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[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to TheMasquerade, Mark.]]

->"You, sir, may be a natural-born {{munchkin}}."
-->-- '''[[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/04/06/ Joel]]'''

Mark once was just an [[TheEveryman ordinary guy]] with an office job and a blonde girlfriend. Except that every once in a while he had a strange urge to hang in front of a tabletop RPG store and stare at its wares pointlessly... Then one day, after a run in with the local [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire coven]] and {{The Hunter}}s, he discovered a mind-blowing truth: there is a secret society out there, TheMasquerade... [-OF {{GEEK}}S!-] And he is [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster one of them]], "a human by day and a geek by night"...

''Weregeek'' is a {{Webcomic}} written and drawn by Alina Pete and Layne Myhre, first published in November 2006. It has its [[http://www.weregeek.com/ own site]] (administrated by Layne's brother Todd). Alina also writes the Journal Comic [[http://www.mooseheadstew.com/ Moosehead Stew]].
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!!''Weregeek'' provides examples of:
* BerserkButton: A lot of the main characters have one.
** Don't call CyberPunk stupid [[http://www.weregeek.com/2010/07/28/ in front of Abbie]].
** Or make a [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/05/09/ crime and travesty]] of Lord of the Rings in front of Sarah.
** Likewise it would be ''very'' foolish to tell Sarah that fantasy is just for guys.
** "Katie has [[http://www.weregeek.com/2012/01/24/ strong opinions]] about tattoos."
** Joel [[http://www.weregeek.com/2013/01/22/ does not]] [[http://www.weregeek.com/2013/01/23/ like]] superhero movie reboots. His rage is particularly focused on ''Film/ManOfSteel'' and ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan''.
* BigNo: This is Joel's [[http://www.weregeek.com/2008/08/13/ response]] to being forced into a camping trip.
* BrainWashed: Captured geeks are apparently killed, or brainwashed into regular people, removing any enjoyment from the unique and conforming to be another average joe.
** Joel's answer is to deprogram them making them remember who they are... and being no better than his enemy tries brainwashing a hunter into a Wrestling/{{WWE}} geek.
*** That goes over 'really' well.
* CallingYourAttacks: Parodied [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/12/17/ here]].
* {{Calvinball}}: You can see an embryonic version of it when the geeks attempt an ordinary card game. [[http://www.weregeek.com/2010/09/17/ Go fish!]]
** And later that evening it has matured into full scale [[http://www.weregeek.com/2010/09/22/ Card Game Calvinball]].
* CannotSpitItOut: Justified with Joel, who gives people only enough information to protect themselves. [[http://www.weregeek.com/2009/08/12/ This is because he's the group's dungeon master]]; it's a habit.
* CargoShip: InUniverse between Dustin's D&D game paladin and his armor.
* ClosetGeek: Mark. ''He'' knows about his nerdiness, but hides it from his co-workers and girlfriend for fear of being laughed at.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Joel collects unopened soda pop.
* ComedicSociopathy: Joel's habit of messing with people's brains, Abbie's antics, sometimes Dustin vs. Abbie pillow-fighting. Let alone {{PC}}s.
* CosplayOtakuGirl: Abbie. While she doesn't exactly cosplay anime characters, she ''is'' an otaku and has a very elaborate vampiric attire, complete with fishnets, [[HellBentForLeather leather]], and [[PrettyInMink a fur collar]].
* CrazyPrepared: Abbie states during the zombie game that she has been training her entire life for a ZombieApocalypse.
** It's been mentioned that geeks in general are this for a Zombie Apocalypse: What other demographic has been making joking-or-not plans for this eventuality and routinely sleeps with a [[http://www.weregeek.com/2008/12/01/ sword next to their bed?]]
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The vampire game.
* DeepImmersionGaming: That's what almost entire comic is about.
* DungeonmastersGirlfriend: Mark's girlfriend tries to join the geeks for a game night. She's not a geek, but doesn't mind that Mark is one.
** However, a point of potential drama is that while she knows he's a geek, she doesn't know how bad he's got it. Specifically, he hasn't told her about the whole "weregeeks and hunters" bit.
* EvenNerdsHaveStandards: The concept is referenced in [[http://www.weregeek.com/2009/12/07/ this]] strip.
* FacePalm: Demonstrated [[http://www.weregeek.com/2010/08/30/ here]] in combination with UnsoundEffect.
* FanGirl: Abbie
* FantasticRacism: The hunters aparently hate the geeks for not being mainstream. They hunt the geeks even when their only crime is increasing market revenue by buying as many collectibles as they could carry simply because they occasionally turning into a shadow creature who would sooner play D&D than attack anyone.
** This really gives more the impression that 'this' is what happens to the [[JerkJock Jerk Jocks]] who waste high school picking on geeks.
