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6	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/p3ftw2.png]]
7	[[caption-width-right:350:The silent protagonist of Persona 3 FTW in action.]]
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11	''[[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/5123028/ Persona 3 FTW]]'' is a webcomic adapting the game ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' written and drawn by J.C. Scott aka [=Strain42=]. Every day during its run, one or more comics were posted involving the events of the day in the game.
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13	The comic has been completed (three times), covering the events of The Journey, [[PlayableEpilogue The Answer]], and ''Persona 3 Portable'' (which focuses on the Female Protagonist); on April 6, 2011, the comic was declared to be completely finished. The comic enjoys high popularity on Platform/TheDuck: according to [=Strain42=], more than 4.5 million views have been recorded from the first page to the last. On February 8, 2016, the author began republishing the comic on his new site [[http://personaftw.webcomic.ws/comics/701/ here]].
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15	''Persona 3 FTW'' is the first entry in the ''Persona For The Win'' series, which also includes comics based on ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' (''Webcomic/Persona4TW''), ''VideoGame/{{Persona 1}}'' (''[[Webcomic/PersonaWon Persona Won]]''), and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'' (''WebComic/Persona2Win'')[[note]]there's also an abandoned series based on the ''[[VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy Raidou]] [[VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsKingAbaddon Kuzunoha]]'' games (''[[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Raidou_Kuzunoha_the_19th/ Raidou Kuzunoha the 19th]]'')[[/note]]. Additionally, ''Persona 3 FTW'' and ''4TW'' have a joint sequel in ''Webcomic/Persona4TWAddOn'', based on ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'', which sees the return of Mitsuru, Akihiko, and Aigis. [[spoiler: And Fuuka and Elizabeth too.]]
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17	!!''Persona 3 FTW'' provides examples of:
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19	%%* AdaptationDistillation: All the social link and plot stuff is there, it's just funnier.
20	%%* AffectionateParody
21	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The comic interprets many characters differently than the game; notably, the MC is a CloudCuckooLander to the extreme, while the [=FeMC=] is a CloudCuckooLander [[BewareTheNiceOnes but quite violent]]. [[invoked]]
22	* AnticlimaxBoss: The Strega battle during the Hanged Man Shadow boss fight just had the group push Takaya and Jin off the bridge. [[invoked]]
23	** The solo-Jin battle consisted of the MC critical hitting Jin, then wiping him out with an all out attack. WordOfGod confirms this is what happened when he loaded the battle from a save file.
24	* ArousedByTheirVoice: Takaya. The author's quite enraptured by Creator/DerekStephenPrince's voice.
25	-->'''Yukari:''' I know he just locked us in here, which is bad and stuff, but...does anyone else want to have sex with his voice?
26	-->'''[[[EvenTheGuysWantHim Everyone]] raises their hands.]'''
27	%%* AsYouKnow: Played with Ikutsuki.
28	%%* ArtEvolution: Compare the first comics with the recent ones.
29	%%** In fact, compare the comic above to [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=745305 this one with the FeMC.]] The evolution's subtle, but it's there.
30	%%* AxCrazy: The MC in [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=546538 this strip.]] Or whenever he's around Bebe.
31	%%* BlatantLies: Yukari denying the fact she may or may not have bought a sex toy online.
32	* BewareTheNiceOnes: The normal portrayal of the [=FeMC=] is as a cute, CloudCuckooLander, but violent girl. Including ''tearing off the pigtails'' of a girl who harassed her friend.
33	%%* BigBallOfViolence
34	%%* BigEater: The best way to the MC's heart is through his stomach.
35	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: To get nephew to attend rehab Kaz decides to bribe his nephew with candy, drugs, and drugged candy.
36	%%* ButtMonkey: Ken during The Answer. He seems to escape this in the main plot because he's OutOfFocus. [=FeMC=], however...
37	%%* CatSmile
38	%%* CatchPhrase: For Akihiko: Ya dumb broad.
39	%%** [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents "Like, I know, right?!"]] from your basic random schoolgirls to Ryoji.
40	%%* CharacterExaggeration: For everyone.
41	%%* CloudCuckooLander: The Main Character (both male and female), without saying a single word, though the female occasionally acts as the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]].
42	%%* CreepyChild: [[spoiler:Pharos.]]
43	%%** But he gave MC a [[spoiler:Chocolate platypus!]]
44	%%* CuteBruiser: The [=FeMC=]. Isn't she just adorable when she hurts people who tick her off?
45	%%** Due to the art style, ''everyone'' who would be a bruiser (cute or otherwise), is now this trope.
46	%%* DaydreamSurprise: The MC [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/5139666/ throwing a beehive at Bebe]].
47	%%* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/5124987/ 'Back at the Legion of Doom']]
48	%%* EvenTheGuysWantHim: [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=591894 It's all in the voice, for Takaya]].
49	%%* FastballSpecial: The [=FeMC=] does this with Koromaru [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=772881 against a would-be shrine vandal.]]
