History WebComic / MyBestFriendMarneao

''My Best Friend Marneao'', is a webcomic written and illustrated by El Autor of Creator/SeaSnailStudio, hosted on Website/{{Webtoons}}. It started to be published on July, 2016,

Life was pretty lonely for Jacob, a nerdy guy who wanted to have a best friend to hang out with, see his favorite shows, read his favorite manga like ''Manga/YowamushiPedal'', watch Website/YouTube channels, you know, the usual stuff. [[DealWithTheDevil So he decided to sell his soul to find the perfect friend!]] And not just any friend: the son of Lucifer himself, Marnaeo.

** The friends play ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' for UsefulNotes/WiiU in chapter 15.

Life was pretty lonely for Jacob, a nerdy guy who wanted to have a best friend to hang out with, see his favorite shows, read his favorite manga like Manga/YowamushiPedal, watch Youtube channels, you know, the usual stuff. [[DealWithTheDevil So he decided to sell his soul to find the perfect friend!]] And not just any friend: the son of Lucifer himself, Marnaeo.

* AmbitionIsEvil: According to Marneao, after the previous God died, his successor (the current God)[[spoiler: Miguel]] started to become more hungry for power, and decided to explore and conquer other places in the universe. He made the demons build portals as if they were slaves, and force them to use a weird substance that could turn them into mindless monsters.
* AnyoneCanDie: No one is safe from dying in the comic. [[spoiler: Not even Jacob at the end of the comic's first part]].

* AuthorAppeal: El Autor ''[[SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike really]]'' likes [[Manga/YowamushiPedal Yowapeda]], constantly making allusions to the series, and two plot-relevant characters are inspired by characters from Yowapeda.

--> '''Marneao''': I'm not bound by any contract because there never was one! I'm having fun with Jacob because I want to have fun with him!

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: As the comic's lore was explored, the early references and implications about the world's christianity beliefs become puzzling in hindsight. One special mention is of "would God sacrifice his own son?", a reference to UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, a character that doesn't exist in ''Marneao's'' world.

--> '''Baraquiel''': [[BluntYes Yes]]
--> '''Lucifer''':That was a rhetorical question.
--> '''Baraquiel''': [[BrutalHonesty No, it wasn't.]]

** Marneao, with a bit of RealityWarper powers, manages to make everyone think he is Jacob's brother, who was studying in Canada. One of the students who remembered Jacob being a single child suddenly "remembered" him having a brother. [[spoiler: He also erases his friends memories after the attack done by Giancarlo, so they don't know the truth about him.]] [[spoiler: After Marneao is taken by the Angelinato after Lucifer's death, everyone forgets about Marneao except for his friends, due to Giancarlo' incident.]]

* FightingSeries: The webcomic is inspired by many works from the Magazine/ShonenJump, making Marneao fight demons in order to stay on Earth, all with superpowers. It also focuses on side characters fighting.
* {{Flight}}: The demons have shown to be able to fly. The battle between Marnaeo and the Plasma Demon woundn't look strange in Anime/DragonBallZ or Film/ManOfSteel.

--> '''Giancarlo''': [[{{Understatement}} This... could be dangerous.]]

* GodIsDead: According to Marnaeo, God died 500 years ago after the alliance between the Inferni and the Angelinato, and was succeeded by an unknown angel. [[spoiler: Season 2 would reveal this is a half-truth: God was killed by an angel, Miguel, who stole the power of God and took control over Heaven. Lucifer, wanting to avoid an unnecesary bloodshed, made everyone pretend Miguel succeded Yahveh.]]

--> '''Marneao''': And then he said "Wut? What the hell is going on!"
+ InterspeciesRomance: According to Miltch, humans and demons can marry in Inferni, and is later revealed [[PunchClockVillain Nagore's]] wife is a human. [[spoiler: Marneao and Miltch themselves are born from interracial marriages.]]

--> '''Marnaeo''': [[{{Understatement}} Yeah...that's not good.]]

* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[ArchangelUriel Uriel.]] He dies in the same chapter he is introduced.

** Amy's sister in chapter 5 is a reference to Dayon from ''[[Anime/OsomatsuSan Osomatsu-san]]''.

** The trailer the friends watch in the cinema in chapter 19 is the teaser trailer for ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales''
** Jeffrey quotes a gag from ''Series/LazyTown'' in chapter 19, which was a [[MemeticMutation popular meme]] at the time the strip was published.
--> '''Jeffrey''': [[Series/LazyTown Who did you expect? Sportaflop?]]
** Jeffrey's shirt text in chapter 38 is a reference to ''[[Anime/OsomatsuSan Osomatsu-san]]''.
** In chapter 40, Marneao compares Cavagnaro's aspect to earthbending. This is a reference to ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar The Last Airbender]]''.
** Jeffrey's shirt in chapter 59 is a reference to ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}''.

''My Best Friend Marneao'' is El Autor fourth series after ''Salvatore'', ''Adam'', and ''T.Kin Ball'', and the first to be published in English. It is a FightingSeries inspired by Magazine/ShonenJump works.

* TokenMinority: Matt, one of the friends of Jacob and Marneao, is is black kid in an otherwise all-white human cast.

