History StealthPun / WebComics

* ''Webcomic/XWhy'': The layout of [[https://mrburkemath.blogspot.com/2019/11/twisted-logic-nay.html/ this comic]], puts Descartes jokes before the horse jokes.

* The English title of ''Webcomic/TouhouNekokayou'' is "Scarlet Weather Archive in Japanese Red." This is taken from the VideoGame/{{Touhou}} canon {{Gaiden|Game}} FightingGame ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' and the [[AllThereInTheManual book]] ''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red.'' [[spoiler:[[Music/{{Queen}} Then someone noticed what the]] ''[[Music/{{Queen}} other]]'' [[Music/{{Queen}} halves of the names make]].]]

* ''Webcomic/ApricotCookies'' has Apricot barraging her friend with compliments in order to bum a ride to school. Her friend's name happens to be "Butter"—as in, "buttering her up".
** Moonlight Spritzer keeps her tit (her bird) between her tits (her breasts).
* In ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'':
** Shakespeare in [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/967.html #967]] has a chance to occupy "office B down on level 2". Does he want it? A dialog box for "[=PunGuard=] 2.1" covers the pun in the comic! It would have been a pun on ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'': "2B or not 2B, that is the question."
** [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1996.html Comic #1996]] seems to be setting up [[RunningGag yet another]] hobbit-pun. Lambert doesn't tell the pun, and the annotation links to this very trope page. Only Morgan-Mar knows the intended pun for sure. It might have been "Don't make a hobbit of it", or perhaps "Don't burn the hobbit", a pun on "burn the habit."
*** He said it was a warning about the goods Bilbert did not destroy, which included children's clothing, also known as children's ''wear'', so I'm fairly certain the pun will involve the word "beware", or perhaps merely " 'ware".
*** It might be something to do with wearing a habit (as a nun would do)?
*** Pretty sure that it's along the lines of "Hay! Kids! Don't make a Hobbit of this!"
** Another example: in [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2096.html comic #2096]], Lambert's hobbit-pun is ruined by a (rather ominous, but that's not the point) cough. Lambert probably meant "hobbit-hat," a pun on "habitat."
** [[http://irregularwebcomic.net/3177.html The Quintessential Fifth Elementalist.]] [[spoiler:Consider the literal meaning of the word "quintessential".]]
* In [[http://www.stripteasecomic.com/d/20080320.html this]] episode of ''Striptease'', in a flashback to high school, Max and Em are squirted with red paint by another student, who is then caught by the teacher... [[spoiler:red-handed.]]

