History Webcomic / CheckerboardNightmare

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* CloudCuckoolander: Chex.

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* OnlySixFaces

* StraightMan: Lyle.

* CerebusSyndrome: {{Lampshaded}}--it's known as {{Canon}}itis and it's a potentially-fatal illness.

* CrushKillDestroy / KillAllHumans: Vaporware's stated goal is to exterminate humanity. Mostly he just settles for choking Lyle.

* TropesAreNotGood: Vaporware decides that his [[CrushKillDestroy killing humans]] shtick is hacky and played-out, and that the only other narrative role available to robots--[[DoAndroidsDream navel-gazing about his humanity or lack thereof]]--has ''also'' been done to death. He chooses neither, and becomes a farmer. (Nobody tell him that [[CallToAgriculture that's a trope too]].)

''Checkerboard Nightmare'' was Kris Straub's first webcomic. It tells the epic story of Checkerboard Nightmare and his Sisyphean quest to improve the readership of his webomic, ''Checkerboard Nightmare''.

Vaporware went on to become a minor villain in ''Webcomic/{{Starslip}}''. Chex made a brief cameo in ''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}'', where he tried in vain to make one last comeback.

In 2005, the comic came to an end. Then Kris Straub revived it and retooled it as an irregularly-updated, strictly gag-per-day affair; the last strip of this incarnation was posted in 2014. Straub's ownership of the strip's site ([[http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/ checkerboardnightmare.com]]) lapsed in 2015, but its content is still available through the Internet Archive's [[https://web.archive.org/web/*/checkerboardnightmare.com WayBack Machine]], and for the 2000-2005 run also on [[http://chex.chainsawsuit.com/ Kris Straub's own site]][[note]]'''Chex:''' Enjoy your time here in my ''silent digital '''tomb!'''''[[/note]].

In 2005, the comic came to an end. Then Kris Straub revived it and retooled it as an irregularly-updated, strictly gag-per-day affair; the last strip of this incarnation was posted in 2014. Straub's ownership of the strip's site ([[http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/ checkerboardnightmare.com]]) lapsed in 2015, but its content is still available through the Internet Archive's [[https://web.archive.org/web/*/checkerboardnightmare.com WayBack Machine]].

* CanonWelding: In the final strip [[spoiler:Vaporware is sealed in a water heater and launched into space. Several millennia later, he is picked up and reactivated by the crew of the ''[[Webcomic/StarslipCrisis Fuseli]]''...]]

* FinalBattle: The first comic ends with an all-out brawl between the main cast, the entire Universe Of Failure, and [[ContinuityNod every character]] Chex had ever wronged.
* FollowTheLeader: Chex seems to be incapable of originality.

''Hello TV Traps Wikipedia! It's me, Checkerboard Nightmare! You may remember me from my hit webcomic, ''[[http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/ Checkerboard Nightmare]]''! What you may not know is that it's always been my dream to be on TV. In fact, I almost had my own series, but those executives were too small-minded to recognize the brilliance of my pilot script for ''Hard Action Squad and the Space Valkyries''. And if you've read my comic, ''[[http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/ Checkerboard Nightmare]]'', then surely you know that I'm all over the traps. All kinds of traps: booby traps, trap doors... booby traps... ''

''What's that? TV '''Tropes'''? Is that even English? Oh, stab me in the face with lasers, I gotta go! Remember to read ''[[http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/ Checkerboard Nightmare]]''!''

''[[http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/ Checkerboard Nightmare]]'' was Kris Straub's first webcomic. It tells the epic story of Checkerboard Nightmare and his Sisyphean quest to improve the readership of his webomic, ''[[http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/ Checkerboard Nightmare]]''.

In 2005, the comic came to an end. Then Kris Straub revived it and retooled it as an irregularly-updated, strictly gag-per-day affair; the last strip of this incarnation was posted in 2007.

* CanonWelding: In the final strip [[spoiler:Vaporware is sealed in a water heater and launched into space. Several millennia later, he is picked up and reactivated by the crew of the ''[[StarslipCrisis Fuseli]]''...]]

* CreatorBreakdown: Straub has admitted Chex's anger in the strip's later years mirrored his own feelings, and that he ended the comic to prevent it from getting poisoned by his bitterness.

* AllTheMyriadWays: An unexplained time-travel accident causes Chex's past self to get stranded in the present. Upon realizing that the many-worlds hypothesis is in effect, present-Chex simply kills past-Chex.

* ButYouScrewOneGoat: The revelation that [[spoiler:Dot]] has had relationships with (sentient but non-anthro) cats completely overshadows the revelation that [[spoiler:her art style was plagiarized from Chex.]]

* FinalBattle / BattleRoyaleWithCheese: The first comic ends with an all-out brawl between the main cast, the entire Universe Of Failure, and [[ContinuityNod every character]] Chex had ever wronged.