Line #75 Webcomic/Chainsawsuit


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3	A gag-a-day webcomic by the legendary Creator/KrisStraub, of ''Webcomic/{{Starslip}}'' and ''Webcomic/CheckerboardNightmare'' fame. Currently available [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com here.]] Featuring lots of irony, violence, [[LazyArtist lazy art]], and random humor. Straub originally named it "Indie Comic," but switched to "Chainsawsuit" when it became clear that he wanted to do more with the strip than make fun of indie comics.
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5	Recurring characters include but are not limited to:
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7	* The [[ArtifactTitle rarely-appearing]] title character, a dude with a [[ChainsawGood suit made of chainsaws]]. He kicks zombie ass, but it's very hard for him to go to the bathroom.
8	* Famous Chef, a famous chef and a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Gordon Ramsay.
9	* Pizza Force, consisting of a eighties-style ActionHero with CoolShades and awesome hair who delivers pizza, usually using gratuitous violence.
10	* Two Cops, a police officer who accidentally enlisted in Police Academy twice, and is thus treated as two cops. HilarityEnsues.
11	* Huntyr Chase, pickup artist extraordinaire.
12	* Lazy Cat, who is basically Film/JamesBond [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] Garfield.
13	* Time Ruiner, a {{Jerkass}} [[TimeTravel Time Traveler]] who goes around ruining causality and history.
14	* Elder God [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]], who is rather depressed at the MisaimedFandom he receives from humans.[[invoked]]
15	* H.P. Wuvcraft, basically Creator/HPLovecraft as if he was [[NightmareFetishist overwhelmed with joy]] at all times [[MoodDissonance despite the incredibly dark stories he wrote.]]
16	* Boiga Bruddas, an allegedly forgotten video game from the early 80's that makes no sense.
17	* Time Friends, a pair of friends whose travels into the future always wind up not working out.
18	* Surprise Italians, a pair of twins who really know how to make a statement in restaurants.
19	* Action Champ Walkaway. [[UnflinchingWalk Everything he walks away from explodes.]]
20	* An unnamed nerd from the anime Super-Boobs-look-at-High-School 3, who constantly [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin looks at boobs]] and gets {{nosebleed}}s.
21	* [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20110504.shtml Jet Wiggledick]], a hardball journalist who has a difficult time being taken seriously due to his [[UnfortunateNames unfortunate name]]. Killed off but [[UnexplainedRecovery inexplicably brought back to life]].
22	* A cast of thousands.
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25	!!This comic contains examples of:
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27	* AbsurdityAscendant: The best way to sum it all up, really.
28	* AlienGeometries: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20100512.shtml "You can't use non-Euclidean dice."]]
29	* AnalProbing: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20090302.shtml Put into context.]] With one phrase...
30	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Lazy Cat, badass secret agent he might be, but he's still a cat and rather prone to this.
31	* AuthorGuestSpot: Occasionally.
32	* BaitAndSwitch: One strip seems to be setting up Huntyr to slip a woman a roofie in her drink, with the monologue being "if you want a girl, you gotta do what it takes". It then turns out he was actually slipping her an anti-acid tablet and she's very grateful that he spotted her heartburn.
33	* BetterByADifferentName: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20091224.shtml Snuggers,]] which are just sweats.
34	* BlackComedyRape: Subverted. "Rape is never funny".
35	* BuddyCopShow: Two Cops is his ''own'' buddy.
36	* CardCarryingVillain: Dr. Murder and whoever Lazy Cat battles, among others.
37	* ChainsawGood: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210506154308/https://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2008/03/31/strip-346/ The strip that named this comic]]: a suit made of chainsaws, perfect for fending off the zombie hordes.
38	* CruelTwistEnding: Parodied several times in [[Franchise/TheTwilightZone "The Irony Zone"]]
39	* DadaComics
40	* [[TheDevilIsALoser Cthulhu Is A Loser]]: He's kind of pathetic.
41	* DiggingYourselfDeeper: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20090910.shtml This.]]
42	* EskimosArentReal: "[[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20120412.shtml "The Australia Hoax"]]
43	* ExtremeLibido: The comic [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20120106.shtml "Addiction and the Human Toll"]] depicts the protagonist of ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'' as a realistic sex addict. TheRant (back when it existed) [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210301135705/http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2012/01/06/addictions-and-the-human-toll/ further drove the point home]] by giving a dry, clinical description of sex addiction.
44	-->The behavior is commonly brought on by unresolved feelings of shame, anger or unresolved conflict. this ritualized, life-interrupting need for sexual conquest is an attempt to resolve these feelings in an unhealthy way.
45	* EyepatchOfPower: Lazy Cat.
46	* FantasticFantasyIsMundane: Cthulhu and friends play a tabletop RPG called "Humans and Habitats". Cthulhu's character, Doug, is a [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20110815.shtml "level 6 businessman."]]
47	* {{Fetish}}: Spoofed [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20111110.shtml here,]] with a guy having a fetish for [[Franchise/StarWars R2-D2]] after [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack he was spit out by the swamp monster.]]
48	* FunetikAksent: Boiga Bruddas (Burger Brothers).
49	* UsefulNotes/FurryFandom: Yiff City, Psychic P.I.
50	* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20091008.shtml]] A human astronaut is running out of oxygen, and a plant astronaut is running out of carbon dioxide. "We could have planned this out better."
51	* GlobalWarming: Parodied to death in the "[[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20090212.shtml Disastorm: The Movie]]" arc. Highlights include underground tornados and a weather forecast predicting a "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Partly Exploding]]" Thursday.
52	* GoodAngelBadAngel: Parodied [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20080926.shtml here.]]
53	* HandsInPockets: Parodied [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20090825.shtml here,]] where the character's hands and feet are conspicuously covered.
