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| 4 | {{Brick Joke}}s in webcomics. |
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| 7 | * ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'': Junior mentions that it smelled like an old Arab woman [[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=55 here]], leading to a small serial about whether or not he had been at CN Tower. [[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=167 Later, when he tries to smoke the grass...]] |
| 8 | * ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' deserves a trophy for this kind of thing, containing several throwaway gags that get brought back years after they were first told. |
| 9 | ** In the [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/20/episode-007-kamehameha-or-something/ 7th strip]], Black Mage is reading a ''Nintendo Power'' magazine. [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2010/02/20/episode-1221-longest-set-up-in-webcomic-history/ 9 years and over 1,200 strips later]], the joke is referenced in the biggest Anti-Climax of the series (CAREFUL, MASSIVE SPOILERS ON THIS). The title? "Longest Set Up In Webcomic History". |
| 10 | ** The Armor of Invincibility, something mentioned in the very first strip, is brought back up again in the ''very last strip'', a grand total of 1,225 strips later, though this also has heavy flavours of BookEnds. |
| 11 | ** Thief got his class-up by stealing it from his future self. During the final confrontation with Sarda, the other Light Warriors had their powers taken away by Sarda, while Thief had his stolen by his past self. |
| 12 | * In ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', a few pages in "There Is A Raptor In My Office," Doc makes a few mentions about how diabetics [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p2/ are]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p5/ always]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p24/ whining]]. Five years later, during "Futures Trading," Doc's clinic gets shut down because everyone thinks he's dead, and there's [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p104/ a whiny diabetic outside the clinic as it shuts down.]] |
| 13 | * ''Webcomic/BatmanWayneFamilyAdventures'': |
| 14 | ** The first episode, "Moving In", has Damian claim to Duke during his tour of Wayne Manor that the dinosaur in the Batcave eats intruders, with Duke being disappointed when Bruce tells him later that Damian was just joking. In episode 20, "Daydreaming", Duke activates the cave's defenses when ninjas suddenly invade it, causing the dinosaur to come to life and eat the intruders... only for Duke to once again be disappointed when he realizes it was AllJustADream. |
| 15 | ** Episode 11, "Not It", has Batman passing off his D-list villains to the rest of the Batfamily, of which includes [[EdibleAmmunition Condiment King]], much to their dismay as the condiments he uses tend to end up ruining their suits. After successfully passing off the job to Nightwing, Batman admits that he hates fighting Condiment King as much as the rest of them do. Jump ahead to episode 77, "Suit Up", which involves Batwoman having to pick up a new suit for Batman after the one he's wearing got ruined in a fight. Who was he fighting? Condiment King. |
| 16 | ** Episode 78, "Outlaws", begins with Red Hood bringing the Outlaws to the Batcave for the first time, with Artemis noting that the place is almost as dramatic as Jason is, leading him to protest that description of himself. At the end of the chapter, Jason asks if him and the Outlaws are ever leaving the mansion, leading Alfred to tell him to not be so dramatic, causing Jason to protest once again. |
| 17 | ** "Daydreaming" involves Duke falling asleep during one of Bruce's lectures, with this one specifically being the explanation of Emergency Plan M-02, [[CrazyPrepared the plan for an event in which Gotham is overrun by an army of Man-Bats]]. While this may initially seem like just a MythologyGag to the times in which this has actually happened in other Batman media, it becomes a case of this trope when the "Hold the Line" [[MultiPartEpisode two-parter]] roles around, which is based around an army of Man-Bats invading Gotham. |
| 18 | * In ''Webcomic/TheBedfellows'' strip "Next Door", Sheen wakes Fatigue up to "take care of a problem," which Fatigue takes to mean his RagingStiffie. Sheen meant the noise next door, but he tells Fatigue to keep going. In the next scene, Fatigue knocks on the door with a hand covered in a [[{{Squick}} dubious, white substance]]. |
| 19 | * In [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2011/12/05/383-nepotism/ this]] ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' comic, Daisy catches Wiggler and Lakitu trying to get special privileges from their brethren in ''VideoGame/MarioKart7''. [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/386-hotstuff/ Three comics later...]] |
| 20 | * ''Webcomic/BronzeSkinInc'': Early in Chapter 7, the Marvires are sent flying by the Saci and disappear into ATwinkleInTheSky, only falling back down near the end. |
| 21 | * ''Webcomic/BugMartini'' has a little one when the author decides to [[http://www.bugmartini.com/comic/how-to-be-an-artist/ take a break from fart jokes]] and, some strips later, [[http://www.bugmartini.com/comic/heavenly-hyperbole/ this happens.]] |
| 22 | * In ''Webcomic/TheChosenFour'', during the fight with the Trillionage Sprout, the senile boss calls Ness "Billy". Later it is shown that Trillionage Sprout was actually mistaking Ness for Shroom, whom he had a close relationship with. |
