History EarlyInstallmentWeirdness / Webcomics

** Quite a few characters ended up being subjected to [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Characterization Marching On]] compared to their previous personalities. Elliot was just as much of a pervert as Tedd (he's now incapable of even thinking dirty thoughts while ''trying'' to), Tedd was more a straight pervert instead of a ChivalrousPervert, and Sarah was much more of a feminist (before the feminist part was shifted over to her friend Susan). The early portrayals are rarely referenced afterwards, but have been explained on rare occasions; one such example is Grace, who was aware of the sexual implications of wearing nothing but a trench coat in her debut, but afterwards became the InnocentFanserviceGirl without a nudity taboo - this was eventually questioned in-universe, and Grace promptly explained that she had been specifically told by one of her brothers that people who wear trenchcoats and nothing else are perverts, with no context and little elaboration.

** Quite a few characters ended up being subjected to [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Characterization Marching On]] compared to their previous personalities. Elliot was just as much of a pervert as Tedd (he's now incapable of even thinking dirty thoughts while ''trying'' to), Tedd was more a straight pervert instead of a ChivalrousPervert, Grace was aware of the sexual implications of wearing nothing but a trench coat (where afterwards she suddenly became the InnocentFanserviceGirl without a nudity taboo) and Sarah was much more of a feminist (before the feminist part was shifted over to her friend Susan).

* ''WebComic/TwoKinds'' used to have a SuperMode for keidrans, where they switched from PettingZooPeople to outright [[BeastMan Beast-men]]. It hasn't shown up in years. It also used to have devices called "towers", which looked like high-tech knockoffs of Barad-Ur, until they showed up in the Basitin Isles arc, where they look like ordinary wall turrets.

* At the start of ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'', the PettingZooPeople main cast was treated as something unusual in a human world. The author soon dropped the "something unusual" angle as not really being where he wanted to take the webcomic, and since then has gravitated over time towards making more of the characters anthropomorphic animals.

* ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' is pretty good at keeping up with its own continuity, and holds well together if read from the beginning. However, the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erfcast.html original cast page]] at giantitp.com, before it moved to its own website, was posted before the first page of the actual comic, and there are some minor deviations from later continuity. In particular, "Dirtamancer" is spelled "Dirtomancer", and the cast page refers to the Plaid and Croatan "tribes", not mentioned in the comic itself, instead of aligning the characters with "sides", which are typically named after their capital cities. (In fact, the prequel book reveals that Wanda was popped in the Goodminton side, making no mention of the Croatan tribe.

** And in the actual comic, the first uncroaked units to appear are three skeletons. After that, all uncroaked units are portrayed as decaying zombies.

** Quite a few characters ended up being subjected to [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Characterization Marching On]] compared to their previous personalities. Elliot was just as much of a pervert as Tedd (he's now incapable of even thinking dirty thoughts while ''trying'' to), Tedd was more a straight pervert instead of a ChivalrousPervert, Grace was aware of the sexual implications of wearing nothing but a trench coat (where afterwards she suddenly became the InnocentFanserviceGirl with NoNudityTaboo) and Sarah was much more of a feminist (before the feminist part was shifted over to her friend Susan).

* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' starts out much like ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' by mocking roleplaying conventions and bad dungeon-mastery. The first campaign revolves mostly around Jim and Ben's increasingly bizarre antics as Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. This is mostly due to the comic's roots in ''Webcomic/TheDMOfTheRings''. Almost as soon as the first campaign ends however, everything starts slowly shifting into a more mature exploration of the emerging storylines, along with a constantly-increasing emphasis on the lives of the players themselves and their relationships with one another.

* ''WebComic/TwoKinds'' used to have a SuperMode for keidrans, where they switched from PettingZooPeople to outright [[BeastMan Beast-men]]. It hasn't shown up in years. It also used to have devices called "towers", which looked like high-tech knockoffs of Barad-Ur, until they showed up in the Bastin Isles arc, where they look like ordinary wall turrets.

* An early Webcomic/OzyAndMillie strip had Millie trying to petition her parents. Not too long later she had a single mother.

* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' was originally set in the ForgottenRealms setting, and was a lot more explicit about sexuality, deliberately introducing [[{{Squick}} Squicky]] details about the drow sex lives to [[DeliberateValuesDissonance intentionally weird out the readers]] and showing Ariel as a more outright VillainProtagonist. Later on the first several chapters were redone to make the tone and setting more internally consistent with later story arcs.

* ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' got its start as a straight-up ''WorldOfWarcraft'' parody. It was much more cartoonish in both drawing style and narrative, with Richard burning Kale to ash in his first appearance, then having a conversation with him as a pile of ashes in a pouch while seeking out the priestess Ben'Joon ("Benny") to resurrect him. In the years that followed, the comic has developed its own unique world. It remains comedic but has lost its more cartoonish elements.

* ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' initially opened with it being quite clear that the characters were derived from the early MMO {{Furcadia}}, but then moved to being a more fleshed out world of its own, even if still retaining some of its old "MMO made real" elements – Alexis' Banhammer became a magical greathammer, the Twinks become a "normal" organized crime gang, etc. And there are also other elements that linger a while before being more or less phased out – for example, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Lorenda]] was introduced having saved Jyrras from muggers by eating them, got evicted because she'd ''eaten'' her neighbors and then proceeds to eat several door-to-door salesmen. While she was admittedly self-proclaimed as preferring not to eat people, and this was a common source of friction with her mother, it hasn't been mentioned for hundreds of comics. In fact, neither has her much more predatory mother's tendency to eat people.

* One of the first strips in ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' has Emily flipping the bird. Later strips show that she is not the sort of person to do that. Though it's been mentioned several times that prior to the titular misfile she [[CharacterDevelopment used to to have a mean streak]]. Plus she was in a pretty crappy mood at the time too; it was the day she woke up and found that two years of her life-including her admission to Harvard-had just been erased.

* One of the first strips in ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' has Emily flipping the bird. Later strips show that she is not the sort of person to do that.

** The first month consisted of [[KidHero John]] hanging around in his room and house and getting nothing done, and that was followed by a few months of mucking around with [[TheGamePlaysYou Sburb]]'s ability to let them them to build and manipulate objects in each other's houses. ''Then'' things get more intense, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt to say the least]]. This can be [[JustifiedTrope chalked up to the fact that]] at that point, ''Homestuck'' was still driven by [[InteractiveComic reader commands]] and they'd just come off the tail of the incredibly silly ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', so this is what people knew to do; the suggestion boxes were closed partway through and that's when the series is generally considered to have [[GrowingTheBeard grown its very strange beard]]. A common symptom of this is people [[ItGetsBetter finding it difficult to get into]] ''Homestuck'' because of how long the first few months of hanging around is (though said first few months includes ''loads'' of {{Foreshadowing}}, [[ChekhovsGun Chekhovs Guns]], and subtle set-ups if you know where to look).

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** The first month consisted of [[KidHero John]] hanging around in his room and house and getting nothing done, and that was followed by a few months of mucking around with [[TheGamePlaysYou Sburb]]'s ability to let them them to build and manipulate objects in each other's houses. ''Then'' things get more intense, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt to say the least]]. This can be [[JustifiedTrope chalked up to the fact that]] at that point, ''Homestuck'' was still driven by [[InteractiveComic reader commands]] and they'd just come off the tail of the incredibly silly ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', so this is what people knew to do; the suggestion boxes were closed partway through and that's when the series is generally considered to have [[GrowingTheBeard grown its very strange beard]]. A common symptom of this is people finding it difficult to get into ''Homestuck'' because of how long the first few months of hanging around is (though said first few months includes ''loads'' of {{Foreshadowing}}, [[ChekhovsGun Chekhovs Guns]], and subtle set-ups if you know where to look).
** The beginning of the first Act has [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001906 a moment]] where [[AudienceSurrogate the player]] directly interacts with the game world and moves an object on John's behalf. This never happens again in the comic and for the most part if a character wants to do something they just do it themselves.

** Early in the comic, Dave's bro is refered to by some characetrs as his "older brother", in the same way and context real people would do when talking about him. Later on, everybody calls him Bro consistently, specially after the main characters discover Bro is actuallly his biollogycal father and not his brother.