* [[http://xkcd.com/532/ This]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' comic doubles the stakes. It's based on another joke with a {{Stealth Pun}}chline.
** Even better; it {{invert|edTrope}}s the punchline.
** Speaking of ''xkcd'', [[http://xkcd.com/404 Strip #404]]. [[spoiler: Note the title.]]
** [[http://www.xkcd.com/1561/ "Water Phase Diagram"]] plays on the song "Under Pressure," not quite stating its title but alluding to its SampledUp status.
* [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Life_and_Death/index.php?p=528468 You actually named it "Variety"?]]
** The guy in white is Bobby, the incarnation of Life.
* ''Webcomic/NerfNow'' [[http://nerfnow.com/comic/67 with]] a classic riddle and a..."[[MemeticMutation modern classic]]" Dracula. [[spoiler:"What is a man?"]]
* ''Webcomic/ChoppingBlock'' [[http://www.choppingblock.org/d/20010518.html Here.]]
* [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2009/09/06 This]] ''[[http://www.precociouscomic.com Precocious]]'' strip, which was actually explained by its creator:
-->"Et Tu, Brute?" -- Famous line from Julius Caesar.
-->The Et family really should know better than to go out in pairs.
* ''Webcomic/{{Nukees}}'':
** After going through Gav's storage, with labels such as "[[http://www.nukees.com/d/20090907.html torn vinyl]]" for rent records, King Luca comments "one big of superfluous word association! What wouldst thy psychologist think?" to which Gav directs him to a box labeled "duckorations." [[spoiler:Quacks.]]
** In a BangsianFantasy sequence, Marduk refers to Bacchus as "Dialysis," and when Gav calls him on it comments that it "makes more sense in Greek." [[spoiler:Being a pun on "Dionysus."]]
* ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick''
** Vaarsuvius's second EvilCounterpart is named Pompey. [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius -- sounds like Vesuvius; Pompey -- Pompeii.]]
** Leeky Windstaff's hawk is named Kitty. [[DontExplainTheJoke As in kitty hawk.]]
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0471.html this strip]], fleeing the burning city, Elan stops to break into a music shop and steals a lute. The setup is palpable, but the inevitable pun goes unsaid. [[spoiler:He lutes the store.]]
** Not to mention [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0693.html here]], in which Roy must get [[spoiler:familiar]] with Blackwing.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0750.html Malack spell-checking Durkon's scroll]]. Spell-checking. Got it?
** The three empires on the Western continent are never mentioned together in the same sentence. They're the Empires of ''Blood'', ''Sweat'', and ''Tears''.
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0489.html this]] strip, exactly how vicious [[TokenEvilTeammate Belkar]] is measured on a chart. That would make the part on the left an [[spoiler:Axis of Evil.]]
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0782.html this]] strip, the gladitorial matchups are shown on paper. The 8th and 9th ranked fighters are Vermillius and Ceruleaus. That matchup is [[Machinima/RedVsBlue Red Vs. Blue]]
** In "The Polearm Shop", which is a WholePlotReference, the last panel features a snake. Presumably, he is [[spoiler:Monty Python]].
** When Sabine breaks a viewing screen in response to [[spoiler:Nale's father killing him]], [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0914.html we can see blood coming out of it.]] [[spoiler:It's a ''plasma''-screen TV.]]
*** That one's just a CallBack or maybe a BrickJoke. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0637.html It's an HD (Hell-Damned) blood plasma screen.]]
* In ''Webcomic/TriangleAndRobert'', one of the plotlines involves Triangle fighting things to recover a series of "Dragon Circles," which are lettered A, B, C, etc. When he gets to the 25th one, Dragon Circle Y, he discovers that's the end of them, there are only 25. "Somehow, avoiding the pun makes it even worse."
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', Bob's unseen next door neighbor is named Ray, a reference to [[spoiler:the old comedy team, Radio/BobAndRay.]] Even more obscurely, another unseen neighbor is Mrs. Spitoonelli (a play on "spitoon," of course), with a husband named Harold. It is later mentioned her first name is Maude, referring to [[spoiler: the BlackComedy movie ''Harold And Maude.'']] And in Galatea's French adventure, she rides a Vespa with the name [[Film/{{Spaceballs}} "Princess"]] on the side.
* In [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0130.html this]] filler strip of ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'', we're treated to the OrphanedPunchline of a (naughty) joke that ends with "What I '''really''' meant is that we'd need cunning '''translators'''." See, in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', your translation ability is measured by your score in "Linguistics", so apparently the joke began with her telling the king that she needed... I'll leave you to figure out [[CunningLinguist the rest]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' features a character named Leslie Bean, who is, [[PunnyName as her name suggests]], a lesbian... but the more subtle pun comes from the fact that she joined the main cast around the time Ethan lost his role as OnlySaneMan, and now tends to be the voice of reason in {{Seinfeldian Conversation}}s and hijinks, making her... [[spoiler:the straight man]].
* [[http://pbfcomics.com/comics/mrs-hammer/ This]] ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' strip has one as an added bonus joke: Imagine what the hammer is saying in the last panel.
** Not to mention the fact that he's giving the other guy a hammering.
* ''Webcomic/VGCats'' has the side webcomic ''Super Effective'' giving us breaking news of the death of a legend... [[http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=26 Elvis.]] Note which Pokémon is giving us the news.
** For more lulz, see [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=vou0vk8nt3k8iyhnhyv29h96&page=1 the forum thread for this comic]].
** See also: "[[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=194 Avoiding Penis Jokes]]"

* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20080811 shows what happens]] when you try to go through a dungeon designed for several players by yourself in a [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMORPG]] like ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. When Torg tries to do it, all the monsters get together and hand him a gift. When he opens it to see what it is, it turns out he is, in fact, getting his ass handed to him.
** Timeless Space has a race of anthro deer/moose/caribou called [[Franchise/PiratesoftheCaribbean "Caribs" and is partially populated by pirates]].

