Line #17 Webcomic/Fite


1	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Fite_Lucco_7357.jpg]]
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3	''Fite!'' is a [[UsefulNote/FurryFandom}} Furry Webcomic]] by Mike Luce, aka [[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/splash.html Thomas Blue]]. It's the story of a boxer named Lucco, who wakes up in an unfamiliar land after a blow to the head and meets a soldier named Guz. Together, they try to find a way to get Lucco home.
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5	''Fite!'' is notable for its creative panel layouts, dialog-less story, and flexible, expressive artwork.
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7	The archive can be found in multiple places. The most complete version, with the final versions of all strips, is [[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite1to4.html here,]] but [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/mike_luce/fite/series.php this site]] includes a cast page and earlier versions of some strips.
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9	!!Tropes in ''Fite!'' include:
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11	* AllThereInTheManual: Most characters' names are only mentioned on the cast page.
12	* ArmorIsUseless: Subverted when Gorgado stops to tear off Guz's armor before scratching him. [[spoiler:Then played tragically straight when Guz's armor fails to stop a Frogera claw through his torso.]]
13	* ArtEvolution: Notably, by the start of Round 4, Lucco and Guz's portaits in the header no longer look like their current faces. The header is updated shortly after.
14	* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: [[spoiler:Giant Lucco]]
15	* BackStab /ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:How Guz dies.]]
16	* BarbieDollAnatomy: [[spoiler:Giant Lucco.]]
17	* BarefootCartoonAnimal: The entire cast.
18	* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind
19	* BerserkButton: Ricci normally seems bored with everything, but the slightest mention of Lucco will cause him to flip OUT.
20	* BigOlEyebrows: Guz
21	* BolivianArmyEnding: The comic originally had one, but the author eventually added one last comic.
22	* ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou: [[spoiler:Cub is another patient at the hospital, and Skerry is a doctor.]]
23	* TheCameo: [[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite5to8.html#23 This comic]] contains Tamino the cat, from another of Thomas Blue's comics.
24	* CheerfulChild: Cub[[spoiler:, who is also a LittlestCancerPatient.]]
25	* TheChessmaster: Skerry
26	* CivilizedAnimal: The Mutali, as opposed to everyone else who is a FunnyAnimal.
27	* ConspicuousConsumption: Ricci and his manager both sport gold jewelry.
28	* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Cub to [[spoiler:Lucco]].
29	* CoolShades[=/=]SinisterShades: Ricci's manager.
30	* DefeatMeansFriendship: After Lucco beats Guz in a fight, Guz embraces him like a brother.
31	* ExposedToTheElements: Guz warns [[WalkingShirtlessScene Lucco]] of winter's approach and offers him a tunic. Lucco declines, instead doing . . . [[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite1to4.html#64 this.]]
32	* EyesAreMental: After [[spoiler:Lucco "absorbs" Guz]], his eyes change in appearance to [[spoiler:those of Guz]].
33	* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite1to4.html#61 This]] seems awfully similar to [[spoiler:Lucco's eventual confrontation with King Frogera]].
34	* FullFrontalAssault: Heroic version: When Guz and Lucco are attacked while bathing, Guz doesn't bother to get dressed until after the fight.
35	* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Lucco and Guz at the end -- Power Booster with shades of Composite.]]
36	* GoingCommando: Nothing comes between Lucco and his trunks.
37	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: The Mutali chief. Notably, none of the other Mutali wear any clothes, or even walk upright.
38	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Lucco and Guz
39	* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind
40	* KingMook: King Frogera.
41	* LoinCloth: All Gorgado wears. Guz spends a while in one too.
42	* LowerDeckEpisode: Round 6 leaves Lucco and Guz to follow Ricci, who was only seen briefly before.
43	* {{Meat Puppet}}s: [[spoiler:The Mutali are just puppets of Skerry.]]
44	* MesACrowd: Sometimes there is one Skerry, sometimes there are three.
45	* {{Mooks}}: The Frogera.
46	* MultiArmedAndDangerous: [[spoiler:Lucco in his "God of Boxing" form.]]
47	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Ricci is kind of an otter Mike Tyson.
48	* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Mutali's [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/mike_luce/fite/series.php?view=single&ID=46349 original design]] was intended to look out-of-place, but the author redesigned him to look more like the other characters.
49	* OutOfFocus: To the point that Gorgado replaces Guz in the header.
50	* PortalCut: More of a [[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite5to8.html#13 Portal]] [[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite5to8.html#14 Slam,]] really.
51	* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: [[spoiler:King Frogera gets one, though it's more of a Scratch Scratch Scratch Uh Oh.]]
52	* RebusBubble: The characters talk like this when the readers are meant to understand them.
53	* RecapEpisode: [[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite5to8.html#10 Here.]]
54	* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Guz]]
55	* SayMyName: Happens a couple of times, if you can recognize the symbols representing the characters' names.
56	** [[spoiler:[[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite5to8.html#41 Guz!]]]]
57	** [[spoiler:[[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/mike_luce/fite/series.php?view=single&ID=90601 LUUUUUUUCCOOOOOOOOOOO!]]]]
58	* SkinnyDipping: Lucco and Guz do this at one point.
59	* SkywardScream: The second example for SayMyName above.
60	* SoftWater: Subverted -- Lucco survives a long fall into water with no apparent injuries, but the landing does cuase him to briefly hallucinate.
61	* SpeakingSimlish: There are actually different languages of "Simlish" -- Lucco's is more angular, while Guz's is more squiggly.
62	** You can actually recognize a few symbols, like the characters' names.
63	** As time goes by, Lucco and Guz seem to talk to each other with {{Rebus Bubble}}s more ofter, perhaps because they're growing to understand each other more.
64	* SpeechBubbleCensoring: [[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite1to4.html#26 Here.]] Awfully convenient that Gorgado happened to say [[VisibleSilence nothing]] right then.
65	* TheSpeechless: The Mutali can't speak, but they can create portals by howling.
66	* SpiritAdvisor: Cub [[spoiler:before Lucco wakes up. Once he's awake, Guz becomes one.]]
67	* TrainingFromHell: Gorgado puts Lucco through this.
68	** Unlike most examples, though, it seems to weaken Lucco rather than make him stronger.
69	* TrappedInAnotherWorld
70	* WalkingShirtlessScene: First place goes to Gorgado, who only wears a LoinCloth.
71	** Second place goes to Lucco, who is only seen with his torso clothed in [[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite5to8.html#51 one comic]] (spoilers!). At one point, he [[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite1to4.html#64 refuses a shirt when offered one.]]
72	** And third place goes to Ricci, who is seen with a shirt a couple of times, but is still shirtless the vast majority of the time, despite having more access to shirts than the other characters.

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