| 23 | * ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' plays this very straight with their comics about [[Literature/WheresWaldo Waldo]]. For those who don't want to experience the comic front to back, they introduce him [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/409/ here]], he returns [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/418/ about a week later]], and then again [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1282/ two and a half years later]]. |
| 24 | * In ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', [[PresidentEvil Chancellor]] [[CloudCuckoolander Valorum]] mentions [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0139.html wanting to turn people into cyborgs]] under his command. [[spoiler:[[WhamLine In Episode III, General Grievous]] [[ArcWelding reveals himself to be Valorum]] [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0466.html with a similar line.]]]] |
| 25 | * ''Webcomic/DemonseedRedux'': |
| 26 | ** When Dee starts feeling unwell her friends think she's pregnant. Later when she confirms it, turns out they've made a SideBet between themselves. |
| 27 | ** Hal owns an old brickphone with bulging buttons, which gets mocked. Later Mama Baga comments that he has called her 6 times by accident. |
| 28 | * ''Webcomic/DICETheCubeThatChangesEverything'': When Jieun and Dongtae meet for the first time, she rescues him by giving just one Dice, and he promises to repay her. Near the finale when it's not even needed, he gives her one Dice just to be polite. |
| 29 | * In [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=100 this]] ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' strip, T-Rex forgets his wallet on the moon. 323 strips later, we get the AltText ("hey, my wallet's here") to [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=423 this strip]]. |
| 30 | * ''Webcomic/DragonBallMultiverse'': [[spoiler:Dabura]] reappears many chapters after last being seen, having been healed by [[spoiler:Majin Buu]] offscreen after offering him some candy, the same candy [[spoiler:Majin Buu]] had conjured during the lunch break too. |
| 31 | * ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'' had a gag in Chapter 14 -- [[http://dragondoctors.dhscomix.com/archives/comic/ch-14-page-17-bw Sarin's suggestion to Aki]] that [[spoiler:she might want to turn into a man again to conceive a child with Goro]], one which is [[LuminescentBlush too embarrassing to contemplate]] -- return in Chapter 20, but was [[http://dragondoctors.dhscomix.com/archives/comic/ch-20-page-37 too adorable for words, instead.]] |
| 32 | * In chapter 7 of ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', Chrys'tel was seen wearing [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=4864 a set of black and red clothing]], and after she's captured, [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=4996 Ariel takes them]] in chapter 8 in order to impersonate Chrys'tel, though she never wound up using them. Then in Chapter 30, ''22 chapters later'', [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7625 they're worn by]] [[spoiler:Diva'ratrika, her ''grandmother'', who, due to plot-important reasons, now looks the same age]], which later results in [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7775 a hilarious payoff]]. |
| 33 | * In ''Webcomic/DumbRWBY'', one strip after Volume 3 has Ruby declare to the remains of Team JNPR that Pyrrha would always be with them, especially in their lungs. In one strip set in Volume 7 has [[spoiler:Penny]] ask where Pyrrha was. Ruby responds by coughing out Pyrrha's ashes. |
| 34 | * In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Dan Shive will often include links to prior strips whose subject matter was referenced underneath the new chapters. As can be expected, several of these point out Brick Jokes, while some of them are Bricks of the [[InvokedTrope Invoked variety]]. |
| 35 | ** In a [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=373 Night Out comic strip]] written in 2003, Nanase claims that "Hair doesn't just spontaneously change color." Later, in a [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1024 Sister II strip]] written in 2009, Nanase eats her words while lying in a hospital bed with spontaneously changed hair color. |
| 36 | ** In a [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=240 strip from 2002]], Greg yells, "Where the hell did that sword come from?" This question isn't answered until eight years later in [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1098 this strip]] from 2010. |
| 37 | ** Elliot first hides inside his [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=24 Coat of Solitude]] in 2002. It [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1189 appears again]] nearly nine years later. |
| 38 | * In ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', Scary Mary gives a [[http://eheroes.thecomicseries.com/comics/187/ seemingly senseless rant]] which turned out to be an accurate prediction of the future. Although the events took place only a few weeks later in comic time, in real time they were published over '''four years''' later. |
| 39 | * ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'' does this during its first storyline. The bad guys expect the inquisition to barge in with a popular Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition quote.]] They briefly [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2003-11-14/comic/meet-the-crew/not-this-time lampshade it,]] then leave it hanging for ''[[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2007-10-27/comic/black-and-white/timing-is-everything four years.]]'' |