** The [[Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff SORD.....]] Dave alchemises is so shitty it actually costs negative grist. What do you gain on making it? Artifact grist.[[labelnote:*]][[subscript:Jpeg compression, a staple of ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'', creates jpeg artifacts.]][[/labelnote]]

** Speaking of Nepeta, for a long time the fanbase was unsure whether or not she survived an attack, since we never saw her. In other words, for a while, she could be alive or dead... i.e., UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat.

*** Speaking of which, Doctor Scratch was [[spoiler:the First Guardian assigned to Alternia, tasked with making sure that the Alternian session didn't fail as spectacularly as the Scratched Beforan session.]] To do so, he [[spoiler:actively manipulated trolls through the Handmaid, conditioned highbloods to be far more violent than they naturally would and well as placing Gl'bgolyb on the planet as a lusus for tyrianbloods.]] It worked too - the Alternian players were violent enough to get through the game . In fact, [[spoiler:[[{{GoneHorriblyRight}} it worked too well. ]]]] So you could say, he [[spoiler:''doctor''ed the post-''scratch'' troll universe.]]
** Snowman is the eighth member of a pool based gang comprised completely of male members aside from her. The name refers to both her status as the "8 ball" and the shape of a snowman, but also as [[spoiler: She's no man.]]
** Wandering Vagrant finds a {{Series/firefly}} and promptly names it {{Film/Serenity}}.

* ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'':
** [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/2113008/a-taxing-job/ This]] strip shows the characters scowling at all the taxes taken out of their paychecks. In addition to the usual federal, state, local, Medicare, and FICA, there are also deductions for "snieca", "hearta", "pollex" (Latin for "thumb") and "Persian 9' X 12'"... in other words, [[spoiler: sneak attacks, heart attacks, thumb tacks, and carpet tacks.]]
** Also, there seems to be a chain of coffee shops named "Sundo" (with the bar over the "o" indicating a long vowel). Since the Sun is a ''star'', and do ("dough") is another name for money, or ''bucks'' ...
** When Mr. Mighty is working the night shift, he comes home in the morning just as the kids are leaving for school. He and his wife take advantage of the empty house for some "quality time" ... and in the [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/2122077/repairing-relationships/ next strip]], he shows up to work smiling and singing "A Hard Day's Night".[[spoiler: Heheheh ... [[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead you said "hard".]]]]
** On [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/2122090/fair-warning/ this page]], Mr. Mighty is thwarting a hold-up at the "Red Rooster Natural Mini-Mart". While some readers might recognize "Red Rooster" as a BrandX version of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hen_Pantry White Hen Pantry]], not everyone will figure out the "Natural" part of the joke. In shooting dice, a "natural" is when you win by rolling a ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Eleven seven or eleven]]''.
* [[http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2008/7/14/how-to-find-a-job-that-suits-your-interests.html This]] Basic Instructions has Scott suggest that his friend get a job driving a rickshaw as a getaway vehicle for criminals. The idea is already so goofy that you might miss the other joke: his friend is named Rick.
* See if you can spot the stealth VisualPun in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/12/22/ this]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' when Gabe sneaks into Tycho's room.
** [[spoiler: Tycho has a picture of the actual Tycho Brahe on his wall.]]
* [[http://warehousecomic.com/comic_637.php This]] post at Webcomic.
* In ''Webcomic/CityFace'', the fairy Torus convinces the pigeon City Face that he has become a human businessman. She then gives him a berry, which she says every businessman needs. "No! You weren't supposed to eat it!" [[spoiler:It was a blackberry.]]
* ''Webcomic/PvP!'' has in one strip Brent tell Francis the following joke:
*** Brent: Did you hear the one about the cannibal who dumped his girlfriend?
*** (Beat Panel)
*** Francis: Ewww... gross!
** Brent at the end even calls it a Stealth Joke.

