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- After doing a series of Star Wars parodies, Irregular Webcomic did this strip
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- "Oh, and by the way, 'xkcq' is worth 8 more points than 'xkcd' in Scrabble, or a whopping 30 more if both are played optimally on a triple word score. Nyahhh."
- Antimony from Gunnerkrigg Court has been compared a few times to that other orphan with strange powers who attends a strange boarding school. Tom Siddell is too much of a gentleman to make fun of another author, so guest comic author Ali Graham did it for him.
- Tom Siddell reserves his snark for the Internet. See this page and the explanatory note below.
- This◊ alternative strip is a Take That at people who complained that the flashback wasn't made obvious enough.
- Order Of The Stick once poked fun at Eberron, for that Dungeons And Dragons setting's magical trains. It should come as no surprise, as the author's own proposed setting won second place in Wizards Of The Coast's setting contest — which Eberron won.
- Rich Burlew and Keith Baker seem to have what could be described as a friendly rivalry, so this is probably more of a Shout Out, especially considering that Baker himself got a cameo in the second Order Of The Stick prequel book, "Start of Darkness".
- The swipes at Harry Potter taken in this strip, on the other hand, are somewhat less friendly. In his commentary in the compilation book, he took a parting shot at the people who sent him hate mail over it: "...hey! Harry Potter fans who can't take a joke! I have a spell for you: developus sensus humorous!"
- In that same commentary, Burlew wrote that he likes the Harry Potter movies, and he makes fun of stuff he likes -see D&D and Lord of the Rings.
- And as for Celine Dion, well, suffice to say Even Evil Has Standards.
- The few digs taken at Video Games in 619 are more or less neutral on the nasty-humorous axis. Though the Bistro is named "Blizzard's Restorant".
- The last three panels of 623 can be seen as a Take That to the more obsessed readers.
- The webtoon Bonus Stage is full of of Take Thats, roughly on par with Family Guy, but its creator Matt Wilson really doesn't like his fanbase: he has levelled several Take Thats against Bonus Stage fan fiction, Fan Dumb and the fan wiki.
- Penny Arcade took a swipe at Ctrl Alt Del with the side character L.H. Franzibald, a self-obsessed litigious pseudo-intellectual who writes books based on ideas plagiarised from Tycho. He talks in a slimy, needlessly wordy manner, often explaining the joke of a strip in the last panel, or indulging in acts of pointless violence — once, a comic with him in even imitated the four-panel format◊ of CAD. He wears a large pair of B-shaped sunglasses and his mouth is always only slightly open to give him the distinctive B^U look. To Penny Arcade's credit, it's used as self-deprecating humour, too — according to the lore, the accusations of plagiarism are very tenuous, and Tycho's resentment of Franzibald is repeatedly shown to be pointless since Franzibald is still very successful.
- VG Cats also took a shot at Ctrl Alt Del for April Fool's Day 2008.
- Jeffrey Rowland gave Buckley a kick in the pants with this Overcompensating comic.
- In fact a lot of people have, and for the sake of not turning this article into one, long CAD rant, we won't be posting any more.
- And now that all of this has been posted, expect one of Buckley's sock puppets to take action.
- Not to mention the meme that sprung up in the wake of his miscarriage storyline of people and other webcomic artists inserting the last panel where appropriate for maximum funnies. That was a small industry of Take Thats.
- A lot of User Friendly involves attacks on Microsoft.
- This Adventurers! strip is a Take That at PC games in general and the notoriously buggy PC port of Final Fantasy VII in particular.
- Then again, pretty much the entire comic is an Affectionate Parody of games like Final Fantasy VII and their various cliches, so pinpointing one strip seems to miss the big picture.
- In The KAMics this comic gives the doomed guard the same name as another cartoonist who had done a comic trashing other comics characters & authors.
- After the World Of Warcraft comic, Dark Legacy Comics, had been on a storyline about NPCs overthrowing PCs for several weeks, the author got enough of forum-goers complaining about the unrealism of such a concept and did this strip.
- This PvP strip was similarly levelled at people who complained about the then-current Story Arc. Specifically, the strip was a response to this earlier Take That from the webcomic The Whiteboard regarding his disappointment in the wasted potential of that Story Arc.
- Minus had a fairly gentle Take That against most of the criticisms you'd expect to hear aimed at the idea of a comic about someone with infinite power. For extra points, imagine it as a Superman comic.