| 40 | * On page ten of ''Webcomic/FinalFantasyVIITheSevening'', Cloud, upon learning that GP has changed to Gil, dumps all the accumulated GP he's gained from six generations of ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' titles. Over a year and exactly 200 pages later, the party reaches the Gold Saucer, and he asks Aries why she let him toss his GP, before she delivers the punchline to another Brick Joke, regarding him paying for the flower she gave him. |
| 41 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': |
| 42 | ** In the second issue, Agatha encounters a brain-damaged spark experimented on by Baron Wulfenbach, who appears terrified that the baron might discover [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031210 his bears]]. Over a decade later, it turns out that he [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150220 wasn't talking about his toy bears]]. |
| 43 | ** A long time after Agatha seems convinced that her [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050427 battle merry-go-round]] is too dangerous to construct, Bang is diagnosed by Doctor Sun with a concussion for explaining that her injuries were sustained while [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070402 destroying a merry-go-round.]] |
| 44 | --->'''Agatha:''' It could be a really ''evil'' town... |
| 45 | ** In the Cinderella special, the "evil stepmother" comments that Agatha could win the kingdom with a dead rat and a houseplant. At the end, she bribes the king, a cat, with a dead rat and potted catnip. |
| 46 | --->'''Evil stepmother:''' [[IKnewIt Hy]] ''[[IKnewIt knew]]'' [[IKnewIt hit!]] |
| 47 | ** The Red Heterodyne sandwich in [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100524 "Maxim Buys a Hat"]] apparently refers to the time that ancestor invaded the Unseen Empire, and took two years getting back to the surface because he had developed [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060712 "a taste for bat sandvitches"]] |
| 48 | ** Gil throws Othar out of an airship, and when Agatha gets mad, he assures her that once she gets to know Othar, she'll do the same. An hour later, she does, and mentions, "I owe Gil an apology." About ten chapters later, she gives it to him. |
| 49 | --->'''Agatha:''' I got so mad at you, and then, within the hour, I threw him out an airship too!\ |
| 50 | '''Gil:''' And you felt bad for throwing—\ |
| 51 | '''Agatha:''' I felt bad for yelling at you! |
| 52 | ** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071214 "What hyu need is a big hat vit hyu name on it."]] And, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080514 sure enough...]] |
| 53 | ** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110325 "But why are there mechanical squid in the cistern?"]] Well, two years and two volumes [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090703 earlier...]] |
| 54 | ** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050420 Steam-powered feet?]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111019 Steam-powered feet!]] |
| 55 | ** Remember the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130710 guard slime]]? Someone [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130805 isn't so savvy]]. |
| 56 | ** Another that is took over a decade of real time to come to fruition. During her time in the circus, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050323 Agatha attracts the attention of two Geisterdamen on patrol]], who leave her alone after concluding that she's just an actress. Eleven years later, she runs into the exact same pair in Paris and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161007 gets recognized.]] |
| 57 | ** In the kitchen of Saint Szpac, Tybalt loses his armor to the Beast, and Martellus promises to make him a new suit that is [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141128 "red with bells and tassels".]] A little while later, Tybalt shows up to Grandma's masquerade ball wearing new armor... which is, indeed, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170104 red with bells and tassels.]] |
| 58 | ** Many years of real time ago, and two and a half years in-universe, Tarvek revealed that he'd [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060906 built a failsafe]] into his Avenka clank; at "Avenka- Freeze!" the clank would stop moving (but still be able to speak). Among other things, this allowed him to replace the "Avenka" head with one containing a copy of the Other. In a strip from the "Tarvek is Justifiably Proud" [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191014 segment]], the clank-Other is attacking... and "Avenka- Freeze!" still works. |
| 59 | * Early in ''Webcomic/GoGetARoomie'', [[http://www.gogetaroomie.com/index.php?id=91 Aggie tells Lillian about Roomie's "weakspot"]] ("Her back is like a ''huge cli-''" "Clicking button that turns her on and off?" "One more than the other, but you get the idea!"). Later, [[http://www.gogetaroomie.com/index.php?id=420 when Roomie is singing and wakes Lillian up, Lillan touches her back, saying "Off"]]. Still later, [[http://www.gogetaroomie.com/index.php?id=495 Woc tries to talk to Roomie while giving her a back massage]]. |
| 60 | * In ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'', this is a common theme among several comic strips of the ''Grand Blues'' series. A joke will sometimes get continuations in future strips, along with a written reference to the strip number of the comic where the joke was previously mentioned or used. A few examples are as follows: |
