Line #30 YMMV/VGCats


1	* DiscreditedMeme: InUniverse example. One ''Super Effective'' comic has a Bug Trainer giving a ''[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Gurren Lagann]]'' speech to his Beedrill... As Red, standing nearby, rolls his eyes in frustration.
2	* HarsherInHindsight: A tiny headline in strip [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=23 #26 (The Incredible Krug)]] makes fun of the squeaky-clean [[Series/SesameStreet Elmo]], saying he's been embroiled in a sex scandal. Not so funny anymore after his puppeteer at the time [[PaedoHunt turned out to have possibly been a statutory rapist]] years later, forcing him to resign. Even though he has since been cleared of the charges.
3	* HilariousInHindsight:
4	** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/020218.gif This comic]] was posted back in 2002, [[VideoGame/KidIcarus guess who]] happened to appear in Super Smash Brothers Brawl? The strip also managed to predict VideoGame/PacMan and the VideoGame/DuckHunt Dog's appearances in the series' fourth installment.
5	** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=247 This comic]] from 2007 shows an Aperture turret from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' guarding a baby's crib [[spoiler:[[BlackComedy only for it to shoot the baby when it stands up and plays peek-a-boo.]]]] 4 years later, in 2011, guess what [[Creator/ValveSoftware Valve]] showed a turret guarding in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-nMWgBUp0#t=38s trailer]] for ''VideoGame/Portal2''?
6	** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=250 This]] 2008 strip suggests that among the characters left out of ''Brawl'' were Ness, Captain Falcon, Jigglypuff, and Mewtwo... any guesses as to which of these characters made it to the final game, class?
7	** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=311 This strip]] features Aeris and Leo giving some ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' toys paint jobs to become normal, white Celestia, Vinyl Scratch, and Derpy Hooves. [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/celestia-is-finally-white.html All three of them]] [[http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2012/05/exclusive-preview-the-2012-special-edition-my-little-pony/1#.T-Pa9Sd5nTr are real MLP toys now]].
8	** Compare [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=66 this]] 2003 strip to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP51ZRahdso&t=8m41s this]] [[{{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}} Chuggaconroy]] video.
9	** [[Franchise/StarWars "It's over, Anakin! This high ground adds +5 to my agility!"]] Not quite as technical as ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0628.html would later get...]]
10	** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=368 This strip]] becomes a lot funnier since the revelation of Pokémon's seventh generation, in which one of the new Pokémon is a ghost pretending to be a Pikachu.
11	** Scott once got a pornographic fan comic page of Leo and Aeris dropped. He now does pornographic bonus art of them and other characters on Patreon.
12	** There is a Franchise/KingdomHearts-based comic where Leo!Sora proposes they do experiments on Winnie-the-Pooh, and leaves him busted open, with his blood and fluff all over the place, begging Piglet to kill him. When Pooh went into the public domain in 2022, someone conjured up a horror version: ''Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey''.
13	* HoYay:
14	%%** As seen in Super Effective #37.
15	%%--> What do you say, Red? Just you and me... ''breeding''. [[spoiler:He means Pokemon breeding, of course.]]
16	** [[http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=17 That's not the only Super Effective strip with it.]]
17	%%** "[[Franchise/KingdomHearts Excuse me, but we're trying to have a moment]] [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=208 here]]."
18	** Plenty of examples in the [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=163 main]] [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=285 strip]] [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=232 too.]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice Taking it even further,]] [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=48 #53 (Mr. Dumpty)]] adds shades of date rape.
19	** Not to mention [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=221 this NSFW StarFox comic]].
20	* JerkassWoobie: Leo. As much of a JerkAss as he can be, it's kinda hard not to pity him at times, especially with how Aeris sometimes treats him. Most of his "cruelty" is to [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential fictional characters]] (such as the Sims example) and things like the baby worm tend to be in the context of strips portraying Leo and Aeris as specific fictional characters being parodied, rather than portraying them in the "usual" characterization.
21	* PopularWithFurries: Thanks to Leo and Aeris being anthromorphic cats, it's a popular webcomic amongst furries.
22	* SeasonalRot: The later comics are generally considered to be of lower quality than the pre-2010s comics. The [[DethroningMoment/VGCats Dethroning Moment of Suck]] page in particular either has one of the later comics, or had those removed because the troper found a ''worse'' comic.
23	* {{Squick}}: A lot of the comic is based on this.
24	** Seeing a [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=192 disemboweled Winnie the Pooh]] asking Piglet to [[MercyKill kill him]] will make you want to gouge your eyes out.
25	** In [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=104 #110 Bubblegum]] Leo not only rips his own ''fur'' off in an attempt to not suffocate, he then proceeds to ''chew that hairy glob of gum again''. This must be why cats get hairballs so often.
26	* TearJerker:
27	%%** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=219 "Shiggy? ... Is that you?"]]
28	%%** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=227 "All right, son, Daddy has to go away for a while. You've got to be a brave boy now. Just close your eyes, son." "Dad-day NO!"]]
29	** Given the problems of sexism in many facets of gaming culture, [[https://vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=252 "Humble Suggestion"]] can be pretty difficult to read.
30	** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=320 "Conglaturation"]] has a tear-jerking moment in the last panel.
31	** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=326 The last panel of "Unbreakable Bonds"]] combines this with NightmareFuel (the spider-webs imply some AndIMustScream, doesn't it?)
32	** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=267 #258: "Waiting"]] is quite depressing.
33	** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=359 #347: "Tales of Ternaldo"]] is a relatable example for people who have had social issues and were never asked to join groups in school.
34	** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=207 #210 "The Lost Episodes"]] is a twisted {{Deconstruction}} of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', where Jerry hits Tom in the head with a sledgehammer, leaving Tom a quadriplegic, and resulting in Jerry going to prison. Just to make things worse, both Tom and Jerry look like they’ve been ''crying''.
35	** Just the relationship between Aeris and Leo in general! Looking at the strips set in their childhood, it's clear they were, at the very least, there for each other, but now Aeris is perfectly willing to ABORT LEO. What happened?! [[HeartwarmingInHindsight Well, a later holiday comic does show]] [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther how things aren't always THAT bad between them.]]
36	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: To date, Ramsoomair has made three strips parodying ''VideoGame/StarFox''. The only one to feature any of the characters aside from Slippy (as opposed to having Aeris & Leo fill their roles)? The one where Fox & Falco have sex while making bad in-jokes. And then Wolf shows up, implying it's not over - though one wonders how he got on the ''Great Fox'' (or why he has a beer gut, unlike Fox and considering his flight suit implies he'd be pretty well-built out of costume). Then again, yaoi fantasies never had to make sense as it turned out to have been Aeris' imagination. Still, the one time we see Ramsoomair's take on any of the other ''Star Fox'' characters, this is what we get.[[note]]The other two strips featured Leo as Fox and Aeris as Krystal. Slippy was featured in the second one.[[/note]]
37	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: At first, it looks like a cutesy comic about two FunnyAnimal cats who go on adventures in various video games. However, strong profanity is common and there is explicit sexual humor.

Context YMMV / VGCats