History Webcomic / Bearmageddon

* {{Squick}}: The comic pulls no punches when portraying blood and gore, but probably the most disgusting moment so far is when Gogs sticks his fingers in Nigel's mouth to induce vomiting to try and retrieve the key to the chains. Not only does he get a large handful of puke, he splatters it all over a bear's face.

* WhatAnIdiot: The reader will have this opinion of Nigel by the end of Volume One.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: WordOfGod has suggested that the relationship between Joel and Louie parallels that between Ethan and his own brother, Malachai.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the start of the comic Gogs asks whether it would be possible to kill a bear with one punch, and Joel joking replies that the bear would likely chew his arm off before he can try. When Gogs tries to OneHitKill a live bear, it manages to sink its teeth into his hand and comes close to fulfilling Joel's prediction.

* CrazySurvivalist: Dickinson Killdeer is at least a little crazy, but he's forgotten more about survival than [KnowNothingKnowItAll Nigel] will ever know.

* AnimalsLackAttributes: Zigzagged. The artist will draw Chuckles the dogs' anus but he draws the line at a Flying Squirrel Bear's balls.

* ChekhovsGunman: The news report on the Octo-bear pulled from the sewer talks about a Dr. Medved whose experiments on bears were shut down thirty years ago when the government discovered that said experiments were abusive. It's safe to say that he may have some relation to the present crisis.

* CrazySurvivalist: Dickinison Killdeer, if his appearance so far is any indication.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Joel may be a slacker who hates the society he lives in, but is disgusted when Nigel claims that their society deserved to be ripped apart by bears.
** Early on Andrea supports Nigel on some of his decisions, specifically calling his swallowing the key to the chains 'incredibly brave' and agreeing that they should report Dickinson for his violent slaughter of the bears that tried to kill them. She's as disgusted as Joel and the others when it becomes clear just how delusional and self righteous Nigel really is.

** Despite getting the crap beaten out of him by a bear, Gogs still manages to help his friends battle the bear menace. He even deals the finishing blow to a Mole Bear by staking it in the skull with a tent peg. Not bad for a guy with one fully working hand.

* KillItWithFire: During the final battle in Volume One, Joel's group convert gas tanks into makeshift flamethrowers and turn them on the bears.

* StayInTheKitchen: Andrea and Keller are outraged when Dickinson appears to invoke this trope when he tells them to make dinner while he, Joel and Gogs go out to secure the area around Joel's house. Dickinson then explains that the girls are more than welcome to come along if they want; he only told them to cook because someone has to do it, and securing the area would include urinating to mark boundaries. Not wanting to lower their pants and piss on the ground with the boys around (and Joel and Gogs have no idea how to make a meal out of raw food), Andrea and Keller agree to stay and cook.

** Early on Andrea supports Nigel a couple of times, specifically calling his swallowing the key to the chains 'incredibly brave' and agreeing that they should report Dickinson for his violent slaughter of the bears that tried to kill them. She's as disgusted as Joel and the others when it becomes clear just how delusional and self righteous Nigel really is.

* IJustWantToBeBadass: Gogs' motivation for taking a bear head to practise punching a bear's skull. After his first attempt to one-hit-kill a live bear goes horribly, he's left severely injured and unable to be of much help to his friends, a predicament that affects him deeply. The experience teaches him to rely on more practical, realistic methods of fighting.

* IWillFindYou: Finding his littler brother Louis becomes Joel's big motivation for going back to a city full of homicidal bears.

* TheEveryman: Joel.

* TheMillstone: Nigel. It ultimately gets him literally thrown out the group by Dickinson.

* ActionSurvivor: Joel's being set up for this, it seems. Dickinson takes the trope up to eleven, having lived in the mountains fighting bears for as long as he can remember.

* InternalReveal: Any reader who is familiar with ''Into The Wilderness'' will know that main guy dies at the end, but most of the characters are unaware of this. Even Nigel, who is obsessed with the movie and following the main guy's example, never saw the ending. When Keller and Andrea reveal the ending, Gogs is ''pissed'' that Nigel had them following the example of a guy who ultimately got himself killed.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Bears mixed with just about anything that could be considered deadly (or at least bizarre).

* TooDumbToLive: Nigel would qualify as the poster boy for this trope. He makes so many bad decisions that Dickinson decides to kick him out of the group just so they would have a chance of survival.
** Gogs tries to live his dream of killing a bear with one punch when a bear ambushes him while he's alone. It almost gets him killed.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Gogs' hair is dyed light green.

* {{Badass}}: Dickinson, full stop.
** Besser in Volume Two.

* SoftWater: Invoked when Joel's group gets trapped on a bridge with a horde of bears approaching and Dickinson advises that they jump onto the river. Joel is understandably concerned about the possibility of surviving the fall, as people have committed suicide on that bridge, but fortunately everyone who jumps into the water escapes without injury.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Nigel was apparently a decent guy before the start of the story, being good friends with Joel and Gogs and having a girlfriend. Since quitting his job at Wow-Mart and discovering ''Into the Wilderness'', Nigel has become a single delusional, misanthropic, self-centered asshat.