| 61 | ** Narmaya getting knocked over by the "sister" power of Tien, and other sister characters revive her in a later comic strip. |
| 62 | ** Danua, Anna, and Io take turns in certain comic strips telling horror stories to Lyria and Ferry. |
| 63 | * In ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-254-sydneys-auditing-a-class-at-acme-looniversity/ Sydney reacts]] to a BOOM in a way that Harem doesn't understand at all. The penny finally drops for her 271 pages later (2 years and 7 months of real time) when a [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-525-tropelock/ similar maneuver is performed]], and Sydney immediately mocks her for how long it took. |
| 64 | * ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': Kat tries to ask Saslamel's interpreter if they can do anything about Annie being shifted, but [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2162 they say]], "Sorry, this really is not our department. You need temporal affairs." Several chapters later, Annie and Kat meet the Norns; Annie asks them if they can do anything about her situation, only to [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2350 get the response]]: "Sorry, we only deal with temporal affairs." |
| 65 | -->'''TheRant:''' Bureaucrats! |
| 66 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': |
| 67 | ** Dave created his first [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003729 UNREAL AIR]] in Act 4, after which it promptly floated away. Six months pass and it's mentioned in [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004736 a conversation]] between Dave and Davesprite as probably winding up on Skaia eventually. Six months after that, [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005845 it finally does]]. |
| 68 | ** Andrew Hussie [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004387 compares himself]] to the kid from ''Film/TheNeverendingStory''. Then he [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004970 lives]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004971 the]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004974 dream]]. |
| 69 | ** The "What Pumpkin" running gag has been around since Jail Break. [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006122 After over 6000 updates, it turns out Jake was behind it]]...[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006333 although Roxy might have had something to do with it too.]] |
| 70 | ** Right after Dave was introduced, he considers [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002216 bleating like a goat for ironic purposes]]. No less than ''3960'' pages (and 2½ years) later, Brobot bleats like a goat for [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006176 strategic]] and [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006177 ironic]] purposes. |
| 71 | ** [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001972 John is mentioned]] to have a [[PlotAllergy peanut allergy.]] This never comes up until [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006305 about 4000 pages later]], where it turns out Jake[[spoiler:, John's AlternateUniverse relative,]] shares the same allergy. |
| 72 | ** 01/09/12 gives us the second longest example in the comic. On [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001932 page 32]], John talks about a book of his that is so heavy, it could kill a cat if dropped. Cut to 01/09/12, almost three years later, and [[spoiler:Roxy attempts to prove to Jane]] that she has an appearifier by appearifying the very same book. Right on top of her pet cat. |
| 73 | ** In Hivebent, some of the trolls use "special stardust" to try and fix up things around them. Turns out [[spoiler:it doesn't have any special properties whatsoever. But it is a Cherub's favorite snack.]] |
| 74 | ** The longest one to date: one of the very first commands in Homestuck was for John to [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001905 retrieve his arms]], and now, 5th of april 2013, using the "ultimate weapon", [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=008004 John's]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=008005 arms]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=008006 are]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=008007 everywhere]]. |
| 75 | ** Also happens in the fanworks. [[http://shubbabang.tumblr.com/post/31354283776/what-if-the-trolls-suddenly-lived-on-earth-for This fancomic]], for example, has an amusement park strength tester bell get shot into the stratosphere by [[SuperStrength Equius]]; in the final panel, it makes its reappearance. |
| 76 | * Early in ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', we get a visual representation of a "wandering thread" as a squiggly line that emerges from a computer and leaves the house. Months later, it comes back for Thanksgiving. |
| 77 | * ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'' does this with rectal itching (really...). First time round is in Laser Pony's origin story, with the payoff a couple of frames later... months later, Maroon Jackdaw appears to have the same issue... |
| 78 | * ''Webcomic/LeftoverSoup'': |
| 79 | ** In the first act of the comic, Jamie [[http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=10 reconstitutes rice crispies]] into rice as a way to show how good he is at cooking. Better than 500 comics later, it is used as a punch line [[http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=555 here.]] The explanation's on the next page. [[spoiler: He actually took it out of a homemade hacky sack he had in his pocket.]] |