* The English title of ''Webcomic/TouhouNekokayou'' is "Scarlet Weather Archive in Japanese Red." This is taken from the VideoGame/{{Touhou}} canon {{Gaiden|Game}} FightingGame ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' and the [[AllThereInTheManual book]] ''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red.'' [[spoiler:Then someone noticed what the ''other'' halves of the names make.]]
** Near the end of ''[[InteractiveComic Create.swf Adventures]]: Shenanigans in a Magical Forest'', it's revealed that all of the "player" characters have their own individual "Hax Sign" spellcards. As [[spoiler:Yasora]]'s spellcards begin to wind down, everyone except Marisa uses their respective Hax Sign spellcard, with a fair amount of success. Cue the final sequence, where Marisa's all ready to bust out her long-awaited Hax Sign: [[spoiler:Sepiechritude (a shout out to Webcomic/ProblemSleuth's Sepulchritude]], which everyone assumes to be a huge [[BeamSpam beam attack]] or something of the sort, as per Marisa's trademarks. Then someone noticed [[spoiler:the "[[BrickJoke pie]]" in "[[RuleOfFunny Sepiechritude]]..."]]
* [[http://www.treelobsters.com/2009/08/75-but-wait-theres-more.html This]] ''Tree Lobsters'' comic has a clever one. On its surface, the comic works as a relatively straightforward parody of infomercials. Look closely at the description on panel 3, though, then look up elements 11 and 17 on the periodic table. [[spoiler:Sodium and Chloride, respectively. In other words, [[DontExplainTheJoke it's a grain of salt]].]]
* In [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/197 this]] ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' strip, Yuki's brother teases her about calling a large animal vet, and then he starts making cow noises. This doesn't make any sense unless you infer that she was yelling "mou" (used in Japanese as a frustration noise, like "Rrrgh!"), which sounds a lot like "moo."
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', MemeticBadass Axel Higgs' official rank is seaman, third class. In the old navy, a seaman 3/c, or third mate, is known as a bosun, making him [[spoiler:the [[GeniusBonus Higgs Bosun]]]].
* It's easy to miss the cirrhosis joke in [[http://mountaincomics.com/2013/01/28/mountain-time-427/ this]] ''Webcomic/MountainTime''.
* ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'' has the typewriter/tommy gun used by [[spoiler: Problem Sleuth when he finally activates Sepulchritude.]] What's another nickname for the Thompson submachine gun? The Chicago Typewriter.
* In the Pokemon fancomic Alterity, one of [[AmbiguousGender Robin's]] Pokemon had the previous nickname of Dante. Given that Dante is a [[PlayingWithFire fire type]] that makes him [[spoiler:DantesInferno]].
* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'':
** The head surgeon is little more than a human circulatory system given independent life. Her name? Circula Tori.
** The receptionist is an amoeba called "Zoe." Her last name is unknown, but it's probably Plankton.

* In ''Webcomic/TheBedfellows'' strip "Board Meeting," Fatigue's bosses get hot and bothered (and, eventually, kinky) as he explains his blueprints for a ballroom. [[spoiler:It's "artistic masturbation."]]
* [[PaperThinDisguise Ultra Games and Palcom]] from ''Webcomic/{{Consolers}}'' wear seashells on their foreheads... because they're ''shell companies.''
* In ''Webcomic/MonsterPulse'', one of the [[spoiler: kids recruited by Lulenski and Rjinder to get their own monsters]] is Claire. She's easily the most cowardly [[spoiler: of the four]], to the point where she's scared of Luna, her own monster. Said monster happens to be made of her spine. [[spoiler: She's spineless.]]