** It's so bad that one hunter leader chewed out his subordinate for even hinting that he saw a comic book movie.
* FastballSpecial: When Mark and Abbie fight a chimera in the ''D&D'' game.
* FilmNoir: The TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} game is [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/07/11/ intentionally styled]] after this genre.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/04/13/ This strip.]]
* {{Geek}}: Every main character.
* GenkiGirl: Abbie
* GenreSavvy: Joel has been showing this in the latest arc
* GoodAngelBadAngel: For bonus points, [[http://www.weregeek.com/2008/02/01/ Sarah's angels]] look like her {{PC}}s: the WhiteMagicianGirl she plays in the D&D game for good angel and TheVamp from vampire LARP for bad angel. And her Shadowrun character as a neutral one.
* {{Guyliner}}: Mark at the goth club.
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: The whole story is about Mark coming in terms with his geekiness with other geeks' help.
* HealingFactor: [[spoiler: Joel apparently has one]].
* TheHunter: There's a whole organization of them here. They hunt geeks though what they do to them or their background has not yet been elaborated.
** [[spoiler:The Hunter's scientists seem to understand that the Geeks are harmless, but their GeneralRipper just wants to shoot them and get it over with.]]
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: [[spoiler: the resistance accidentally created the "turned hunter" kind]]
* IThinkYouBrokeHim: [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/02/02/ "I think I broke the new guy!!"]]
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Actually happened from dice rolls during a ''StarWars'' gaming session. [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/08/29/ Abbie said it was just like the movies.]]
* InMediasRes: The story just loves jumping into the middle of a gaming session.
* InsultBackfire:
-->'''Abbie:''' Dude!! That's... That's '''nefarious'''!\\
'''Joel:''' Aww, thanks. You're making me blush!
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: [[http://www.weregeek.com/2012/10/01/ Alice and her kid]].
* KnightTemplar: The Hunters
* LamePunReaction: When the group makes a series of D&D-based food puns, one of them responds with [[http://www.weregeek.com/2013/02/21/ "kill me"]].
* {{LARP}}: one of the games the geeks play is a live vampire LARP
* LivingaDoubleLife: Mark doesn't want his 'normal' friends to find out he's secretly a geek.
* MacGyvering: Abbie's TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} character Twitch is a [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/07/06/ Techno Wizard]], and manages to combine this with [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/07/04/ blatant]] PyroManiac streak into one piece of ComedicSociopathy.
* MachineMonotone:
--> '''Twitch's drone:''' [[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: [[http://www.weregeek.com/2008/03/28/ hello. let's.play.a.game ]]
.]]
* TheMasquerade: Geeks hide themselves within the society, acting as if they were ordinary students and office workers, to avoid the Hunters' attention.
* MysteriousWatcher: The ominously lurking [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/05/14/ hunter]].
* NonMaliciousMonster: The geeks really, yeah they's turn into sinister looking shadowy figures if presented with a first edition Han Solo figure, but outside of an intense game of D&D they have yet to be seen attacking people or acting with any sort of malicious intent.
** The only time you see them get violent is when they are being attacked by hunters.
** Or when Joel forgets to tell Mark that the larpers weren't really vampires.
* NotAZombie: Mark's first encounter with the "zombies" IRL.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Actually, there are no vampires in the comic, just a few geeks who are ''very good'' at portraying them...?
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Apparently when the moon is full or they just "geek out" badly geeks are prone to transforming into shadowy creatures with claws, super strength, and fast healing. Though not all of them are aware of the transformations, initially it's just Joel.
* PetitePride: Right after Katie and Sarah are busy complaining about how exspensive it is having to buy custom bras so they fit they glare scathingly at Abbie who says she can just pick up from the rack at Walmart for a fraction of the cost.
* PlotParallel: Both Jess and Sarah get to be the odd one out in the social circle of the other ([[http://www.weregeek.com/2008/02/15/ Gaming Night]] and [[http://www.weregeek.com/2010/05/07/ Girls' Night]], respectively). They are both mildly weirded out.
* PrivateEyeMonologue: Mark gets to pull it off in the Shadowrun game.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Hunters. Well, the Delta Team, at least. It starts showing [[http://www.weregeek.com/2010/01/04/ here]] when they start developing actual personalities and stop being regular old {{Mooks}}.
* RandomNumberGod: In [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/08/24/ this strip]], Dustin yells at Mark for touching someone else's dice.
* ReferenceOverdosed
* {{Retcon}}: Originally, Mark's half-orc had STR 20 but has since been dwindled to more realistic (under DungeonsAndDragons rules) score of 19.
** Under 3.5 and 4, a Half-Orc (+2 Strength mod) with 20 STR is perfectly realistic under the point-buy system. Munchkinny, sure, but legitimate.
* RunningGag: "TEN POUNDS OF POCKY!"
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Subverted with Mark's girlfriend Jess, who turns out to be much more perceptive and open-minded than she first appears like.