54	* HandsomeLech: Huntyr Chase.
55	* HumanoidAbomination: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20090515.shtml Mary Poppins.]]
56	* HollywoodAtheist: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20120518.shtml r/atheism.]]
57	* ICouldaBeenAContender: Two Cops feels this way towards WebComic/AxeCop.
58	* InNameOnly: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20100216.shtml Dante's Inferno:]] [[BlatantLies Based on the epic poem.]] A pointed TakeThat to [[VideoGame/DantesInferno a real game]].
59	* KarmicTwistEnding: Again, parodied on "The Irony Zone".
60	* LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek: Parodied with "She Cried Veto: The Susan Miller Story", in which a woman is raped by the President, and then her husband dumps her, and then the evil President [[ArtisticLicenseEconomics declares rape to be the new currency of America]], and then [[DeusExMachina everything is resolved out of nowhere]].
61	* MerchandiseDriven: Made fun of [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20130114.shtml here.]]
62	* MundaneMadeAwesome:
63	** [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20110525.shtml Everything is exciting]] with the Series/GameOfThrones theme music.
64	** TheRant also added WithLyrics for the music.
65	* MurderIsTheBestSolution: To just about anything.
66	* MyInstinctsAreShowing: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20080812.shtml Oh, Lazy Cat...]]
67	* MyNaymeIs: Huntyr Chase.
68	* NaughtyTentacles: Subverted with [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20091022.shtml Dr. Polybius the tentacle monster]], who is a competent and professional OB/GYN. Check out the newspaper headline:
69	-->'''WONDER DOC SAVES CONGRESSWOMAN'''\
70	[-FINDS TUMOR IN NICK OF TIME, IS NOT PERVERT-]
71	* NeverGiveTheCaptainAStraightAnswer: Described [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20140713.shtml here]] as "The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' Dilemma".
72	* NewMediaAreEvil / OldMediaAreEvil: Jokes at the expense of NewspaperComics ''and'' WebComics.
73	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20110610.shtml Used in this parody of]] ''Webcomic/TheOatmeal''.
74	* {{Nosebleed}}: The kid at Super Boobs-Look-At High School has very HighPressureBlood.
75	* NotThatKindOfDoctor: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20091106.shtml Tucker Cogburn]] provides the page image.
76	* OhCrap: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20090227.shtml The secret ingredient is...]]
77	* ThePictureCameWithTheFrame: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20111207.shtml Her name is Dawn Kensington]] and she also really does [[GirlfriendInCanada live in Canada]].
78	* TheRant: Generally used to extend the joke of the strip, as in the ExtremeLibido example above. All rants went missing during a semi-disastrous website migration in mid-2021, and (as of July 2021) it is unclear if or when they will be restored.[[note]]Though if you really want to see them, the Website/InternetArchive [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210519111752/http://chainsawsuit.com/ is here for you.]][[/note]]
79	* RealTrailerFakeMovie: a recurring feature.
80	* RippedFromTheHeadlines: After the flub with UsefulNotes/BarackObama taking the presidential oath and him taking it again, Straub naturally parodied the incident with "Two Cops" replaced by Obama as "Two Presidents".
81	* RuleOfFunny
82	* ShoutOut: Huntyr Chase's brother is named [[Literature/GoofusAndGallant Gallant]].
83	* SideEffectsInclude: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20080827.shtml You know what, this was a bad idea]].
84	* StagingAnIntervention: The comic gets meta with it. In [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20140915.shtml "The BUTT Algorithm,"]] the character gets a Twitter algorithm that recommends posts relevant to his interests... and it gives him nothing but "news about men's butts!" TheRant below the comic [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210413100828/https://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/09/15/the-b-u-t-t-algorithm/ stated]]: ''this page is procedurally generated. no one else is seeing this comic today. it’s about you and how much your dumb butt hangup is ruining your life. this is a web intervention from me and your family.''
85	* SuchAPhony: In [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20091201.shtml one strip]], a group of people is talking behind a guy called Mike's back because he's approaching them. They say that Mike is TheKilljoy and an asshole; they lament his coming. As soon as Mike reaches them, they all greet him as if he were the real deal.
86	* TakeThat:
87	** ''WebComic/{{XKCD}}'' is a frequent target of mockery.
88	** As is ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship''.
89	** The NinjaPirateZombieRobot example above pulls no punches.
90	** "Addictions and the Human Toll" deconstructs the entire premise of ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo''.
91	** Rageface comics [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20120528.shtml get skewered for]] [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20120423.shtml their lack of originality.]]
92	** Makes fun of ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' for plugging shirts they plan on [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20130114.shtml selling later.]]
93	* ThinkHappyThoughts: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20091106.shtml "Tucker Cogburn, the wrong kind of doctor."]]
94	* TwoGamersOnACouch: [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20100118.shtml Occasionally utilized.]]
95	* UnflinchingWalk: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210519030351/http://chainsawsuit.com/tag/action-champ-walkaway/ Action Champ Walkaway,]] as mentioned above. His walk ''causes'' the explosion. In later appearances he doesn't even have to walk; just turning away is enough.
96	* WhiteDudeBlackDude: Mocked in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210513090056/https://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2008/03/26/strip-344/ this early strip.]] Apparently white people and black people make different sounds while eating, and simply ''pointing this out'' is the "greatest comedy ever" and will earn you a giant pile of money.
97	* WishingForMoreWishes:
98	** In [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20141205.shtml this]] comic, a character wishes for a genie that lets him wish for more wishes.
99	** In [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20090427.shtml an earlier strip]], after the guy finds out that he's not allowed to wish for more wishes, he wishes for his current wish instead. This is allowed.
100	* WordSaladHumor: Used to parody its use in {{Nerdcore}} [[https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20110405.shtml music.]]

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