History MoodWhiplash / Webcomics

* ''CollegeRoomiesFromHell''. It began when a MushroomSamba turned into an all-out battle with {{Satan}} that nearly ended with a main character sucked into Hell, [[CerebusSyndrome and just kept getting more extreme from there]].

* [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2009/09/29/191-triloigi/ This]] ''Brawl in the Family'' page has a bunch of traditional Waluigi nonsense. Until you get to the last strip, that is...

* [[http://www.bugmartini.com/comic/probably-from-clogged-farteries/ This]] ''BugMartini'' strip goes from sad to toilet humor in the space of one panel.

-->[[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2013/03/24/tough-talk/ Real hardcore, hon.]]

** From the comedy of GenderBending to the drama of Ellen's creation, to the comedy of the following strips, back to the drama, this time starting with [[spoiler:Elliot's capture]], and the revelation of Grace's background. "Evil Monkey" arc? "Hammerchlorians" quest part by part? Dragon fight arc ([[hottip:"They are bouncy!":[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-06-08 Superheroes, of course. What did you think?]])... A "simple" pre-arranged double date in "One Way Road"...

** From the comedy of GenderBending to the drama of Ellen's creation, to the comedy of the following strips, back to the drama, this time starting with [[spoiler:Elliot's capture]], and the revelation of Grace's background. "Evil Monkey" arc? "Hammerchlorians" quest part by part? Dragon fight arc ([[hottip:"They are bouncy!":[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-06-08 Superheroes]], of course. What did you think?]])... A "simple" pre-arranged double date in "One Way Road"...

* Done frequently in ''MountainTime'', as shown [[http://mountaincomics.com/2009/08/20/ here]].

* ''[[WalkyVerse It's Walky!]]'' '''Every. Last. Storyline.''' The other WalkyVerse comics tend toward this as well, but ''Walky'' is indisputably the gold standard. One week - tortured angst. The next - week long ToiletHumor!

* [[http://www.sincomics.com/phpAlbum/main.php?cmd=imageview&var1=DDG%2FDDG20.jpg=2 This]] ''{{DDG}}'' strip features the [[GenderBender standard]] ManIFeelLikeAWoman moment and moves swiftly on to Zip's reaction to finding out his funeral wasn't well attended. To be honest the comic itself does tend to swing between the wacky hi-jinks in the afterlife and sudden angst filled strips which are slowly revealing how Zip got there.

** That comic is a CerebusRollercoaster from arc to arc and doesn't shy away from hitting the readership with this trope at any given (but mostly the least expected) time. Also ''Zombie arc'' darkly humorous story... ends with the biggest tear jerker of the series to date. [[spoiler:Talahassee visiting his son's grave.]]

* [[http://xkcd.com/102/ This]] {{xkcd}}

* ''SluggyFreelance'' is the drunken master of Mood Whiplash, still mostly light-hearted, both during and after events that would cause others to go down as having CerebusSyndrome. http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060612 is one of many that features a sudden mood shift within the same comic.

* ''Ctrl+ Alt+ Del''. The abortion comics. A ConvenientMiscarriage that follows a previously untragic story and is followed by more gag comics.

* ''{{Webcomic/Roommates}}'' generally goes something like this. "Ooh, this is a hilarious little story arc in a comic that has an epic crossover and lots of fanservice!" And along comes the next arc.... "You mean that everybody's day of fun was the reason that [[spoiler:Jareth turned into Dark!Jareth? And what did he do to James? And poor Javert!]]" Or within an arc, [[spoiler:Javert finds Erik in his apartment, unconscious and covered in blood. Characters and audience both freak and get feels. It turns out that he had a huge nosebleed from a rather... awkward situation.]]

** Chapter 39 has things get turned UpToEleven in intensity. And then readers are presented with the bonus page MORT FUN TIME. Major mood whiplash, indeed.

* ''Webcomic/Roommates'' generally goes something like this. "Ooh, this is a hilarious little story arc in a comic that has an epic crossover and lots of fanservice!" And along comes the next arc.... "You mean that everybody's day of fun was the reason that [[spoiler:Jareth turned into Dark!Jareth? And what did he do to James? And poor Javert!]]" Or within an arc, [[spoiler:Javert finds Erik in his apartment, unconscious and covered in blood. Characters and audience both freak and get feels. It turns out that he had a huge nosebleed from a rather... awkward situation.]]

* Done quite deliberately in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p50/ here.]]

* ''SluggyFreelance'' is the drunken master of Mood Whiplash, still mostly light hearted both during and after events that would cause others to go down as having CerebusSyndrome. http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060612 is one of many that features a sudden mood shift within the same comic.

** With the exception of maybe the first 50 gag-based comics, I think it's fair to say that ''Webcomic/TheOrderofTheStick'' does MoodWhiplash almost all the time and actually makes it all work really well. One of the earliest examples was actually "Saddest.Comic.Ever", a TearJerker comic strip that was immediately followed by Durkon rejoining the group in time to hear Elan's hilarious attempts to convert Vaarsuvius to the Cult of Banjo.
*** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0759.html 759]] ''seems'' like a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, with Tarquin making Elan's name appear in lights on the mountain, causing them to share a tender moment and hug eachother. [[MoralEventHorizon And then you find out what those lights are...]]