50	* {{Filler}}: Not a FillerStrip, but rather on time comics that are filling in for days that the game pretty much just skips over. This can mainly be seen on the [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=638464 internship arc]].
51	%%* FunnyBackgroundEvent: [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=673718 The MC's table catching fire]], which is also a ShoutOut to WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation.
52	%%* GunsAreWorthless: In the final battle against Takaya, Akihiko wonders if [[spoiler:Shinjiro]]'s bones were made of cookies.
53	%%* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Akihiko's LoveEpiphany in [=FeMC's=] [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=760487 Star Rank 9]] ends up being the victim of this.
54	%%* HiddenObjectGame: The boss battles.
55	* HypocriticalHumor: In [=FeMC=] Justice 4, [[WordOfGod Scott states only Akihiko should say "Ya dumb broad"]], despite Jin saying it back when he was defeated by the male MC and co.
56	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The majority of The Journey and The Answer have very reference/in joke filled page titles.
57	%%* InfiniteAmmo: [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/5130902/ TAKE THE BREAD!!!]]
58	%%* InnocentInnuendo: [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=550000 'It's too big. I'm pulling out.']]
59	%%* JumpingTheShark: Summer Uniforms, [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=566132 apparently]]. [[invoked]]
60	%%* LikesOlderWomen: Kenji, even more than in the game. [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=549996 "If she were like 30 years older..."]]
61	%%* LovableSexManiac[=/=]StalkerWithACrush: Aigis
62	%%* LoveAtFirstSight: The Female MC, for Shinjiro.
63	%%* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/5127488/ Kaz's leg being twisted unnaturally? LET'S GET SOME TACOS]]
64	%%* MissingStepsPlan: [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/5130906/ Kenji's plan to get Ms. Kanou to love him.]]
65	%%* MisterSeahorse: This is pretty much how Fuuka and Akihiko rationalize both the existence of [[spoiler: Ryoji/Pharos]] and [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=641344 the MC's weird cravings.]]
66	%%* NoodleIncident: Just how and why did Fuuka set manga on fire?
67	* OfficialCouple: [=FeMC=] is openly smitten with Shinjiro from his introduction, spends their entire social link trying to get into his pants, and ultimately shares her last scene with him.
68	%%* {{Otaku}}: Bebe.
69	%%* PassThePopcorn
70	%%* PhraseCatcher: "Shut up, Ken."
71	* RunningGag: Every social link has, at some point, a frame involving the main character and the person with whom he is having the social link skipping off into the distance. For some social links this is ill-advised for the person in question ([[spoiler:Chariot]]) and others it really just doesn't work out at all ([[spoiler:Tower, [[CreepyChild Death]], Sun, [=FeMC's=] [[AbortedDeclarationofLove Star]], [=FeMC's=] [[BadassLongcoat Moon]]]]).
72	** Aigis' tendency to dry-hump and/or make out with the MC whenever possible.
73	** Almost ALL of the damage received by the characters in the entire series can be summed up in only one word: [[FeelNoPain "Ow."]]
74	** The author repeatingly inserting himself as a cameo'd toy version of himself, or off-handedly mentioning him or his own comic.
75	* SanitySlippage: Tanaka (whose rival is a coconut) gets more and more insane as the Devil Social Link progresses.
76	* ScrewYourself: Well technically they didn't GET that far, but the MC and [=FeMC=] making out [[RealityBreakingParadox caused an]] EarthShatteringKaboom.
77	* ShoutOut:
78	%%** [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=654368 Alternate title to this comic?]] ''[[Film/PulpFiction Pup Fiction]]''.
79	%%** And all the Maya comics are a ShoutOut to ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' in art style.
80	%%** The final devil rank has a Creator/MontyPython joke.
81	** The first devil comic is also a reference to ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei''. Tanaka asking for money is treated as a demon recruitment encounter, complete with him telling the MC his arcana.
82	%%** [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Shut up Ken.]] Though unlike the series, he gets to finish his "No you shut up!" Probably because it was [[TookALevelInJerkass Yukari.]] Also in his {{Flashback}}:
83	%%--->'''Police Officer:''' You kids and your anime and your video games and your [[Anime/PersonaTrinitySoul anime based off of video games.]]
84	%%* TriggerHappy: Chihiro, oh so much.
85	* TheVoiceless: The [=MCs=] have absolutely no dialogue apart from invoking their Persona for the first time.
86	%%* WallOfText: Used for a laugh with [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=554499 Maya]].
87	%%* WouldHurtAChild: After Shinjiro is shot, Ken notes that the [=FeMC=] is now single. She swiftly decks him.
88	%%* WithFriendsLikeThese: The MC is not the greatest friend ever.
89	%%* YourHeadAsplode: Apparently, listening to the Chairman's puns for the first time causes this.
90	%%* YourMom: Aigis's response to Akihiko asking why she couldn't open the door in the Chariot/Justice boss fight.

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