| 80 | ** [[http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=384 Jamie's wall art]] for [[http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=385 the bathroom at his and Ellen's place]] [[http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=468 assumes a viewer of a particular height.]] |
| 81 | * In ''Webcomic/LottaSvardWomenOfWar'', Helle once tells a scary story in which a Russian spy turns out to have worn a mask and actually looks like a troll beneath it. Several chapters later, Taimi gets to meet a Russian captive and muses that he looks nothing like Helle's description. |
| 82 | * [[http://www.maniccomics.com/blog/2011/08/15/come-fly-with-me/ These]] [[http://www.maniccomics.com/blog/2011/08/19/come-fly-with-me-part2/ two]] strips of the TabletopGame/{{Chess}} based web comic series ''maniccomics''. |
| 83 | * ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'': "[[Film/ThreeHundred When Spartans]] [[WarGod play Gay Chicken]], [[http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/529 they play]] [[http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/910 for keeps.]]" So sayeth Commander Badass. [[http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/938 There's even a conclusion to the game.]] [[spoiler:Leondias concedes defeat to Kratos so that Leondias can return to his wife and son, but it's a PyrrhicVictory, as Kratos is reminded that he no longer has a family.]] |
| 84 | * ''Webcomic/MenageA3'': In an [[http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/two_airbags early strip]], Gary imagines [=DiDi=] tied up with a video game controller. [[http://www.menagea3.net/strips-ma3/bad_amazon_bad 585 strips later]]... (Borderline NSFW) |
| 85 | * ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'': Chiaki's tour of the Grand Arcane Library starts with Verity [[https://mis.thecomicseries.com/comics/26/ pointing out the bathroom closest to Room P-1]]. Later on, Keegan [[https://mis.thecomicseries.com/comics/34/ enthusiastically mentions said bathroom]] when his tour group reunites with Chiaki's. |
| 86 | * ''Webcomic/{{Nedroid}}'': |
| 87 | ** The AltText in the last page of the [[http://nedroid.com/2010/10/robotginald-8/ Robotginald story arc]] references Reginald's supposedly [[http://nedroid.com/2009/07/my-nickname-sledgehammer/ full name]]. |
| 88 | ** In [[http://nedroid.com/2009/08/decisions-decisions/ one strip]] from 2009, Reginald remarks that to Harrison that Beartato once ate a Frisbee. In [[http://nedroid.com/2014/12/frisbeartato/ this comic]] from 2014, Harrison, much to Reginal'd protest, throws a Frisbee at Beartato, who eats it. |
| 89 | * In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0233.html this episode]] of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Elan saves the day with a magic item abandoned as 'useless' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0009.html 224 strips earlier]]. |
| 90 | ** Also, a Cleric realizes his [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0456.html mistake]] far too [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0486.html late]]. A blink and you'll miss it gag. |
| 91 | --> Belkar: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0421.html How did you ever get so many Potions of Heroism?]] |
| 92 | --> V: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0135.html Do not ask.]] |
| 93 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0136.html Waited 837 strips]], [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0942.html to drop this one.]] |
| 94 | ** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0331.html strip 331]], Roy, attempting to phrase his question as exactly as possible so the Oracle can't screw him over, asks whether Xykon will be at Girard's Gate or Kraagor's Gate first, forgetting that there's a ''third'' gate. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0899.html Strip 899]], in which Xykon, having conquered the Azure Empire, tortured the Sapphire Guard, searched for his phylactery, and done a few other errands, ''finally'' arrives at Girard's Gate, is called "Prophecy Fulfilled". |
| 95 | ** In [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0966.html strip 966]] Elan and Belkar spoke of a last merchant who only sell basic potions waiting in a room before the final battle, cue [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1201.html strip 1201]]... |
| 96 | ** Possibly setting a new record for longest real-world time for a brick joke, a character used in a single-panel gag in [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0032.html strip 32]] returns 1206 strips and 17 years later in [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1238.html strip 1238]]. |
| 97 | ** [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0784.html Strip 784]] (2011) introduces an allosaurus that is later tamed and in [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0926.html strip 926]] (2013) polymorphed into a tiny lizard. The tiny lizard stays with the Order for 11 real life years until returning aggressively in [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1298.html strip 1298]] (2024). |
| 98 | %%** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0202.html Stop oppressing my culture,]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0779.html you ethnocentric bitch!]] |
| 99 | %%*** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0895.html Stop suppressing our rupture, you electroreceptive niche!]] |
