Minion
is a fantasy webcomic by Andrew Fox. It follows the adventures of Gin, a young man honoring a childhood promise (and also looking for a place to stay), and his employer the Dark-Witch-for-Hire Meryl.
Partly
High Fantasy, but mostly
laugh-out-loud comedy. Updates Wednesdays, probably. For the unrelated webcomic produced by Minion Comics, see
Minion Comics.
Examples of tropes occurring in Minion:
- Art Evolution: Oh yeah.
- Battle Butler
- Berserk Button: When Antonie talked about wanting to do things to Meryl, Gin beat the tar out of him. When he also remembered that Antonie had tried to eat Rico and Ellaine...
- Also, Meryl when anyone, read: Rico, insults her spellwork or appearance.
- Childhood Employment Promise:
Kid!Meryl: "Someday, I'm going to be a powerful dark witch!"
Kid!Gin: "Cool! Can I be your minion?"
Kid!Meryl "...Okay."
- Deadpan Snarker: Rico, so very much.
- Death Trap Goes Click
- Delicious Distraction:
Rico: "No way! We came here to get rid of her! And nothing you say is going to change our minds! Nothing!"
Gin: "Oh? Well that's too bad...And here I had this GREAT chocolate chip cookie recipe just lying around the tower—"
Rico: "DEAL!!!"
- Drill Hair: Sister Madeline.
- Elemental Embodiment: The eight elemental planes*
air, earth, water, lightning, fire, ice, light, and darkness
are home to an assortment of entities that magicians can summon. So far we have Shari, a treasure guardian from Fire, and Hai'dan, an omniperceptive yet somehow still incompetent scout from Darkness. - Evil Sorceress: It's a lucrative business.
- Expecting Someone Uglier: When The Knight came to challenge the dark witch, and Meryl came out, he asked who the heck she was.
- Face Palm: Meryl. She'll probably be doing that a lot.
- Fantastic Racism: Gin has been hunted like an animal ever since he was a teenager because he's a werewolf. He's an incredibly nice guy.
- Freakiness Shame: Kid!Gin thought that Kid!Meryl's red eyes were awesome.
- Friendly Neighborhood Werewolf: Gin, of course.
- Hired Dark Witch, plus minion.
- Hypnotic Eyes: Count Antonie the vampire tries this on Meryl. She of course sees right through it, clobbers him, and has Gin throw him out.
- Idiot Hero: Gin
- Licked by the Dog: Cats hate Gin, but dogs all seem to love him. There's a reason for that, by the way.
- Load-Bearing Hero: Gin did this to a magic-proof Descending Ceiling trap.
- Marshmallow Hell: here
- Minion with an F in Evil: Gin again.
- Mundane Utility: Meryl's illusion spells.
- Nigh Invulnerability: Parodied. Antonie's vampiric powers make him nigh impossible to kill...but still dead easy to beat up.
- Non-Action Guy: Alfred.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Gin. He's usually a normal, friendly guy (albeit super-strong and Made of Iron), but he turns into a type 4 werewolf as a Defense Mechanism Superpower.
- Paper Tiger: Count Antonie's vampiric powers make it nigh-impossible to kill him...but merely beating him up is a dead easy.
- Rummage Sale Reject: Gin has been on the run constantly for six years. His clothes are literally rags.
- Schedule Slip: The author is currently experimenting with regular weekly updates, but historically the comic has been drawn on a "whenever the author isn't busy" schedule.
- Servile Snarker: Hai'dan.
- She's A Friend: The gang meeting Shari.
- Tag Along Kid: Rico and Ellaine.
- Totem Pole Armor: The Knight that came to slay Meryl was in fact Rico and Ellaine wearing a helm and a cloak. It's a good thing the cloak blew open when it did, since the Knight had by that point hit several of Meryl's Berserk Buttons and she was about a second away from blasting "him" into cinders.
- Trash of the Titans: Meryl's tower, before she got a minion to clean up. Gin sees this and comments that she's gotten a lot tidier since they were kids.
- Trouser Space: Alfred has very big pockets.
- Unusual Ears: Meryl's weird three-pointed ears. Also, Ellaine has pointy elf ears.
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