Leeroy Jenkins behaviour in webcomics.
- Anecdote of Error: This is Atshi Sonel's Fatal Flaw, because of her desperation to prove that she is not a total failure. The school is under attack, and everyone is told to make their way to the shelter where they will be safe while security handles it. So what does Atshi do? Run straight to the scene of trouble to try to stop it herself! Later on, she sneaks off campus and into an espionage mission in order to provide backup for her best friend, who is actually the one involved and who has a far better chance of making it out alive.
- Ansem Retort once called Leeroy the greatest tactician in history. He even has a book on the art of war.Axel: All right chums, let's do this! LEEEEERRROYYYY JJJJJENKINSSSS!
Aerith: There is no way the book says to do that.
Zexion: That's the first thing the book says to do! What the fuck?! - Lokhar of Beardy Bastards, just as his comrades were thinking of an attack plan, charges ahead with gun blasting.
- In El Goonish Shive, during the "Video Gaaaaaames" storyline, Grace plays as Adam Jensen and runs into a fight in the style of the trope namer and ending up as a Bandage Mummy because of it.
- Another Shout-Out: one of the uncroaked warlords in Erfworld is named "Sir Leeroy Jenkins". Bonus: When Jenkins is destroyed in battle, Parson muses that "At least he has chicken." Not only that, shortly before then, Parson instructs the casters to have the warlords use a battle cry as he charges in: "LEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOY—"
- Erika and the Princes in Distress:
- When the group gets ambushed by a pack of carnivorous cherries, Pita decides, since they're still technically cherries, to simply rush forward and eat them all. It doesn't turn out well, as the cherries can open their own mouths much wider than her.
- When going to confront King Parfait, Savane asks Erika what her plan is. Her answer is "charge head first".
- Yuri from Exterminatus Now. She has no patience for complex planning (and even then, that's stretching it — she can simply not understand any plan beyond "Target that way") and tends to do whatever comes into her head, which frequently gets the gang in trouble. Kinda lampshaded when Rogue gets back. He tells everyone else that there is a reason why Yuri's codename is "Wildfire".Rogue: I thought about warning you, but then thought "Fuck those guys."
- Goblins: The Chief is being tortured by the very scary antagonist paladin Kore, in order to bait the rest of the Goblin party into facing him. Fumbles chooses that moment to snap out of his Heroic BSoD, and rushes to his Chief's aid, unarmed, against the paladin that the entire party was running from moments ago, screaming a battle cry as he goes.
- The Suit Blacksmith of Godslave looks like a classic example — he complains loudly that his mission is just about watching and the moment he can, he jumps out of his car to confront Edith. The consensus both in and out of universe is that he's about to find himself on the wrong end of Mugging the Monster.
- The Handbook of Heroes: In "Stupid Deaths", just as Inquisitor is deeming that the bounty on a cloud giant doesn't cover the risks, Magus is seen in the background charging at its foot, rapier blazing with magic. The Alt Text lampshades it:Alt-Text: As the leader of Team Bounty Hunter, Inquisitor relies on meticulous planning and careful cost-benefit analysis when picking her marks. Magus relies on shouting "Leeroy Jenkins."
- Homestuck
- Rose Lalonde shows increasing shades of this throughout the comic.
- John does it once as the result of some meddling on the part of the trolls convincing him it's a good idea. Normally he has enough sense to avoid it.
- Karkat doing this also had dire consequences, since he thought that the frog breeding in his session was taking too long. Turns out his impatience gave an entire universe cancer and directly resulted in his own session going Off the Rails. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero, indeed
- Vriska invokes this trope in a doomed timeline by flying off solo to fight Bec Noir. (Though the other trolls at this point did not have much of a plan for her to ruin).
- Kuro Shouri: Hisaki frequently jumps headfirst into battle, but specifically fulfills this trope in Chapter 32 where he attacks a group of demons by himself, in an attempt to get stronger.
- As Nanoha GamerS is Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S remix as an MMORPG, this character type was inevitable. Here, the role was handed to Subaru, complete with "LEEEEEEERRROOOOOOYY JEEEEEEEEENKIIIIIINSS!!" Battle Cry.
- Dizzee Jenkins of My Life at War has a reputation for being foolhardy and rushing into battle, losing at least one LIMB each deployment. After losing two in one particularly suicidal battle his boss informs him that his liability balance is so far in the red that it'll take him 67 years to pay it off.
- The Order of the Stick:
- Belkar Bitterleaf provides a near-perfect example of how a Leeroy can cause havoc.
- He abandons his defense of Durkon and Vaarsuvius to fight goblins during the first battle with Xykon, and then later abandons Elan to fight the vengeful Yokyok.
- Roy is too brave for his own good.
- Jumping on Xykon's dragon only to fall to his death when the lich blows up the dragon being used as the fighting platform.
- There's also charging a half-ogre with feats designed specially to counter charging. note
- Jumping on the back of a slaver's giant beetle to rescue some slaves. Haley even lampshades the last example, scolding Roy for being so reckless.
- Miko has such a moment in "No Plan Survives Contact with One's Allies". Subverted in the next strip — she actually did have a genuine plan, despite her ignoring Roy's.
- Xykon is a genius and fully capable of forming plans, but he's very arrogant and gets bored easily, so he hardly ever bothers, preferring to rely on his vast power and army to overwhelm targets.
- Belkar Bitterleaf provides a near-perfect example of how a Leeroy can cause havoc.
- The main page image comes from Scandinavia and the World, and is a single-panel comic directly homaging the original video with America in the role of Leeroy. According to the comic's creator, most Europeans considered this trope an apt summation of the US' costly and ultimately short-sighted invasion of Iraq during The War on Terror.
- One of the, let's just say they failed their psych examinations, CORE soldiers in S.S.D.D. being used to test the new augmentations is Lee Jenkin. He's a clone who grew at a normal rate so he's smarter than most of his cannon fodder siblings but that doesn't mean he's sane.
- Ironically enough, in Tower of God, in the Underwater Hunt, it's the Dirty Coward Paracule who throws his spear at an enemy and reveals his team's presence.
- In xkcd strip "Think Logically", an amateur Chess player questions why a more experienced player is moving their pieces backward, arguing that since the goal of the game is to checkmate the enemy king, moving your pieces towards the king is the only strategy that makes sense. When the experienced player challenges him to a game and he loses, he blames the loss on Chess being a badly-designed game.