| 100 | * ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'': |
| 101 | ** Ozy and Millie get into a friendly VolleyingInsults competition with haiku, which they dub "Haiku Slam." A year later, they do the same thing with Iambic Pentameter. Millie is losing and tries to turn the tide with a haiku slam. |
| 102 | ---> Ozy: "That was last year" |
| 103 | ** In a smaller example, Millie has a DreamSequence in which her homework comes to life. It mocks the fact that she put down Budapest as the Capital of Finland. When she wakes up, her mom informs her that Budapest is not the capital of Finland. |
| 104 | * In [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/01/05/ the installment]] of ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' that introduced TheMerch, the keen insight he gives is "I fucked your dad!". Guess what he says to SantaClaus at [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/30 the end]] of the Christmas arc featuring him. |
| 105 | * ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}'': |
| 106 | ** In the AltText of a strip, after Mike gives Tiffany a computer, Sky says that next time she sees him, she's going to [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2010/04/05 punch him in the face.]] [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2011/03/04 333 strips later]], she does. |
| 107 | ** When Bud said that he would put [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2013/04/30 crayons in the closet and forget them]], he [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2013/06/07 wasn't kidding]]. Bonus points for the joke spanning multiple months. |
| 108 | * In the ''Webcomic/{{PVP}}'' strip for [[http://pvponline.com/comic/2000/01/24/mon-jan-24/ January 24th 2000]], Brett "predicts" that Francis will lose his virginity on May 24th 2008. In the strips for [[http://pvponline.com/comic/2008/05/23/falling-down/ May 23rd]] and [[http://pvponline.com/comic/2008/05/26/change 26th 2008]]... |
| 109 | * ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' does a quick and somewhat backwards one [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2209 here.]] An initially pointless anecdote about disgusting smoothies is made, and the comic veers off in another direction. Just when you think it's over, [[CordonBleughChef someone orders a smoothie]]. |
| 110 | ** In December 2009, [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1557 Pintsize launches a jet-powered Roomba out the window.]] [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3101 Six years later, it comes back.]] |
| 111 | ** The latest one yet: The missing invisible emu, lost in [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4066 Strip 4066]], [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4075 Winslow found him by chance!]] |
| 112 | * ''Webcomic/{{Qxlkbh}}'': |
| 113 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/16 16: the brick joke]] mentions this trope by name in the title and plays with it too: Andrew throws a boomerang. A cueball [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that the boomerang might come back in 500 strips... and then the boomerang hits them. The title text implies that the cueball will return within 500 strips, though. |
| 114 | ** [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/40 40: phone - part 7]] claims that the [[spoiler:somewhat anticlimactic]] ending of the phone plotline will be explained in 15 strips. [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/55 Exactly 15 strips later]], La Croix explains that [[spoiler:the authors couldn't write a good ending]]. |
| 115 | * ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'' Three years and over 200 comics later, Norway brings up the "marriage" that happened in the very first comic. |
| 116 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has a good one: Schlock complains of not getting to use his line about [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-06-18 'committing suicide when [it] saw him coming.']] Lo, one incident with Creomar insurrectionists and [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-11-09 a plasma grenade later...]] Not the first ''or'' last one; in fact, Howard Tayler seems to ''love'' this setup, based on how often he uses it. |
| 117 | * ''Webcomic/{{Sequential Art}}'': |
| 118 | ** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1 Strip 1]] to [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=519 Strip 519]] to [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1000 Strip 1000]], a twelve year/thousand strip BrickJoke. |
| 119 | ** [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=398 Noodle Incident]] turned nine year [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1021 Brick Joke]] |
| 120 | * Near the beginning of ''Webcomic/{{Shadowgirls}}'', a trio of {{Jerk Jock}}s attempt to rape Becka, and are stopped only [[MuggingTheMonster by the timely awakening of her Shadowchild powers]]. Fast-forward to the epilogue, and [[http://www.shadowgirlscomic.com/comics/book-1/chapter-8-epilogue/epilogue-part-two/ it appears]] [[http://www.shadowgirlscomic.com/comics/book-1/chapter-8-epilogue/epilogue-part-three/ that Becka's mom]] [[http://www.shadowgirlscomic.com/comics/book-1/chapter-8-epilogue/epilogue-part-eight/ wasn't quite finished with them...]] |
| 121 | * ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'': |
