What Measure Is A Mook / Webcomics

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• Bowser sings about the tragic plight of the minion in Brawl in the Family strip 200.
  These minions clock in from 9 to 5// to provide for their wives// not knowing' it'd be the last day// of their liiiives!
• Concerned had The Frank Tangent, a quartet of strips in which a group of Combine soldiers bemoan the loss of Frank at the hands of Gordon Freeman. The author meant it to be Played for Laughs, but a number of readers viewed it through this trope's lens.
• A Fairytale for the Demon Lord plays with and deconstructs this. The knights are all nameless, sometimes unthinking, cannon fodder, and if they perform heroic deeds, they get a name and identity. The main character is a knight who rejected the mindset and a name after saving the princess. As time goes on, he shows no remorse killing knights who get in his way, or are even witnesses. In one of the backup stories, a random soldier is seen digging up the remains of dozens of nameless knights under his command to bury them properly, with blank tombstones reflecting their nature. It's really Balder who seeks to go out and kill the protagonist, and give them names on their tombstones written in his blood to honor them.
• Girl Genius: Both on the official cast page and on this very wiki, Zola's Minions are called "A bunch of guys in funny hats who appear to be along to carry the equipment and get killed". Although in this case, the Cannon Fodder is fed to the sadistic and insane trap-filled castle, rather than the hero(in)es.
  • Subverted in Girl Genius by Master Payne, who points out that, even when dealing with faceless, mindlessly aggressive monsters, there can be ugly problems.
• Touched on in Guidestuck when Jaspers prototypes Bec's pet dog, forcing the imps to take on the appearance of his dog Jade.
• In The Last Days Of Fox Hound, The Sorrow is downright irate with Liquid Snake for thoroughly enjoying re-experiencing all the times he killed enemy soldiers and focusing on wanting to re-learn his forgotten techniques as opposed to reflecting on all the lives he had ended.
  The Sorrow: You are completely missing the point here! Instead of taking notes on how to be a butcher, you should be reflecting on the consequences of taking that man's life!
  Liquid: Dude, he's just a goon.
  The Sorrow: Tell that to Mr. and Mrs. Goon!!!
• Parodied in this The New Yorker comic. A fantasy hero fights his way to a demon lord, having slain his minions along the way. When the demon lord hears this, he starts wondering aloud about how to deal with the aftermath.
  Demon Lord: Like, what's the process here? Do I contact their families? This is going to be, like, a whole thing, isn't it? Y'know, I gotta say, man, they call me the lord of all evil, but I've never killed fifty people....
• In this strip of The Order of the Stick, Elan celebrates when the Allosaurus eats the Mooks instead of two Jerkass bounty hunters. "Hooray! The people whose names I know are saved!"
• Parodied in this Penny Arcade strip. A mook is not so happy with his boss' escapades and is thinking about switching sides and—oops.
  • Seen again as some aftermath of Starkiller's rampage.
• Analyzed by characters in Sluggy Freelance, chapter "Aylee", when Torg and Aylee are hiding in an alternative dimension where Earth has been overrun by mysterious, fairly mindless-seeming "ghouls". They spend some time killing them practically for fun in creative ways, until Aylee starts feeling bad about it and mentions it to Torg, who says he just felt like taking a break from previous moral ambiguity by messing with straight-up bad guys, but they should probably stop. It all causes additional guilt later when it's finally revealed just what the ghouls are.
• In Sonichu, especially during the final two issues, the characters are more than happy to mow down hundreds of Jerkops and Decepticlones. However, during the ninth issue, it's revealed that the Jerkops were actually brainwashed people. But, for Chris, Sonichu and the like, that's okay, because they were in his way of Chris' great Love Quest.
• Walkbot Comics view on the issue:
  Walkbot: Hey, Dino, can robots last forever?
  Dino: Maybe, but most of the time, a robot's sole purpose is to be killed, just like clones and ninjas.
• In one of the World of Warcraft-based Dark Legacy comics, a gnome is killing kobolds and gathering their ears for a quest. Upon killing a kobold, the gnome checks the kobold's wallet, and sees a picture of his wife and kid. The gnome seems heart-wrenched to learn that he just killed a family man... but then he kills the wife and the kid for their ears.

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