The Adventures of Gyno-Star
is a superhero parody webcomic featuring a feminist protagonist whose tagline is "Fighting the forces of evil and male chauvinism."
Gyno-Star boasts super-strength, a "Gyno sense" which alerts her when women are being discriminated against, and the power to make men feel the pain of childbirth.
Tropes featured in The Adventures of Gyno-Star include:
- Agony Beam: The power to make men feel the pain of childbirth.
- Boomerang Bigot: 'The Stay at Home Mommy' is a Female Misogynist villain wants to turn all women on earth into brainless zombies.
- The Cape: Gyno-Star embodies the upright superhero who abides by a strict code and moral authority (although more often she fails to live up to her own high standards).
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: A shadowy conspiracy of corporate executives hire a subcontractor to "eliminate" Gyno-Star.
- Cute Bruiser: Little Sappho — her adorable appearance belies her unusual strength.
- Hypocritical Humor: A very large amount of the comic's humor comes from hypocritical behavior by Gyno-Star or Little Sappho.
- Kid Sidekick: Little Sappho, Gyno-Star's teenage sidekick.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: All of Gyno-Star's foes are this; since she fights for women's rights, they're misogynists by default.
- Psycho Sidekick: Little Sappho is a lot more of a political extremist than Gyno-Star leaning towards Dirty Communists and is willing to do certain things that go against the main character's moral code.
- Shock Collar: Vlad Deferens puts a shock collar on Gyno-Star in an attempt to make her compliant and obedient.
- Stealth Parody: At first glance it looks like a legitimate "radfem" wish fulfillment/social justice webcomic, but
the author stated that doing it as a parody was more fun and avoided turning it into an Author Tract. - Straw Character: The Glibertarian is a straw Libertarian created in a laboratory to spread pro-corporate ideology.
- Trapped in TV Land: Gyno-Star gets trapped in the world of sexist beer commercials.
- Unicorns Are Sacred: Gyno-Star and Little Sappho discover that unicorns are being slaughtered at a factory farm, so their horns can be ground up and used to make products for the Apple corporation.
- White Guilt: The White Knight harnesses his own white male guilt as a superpower.
- Your Costume Needs Work: A fan mistakes Gyno-Star for an impersonator, then insults her when pointing out how she can't be the real Gyno-Star.
