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Webcomic: Nerf NOW!!
Nerf NOW!! is a gaming webcomic centering on the RED and BLU Teams' endless battle in
Team Fortress 2 , though it also includes
story arcs taking place in
Left 4 Dead ,
Starcraft , or one-shot comics based on other games. What sets it apart from
its rivals is its art, which is
animesque , dangerously cute, and
somewhat inappropriate for a scenario involving two factions trying to murder each other , as well as for the fact that the comic is quite capable of telling a story without any dialogue (though more recent arcs have been using more
speech bubbles ).
Tropes include:
All Men Are Perverts : The Team Fortress crew? Mostly. Mario especially. Which leads to.... All Women Are Lustful : The ladies are just as willing as the men. Almost Kiss : Dammit, Scout! And I Must Scream : Female Shepard probably shouldn't have used the Renegade option when backtalking the author. Animesque : Sweat Drop ? Check. Cross-Popping Veins ? Check. Corner of Woe ? Check. Luminescent Blush ? Check... Art Evolution or Art Shift : The November 22nd 2011 comic had much more detailed shading than previous ones (and Engie-tan dressed like an actual Engineer for a change). It remains to be seen if this is permanent. Author Avatar : The Engineer with short, red hair. She appears more often than the other TF2-tans and is used as Jo Pereira's avatar for Twitter and deviantART . Also, in this strip and various Mass Effect 2 strips . Badass Old School Gamer : In a mini-arc, Grandpa wants to show the noob kids how it's done, but he fails ... * everything went exactly as he planned .]] Batman Gambit : "Master Plan" . Berserker Tears : He loved that doctor . Bishōnen : A fix suggested by Engie-tan for Heavy. Bitch in Sheep's Clothing : Steam-tan. Her true love is money. Of course, this is returned in kind. Bittersweet Ending : Drone-tan being forced to become a Hatchery , with some overlap with Crowning Moment of Heartwarming . Blush Sticker Bottom of the Barrel Joke : Hat jokes. Lampshaded here . Brain Bleach : You've seen it , Now you can't unsee it . Break the Cutie : Drone-tan's first arc. Breast Expansion : 2-up . Brick Joke : Harking back to Meet the Demoman, the Sniper, after ticking off Demo-tan , is being stitched back together... "In Hell!" Butt Monkey : The Sniper. Back during the Sniper VS Spy Update, there was a string of comics with the Spy being far superior to the Sniper. He then later pissed of a RED Demogirl, and... it ended badly. In contrast, Sniper-Tan has been exempt from this treatment. As of late, however, she has her own problems to deal with. YMMV. Sniper-Tan has had some pretty bad luck. Pyro was only interested in her because Engie-Tan was, at the time, dating Scout. After she broke up with him, Pyro started pursuing her again, (or did he?) even though he and Sniper-Tan were still dating. Poor girl just needs a hug. After exhausting all her options, the now-homeless Engie-tan still refuses to spend the night at Sniper's camper van. Cardiovascular Love : Heart Symbol imagery appear all the time. Clingy Jealous Girl : Origin-tan. Corner of Woe : This one. Can't really blame the Medic for it; over more or less the entire arc, things were going really, really badly for him. Good thing the enemy heavy was sympathetic. Creator Cameo : Here. Brain Bleach is that way. Cross Over : Neon Fortress Senterion , anyone? Cultural Translation : "Localization" . Cute Little Fangs : Zergling-tans. Cute Monster Girl : The Zerg. No, seriously. Deep Immersion Gaming : From kill reports, chat channels, and the fact that they occasionally change classes/games, the two teams are obviously in a video game, though their players are never shown. Distaff Counterpart : The Team Fortress 2 classes are joined by (hot ) female couterparts. Does This Remind You of Anything? : This short arc about a newbie video game princess ' first kidnapping. Double Standard * Of the non-gender-issues related variety . Downer Ending : The Mega Man 9 Early Installment Weirdness : It started as a story-driven Team Fortress 2 Even Evil Has Standards : The American Violent Gamer may be violent, but he doesn't violate women. Only Japanese gamers do. Even the Girls Want Her : Red haired Engie-tan. Expy : The most recent one is how one Engie-tan resembles Rei . Fanservice : With a huge engineered lampshade. Fan Disservice : Curse you, WoW! Fiery Redhead : Engie-tan. Foe Yay /Les Yay : Based on his deviantART page, BLU and RED Engie-tans . French Jerk : Guess who. Fridge Logic : In universe, coupled with Eureka Moment : Dr. Wily finds a strategy to exploit Mega Manning . Gameplay and Story Segregation : This comic lampshades the impossibility of the Engineer's feats in the actual game as a punchline. Genius Bruiser : The Heavy, apparently . Genre Shift : "She Was Just Level One " is a pretty grim and gritty story for a comic that normally runs on the Rule of Cute . Girl on Girl Is Hot : The author does enjoy drawing lesbian make-out scenes every now and then , and again... It seems Pyro and Demoman in the third comic agree. Scout probably agrees also, he's just impatient. Invoked by Chun-Li and Cammy who use themselves as bait . Goofy