History Webcomic / DragonMango

Did I mention that her first challenge is to escape the pile of rock candy she just released from her dragon-shaped pinata?

* EmpireWithADarkSecret: Square One's top research facility is supposedly a gathering of their top scientists, responsible for developing the innovations that allows Square One to survive despite being trapped by a radioactive accident. In truth, their innovations were taken from 32 gnome colonies who are treated like lab rats, and that isn't even the worst of their secrets. [[spoiler:The city itself is PoweredByAForsakenChild, extracting energy by mutating humans with chaos energy and imprisoning them in PeopleJars. When the truth gets out, it becomes the trigger for a CivilWar.]]

* AdvancedAncientAcropolis: Square One was humanity's first settlement and continues to be the most advanced city-state in the entire world. A {{Magitek}} accident isolated them from the rest of humanity, leaving their city unharmed but separating it from the world by stranding it in the center of a radioactive crater. They are leaps ahead of the rest of humanity due to the fact that they were the only country that didn't ban {{Magitek}} and the fact that they had the inspiration to study gnomes, a race of short lived yet prolific innovators.

** As a by-product Magic produces of chaos energy, which causes the laws of physics to shut down. The minuscule amount generated by typical spells is harmless, but Magitek reactors generate massive amounts of magic, and by extension, massive amounts of chaos, which could theoretically result in continent-wide destruction.

** Her HumongousMecha was originally intended to give Square One a way to do work in the PollutedWasteland surrounding the city, allowing them to recover more resources. Square One gets the idea to use them as weapons of war against the revolutionaries. By making said mecha restricted to OnlyThePureOfHeart, she was able to limit the damage they could do, but they were still able to work around it by manipulating UnwittingPawns.

* LightIsNotGood: The Fenix Corporation's executives augmented themselves with angel wings to look saintly. While they use millions of innocents as mana batteries and test subjects for unnecessary power usage.

* {{Magitek}}: Magitek is technology that is powered by magic generating reactors. It once was extremely common, but was outlawed in most countries after a Magitek reactor seemingly blew up the technologically advanced city of Square One. Magic produces tiny amounts of chaos energy. The minuscule amount generated by typical spells is harmless, but Magitek reactors generate massive amounts of magic, and by extension, massive amounts of chaos, which could theoretically result in continent-wide destruction.

* UnwittingPawn: OnlyThePureOfHeart can pilot the GiantMecha Square One uses as weapons of war. As such, the VillainWithGoodPublicity that is Fenix Corp uses a bunch of well intentioned dupes to fight [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters terrorists]].

* WouldHurtAChild: Even when it's Cherry, that's bad

* TakeThat: [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter06/dm06-11.htm Makes fun]] of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' over the fact that it is StrictlyFormula and resets the entire plot every season or two, making all previous development meaningless.

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** Her HumongousMecha was originally intended to give Square One a way to do work in the PollutedWasteland surrounding the city, allowing them to recover more resources. Square One gets the idea to use them as weapons of war against the revolutionaries.

** The invention Dr. Chocolate Explosion intended as a HealingVat gets repurposed to [[spoiler:mutated victims with chaos magic and harvest the resulting energy, allowing the city to be PoweredByAForsakenChild]].

* EmpireWithADarkSecret: Square One's top research facility is supposedly a gathering of their top scientists, responsible for developing the innovations that allows Square One to survive despite being trapped by a radioactive accident. In truth, their innovations were taken from 32 gnome colonies who are treated like lab rats.

** The humans of Square One manage to EvilerThanThou the above cannibals by ''enslaving entire colonies of oblivious gnomes'' and using them to develop scientific research by subjecting them to various disasters and plagues until they invent a solution the humans can plagiarize. They are also willing to reset colonies.

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Square One's government doesn't give a damn about its lower class, and would rather invest in military assets to crush them with than in recovering more resources to appease them with. Needless to say, the Square One government defines the revolutionaries as a terrorist uprising, but at least a few heroic figures are sympathetic to them.

* GiantMecha: Originally invented by Dr. Chocolate Explosion of Square One. The Cell knights pilot these gargantuan robots into battle.

* Industrialized Evil: The Oni created a free-range farm of oblivious humans to cannibalize and ''rape''. In the event of a riot, they will reset the farm by purging most of the humans and kidnapping fresh travelers.

* {{Quest}}: Two at once. Mango, Bleu, and Cherry, are sent out to recover Ginger, the only dragonslayer still tough enough to stand up to the evil dragons threatening to break out of the seal. Pumpkin, Lemon, and Lime's group is sent out to gather the closest descendants of the seven sages to repair said seal.