** The second went into the author's own Team Fortress 2 story, which had up until this point only gotten as dark as the Heavy quitting the team to go join a [[MemeticMutation team of babies]]. This particular one however went much, much darker than that. [[spoiler: After a new update nerfs the Pyro, he gets into a fight with his wife, a female Sniper, where things were said that shouldn't have been. She ends up "making a mistake" with the Spy out of rage. When the Heavy and the Medic find out, the confront the Spy, only for him to show his own photographs of the Pyro and the female Engineer, whom the Pyro first had a crush on in the intial arc and who in turn had a crush on the Pyro when he disguised himself as the Engineer in order for to help her learn how to successfully play when she was feeling down for not being able to accomplish anything that round. The Spy leaves the photographs in the hands of the two after announcing that he's already leaving the team, so the only person who will suffer if they decide to reveal both sets will be Pyro, Sniper, and their child. The two decide to hide the truth from the family. The scene ends with a shot of the Spy staring sadly at a picture of the family, only for the camera to zoom suspiciously in on the child between the couple. Word of God has it that the story arc is over, he won't answer any questions, and that they all lived "happily ever after," but the reader probably won't be so willing to leave the topic.]]

* Done quite deliberately in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDoctorMcNinja'' [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p50/ here.]]

* Done quite deliberately in ''TheAdventuresOfDoctorMcNinja'' [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p50/ here.]]

* [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2009/09/29/191-triloigi/ This]] ''Brawl in the Family'' page has a bunch of traditional Waluigi nonsense. Until you get to the last strip, that is...

* ''{{Minus}}'' is a story about a young girl with godlike power. What makes it so [[NightmareFuel creepy]] is how often her (ab)use of it switches between whimsical, mischievous, [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant accidentally creepy]], and flat-out evil. For instance, [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus3.html early on]] she pops all the balloons a vendor was selling, and when he yells at her for it she casually ''[[DisproportionateRetribution kills him]]''.

** There's also the episode where we get to see through Splash Woman's eyes for Megaman 9. It begins out with her life being all she could ever want, until she's to be recycled. Right before she's crushed, the machine stops, and we see a [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation heroic Dr. Wily reaching down to offer her a second chance.]] We flash forward where we seen her stage in ruins and a NightmareFuel inducing, soulless Megaman facing her. She soon finds herself no match and prays on the ground where Megaman places his gun to her head and BLOWS A HOLE THROUGH HER HEAD. The scene flashes to Dr. Light at the controls, smug with his victory. The camera rotates revealing a half completed Megaman X along with a computer screen with a similar symbol on it that condemned Splash Woman to recycling next to Megaman's name.

* ''{{Goblins}}'' has a tendency to go from funny strips to horrific death and HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

** March 1st 2010 has an especially good example finishing an arc of goofy recaps with only a little seriousness in the middle and total ridiculousness at the end, with Torg channeling his [[NotSoHarmless That]] [[ItGotWorse Which]] [[LegionsOfHell Redeems]] [[LetsGetDangerous self]] in the last panel [[spoiler:"Starting tomorrow our next mission is to burn Hereti Corp to the ground."]].

* '' ElGoonishShive''... goes all over the mood spectrum, and is see-sawing between the extremes. Shive does try and stop the comic's tone from stagnating, and so he keeps it bouncing from wacky to dramatic, all the time.

* Done in [[http://www.welcometopixelton.com/2007/06/03/welcome-to-pixelton-invasion-of-the-blah-blah-blah-part-1/ something of an arc]] in ''Welcome to Pixelton''. [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Our brave heroes]] Kirby and Fil have what they assume to be an intruder break into their house in the middle of the night. They get eaten by it after a failed attempt at accosting the monster. What follows is a humorous look at what they assume to be their final moments as they prepare to be digested... and then the MoodWhiplash kicks in when Fil hits a SelfDestructMechanism in the thing's stomach [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome and the 'yellow pony-thing' blows up.]] Turns out that the monster's species transports people around in his belly, and the guy was a fan of Kirby and Fil and was taking them to meet his family. [[OhCrap And they killed him.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has plenty of this. An example is the end of Act 4. Not long after John pulls a hilarious Con Air reference with a guitar solo, Jack Noir [[spoiler: kills all of the Black and White soldiers, takes the White King's scepter, begins the Reckoning, sends meteors towards Skaia, sets Prospit on fire destroying its inhabitants, and cuts the chain between Prospit and its moon, sending the moon into the Battlefield, where Jade sacrifices her dream self to save John.]] Wow.
** Not to mention that in the same act, [[spoiler: The entire "everyone dies" plot is temporarily interrupted by - [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Squiddles!]]]]
** Hussie combines this with FunnyBackgroundEvent [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/index.php?s=6&p=004372 here]]. Gamzee [=HoNk=]ing at inappropriate moments subsequently became a minor meme in the {{Fandom}}.
*** This Mood Whiplashes back the other way when Gamzee [[spoiler: snaps and goes on a murdering spree. Honking at inappropriate moments is now the scariest thing in all of Homestuck.]]
** Done to a ridiculous amount with an update in the style of a video game controlling John. We get to run around a salamander village and John is his happy self before going off to start the next stage of his quest. Then [[spoiler: Jack Noir stabs him through the chest.]]
** And after a long string of [[WhamEpisode WHAM Panels]] involving [[spoiler: multiple Troll deaths and SanitySlippage]] we immediately switch to John and [=WV's=] Flying Car Shenanigans. BEEEEEEEEEP.
** There's [[MoodWhiplash/{{Homestuck}} a page]] for these.