Print Underwear : Considering they're being worn by Pyro, you can probably guess what they are... Hair of Gold : Blonde Engie-tan. Hands Go Down : Concerning uses of the new Kinect system. Head Pet : Heavy Weapons Guy needs to go Scout to deliver a message, but doesn't have a helmet. Mini-Medic wants to tag along. The solution is obvious . Hot Amazon : Heavy Weapons Girl. Hikikomori / Crazy Survivalist : This strip . Hotter and Sexier : It's Team Fortress plus anime babes. Idea Bulb : This comic. I Want My Beloved to Be Happy : Heavy Weapons Guy and Heavy Weapons Girl compete for the Medic's affections. When Medic chooses HWGirl, HWGuy leaves so as not to come between them . Irony : Situational, noted in the News Post under Strip 297 , the end of the "Nerf" arc. Innocent Innuendo : What were you expecting? In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You : In Soviet Russia, Tetris plays YOU! Jerkass : The Sniper. Kawaisa : Sleeping Zerglings . Dawwwww. Limited Wardrobe : Averted to hell and back with Engie-tan who has a different (and extremely fanservicey ) outfit in pretty much every comic. Loners Are Freaks : The original TF2 Sniper is a Butt Monkey due to his exaggerated loner reputation. Lovable Sex Maniac : Redhead Engie-tan. Love Hurts : Several arcs go take the major relationships to dark places. Love Triangle : Between a Medic and two Heavies . Major Injury Underreaction : Sometimes being aflame is just a chance to flirt . Or not. Medium Awareness : Sonic, in this comic. Too bad he was wrong about what to expect. Moe Anthropomorphism : Drone-tan is genki about harvesting minerals, Zerglings and Hydralisks are Cute Monster Girls , and an Overlord is a Meganekko dangling from a balloon. The Zerg have never been more precious. The Protoss add their Probe-tan to the fray. And when a Probe and a Drone meet in the mineral fields, traditional harvesting isn't on their minds. Money, Dear Boy : Steam-tan. New Old Flame : Deus Ex , personified as Adam Jensen , to Engie-tan. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero : Nice job ruining Christmas , BLU Engie-tan... Not Distracted by the Sexy : Heavy . Dammit, Heavy . Nostalgia Filter : Discussed in a Pokémon comic . NSFW : Parodied . Older and Wiser : The Heavy after joining a team of "babies". Has shown elements of being a Papa Wolf as well. The old man from the "Noob" arc. Peek-a-Bangs : The Demogirl has these in lieu of an Eyepatch of Power . Power Perversion Potential : For the Kinect . Puppy-Dog Eyes : Only it's ''larva eyes'' for zergs. Ragequit : In the Little Red Riding Hood episode . Reality Ensues : Here , though instead of making the story more realistic, it's Played for Laughs . Rebus Bubble : Used for the dialogue-free arcs. Red Eyes, Take Warning Rescue Romance : The very first arc. And it doesn't work out for Pyro. Ripped from the Headlines : Just about each of the major Team Fortress 2 updates have garnered a reaction strip or three, but other examples include: Backstab , Karma , and Lottery . Second Love : Sniper-tan to Pyro. Self-Deprecation : "I got bored of butchering the english language. Now I butcher grammar in japanese too." [1] Serenade Your Lover : Sniper-tan confesses her love for Pyro by singing Never Gonna Give You Up . Roses Are Red : Violet is BLU Short Range Shotgun : Discussed . Shout Out : To Plants Vs Zombies , with the Peashooter in all of the Left 4 Dead arcs. Shout Out / Memetic Mutation : #300 Smoke Shield : This strip , complete with Big Damn Heroes moment. Stealth Pun : Tonight's Jeopardy! Dracula . Stripperiffic : The female Team Fortress 2 dangerous distractions . "Stop Having Fun" Guy : Apparently, the StarCraft scene is nothing but this. In other strips, SHFG's are depicted as grey-brown skinned cultists in purple robes with "Mr. Yuk" on them. Super-Deformed : Particularly the "Entire Team Is Babies " arc. Take That : This comic makes a not-so-subtle jab at Twilight . There Are No Girls on the Internet : Inverted here. Tsundere : Jack from Mass Effect 2 Title Drop : Here . Two Gamers on a Couch : Strips involving Jo and Engie-tan have this vibe to them. War Has Never Been So Much Fun : Team Fortress, now with romance! What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome? : Mineral Scan!!! White-Haired Pretty Girl : Soldier-tan and Steam-tan. Who Wears Short Shorts? : Engie-tan. Woman Scorned : BLU Sniper discovers that RED Demo-tan doesn't take rejection well. World's Smallest Violin : Requiem . Wrench Wench : Engie-tan, of course. Yandere : Everyone. Your Cheating Heart : Pyro and Sniper-Tan both cheat on each other and regret it.
is a gaming webcomic centering on the RED and BLU Teams' endless battle in Team Fortress 2, though it also includes story arcs taking place in Left 4 Dead, Starcraft, or one-shot comics based on other games. What sets it apart from its rivals is its art, which is animesque, dangerously cute, and somewhat inappropriate for a scenario involving two factions trying to murder each other, as well as for the fact that the comic is quite capable of telling a story without any dialogue (though more recent arcs have been using more speech bubbles).
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