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Comicbook: Doom

Luckily, the Fourth Wall will protect us.

A comic adapted from the Video Game Doom.

The hero, a berserker packin' man-and-a-half with a 12.0 on a 10.0 scale of badness, is attempting to RIP AND TEAR a huge cyberdemon's huge guts with his Night Train, when his berserker pack runs out, leaving the demon bonking unharmed. His Unstoppable Rage over, he spends the rest of the comic communicating his desire to have guns (with a chainsaw) looking for a gun big enough to blow the demon away. But even if he personally stops this alien invasion, what kind of planet will we be leaving to our children? And our children's children? How will they live with all the undisposed toxic waste that we left to them to deal with and... oh, the humanity, my big gun is out of bullets! (Better believe it, soldier!) Dynamite!

In other words, this 90s comic book (originally a convention giveaway) has become a Cult Classic thanks to being nonsensical and over-the-top.

You can read it for yourself here

or with appropriate voiceover here.

Linkara reviewed it in his best attempt at the Ultimate Warrior voice here.

This comic provides examples of:

Ascended Meme: As of the Xbox Live Arcade release of Doom II, most of the achievements are named after several lines from this very comic, such as "Important Looking Door" being obtained by finding a secret, and "You Have Huge Guts" for killing a Cyberdemon with your fists.
Adaptation Distillation
Ax Crazy: "I've got a handful of vertebrae and a headful of mad! Yeah, that's your spinal cord, baby! Dig it!"
Badass: Ok, the Doom Guy seems completely insane in here, but he still kills a lot of stuff!
The Berserker: Doom Guy starts the comic under the effects of a Berserk Pack. When it wears off, he becomes a little more coherent.
BFG: "Mine eyes can but weep as they bear witness to the majesty... The BFG 9000!"
Buffy Speak: "Sweet Christmas! Big-mouthed floating thingies!"
- "It's always something!"
Captain Obvious: "You are huge! That means you have huge guts!" How almost Rabelaisian...
- "Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!"
- "Now I'm in a completely different place!"
Chainsaw Good: "Aaaah! Chainsaw! The great communicator!"
Cloudcuckoolander: The Doom Guy.
Companion Cube: "At this particular moment in time, I don't think I have a healthier or more deeply-felt respect for any other object in the universe than this here Shotgun." ...Then again, he's probably gone completely insane, so Cargo Ship, perhaps?
- "Hey, Chaingun! The hell with respect!"
  - The aforementioned Cargo Ship is actually lampshaded and ridiculed at about 3:15 and 6:20 in this entry to a Youtube-based dramatic reading contest for the comic (for men and women).
The Dark Age of Comic Books: In many ways, this is really a parody of the kind of overly violent, overly angsty comics that were in vogue during the 1990s.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Subverted, more like "did you just ''try'' to punch out Cthulhu?"
"Cyberdemon? Big deal. He's slim pickings."
Exploding Barrels: Wouldn't be Doom without 'em! He detonates a room full of them to get rid of an invisible Pinkie.
Foe Tossing Charge: At the story's climax, with a horde of monsters between the hero and the BFG.
Green Randomly Thrown-In Speech
- Although he does raise a good point. Why the hell is there a giant vat of radioactive sludge lying out in the open?
Gorn: Lots of it.
Gun Porn: Sort of. After claiming "Guns are for wusses!" and promptly needing one, "Doomguy" effectively fetishizes the guns he finds; so much that at one point, much in the manner of a classical pick-up artist, he claims he's "All about that plasma rifle" (and baby, it's all about him!)
Heroic Mime: Considering the actual games, an aversion of epic proportions.
Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Let's see. He's got a "positive goal" (killing demons), he performs over-the-top grizzly deeds (killing demons), he loves what he's doing (killing demons), and it's all Played for Laughs (killing de- I mean, "yes, most probably"). The Doom Marine in this story most likely qualifies.
I Love Nuclear Power: Not really, in this case: "Now I'm radioactive. That can't be good."
Lame Comeback: "Stupid, stupid Imp! You're stupid! And you're gonna be stupid and dead!"
Large Ham: The main character. "Yeah, that's your spinal cord, baby! DIG IT!"
- "DYNAMITE!"
The Legions of Hell
Made of Plasticine: Pretty much everything except Doomguy and that Cyberdemon.
Muzzle Flashlight: "Might makes light! *blamm* And I feel mighty!"
No Fourth Wall / Ax Crazy: The berserker packin' 'MAN AND A HALF is generally conversant with the non-spoken internal monologue boxes. Either he's crazy, or there's no fourth wall. Or both.
No Indoor Voice: Despite this being a comic book, you can only imagine Doomguy speaks this way due to all the exclamation points.
No OSHA Compliance: Lampshaded.
No Sell: The Marine's berserker pack runs out just as he punches the Cyberdemon. Said Cyberdemon merely grins at the now suddenly-not-Axe Crazy Marine.
Oh Crap: The Marine's reaction to his punch failing to harm the Cyberdemon. Can't really blame the guy.
- Marine: CHOO CHOO CHA BOOGIE! CHOO CHOO CHA...CHOO CH...CHOO CHA...oh my.
Oh, the Humanity!: "The humanity! My big gun is out of bullets!"
Open Says Me: "Knock knock, who's there? ME!"
Plot What Plot: Well, the game had an Excuse Plot, after all...
Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...
Rated M for Manly: "RIP AND TEAR"
Rouge Angles of Satin: "heavy ordinance"
Shout Out: "Sweet Christmas!"
- "Groovy."
  - Hell, he's basically Ash taken up to 11.
Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness: Pretty much the plot - Doomguy kills stuff, and gets a weapon better then his last one.
- Lampshaded when he soliloquizes about his vast respect for his shotgun, then instantly discards it in the next panel to pick up a chaingun.
Stealth Parody: It's kind of subtle, but...
Talkative Loon
Tears of Joy: Doomguy's reaction to acquiring the BFG 9000.
Testosterone Poisoning: "WHO'S A MAN AND A HALF? I'M A MAN AND A HALF!"
- "A BERSERKER PACKIN' MAN AND A HALF!"
Title Drop: The subtitle anyway:
"As I stride knee deep through the dead. All is clear. I know what must be done..."
Understatement: "Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good."
Unsound Effect: *Bonk*
Unstoppable Rage: "Doomguy" while he has the berserker pack, in particular:
"Rip and tear, RIP AND TEAR, RIP AND TEAR! RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS! YOU ARE HUGE! THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS!!! RIP AND TEAR! "
Up to Eleven: "I'm the man! I'm a bad man! How bad? Real bad! I`m a 12.0 on the 10.0 scale of badness!"
Warrior Monk: Sort of. After finding the BFG 9000, the "Doomguy"s normal tough-guy rhetoric is suddenly replaced by expressions one expects to hear from a classical warrior priest (although, to be fair, he does end it with his classical, every-word-a-catchphrase style).