Line #4 Webcomic/Persona4TW


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4	''[[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/5325689/ Persona 4TW]]'' is a webcomic originally published on Platform/TheDuck by J.C. Scott, aka [=Strain42=]. It is a sequel to ''Webcomic/Persona3FTW'' based upon the game ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''. The comic follows the day-by-day progression of events of the game, running from April 11, 2011 to March 21, 2012. Following ''Persona 4TW'' was ''Webcomic/PersonaWon'', based on ''VideoGame/{{Persona 1}}'', and ''Webcomic/Persona2Win'', based on ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}''.
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6	On February 11, 2013, J.C. Scott began posting issues for ''Webcomic/Persona4TWAddOn'', the joint sequel to ''Persona 3 FTW'' and ''4TW'' based on ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''. After the conclusion of ''Add-On'', Scott also released ''[[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Goldn_Persona_4TW/5442488/ Gold'n Persona 4TW]]'', based on ''Persona 4 Golden'', which ran from October 21, 2013 to June 6, 2014, and ''[[http://personaftw.webcomic.ws/comics/2331/ Persona 4 Da Win]]'', based on ''VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight'', which began its run on January 2, 2017. On March 12, 2016, Scott began republishing the comic on his new site [[http://personaftw.webcomic.ws/comics/1401/ here]] (with the new link for ''Gold'n'' [[http://personaftw.webcomic.ws/comics/2036/ here]]).
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8	!!''Persona 4TW'' provides examples of:
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10	* AbortedArc: The author said his original plan for Yosuke's social link would be Yosuke trying to kill the Protagonist for not helping him when he crashed his bike, but decided it wasn't that funny.
11	* AdaptationDistillation
12	* AffectionateParody
13	* ArtEvolution: Compare [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/5325809/ this page]] to [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/5368580/ this page]]. It was even lampshaded by the creator.
14	* ArtShift: The [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/index.php?p=813140 Hermit link]] comics has a cruder art style (but not too extreme) compared to the rest of the other comics. Comes with thicker outline too.
15	** Mitsuo's Dungeon Arc strips feature a SpriteComic [[WebComic/EightBitTheater style]] befitting [[{{Retraux}} Void Quest's]] theme.
16	* AuthorTract: Scott ''really'' hates Yosuke. He's no worse to him than the game, though. And he [[WordOfGod stated]] [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/5327114/ that he doesn't go out of his way to hate on Yosuke,]] after reading comments, [[ShoutOut including those on]] Website/TVTropes.
17	* BigEater: The MC. See [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/index.php?p=809728 Fool Rank 2]], where he eats the ''entire bowl''.
18	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Yukiko defeats the bully Hanako via...[[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/5362806/ Um....Yikes!]] Also counts as TakeThatScrappy
19	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Shadow Rise's plans for the future include going through a lesbian phase, then a stripper phase, then of course, a lesbian stripper phase.
20	* ButtMonkey: Ai calls the MC this, but Yosuke really is one. Even more so than in the original game.
21	* CallBack: Teddie smacks the MC's phone out of his hand after he announces that if he sees screenshots of ''Persona 4: The Golden'' and ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' the world will blow up.[[note]]This is a callback to a non-canon ''Webcomic/Persona3FTW'' comic where the Male and Female [=MCs=] met one another, gave each other a high five, and the world blew up.[[/note]]
22	** Quite a few in the school trip.
23	* CharacterTic: Strain42 has gone on record saying that {{Finger Gun}}s + winking is one for Yu.
24	* CirclingBirdies: MC gets these with [=TVs=] after sticking his hand into the TV the first time.
25	* CloudcuckooLander: Yukiko.
26	* ContinuityNod: [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents "Like, I know, right?!"]] makes a triumphant return as the author continues to try and make it into a CatchPhrase. The skipping comics also return.
27	* ExactWords: Yosuke tells the MC to change the CD playing. [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/5346890/ He changes it.]]
28	** Later, Yosuke tells the MC to organize the movies while he's working at Junes. [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/5346891/ He does exactly that.]]
29	* FailedASpotCheck: Inverted; only the party members realize that Naoto is [[spoiler:a girl]]: even characters who eventually become party members don't realize it until they actually join.
30	* FourthWallObserver: Teddie, ''numerous'' times to the point that it's his new gimmick instead of Bear-puns and -kuma {{Verbal Tic}}s. Hasn't [[BreakingTheFourthWall started talking to the audience yet]], though.
31	** MediumAwareness: Knows it's a comic.
32	** PaintingTheMedium: In [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/index.php?p=808606 Teddie Drop]], he ''jumps down a panel''.
33	** And then [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Shadow Teddie]] shows up. And he knows about the ''game'', too!
34	---> '''Shadow Teddie:''' "You speak of comics, but do you know where they come from? Do you know of the video game Persona 4? Did you not notice the references a mere 2 comics ago? You think you're a funny, clever, original comic character...in reality, you are nothing but a-"
35	---> '''Teddie:''' "Don't you dare say it! [[ShutUpHannibal JUST SHUT UP!]]"
36	---> '''Shadow Teddie:''' "'Parody.' Or perhaps I should say 'Bearody' it is something our real character would say..."
37	** Although it is not canon, Teddie [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the Fourth Wall]] to tell the readers to vote in the [[Platform/TheDuck Drunk Duck]] awards. Teddie also speaks to the audience to go read Raidou Kuzunoha the 19th (another of Strain42's comics) while [=P4TW=] waits between December and March.
