985 "For your information, Mike and I pound each other every night in the most epic of hatefucks."]] The line [[http://www.blanklabelcomics.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=10808 started a meme]] in which people would take panels from other comics and edit it in to see if it worked. Willis claimed in his blog that the Roadblock one was his favorite.
** [[ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws "I'm bored.]] [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1513 Show me your penis."]]

* OneSceneWonder: Buckets of Blood guy, a hilariously OTT parody of fans who want a DarkerAndEdgier, BloodierAndGorier, and HotterAndSexier upgrade to various franchises. He's gone on a few [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=63 graphic]] [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=891 lurid]] and [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1358 disturbing]] rants about how franchises need more "adult" content. [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=2077 He later got to write Future's End]]. He's only sparingly used, but when he does appear he leaves an impression.

* TakeThatScrappy: [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1736 Lucy doesn't take Malaya's shit.]]

* WhatAnIdiot: In [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1898 Ferdy and Gabe]], Ken uses his Masterpiece Soundwave to homage certain G1 scenes where unsuspecting people would find Soundwave in his tape-recorder mode and take him into secure locations. Attempting to reenact this ends with a random person finding an unattended $250 toy and taking it home with them. Ken admits he didn't think that through.

** Ken has had some divide between fans. They either feel he's a bland non-presence in the comic, or a grounding NiceGuy to contrast everyone's eccentricities. His attraction to Malaya and blindness to her faults makes get's him even more flak. Though, him abandoning his crush and cute relationship with Lucy has [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap redeemed]] him in the eyes of some fans.

* MagnificentBastard: Mike's [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1499 proposal]] to Amber.
** Mike IS this trope. He's capable of planning and executing extremely convoluted plans for the sole reason of pissing someone off and despite that most of the cast considers him a friend, with Amber and Ethan even up to a point of becoming a subject of desire. In fact, the above example is the only time his plan ends up not having the effect he expected, and even then due to actually trying to achieve something he thinks is [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy good for her]].