* Badass: Dickinson, full stop.

* CrazySurvivalist: Dickinison Killdeer, if the his appearance so far is any indication.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Just like that guy from ''Into the Wilderness'', Nigel aspires to live in the wild and become one with nature but knows absolutely nothing about survival. He never even knew how the film ended until Andrea and Keller told him.

* HandicappedBadass: Dickinson suffers for severe migraines which are suggested to be related to his loss of memories.
** Despite getting his hand injured beyond use by a bear, Gogs still manages to help his friends battle the bear menace. He even deals the finishing blow to a Mole Bear by staking it in the skull with a tent peg.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Just like that guy from ''Into the Wilderness'', Nigel aspires to live in the wild and become one with nature but knows absolutely nothing about survival.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Joel may be a slacker who hates the society he lives in, but is disgusted when Nigel claims that their society deserved to be ripped apart by bears.

* TooDumbToLive: Nigel would qualify as the poster boy for this trope. He makes so many bad decisions that Dickinson decides to kick him out the group just so they would have a chance of survival.

* 0% Approval Rating: Nigel, but not at first. Throughout Volume One his selfishness and stupidity, which puts his friends in danger more than once and eventually gets Burton killed, alienates his friends to the point that they make no attempt to stop Dickinson from literally ejecting Nigel from the group after deciding that he's a threat to their survival.
* ActionSurvivor: Joel's being set up for this, it seems.

* BadBoss: Joel's manager, Ken. Has a pencil moustache, exactly the requisite amount of flair on his jacket and a stick up his arse the size of a fencepost.

* Reality Ensues: Since before the start of the Bear Apocalyse Gogs has been obsessed with the thought of being able to kill a bear with one punch to the skull and eventually manages to pull this off on a severed bear's head. When he tries it on a live bear, he learns the hard way that there's a huge difference between a dead bear's head and a whole live bear that's more than capable of fighting back. It manages to clamp its jaws on Gogs' hand and would have bitten it clean off if Dickinson hadn't intervened.

* AxCrazy: Dickinson Killdeer is very much this way towards bears

* TheMillstone: Nigel.

'''''Bearmageddon'' is not for the faint of heart.''' Don't read this comic unless you can stomach seeing lots of people getting mauled to death by bears and, conversely, seeing lots of bears getting shot, stabbed, and axed to death by humans. If that's exactly what you're looking for in a webomic, then look no further.

Then we meet Joel, average slacker working in an electronics store. After some disagreements with his uptight boss, then with his father over rent, he quits his job to go live in the woods at the suggestion of his stoner friends. But what they find in the woods is far from the natural peace and beauty they expected. Instead, they find packs of grizzly bears that seem to have one goal: kill every human they find. After several narrow escapes with the assistance of wild hunter and expert bear-killer Dickinson Killdeer, they find that this is not an isolated indecent. Bears have waged war against mankind, and it looks like only one species will come out of this alive.

* CrazyPrepared: The [[CoolCar "Adventure Van"]] Joel and his friends are going to live in was "all set up for Y2K"; it runs on 'organic' fuel, has an extra trailer of fuel barrels and a nuclear blast-proof trunk of survival gear.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: The Comic!

* WannabeBruiser: Gogs, so far.

* MissingMom: The absence of Joel's mother hasn't been explained yet.
** Turns out she died

''Bearmageddon'' is a comic by Ethan Nicolle, the creator of ''WebComic/AxeCop''.

It begins with workers hoisting a dead animal out of a sewer - it looks like a bear, but most bears do not have ''tentacles''. The only explanation is the work of a [[MadScientist Dr. Wilson Medved]], but he's dead and it's been almost thirty years since he was shut down.

Then we meet Joel, average slacker working in an electronics store. After some disagreements with his uptight boss, then with his father over rent, he quits his job to go live in the woods at the suggestion of his stoner friends, not noticing the mauled corpse lying near to the place he was cleaning...

[[http://bearmageddon.com/ Go here]].
!!BEARMAGEDDON BEARS THESE BEAR-LY BEARABLE TROPES

* GoryDiscretionShot: Happens [[http://bearmageddon.com/2011/12/02/page-35-artmageddon/ here]]

* [[MixAndMatchCritters Mix and Match Bears]]

* UngratefulBastard: Nigel, who wants to arrest [[CrazySurvivalist Dickinson Killdeer]] for killing attacking bears.

* {{Cameo}}: [[AxeCop Flute Cop]] is the supervisor of the loggers and argues with the protesters. This received an extensive lampshade in AltText and TheRant, and eventually ascended on his character page, where he is revealed to have RecurringDreams of his ''AxeCop'' counterpart.