Line #12 Webcomic/Minion


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3	''[[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Minion/ Minion]]'' is a fantasy webcomic by Andrew Fox. It follows the adventures of Gin, a young man honoring a childhood promise (and also looking for a place to stay), and his employer the Dark-Witch-for-Hire Meryl.
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5	Partly HighFantasy, but mostly [[RuleOfFunny laugh-out-loud comedy]]. Updates Wednesdays, probably. As of 2016-Apr-25, the most recent update was 2012-Feb-11. For the unrelated webcomic produced by Minion Comics, see ''Webcomic/MinionComics''.
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8	!!Examples of tropes occurring in ''Minion'':
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10	* ArtEvolution: Oh yeah.
11	%%* BattleButler
12	* BerserkButton:
13	** When [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Antonie]] talked about wanting to do things to Meryl, Gin [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat the tar out of him]]. When he also [[PapaWolf remembered that Antonie had tried to eat Rico and Ellaine]]...
14	--->'''Gin''': "Don't be ridiculous. I'm not going to throw you off a cliff." [''BOOT''] "[[ExactWords Technically, I'm kicking you]]."
15	** Also, Meryl when anyone, read: [[DeadpanSnarker Rico]], insults her spellwork or [[VainSorceress appearance]].
16	* ChildhoodMarriagePromise:
17	-->'''Kid!Meryl:''' "Someday, I'm going to be a powerful dark witch!"\
18	'''Kid!Gin:''' "Cool! Can I be your minion?"\
19	'''Kid!Meryl:''' "...Okay."
20	* DeadpanSnarker: Rico, so very much.
21	%%* LandMineGoesClick
22	* DeliciousDistraction:
23	-->'''Rico''': "No way! We came here to get rid of her! And nothing you say is going to change our minds! ''Nothing!''"\
24	'''Gin''': "Oh? Well that's too bad...And here I had this GREAT chocolate chip cookie recipe just lying around the tower--"\
25	'''Rico''': "'''''DEAL!!!'''''"
26	* DrillHair: Sister Madeline.
27	* ElementalEmbodiment: The eight elemental planes[[note]]air, earth, water, lightning, fire, ice, light, and darkness[[/note]] are home to an assortment of entities that magicians can [[SummonMagic summon]]. So far we have [[CuteMonsterGirl Shari]], a treasure guardian from Fire, and [[ServileSnarker Hai'dan]], an omniperceptive yet somehow still incompetent scout from Darkness.
28	* EvilSorcerer: It's a lucrative business.
29	* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When The Knight came to challenge the [[WickedWitch dark witch]], and Meryl came out, he asked who the heck ''she'' was.
30	* FacePalm: Meryl. [[SurroundedByIdiots She'll probably be doing that a lot]].
31	* FantasticRacism: Gin has been hunted like an animal ever since he was a teenager because he's a werewolf. He's an incredibly nice guy.
32	* FreakinessShame: [[{{Flashback}} Kid!Gin]] thought that Kid!Meryl's [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] were awesome.
33	* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Gin is a friendly werewolf.
34	-->'''Rico''': "[[FriendToAllChildren Um...can Gin come out and play?]]"
35	* HiredGuns: Hired Dark Witch, plus minion.
36	* HypnoticEyes: [[PrinceCharmingWannabe Count Antonie]], the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]], tries to hypnotize Meryl. She [[NoSell sees right through it]], clobbers him, and has Gin throw him out.
37	* IdiotHero: Gin
38	* ImmuneToMindControl: The [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] PrinceCharmingWannabe Count Antonie tries to use his HypnoticEyes on Meryl, with predictable results.
39	-->'''Meryl''': ''[PUNCH]'' "I'm a [[EvilSorcerer dark witch]] you '''moron'''! Did you honestly think I didn't know about that stupid 'Hypno-Eye' of yours?!"
40	* LickedByTheDog: Cats hate Gin, but dogs all seem to love him. There's a reason for that, by the way.
41	* LoadBearingHero: Gin did this to a [[AntiMagic magic-proof]] DescendingCeiling trap.
42	* MarshmallowHell: [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Minion/index.php?p=790735 here]]
43	* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Gin again.
44	* MundaneUtility: [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Minion/4907412/ Meryl's illusion spells]].
45	* NighInvulnerability: Parodied. Antonie's vampiric powers make him nigh impossible to kill...[[VillainForgotToLevelGrind but still dead easy to beat up]].
46	* NonActionGuy: Alfred.
47	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Gin. He's usually a normal, friendly guy (albeit [[SuperStrength super-strong]] and MadeOfIron), but he turns into a type 4 werewolf as a DefenseMechanismSuperpower.
48	* PaperTiger: Count Antonie's vampiric powers make it nigh-impossible to kill him...but merely beating him up is a dead easy.
49	* RummageSaleReject: Gin has been on the run constantly for six years. His clothes are literally rags.
50	* ServileSnarker: [[SummonMagic Hai'dan]].
51	* HesAFriend: The gang meeting [[ElementalEmbodiment Shari]].
52	* TagAlongKid: Rico and Ellaine.
53	* TotemPoleTrench: The Knight that came to slay Meryl was in fact [[TagAlongKid Rico and Ellaine]] wearing a helm and a cloak. It's a good thing the [[GlamorFailure cloak blew open]] when it did, since the Knight had by that point hit several of Meryl's {{Berserk Button}}s and she was about a second away from blasting "him" into cinders.
54	* TrashOfTheTitans: Meryl's tower, before she got a minion to clean up. Gin sees this and comments that she's gotten a lot tidier since they were kids.
55	* TrouserSpace: Alfred has [[RunningGag very big pockets]].
56	* UnusualEars: Meryl's weird three-pointed ears. Also, Ellaine has pointy elf ears.
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