!!My Best Friend Marneao provides examples of:

* TokenMinority: Matt, one of the friends of Jacob and Marneao, is is black kid in an otherwise all-white human cast.

* AuthorAppeal: El Autor ''[[SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike really'' likes]] [[Manga/YowamushiPedal Yowapeda]], constantly making allusions to the series, and two plot-relevant characters are inspired by characters from Yowapeda.

** It runs in the family, [[spoiler: after Miguel and Baraquiel killed Jahveh, Lucifer had to brainwash the entire angel population to obey their command, otherwise they would end up killed.]]

* GodIsDead: According to Marnaeo, God died 500 years ago after the alliance between the Inferni and the Angelinato, and was succeeded by an unknown angel.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The Angelinato. The angels are presented as armored looking humanoids, with some of them having a giraffe looking face. They live in a futuristic city, having a powerful army led by ArchangelGabriel, and an angel is chosen to be God by a council of judges, with a powerful angel as it's right hand. 500 years before the series, a new god was chosen, bringing a fascistic treatment to the Inferni citizens, and a quest for more power, with BigBad Baraquiel as his [[TheDragon Right Hand.]] [[spoiler: Part 2 reveals Miguel was never chosen to be god, but Lucifer made them believe he was.]]

** It runs in the family, [[spoiler: after Miguel and Baraquiel killed Jahveh, Satan had to brainwash the entire angel population to obey their command, otherwise they would end up killed.]]

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The Angelinato. The angels are presented as armored looking humanoids, with some of them having a giraffe looking face. They live in a futuristic city, having a powerful army led by ArchangelGabriel, and an angel is chosen to be God by a council of judges, with a powerful angel as it's right hand. 500 years before the series, a new god was chosen, bringing a fascistic treatment to the Inferni citizens, and a quest for more power, with BigBad Baraquiel as his [[TheDragon Right Hand.]] [[spoiler: Part 2 reveals Miguel was never chosen to be god, but Satan made them believe he was.]]

''My Best Friend Marneao'', is a weekly webcomic written and illustrated by El Autor of Creator/SeaSnailStudio, hosted on Website/{{Webtoons}}. It started to be published on July, 2016,

''My Best Friend Marneao'' is El Autor fourth series after ''Salvatore'', ''Adam'', and ''T.Kin Ball'', and the first to be published in English. It is a FightingSeries inspired by Magazine/ShonenJump works, and LighterAndSofter than his previous works which were either [[BlackComedy darkly comedic]] or pretty graphic.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Miltch is the protagonist of chapter 46, ''"A Tale of Inferni II"'', where he listens to a victim of Cavagnaro's and Fleites's destruction through his problems in his final moments, and to bring another perspective on how Inferni is suffering because of both The Angelinato and The Revolution.

* AmbitionIsEvil: According to Marneao, after the previous God died, his successor (the current God) started to become more hungry for power, and decided to explore and conquer other places in the universe. He made the demons build portals as if they were slaves, and force them to use a weird substance that could turn them into mindless monsters.

* AuthorAppeal: El Autor ''[[SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike really'' likes]] [[Manga/YowamushiPedal Yowapeda]], constantly making allusions to the series, and two plot relevant characters are inspired by characters from Yowapeda.

* DealWithTheDevil: Jacob sells his soul in [[IJustWantToHaveFriends order to gain a best friend]], and he gains it in the form of Marneao, the son of Lucifer. When a human sell their soul, the demon that accepts the deal is bound by contract to give the human whatever it asks for. Jacob becomes sad to hear this, thinking none of the fun they had was for real... [[SubvertedTrope and then it reveals Marneao never accepted his soul]] because no demon would accept Jacob' request, and simply escaped from home.

* TheDevilIsALoser: Lucifer may be king of Hell, but he is constantly abused by his superior, the Angel Baraquiel. Poor devil had it rough.

* FakeMemories: Marneao, with a bit of RealityWarper powers, manages to make everyone think he is Jacob's brother, who was studying in Canada. One of the students who remembered Jacob being a single child suddenly "remembered" him having a brother. [[spoiler: He also erases his friends memories after the attack done by Giancarlo, so they don't know the truth about him.]] [[spoiler: After Marneao is taken by the Angelinato after Lucifer's death, everyone forgets about Marneao except for his friends, due to Giancarlo' incident.]]

* {{Gonk}}: Amy's twin sister. Amy wished she was as beautiful as her.

+ InterspeciesRomance: According to Miltch, humans and demons can marry in Inferni, and is later revealed [[PunchClockVillain Nagore's]] wife is a human. It is possible Marneao was born from one of these, considering Lucifer's status as a FallenAngel.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The Angelinato. The angels are presented as armored looking humanoids, with some of them having a giraffe looking face. They live on a futuristic city, having a powerful army led by ArchangelGabriel, and an angel is chosen to be God by a counsil of judges, with a powerful angel as it's right hand. 500 years before the series, a new god was chosen, bringing a fascistic treatment to the Inferni citizens, and a quest for more power, with BigBad Baraquiel as his [[TheDragon Right Hand.]]

* AuthorAppeal: El Autor ''[[GushingAboutShowsYouLike really'' likes]] [[Manga/YowamushiPedal Yowapeda]], constantly making allusions to the series, and two plot relevant characters are inspired by characters from Yowapeda.