History ComicStrip / RobotmanAndMonty

** Monty was once bitten by a [[Franchise/SpiderMan radioactive Ladybug.]]

* ArtEvolution. Especially during the Robotman phase.
* AsideGlance: Lots and lots.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Most characters are aware this is a comic.
** Some strips indicate NoFourthWall.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Notably, this happened to the ''entire original cast'' (first the Milde family, then Robotman himself) of the strip.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Monty when he brings out his puppet, Mr. Blinky.
* CoolShades: Gary Milde and Moondog.
* DeadpanSnarker: Pilsner, the speaking parrot.
** ANY of Monty's girlfriends.
* DemotedToExtra: Robotman, before Jim Meddick was requested to scrap him altogether.

* {{Doppelganger}}: Robotman's evil twin Bruce.
* FacePalm: Normally the way other characters react to Monty screwing something up.
* FanDisservice: Whenever Monty's naked, but this depends on the reader of course.

* FishOutOfWater: Robotman was this during the earliest strips.
* FiveManBand: Shortly after Robotman's departure:
** Monty: TheHero.
** Chimpy: TheLancer. (Later [=EB3=], a little cyborg.)
** Mr. Pi (Dave): TheSmartGuy. (Later Doc, an elderly time-traveler.)
** Moondog: TheBigGuy.
** Loco: TheChick (Or ANY of Monty's girls, really.)
** Fleshy: TeamPet.
* {{Housewife}}: Mrs. Milde.
* {{Invisibility}}: One of the many scientific experiments Monty goes through.

* MouthfulOfPi: The true name of the Rigelian Mr. Pi (aka Dave).
* NerdGlasses: Monty and Dwayne.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Subverted in Robotman since he's noticeably different from anyone appearing in the strip (before Monty appeared) but he pretty much blended in.

* RobotBuddy: Originally Robotman was Oscar's best friend.

* TakeThat: Again, too many to name.
* TalkingAnimal: Pilsner, Chimpy and, way back, Mr. Giggles.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Chimpy and Dave disappear some time after Doc is introduced.

* {{Adorkable}}: Monty.

** Monty was once bitten by a [[SpiderMan radioactive Ladybug.]]

* ABoyAndHisX: The first strips revolved around Robotman and his interaction with 8 year old Oscar Milde.

The latest strip can be read [[http://www.gocomics.com/monty here.]]

* HouseWife: Mrs. Milde.

* ArtEvolution.

* CloudCuckooLander: Monty when he brings out his puppet, Mr. Blinky.

* ExecutiveMeddling: According to TheOtherWiki, the syndicate requested that Meddick phase out Robotman from the comic, because of marketing difficulties with Robotman. He did so with an epic storyline of [[spoiler:Robotman being abducted by aliens, fighting Captain Kirk for his freedom, and meeting and eventually settling down with a RobotGirl on another planet.]]

* FanService: Meddick has drawn some very hot women.

** Guess who [[YokoOno Loco Ohno]] is a parody of?
** Plenty to Franchise/StarTrek and StarWars.

** There's been a two-week parody of Series/{{Lost}} that revealed "The Others" to be the cast of GilligansIsland.

** The three-week story [[LordOfTheRings Lord Of The Thing]].
** Fleshy resembles ThePinkPanther somewhat.

* ABoyAndHisX: The first strips revolved around Robotman and his interaction with 8 year old Oscar Milde.

** TheShining was spoofed once.

** Fleshy: TeamPet

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Dwayne, a nerdy vampire, only eats animal-blood and ketchup.

** Guess who [[YokoOno Loco Ohno]] is a pardoy of?

** The three-week story [[LordOfTheRings Lord Of The Thing]]

* TearJerker: Robotman's final strip before leaving.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The comic even gets too weird for the protagonist at one point.

''Monty'' (formerly ''Robotman'' and then ''Robotman and Monty'')is a comic strip by Jim Meddick that was started in 1985 and is still running to this day.

* ABoyAndHisX: Originally the strip revolved around Robotman and his interaction with 10 year old Oscar Milde.

** There's been a two-week parody of {{Lost}} that revealed "The Others" to be the cast of GilligansIsland.
*** There was also an ApocalypseNow reference in there.

* {{Doppelganger}}: Robotman's evil twin.

** Monty was told at one point that [[BreakingTheFourthWall the comic world is not real, but a fictional realm]], referred to as [[TheMatrix The Comix]].

* AbortedArc: Whatever happened to all this about Monty actually being from space??

** Apparently the title is a tribute to MontyPython.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Monty's role started growing more and more after he was introduced, making Robotman himself DemotedToExtra.

** Plenty to StarTrek and StarWars.