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** Nintendo is drawn in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames CD-i style]] for one panel in The Contract story, [[StylisticSuck complete with talking in Comic Sans font]]

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** Nintendo is drawn in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames CD-i style]] for one panel in The Contract story, [[StylisticSuck complete with talking in Comic Sans font]]font]].



* CreatorCameo: Zanreo herself appears in a Q&A, and is asked as the creator about where she gets all her info for the comic. She says she usually reads various gaming news and history, but lately has considered looking into "new ways of getting info" [[note]]specifically, she's shown in the next panel sneaking into one of [[SatoruIwata Iwata's]] Nintendo meetings and [[BeingWatched watching]] from behind a plant... and later dragged away by security while holding a [[HollywoodRestrainingOrder restraining order.]][[/note]]

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* CreatorCameo: Zanreo herself appears in a Q&A, and is asked as the creator about where she gets all her info for the comic. She says she usually reads various gaming news and history, but lately has considered looking into "new ways of getting info" info". [[note]]specifically, she's shown in the next panel sneaking into one of [[SatoruIwata Iwata's]] Nintendo meetings and [[BeingWatched watching]] from behind a plant... and later dragged away by security while holding a [[HollywoodRestrainingOrder restraining order.]][[/note]]



* EnsembleCast: By the nature of the series, there's no one 'main' character, and any company can be a "main" character in the strips and stories focusing on them (though the Big 3 do get the most focus)

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* EnsembleCast: By the nature of the series, there's no one 'main' character, and any company can be a "main" character in the strips and stories focusing on them (though the Big 3 do get the most focus)focus).



* Irony: Often used as punchline in the comic, for example [[http://consolers.webcomic.ws/comics/pl/406840 in this comic page]] and [[http://consolers.webcomic.ws/comics/pl/525569 in this comic page]]

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* Irony: {{Irony}}: Often used as punchline in the comic, for example [[http://consolers.webcomic.ws/comics/pl/406840 in this comic page]] and [[http://consolers.webcomic.ws/comics/pl/525569 in this comic page]]page]].



* NiceHat: *Nintendo's "Mario-Link cap". Ameritendo and Eurotendo also wears similar hats.

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* NiceHat: *Nintendo's Nintendo's "Mario-Link cap". Ameritendo and Eurotendo also wears wear similar hats.



** Nintendo's hat looks like a mix of Mario's cap and Link's hat

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** Nintendo's hat looks like a mix of Mario's cap and Link's hathat.



* SignificantBirthDate: The day a company was founded will be the character's birthday - for characters with separate gaming branches it will be when this branch was started. So Nintendo's birthday is September 23 (when Nintendo was founded) and Sony's is November 16 (when Sony Computer Entertainment was started)

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* SignificantBirthDate: The day a company was founded will be the character's birthday - for characters with separate gaming branches it will be when this branch was started. So Nintendo's birthday is September 23 (when Nintendo was founded) and Sony's is November 16 (when Sony Computer Entertainment was started)started).



* TakeThat: One of Nintendo's "spam mails" is from the not-so-subtle "M.[=PachAnalyst=]".[[DontExplainTheJoke Many gamers will recognize this as a ShoutOut to game analyst Michael Patcher]], known for his thoughts (often proved wrong later) about how Nintendo will probably do horribly and should do some major changes within the company.

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* TakeThat: One of Nintendo's "spam mails" is from the not-so-subtle "M.[=PachAnalyst=]". [[DontExplainTheJoke Many gamers will recognize this as a ShoutOut to game analyst Michael Patcher]], known for his thoughts (often proved wrong later) about how Nintendo will probably do horribly and should do some major changes within the company.



* ThreePlusTwo: The Consolers can be considered this, you have Nintendo, Sega and Microsoft, plus the two past "big" Consolers: Sega and Atari. Though it's really more of a Three Plus One Plus Oh, That One Too.

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* ThreePlusTwo: The Consolers can be considered this, you have Nintendo, Sega Sony and Microsoft, plus the two past "big" Consolers: Sega and Atari. Though it's really more of a Three Plus One Plus Oh, That One Too.



** The Consolers with each others all the time

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** The Consolers with each others other all the timetime.



* TheUntwist: Namco's headphone-like ear covers... are actually headphones (at least, that's "one of their uses"...)
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Several characters have gone through design changes since the start of the comic:

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Several characters have gone through design changes since the start of the comic:


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** Square Enix's first appearance gave him cyan hair, purple eyes and a slightly different outfit.
** Ubisoft wore a white hoodie instead of his blue and purple one.
** HAL had black hair with pink stripes instead of her current all-pink hair.
** Namco used to wear a blue visor along with his ear coverings.
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** Namco has an ImagineSpot where he imagines himself as [[KatamariDamacy The King of All Cosmos.]]

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** Namco has an ImagineSpot where he imagines himself as [[KatamariDamacy [[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy The King of All Cosmos.]]
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* FacelessMasses: Characters used to represent "regular people" (except for cameos of other webcomic characters), customers, fans ect. are usually drawn as simple, blue chibi-humanoids with no face except for a mouth.
** Nintendo's investors are also presented in this way... with an "I" on their face.
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* OnlyOneName: Most of the characters only go by the name of the company they represent. For characters with two-part names like Square Enix, it's more of one name in two parts rather than a first name and a surname.
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* [[AfterTheEnd After The Crash]]: the comic takes place after TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 'til now with so far one [[JustBeforeTheEnd Just Before The Crash]] arc.

