Line #25 Webcomic/LilFormers


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lil_formers_the_movie_5168.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[http://www.lilformers.com/blog/2008/06/18/06182008/ Presented in SUPER-DEFORMOVISION]]]]
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4	-> ''"Blam! Blam! Bra-Boom! I'll Rule Cybertron with my Super sweet sound effects!"''
5	--> '''-- Shockwave: First post, first words.'''
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7	''[[http://www.lilformers.com/ Lil' Formers]]'' is a {{webcomic}} written by Matt Moylan. The main point of the site is to show chibi versions of ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' characters poking fun at their TV show, movie or comic book. Many of them are simple one-panel comics, but a few are multiple panels. After almost two years, Matt began to do comics for other TV shows, comic books and movies.
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9	!!This comic provides examples of:
10	* AffectionateParody: The webcomic is essentially a loving tribute to ''Franchise/TransformersGenerationOne''.
11	%%* {{Animesque}}: Parodied in one strip.
12	* ArtifactTitle: Since 2008, very few strips have anything to do with Transformers.
13	* AuthorTract: Whenever ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Animated]]'' or the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' are the subjects of a strip, the strip will likely be a tiresome diatribe about how much the author dislikes those incarnations of Transformers. Also appears whenever [[ContinuityReboot Reboots]] are mentioned.
14	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor / ExactWords: After Matt started including non-TF characters in the strip, readers demanded that he'd "Bring the bots back!" He eventually consented, [[http://www.lilformers.com/blog/2008/08/18/08182008/ in a way.]]
15	* BookEnds: The series begins with Shockwave declaring that he will conquer Cybertron with his "super sweet sound effects." In the last strip, he finally accomplishes this... [[spoiler: only to discover that he's actually conquered ''Gobotron.'']]
16	%%* {{Bouncer}}: The Energon Club has one.
17	%%* ButtMonkey: [[WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots GoBots]], Seaspray.
18	* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: A lot of strips have Matt make potshots at Transformers continuities in ways evident that he hasn't actually seen them.
19	** Partially averted; Matt did watch ''Film/Transformers2007'', and an episode of ''Animated''.
20	** Although played straight with the film, he made practically all his strips about it ''before'' he watched it.
21	** Also played straight with ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'', whose characters he called nobodies because of his unfamiliarity with said franchise.
22	* CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer: [[https://www.deviantart.com/mattmoylan/art/Lil-Formers-Rumble-Frenzy-51202277 One comic]] aims to answer the question of whether Rumble is red and Frenzy blue, or the other way around. The blue bot says he's the blue one, and the red bot says he's the red one... but they never actually say their names, making the answer useless.
23	* {{Fanservice}}: {{Defied\|Trope}} in [[http://www.mattmoylan.com/portfolio/comic/2006-08-07/ a comic]] where the narrator attempts to set up Arcee becoming [[TheOldestProfession a cam girl]] out of desperation, but she refuses to participate in the comic.
24	-->'''Narrator:''' Desperate for energon, lone female Autobot Arcee was forced to 'bare her circuits' on [=playbot.com=]. A pay webs-\
25	'''Arcee:''' NO WAY!!\
26	'''Narrator:''' ? But...\
27	'''Arcee:''' ''Screw you, perv!'' I am ''not'' starring in this comic.
28	* FridgeHorror: Some InUniverse ideas of things that can go wrong with interacting with humans and robots.
29	* FunSize: About everyone drawn in the comic, unless they were already SD, like VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} or the VideoGame/MegaMan characters.
30	* IdiotBall: Noted [[http://www.lilformers.com/blog/2006/09/25/09252006/ how humans fall for the disguised bots]].
31	* {{ReTool}}: In 2008, Matt expanded the strip to include other franchises.
32	** NonIndicativeName: He also said he was tired of Transformers and wouldn't be making any more comics with them. This only lasted a while, though even then his comics with Transformers characters were less common than those with other franchises.
33	* PlanetEater: In [[http://www.lilformers.com/blog/2006/09/01/09012006/ one strip]] Unicron and Galactus debate over whether they, as planet eaters, should eat [[PlutoIsExpendable Pluto]].
34	* ShoutOut:
35	** [[http://www.mattmoylan.com/portfolio/comic/2006-08-07/ One comic]] has Arcee wonder if [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurfette]] has to deal with thinly-veiled attempts to make her the subject of {{fanservice}}.
36	** In [[http://www.lilformers.com/blog/2008/08/18/08182008/ this vignette]] show up a ''[[Anime/{{Robotech}} valkyrie]]'', a ''[[Franchise/{{Gundam}} gundam]]'', ''[[Anime/ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS a VOTOMS]]'', ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and ''Anime/{{Voltron}}''.
37	* SpaceIsCold: The Transformers film is made fun of because of the Transformers' weakness to cold and the supposed "coldness of space" in [[http://www.lilformers.com/blog/2007/11/05/11052007/ this strip.]]
38	* SuperDeformed: Everyone's drawn with big heads and tiny bodies and limbs.
39	%%* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Spoofed several ways.

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