38	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The author has stated [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/5338181/ he is fond of these]].
39	--> '''Daisuke:''' Mwahahahaha! Yes! Run and Scream! RUN AND SCREAM!
40	* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: [[spoiler:The MC does this to Yosuke in the comic's version of the [[WhatTheHellHero "Calm the hell down"]] scene.]]
41	* HandsomeLech: The Protagonist.
42	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: In a compromise between the ''confusing'' but punny ''Webcomic/Persona3FTW'' titles and the more straightforward but bland ''[=Persona 3 FeMC=]'' titles, ''Persona 4TW'' has clear titles on social links and punny titles on everything else.
43	* IgnoringBySinging: Daisuke in [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/5362797/ Rosebud was the Sled]].
44	* IncrediblyLamePun: Chariot Rank 10, where Chie gives the MC a stake in a reference to how she loves steak.
45	** Death Rank 3, where the old woman tells the MC a pun about her [[spoiler: deceased husband]] when she first met him. The MC is not amused.
46	** In Gold'n while rescuing Yukiko, Yosuke makes one about how to find any princesses.
47	* INeedToGoIronMyDog: After Nanako admits her mother is gone, the rest of the party excuses themselves from the awkward moment with "I'm gonna go get a soda," "I have to pee," and "I also have to go do something."
48	* ItMakesSenseInContext: [[https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/5358714/ KANJI TATSUMI! Did you shoot a stuffed duckie at a child with a bazooka?]]
49	* ItWasHisSled: In-Universe in [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/5362797/ Rosebud was the Sled]], where Kou spoils some endings that Daisuke didn't know, such as that everyone dies at the end of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' and ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', what the secret of Film/SoylentGreen is, or what [[Film/TheUsualSuspects Keyser Soze]] is. [[invoked]]
50	* LoveableSexManiac: The protagonist.
51	* NoodleIncident: None of the stories about how the teller's shirt got covered with blood are ever explained.
52	* NotDistractedByTheSexy: The MC playing his 3DS while Rise is off-scene wearing booty shorts and having a tube top mishap. Rise even calls him out on this.
53	* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Kanji uses this against [[spoiler:Adachi]], and distracts [[spoiler:him]] long enough for the MC to hit the gun out of his hand.
54	* OfficialCouple: The protagonist and Rise. [[spoiler:Changed to Marie in Gold'n after Rise broke up with him in Add-on. Amusingly, this wasn't why he had Rise break up with Yu during Add-on.]]
55	** CuttingOffTheBranches
56	* PetTheDog: [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Persona_4TW/index.php?p=809726 Sun Rank 2]], in which the [[WithFriendsLikeThese MC]] is actually ''nice''.
57	** The MC is nice in almost all the Sun comics.
58	* PhraseCatcher: Naoto's is "Shut up, square."
59	** Hanako gets "It's funny because she's fat."
60	* PlatonicLifePartners: Ai of the Moon Arcana is this to the protagonist. The author frequently comments that he wonders if he should have made Ai the love interest instead of Rise.
61	* ProductPlacement: Subverted. Peace Tea is mentioned multiple times, but this is only because Scott really enjoys the drink. And sometimes can figure out how to end a joke.
62	* RunningGag: A few.
63	--> '''Character:''' "YOU'RE NOT ME!!!"
64	--> '''Newest Party Member:''' "Damn it..."
65	** [[MyEyesAreUpHere Pay attention to what the MC is looking at in many comics.]]
66	** "So when they saw the blood on my shirt they naturally assumed it was mine. So I had to explain to them that-"
67	** Judging from a couple of the Add on comics, lampshading the fact that Yu can speak in Arena despite being a HeroicMime in the original Persona 4.
68	* ShoutOut: Naoto gets interviewed by a man who looks like [[Franchise/AceAttorney Miles Edgeworth wearing Phoenix Wright's suit]].
69	** In Temperance Rank 1, the children play House, with one boy going up to Yuuta and pointing a cane at him saying [[Series/{{House}} "...It's not Lupus..."]]
70	** The Lovers Arcana social link usually has a reference to Music/LadyGaga.
71	** [[VideoGame/{{Portal2}} NOW WHO'S A MORON?]]
72	* SpeechBubbles: Uses a different color for [[EnemyWithout Shadows]].
73	* StealthPun: [[spoiler: Shadow Kanji, already a living CampGay joke, speaks entirely in ''Queen'' song titles.]]
74	* TakeAThirdOption: In the comic Procrasti Nayton, the MC writes "Kill Sam...with a bullet...a 45...to the head and/or face area." The question is the cabbage/chicken/wolf riddle.
75	* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Judgement Rank 8. WordOfGod is amused that the line is almost quote for quote like the Dilbert one.
76	* VisualPun: High-fives have a 5 appear above the characters' hands.
77	* TheVoiceless: Once again, the MC.
78	** Almost averted in Strength 5, when [[WordOfGod Scott claimed he originally had the MC talk.]] However, he changed the panel before releasing it.
79	* WhatTheHellHero: As in the main game, [[spoiler:the "Calm the HELL down!" scene, but the comic's version takes it a step further by having the MC ''[[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan punch]]'' Yosuke.]]
80	* WildMassGuessing: Yukiko and Chie do this while helping Nanako with her homework. All she wants to know is if embarrassed has two R's in it.
81	* WingDingEyes: X's and Spirals abound.

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