* ScrewYouElves: Abbie's Elven Rogue, having been raised by humans, thinks her own race a little haughty.
--> [[http://www.weregeek.com/2012/03/15/ "The Tai Shan monks had better manners than you idiots do, and '''ten times''' the wisdom."]]
* SeriousBusiness: Gaming is very serious business for weregeeks, but it goes quadruple for Joel.
* ShoutOut:
** [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/07/13/ This comic]] has a display case showing off a couple of [[{{Erfworld}} "Erf"]] miniatures, including a few dwagons, gwiffons, and marbits. Looking around, there's also [[Webcomic/QuestionableContent Pintsize]], the aptly-named Red Robot from Webcomic/DieselSweeties, Helix from Webcomic/{{Freefall}}, the Film/{{Serenity}}, the [[Franchise/StarTrek Starship Enterprise]], the [[Webcomic/SchlockMercenary Touch and Go]], and a few half-obscured [[Series/DoctorWho Daleks]].
** And just look at all the decorations on [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/12/24/ the Christmas tree]].
* {{Squee}}: Mark and the Talking Guy [[http://www.weregeek.com/2009/02/06/ do this]] at the idea of flying an [[StarWars X-Wing against the Empire]]...
* SquishyWizard: Sarah's mage in the ''D&D'' game.
* StoneWall: Dustin's paladin in the ''D&D'' game.
* StopHelpingMe: Abbie's PC Twitch (we mentioned ComedicSociopathy already, right?):
-->'''Twitch:''' ''(to Aeon)'' [[http://www.weregeek.com/2008/03/28/ ...you're wearing body armor, right?]]\\
[...]\\
'''Author:''' [[http://www.weregeek.com/2008/03/31/ At least she remembered to say sorry]]... Remember chummers -- when you "accidentally" blow up your teammates, always apologize afterwards. It's good Shadowrunning etiquette.
* SurferDude: One of Mark's non-geek friends appears to be this. Even though he's only shown for 1 page he has shoulder length hair and talks about is an "awesome party" and uses "like" and "totally".
** In fact any time Mark talks to a "normal" friend or co-worker, they seem to be talking about "awesome parties".
* TemptingFate: [[http://www.weregeek.com/2010/10/25/ What could possibly go wrong?]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Abbie and Sarah.
* VFormationTeamShot: At the end of chapter 17. [[http://www.weregeek.com/2011/06/17/ "We'll teach those Hunters that you don't mess with GEEKS!"]] Not the straightest example, though, since the leader is not in the middle of the formation but on the side.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Silver is to werewolves what tax forms, red tape, insurance ads and C-Span is to geeks. Granted, C-Span is apparently boring enough to knock out a squad of hunters as well.
* WebcomicTime: Started in late 2006, with seasons changing and events like the Christmas holidays noted, and up-to-date references on various games and movies. However, Abbie and Sarah have been in college the whole time with no indication they might have moved on to graduate studies, many couples dating as long as Mark and Jess would have at least discussed marriage by now (and Mark's geeky double life is still treated as a recent occurrence), and even [[spoiler:Dustin has been sort-of-kind-of dating Ravenia since early 2011]]. And that's saying nothing about the games they play, with a few months' worth of biweekly gameplay stretched out over half a decade or so.
* WeHaveBeenResearchingPhlebotinumForYears: The series begins with Mark drooling at a look on dice and being chased by {{The Hunter}}s. He is saved by Joel and the others, who explain to him that he is a weregeek, just like themselves, which is why he was being hunted. It is much later explained that [[spoiler:Joel, in fact, is the leader of LaResistance hunting the Hunters and he knows much more about them than he tells anyone]].
* WeWorkWellTogether: Happens to the player characters in the end of the Shadowrun arc.
* WhamEpisode: Strip 2011-05-10 sees Joel [[spoiler:wounded while fleeing from a Hunter, then bursting through a window where the rest of the gang is dining]]. And it looks like it's a RealLife section this time.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: [[http://weregeek.com/2010/02/22 Here.]]
* WithCatlikeTread: Abbie in the ''D&D'' game.
* YaoiFangirl: Sarah and Abbie's discussion of ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' is rather telling.
* YouAllMeetInAnInn: [[http://www.weregeek.com/2007/12/07/ This]].
* YouHaveFailedMe: Textbook [[http://www.weregeek.com/2010/08/06/ example]], complete with ShootTheMessenger.
* XanatosGambit: This is how Joel captures [[spoiler:TheHunter [[http://www.weregeek.com/2010/01/27/ here]]: either the Hunter grabs his hand, putting himself into Joel's power, or he falls into the net below. The second part worked.]]
* ZombieApocalypse: Mark runs into a horde of "zombies" after a vampire game session ([[spoiler:who are discovered to be normal people doing a charity "zombie run" on Halloween]]) and the gang later reenacts it with a zombie movie game.
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