* ''Webcomic/GuildedAge'': [[http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-10-page-22/ In this strip]], the party suggests sending the "best" among them first. Payet ''Best'' is part of the group.

* ''Webcomic/TheDuchessFiftyTeaRecipes'' is about a modern, tea-loving woman [[{{Isekai}} isekai'd]] into the body of the married Duchess Chloe Vandenberg. Chloe's parents are the Count and Countess Gray, who preside over the Earldom of Gray. Since "Count" is an equivalent rank to an "Earl", and "Lady" is a title that can refer to many ranks of noble women (including Countess), that would make them "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Grey_tea Earl Gray]]" and "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Grey_(tea) Lady Gray]]."

** There are two magic rings in Act 6: one that tuns the wearer invisible and one that returns the dead to life. Later on, it turns out that they're the same, i.e. it's [[{{LordOfTheRings}} One Ring]].

* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' provides you with [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=28&issue=15 this]] image of a train accident to use [[AltText if your forum discussion gets off topic]] [[spoiler:it has been derailed. Additionally, your train of thought has been broken.]]

* ''Webcomic/GuildedAge'': [[http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-10-page-22/ In this strip]], the party suggests sending the "best" amoung them first. Payet ''Best'' is part of the group.

** Speaking of Nepeta, for a long time the fanbase was unsure whether or not she survived an attack, since we never saw her. In other words, for a while, she could be alive or dead... i.e., SchrodingersCat.

** In Act 5, Terezi [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005629 finds]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005630 and]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005631 scratches]] Disc. 2 for HomeStuck when trying to play it. This glitches the comic and renders the game unplayable. Who is the disc given to repair? [[spoiler:Doctor ''Scratch''.]]

* [[http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF090-Mrs._Hammer.jpg This]] ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' strip has one as an added bonus joke: Imagine what the hammer is saying in the last panel.

* [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=179899 This]] ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'' strip shows the characters scowling at all the taxes taken out of their paychecks. In addition to the usual federal, state, local, Medicare, and FICA, there are also deductions for "snieca", "hearta", "pollex" (Latin for "thumb") and "Persian 9' X 12'"... in other words, [[spoiler: sneak attacks, heart attacks, thumb tacks, and carpet tacks.]]

** When Mr. Mighty is working the night shift, he comes home in the morning just as the kids are leaving for school. He and his wife take advantage of the empty house for some "quality time" ... and in the [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=188238 next strip]], he shows up to work smiling and singing "A Hard Day's Night".[[spoiler: Heheheh ... [[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead you said "hard".]]]]
** On [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=191554 this page]], Mr. Mighty is thwarting a hold-up at the "Red Rooster Natural Mini-Mart". While some readers might recognize "Red Rooster" as a BrandX version of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hen_Pantry White Hen Pantry]], not everyone will figure out the "Natural" part of the joke. In shooting dice, a "natural" is when you win by rolling a ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Eleven seven or eleven]]''.

** In Act 6, Terezi [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005629 finds]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005630 and]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005631 scratches]] Disc. 2 for HomeStuck when trying to play it. This glitches the comic and renders the game unplayable. Who is the disc given to repair? [[spoiler:Doctor ''Scratch''.]]

** Nepeta and Feferi appear as a conjoined so you could say that the sprite is a catfish.

** Timeless Space has a race of anthro deer/moose/caribou called [[PiratesoftheCaribbean "Caribs" and is partially populated by pirates]].

* [[PaperThinDisguise Ultra Games and Palcom]] from ''Webcomic/{{Consolers}} wear seashells on their foreheads... because they're ''shell companies.''

** The title character apparently died in a massive explosion after [[ItMakesSenseInContext participating in actual, legitimate, sex]]. Guess you could say he went out with a bang, eh?
*** It can't be linked because of the explicit sexual content, but the page this occurred in is "The Rudiments."