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American Barbarian is a comic-book-style webcomic — rather Kirby-esque adventures — set in an extremely strange United States — apparently far future.

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Tropes included

• After the End: The world-ending catastrophe is rewferenced as the "Great Clusterfuck"
• Ancestral Weapon: The Starsword
• Badass Family: The Yoosamon family, guards of the Castle Lionheart.
• Barbarian Hero
• Base on Wheels: The Moving Fortress, a city built inside a massive tank-like vehicle..
• Battle in the Rain
• Cain and Abel: Rick and Gunthor
• Cool Horse
• Curse
• Deliberately Monochrome
• Distressed Dude
• Divided We Fall
• Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: Dinosaur Riders.
• Fake Defector: Rick pretends to join Two Tank Omen's army in an effort to get "R-E-V-E-N-G-E-!-!-!"
• Fearless Fool
• Field Promotion
• Forgiveness
• Friend or Foe
• Get It Over With: Gunthor to Rick, once he gets the sword.
• Give Me a Sword: Uli gets back Rick's sword and throws it to him.
• Go-Go Enslavement: Called "Jabba's Technique" in the comments.
• Green-Eyed Monster: the protagonist's brother betrays him because he lost the Tangle of Swords.
• Human Sacrifice: "Meet god!" (actually a Beholder-like entity)
• Immortality
• Kill It With Water
• Leader
• Leave No Survivors: Two-Tank-Omen's modus operandi
• Love Triangle: Averted and lampshaded: Rick is glad that she turns out to be the sister of the other man.
• Mad Oracle
• Mobile Maze
• Multicolored Hair: The Yoosamons all have red, white, and blue striped hair. Pa has this pattern in his beard.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Rick is horrified by how his attempt to win Two-Tank Omen's trust give Omen a chance to wreak destruction.
• New Era Speech
• Non-Action Guy
• Number of the Beast: The Big Bad has a stylized triple-six emblem on his headdress.
• Odd-Shaped Panel
• One-Man Army
• One Way Visor: Greylock, the Climber, and Gali-Leo.
• Our Dragons Are Different
• Pride
• Really 700 Years Old: The inhabitants of the Moving Fortress.
• Revenge
• Rule Of Seven: Rick is the youngest of seven sons.
• Smooch of Victory: Uli gives Rick one after Gunthor flees and the battle is over.
• Sole Survivor
• Speech Bubbles
• Take My Hand
• Taken for Granite
• Temporal Paradox: Rick refuses to try something that would lead to this.
• This Is Not a Drill
• Thud and Blunder: A nice homage to the genre.
• Two Lines, No Waiting: Two-Tank Omen's arrival and the city plotlines were displayed in parallel.
• What Have I Done
• Written Sound Effect
• You Already Changed The Past
• You Did Everything You Could: Uli assures Rick of this after one attempt on Two-Tank Omen failed entirely.
• Youngest Child Wins: Rick

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