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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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