| 122 | ** Eight years after her [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/free first appearance]] in a one-off gag, the "That means it's free, right?" woman returns in a [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/free-3 storyline]] about Sydney Yus. |
| 123 | ** Sydney Yus herself is a Brick Joke, starting off as a [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/what one-off gag]] that convinced Robin she needed to pull the Drama Tag, then [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/sydney reappearing unexpectedly]] two years later, before becoming a recurring character. |
| 124 | ** A [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/rerun 2006 strip]] suggested that by 2015, ''Shortpacked!'' would be entirely about Ninja Rick killing spiders. The strip actually ''ended'' in January 2015, but the final storyline [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/blowhole does indeed involve Ninja Rick killing spiders]]. |
| 125 | * ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': |
| 126 | ** [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/010602 June 2]] and [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/010817 August 17]], 2001 (the ship in the second strip is the crotch of the megarobot GOFOTRON) |
| 127 | ** In the ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' parody, Riff is annoyed that a certain drop only happens when you kill ''female'' Green Slimeblobs, and he's having trouble distinguishing between the male and female ones. After Zoe is talked into playing, she gets annoyed that every female in the game is a {{Stripperiffic}} hottie, even the races whose males are grotesque. [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/080813 Including, apparently, the Green Slimeblobs.]] |
| 128 | -->'''Riff''': "In retrospect, why the hell didn't I notice that sooner?" |
| 129 | * ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'': |
| 130 | ** A ''very'' [[https://somethingpositive.net/comic/enter-davan-and-peejee/ early example of Daven's jerkishness]] [[https://somethingpositive.net/comic/old-familiar-faces-xii-pt-5/ comes back to bite him]]... ''twelve years later.'' |
| 131 | ** A hilariously unintentional one just showed up in a filler comic, in [[Main/RealLife Real Life]] no less. In Milholland's secondary [[Main/GagPerDayWebcomics single-panel one-shot comic series]], "Rhymes With Witch," he [[Main/StealthPun conceived]] of a [[http://www.rhymes-with-witch.com/rww02062011.shtml "Boogeyman for Adults" called "The Condom Kitty," who secretly pokes holes in contraceptives.]] Six years later, back on his main comic, [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp01062017.shtml he tells his readers that he discovered his own cat doing the very same thing.]] [[Main/OhCrap And now he's terrified what ELSE the cat might learn from his comic . . . .]] |
| 132 | %%* ''Webcomic/{{Spacetrawler}}'': Russian tea cookies. Also kind of Nogg's promise to Martina, but that isn't really funny... |
| 133 | * ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'' has the outcome of two different set-ups on the same page: |
| 134 | ** On page 187, some poor guy who's labelling packing crates is hit on the head by a mirror flung by Emil, and consequently attaches the wrong label to the wrong crates. On page 280 we discover the consequences when the crates are finally opened. |
| 135 | ** On page 95, the supposedly only useful item that Tuuri packed, her pot, turned out to have a huge hole in it. On page 280, when Mikkel is attempting to cook breakfast the food falls straight through the bottom, revealing a very shoddy patching job. He finds out about the previous entry while fetching for something else to cook. |
| 136 | * In [[http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=13 this]] ''Webcomic/SuperEffective'' strip, the old man who teaches you how to catch Pokemon falls asleep. 5 strips later, he [[http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=18 wakes up]] and finishes what he was saying. |
| 137 | * ''Webcomic/TimesLikeThis'' did three epic Brick Jokes that took years to complete. |
| 138 | ** In the 2007 strip "Five-Year Discount", Cassie time-travels five years into the future and buys a cocktail dress at a clearance center. In October 2012, a sequel to the strip, "Five Year Discount Revisited", appeared, where Cassie ran into one of her friends at the same discount center. |
| 139 | ** In the 2009 strip "We Were Warned... That Some Folks Would Panic", Cassie time-travels to 2013 to prove that the world didn't end. In the first strip of 2013 ("Just Checking!"), she walks through a portal to the exact same place the "We Were Warned..." took place and said she told the reader nothing would happen. |
| 140 | ** In Part 16 of the storyline "Back To The Garden" (September 10, 2009), Cassie, Matt, and Bethany find their orange van destroyed in a mudslide that happened during Woodstock. Five years later, in Part 13 of the storyline "Back To The New Garden" (September 22, 2014, just over five years later), Cassie and Phillip walk through the mess after Woodstock when Phillip points out an orange van that ended up in a mudslide. |
| 141 | ** In a shorter Brick Joke, the September 2012 strip "On The Down Low" shows Agent Scott handing Phillip an envelope with a message we don't see at all. In a November 2012 strip, we find out the message [[spoiler:is Cassie's ring size, which Scott gave to Phillip just before he went to buy Cassie's engagement ring.]] However, there could be a longer Brick Joke in the making (it depends if it's still around at the time): The 2012 strip "Loopy" features Future!Cassie pranking Cassie by shooting her with a holographic bullet, saying that she's been waiting 40 years to do it. |