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* [[AfterTheEnd After The Crash]]: the comic takes place after TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 'til now with so far one [[JustBeforeTheEnd Just Before The Crash]] arc.
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* AnachronicOrder: The events and stories aren't shown in chronological historical order.
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* PaperThinDisguise: Konami's shell companies Ultra Games and Palcom... who are just her without her helmet, wearing a Ultra Games/Palcom t-shirt and a [[StealthPun seashell on her forehead]].
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* TheUntwist: Namco's headphone-like ear covers... are actually headphones (at least, that's "one of their uses"...)
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* StealthPun: [[PaperThinDisguise Ultra Games and Palcom]] wear seashells on their foreheads... because they're ''shell companies''.
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* AlternateSelf: The 2P versions of the characters, [[AllThereInTheManual only shown on twitter and facebook]], are this and for some past selves.
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* DontExplainTheJoke: Frequently inverted, as Zanreo often explains the reference in the comments for people not familiar with the event. Sometimes this can make it funnier when you know what actually happened.


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** Niantic's hat.
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A webcomic by {{Tropers/Zanreo}}, started in February 2013 and hosted on ComicFury and Tapastic, Consolers is a webcomic starring AnthropomorphicPersonifications of video game companies. It covers video game history, current events, and various fun facts and stories about the companies, focusing [[EnsembleCast (arguably)]] on the "big 3" console creators Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft.

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A webcomic by our very own {{Tropers/Zanreo}}, started in February 2013 and hosted on ComicFury and Tapastic, Consolers is a webcomic starring AnthropomorphicPersonifications of video game companies. It covers video game history, current events, and various fun facts and stories about the companies, focusing [[EnsembleCast (arguably)]] on the "big 3" console creators Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft.
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** Atlus's hat.

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* AlienBlood: Companies bleed ''money'' instead of blood.



* ArtEvolution: The art has improved a lot throughtout the years.

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* ArtEvolution: The art has improved a lot throughtout throughout the years.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: ESRB escapes through the window to avoid dealing with angry internet rage over boxart drama.
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** [[PlaystationVita Vital Mistakes]]

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** [[PlaystationVita [[UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita Vital Mistakes]]
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* IronicEchoCut: Used in a comic when Nintendo has a feeling there's something ''just not right'' about releasing the NX in 2017. Next panel, we get a cut to analyst Michael Patcher being happy about actually having got one of his Nintendo predictions right.

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* ArtEvolution: The art has improved a lot in just a few years.

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** In 2016, Zanreo claimed she was opening up an online store selling various merchandise, getting weirder and weirder, starting with t-shirts and mugs, up to body pillows and ''trash cans''.
* ArtEvolution: The art has improved a lot in just a few throughtout the years.

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** Taito also did this when being annoyed over been given too much work - hitting Square Enix in the process.

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** Taito also did this with her workdesk when being annoyed over been given too much work - hitting Square Enix in the process.


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* TrashLanding: In the "Prizeless" comic, Sony throws Konami far away, and she lands headfirst into a trash can.
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** Taito also did this when being annoyed over been given too much work - hitting Square Enix in the process.
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A webcomic by {{Tropers/Zanreo}}, started in February 2013 and hosted on ComicFury and Tapastic, is a webcomic starring AnthropomorphicPersonifications of video game companies. It covers video game history, current events, and various fun facts and stories about the companies, focusing [[EnsembleCast (arguably)]] on the "big 3" console creators Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft.

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A webcomic by {{Tropers/Zanreo}}, started in February 2013 and hosted on ComicFury and Tapastic, Consolers is a webcomic starring AnthropomorphicPersonifications of video game companies. It covers video game history, current events, and various fun facts and stories about the companies, focusing [[EnsembleCast (arguably)]] on the "big 3" console creators Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft.
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* BiggerIsBetter: Apparently not the case for the original Xbox, which here is shown as a ridiculously huge device almost as big as Microsoft himself, which he struggles to lift. He ends up dropping it on top of himself and getting stuck underneath it.


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* GroinAttack: In the "Xbox Hueg" comic, Microsoft gets hit in the crotch by his own Xbox controller as it swings back after lifting the giant Xbox.


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** [[Memes/VideoGames "ONE. TRILLION. OPERATIONS. ...Wow."]]
** Microsoft's face at the of "E3 Presentation" looks [[Anime/OsomatsuSan somewhat familiar]]...
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* HypocriticalHumor: Sony complains that "copyright law sure is messed up"... right after he tridd to register a trademark for "Let's Play".

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* HypocriticalHumor: Sony complains that "copyright law sure is messed up"... right after he tridd tried (and failed) to register a trademark for "Let's Play".

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* HairDecoration: Sony complains that "copyright law sure is messed up"... right after he treid to register a trademark for "Let's Play".
** Nintendo's D-pad shaped hair clip. (Her entire ponytail is actually a clip-on)

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* HairDecoration: Sony complains that "copyright law sure is messed up"... right after he treid to register a trademark for "Let's Play".
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Nintendo's D-pad shaped hair clip. (Her entire ponytail is actually a clip-on)



* HypocriticalHumor:

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* HypocriticalHumor: Sony complains that "copyright law sure is messed up"... right after he tridd to register a trademark for "Let's Play".

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* HairDecoration:

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* HairDecoration:HairDecoration: Sony complains that "copyright law sure is messed up"... right after he treid to register a trademark for "Let's Play".


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** SPEED UP!
** *box sounds*
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** TABLE FLIP!
** *$$$$$$*

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** TABLE FLIP!
FLIP!, along with a [[http://consolers.webcomic.ws/comics/pl/541768 table flip smiley made to look like Nintendo.]]
** *$$$$$$**$$$$$$*

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