- Shortpacked, when not taking shots at Walky's own past exploits, takes the occasional swipe at certain newspaper comics, and lots of jabs at the worst aspects of Transformers fandom and fandom in general. And, sometimes, he manages to combine the two.
- Achewood took potshots at sterotypically mediocre fantasy and furry webcomics hosted at places like Keenspot in this strip. Their activities are so poorly conveyed.
- Kris Straub's Chainsawsuit has done multiple Take Thats against other comics in the span of a few updates. These include Perry Bible Fellowship and XKCD. Twice.
- xkcd has parodied Penny Arcade twice. The two comics are here and here. But from the ending of the second and the Alt Text of the first, they definitely go into Affectionate Parody rather than Take That.
- Take THAT Science Fiction! from El Goonish Shive
- 8-bit Theater once did a comic in which is, effectively, Black Mage making a pee joke and everyone else reacting with confusion and mild disgust. The name of the strip? "VG Mages".
- Two Lumps has taken several pot shots at Garfield. This is one of the more blatant examples.
- R.K. Milholland says "Take That, TV Tropes!" in the first line of this Super Stupor comic. Apparently this was the result of someone parroting Rape As Comedy in a Dude Not Funny Live Journal comment accusation against him.
- Well, this one is more of a Take That against people who link to us as opposed to forming their own opinions, as well as Unpleasable Fanbases and the pure distilled awfulness of One More Day. It's hard to tell exactly how effective it is to "puppet" the opinions of a wiki which, after all, can be changed by anyone.
- And in any case, he wasn't aiming it at this site, but someplace with the url tvtropes.com.
- This isn't the only case of Take That that Milholland has ever done, of course. For example:
- Sluggy Freelance once had the cast go to war with Dilbert and kill off every single character from that strip. Their reasons? "Dilbert just really ticks us off!"
- In response to people who demanded faster updates, suggesting a sacrifice in art quality to achieve it, Thunt of Goblins offered this◊ to appease them.
- Least I Could Do launches one huge Take That against overblown Crisis Crossovers, Comicbook Death, Wasp Fridge Stuffing and sloppy retcons; starting here.
- This DMFA strip.
- The Good Witch is an extended Take That against aspects of The Wotch; this strip in particular gives the idea.
- Better Days artist Jay Naylor once frequented FurryMUCK, an online roleplaying environment for furries; during his time there, there was a specific section that he visited regularly, but when his behavior started to get on people's nerves, the owner of the "building" called him out on it in a rather public manner. So what does Naylor do? He leaves FurryMUCK and makes an entire chapter of his comic a prolonged Take That, turning D'anna into what is essentially the Big Bad of the chapter.
- UG Madness, a Magic: The Gathering webcomic, has done a few Take Thats against Yu-Gi-Oh.
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal does this regularly. Besides the ones on religion: Take that art community! Take that sitcom platitudes! Take that imaginary government bureaucrats! Take that nerds!
- Dueling Analogs did one to the Hatedom of Ctrl Alt Del.
- Questionable Content had Sven and Faye starting up a Karaoke Take That against each other for three comics, starting here.
- The announcement that the long-running Power Rangers show would end with its current incarnation Power Rangers RPM has led to all sorts of fandom reactions, including this rather belated one◊ from the Kamen Rider-themed Soucha-Koma.
- The Tales Of The Questor spin-off Quentyn Quinn Space Ranger includes a very heavy-handed Take That aimed at Star Trek. The author isn't even trying to disguise it.
- Very few parodies do, you know, since getting the connection is the point.
- VG Cats did numerous of Take Thats, but one of the best in this troper's eyes is this.
- Not to be left out, Ciem 2 has, in its fifth chapter, several Take That moments against Titanic. Even if that's an awful lot for a comic with such a small fanbase to tackle all at once.
- Freefall these from time to time — a typical example.
- A Take That against Twilight in the Retarded Animal Babies guy's webcomic.
- Dead Of Summer did a Take That against the Bush Administration here.
- Strip #231 (Bonejerk Homework) of Sexy Losers takes a swipe at fans of Megatokyo.
- Hijinks Ensue exists almost solely to hurl Take Thats against various people and companies, most frequently FOX for their habit of picking up geek-centric shows (Firefly, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, etc.) only to cancel them prematurely. The very first strip was a Take That against Spiderman 3.
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