| 142 | %%* The Big/Auto fusion in ''Webcomic/TwoEvilScientists''. |
| 143 | * ''Webcomic/UnOrdinary'': Nearly 100 chapters and two years after Isen eagerly tried to convince Blyke that sleeping with socks on is better, John sees that Isen sleeps with socks and is so unsettled that anyone would do so that it temporarily halts his argument with Arlo. |
| 144 | * ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': The giant, tentacular, albeit harmless SummonMagic [[LimitedUseMagicalDevice pymaric]] that the IneptMage Bett [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch02/ch02_30.html tries to use]] against Duane is revealed, four chapters later, to have been a toy sold on clearance from a [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch06/ch06_37.html themed bordello.]] |
| 145 | * In a ''Webcomic/VGCats'' strip focusing on tabletop RPG, Leo ties a dead rat to a stick and dubs it a "rat-flail", which annoys DungeonMaster Aeris enough to tell him that the dead rat gave him plague and he died. The rat-flail returns in a ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' parody [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=223 some time later]]. Aeris-as-Byakuya is ''not'' amused. |
| 146 | * In ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'', [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/gotchaleaf/ Brandi]] is [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/leftmeclues/ victim]] of one due to the GroundhogDayLoop. |
| 147 | * ''Webcomic/{{Waterworks}}'': The worker who [[http://mspfanventures.com/?s=43&p=74 spins on his head like a Hitmontop]], and [[http://mspfanventures.com/?s=43&p=124 re-appears later.]] |
| 148 | * ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' does this frequently. |
| 149 | ** A Tetris themed one. The first happened in comic [[http://xkcd.com/724/ 724]]. The next occurred in [[http://xkcd.com/888/ 888]]. |
| 150 | ** Here's one involving Bobby Tables: The first mention is in comic [[http://xkcd.com/327/ 327]]. The next (apart from a [[http://xkcd.com/342/ quick cameo]]) is in the alt text of comic [[http://xkcd.com/884/ 884]]. Comic [[http://xkcd.com/1253/ 1253]] makes an oblique reference to the running joke, along with a host of other ShoutOut's. |
| 151 | ** The alt-text of comic [[http://xkcd.com/188/ 188]] is "And watch out for that guy from comic [[http://xkcd.com/53/ #53]]." |
| 152 | ** [[https://xkcd.com/152/ Comic 152]] features a guy wishing for a human-sized hamster ball. Fast forward more than ten years and 2100 strips later, [[https://xkcd.com/2331/ he returns]] to gloat about how [[TheyCalledMeMad everyone laughed at him]], but then the COVID-19 outbreak happened. |
| 153 | ** The alt-text of comic [[http://xkcd.com/576/ 576]] calls back to comic [[http://xkcd.com/325/ 325]]. |
| 154 | * ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'' features several bricks that take a long time to come back. |
| 155 | ** A long time coming. Early on in the comic, Doc makes a [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb075.html comment]] about how he keeps a bone around for anti-cheating and safety lectures, so people take his threats of eating them seriously. Cut to a few years later, when Bandit recalls [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb599.html his first experience with paintball...]] |
| 156 | ** Doc's Special Grenades. First used in a game of Everyone vs. [[ThoseTwoGuys Larry And Daryl]] (where Daryl tossed it says it's [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1120.html "The best 40 bucks he ever spent"]]. More than 6 years later, [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2003.html it's STILL the best 40 bucks he ever spent]]! |
| 157 | ** If this counts, it's one over ''15 YEARS'' in the making! |
| 158 | *** The week of June 19-23, 2017 was done in the same marker-on-whiteboard technique as the first 5 "strips". |
| 159 | *** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb003.html Behold the third strip]], published June 20, 2002, which has Doc asking if he should burn the shop down, delete the website, shave his head and move to Tibet. Fifteen years (and two days) later: [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto15th-4.html he's living in the mountains, wearing a monk's robe and has shaved his head.]] |
| 160 | *** [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb001.html The very first strip]] also got [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto15th-2.html a follow-up]] about Doc's tardiness. |
| 161 | ** The wormhole gun took almost exactly 20 years to return. |
| 162 | *** It is first seen demonstrating itself [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb183.html here]], on August 11th, 2003. It gets fired in the next strip. |
| 163 | *** On July 7th 2023, Doc examines the contents of a forgotten [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3800.html vault in the basement]]. |
| 164 | %%** There's the [[http://xkcd.com/220/ Super]] [[http://xkcd.com/517/ Soaker]]. |
| 165 | %%** [[http://xkcd.com/325 The]] [[http://xkcd.com/576/ bobcat]]. [[note]]The second reference is in the [[AltText alt-text.]][[/note]] |
| 166 | %%* ''Webcomic/XWhy'': [[http://mrburkemath.blogspot.com/2008/05/midnight-movie.html This strip]] sets up [[http://mrburkemath.blogspot.com/2008/07/summer-time.html this one]] which leads to [[http://mrburkemath.blogspot.com/2008/07/classic-lady.html this]]. |
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