History Webcomic / DragonMango

* BetrayalByInaction: The executives of Square One are a VillainWithGoodPublicity, but behind the scenes, they are terrifyingly evil psychopaths with {{God Complex}}es. Meanwhile, their immediate boss, Chocolate Explosion, is a MadScientist who has creative punishments for those who defy her. With the scientists of Square One facing a MortonsFork between snitching on Chocolate Explosion's schemes against the executives or letting it be, they choose the latter. When Chocolate Explosion gets caught, they begrudgingly flee with her rather than face the Executives' wrath.

* ColdIron: Elves are extremely vulnerable to iron, but can [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower learn to resist it]] through TrainingFromHell. Afterwards they use iron armors as a PowerLimiter. [[https://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter02/dm02-22.htm Half-Elves]] are completely immune to it, likely due to their human half's iron-based blood.

* EverybodyKnewAlready: The researchers of Square One already knew Dr. Chocolate Explosion was sponsoring [[LaResistance Ashes]]. After all, their new developments kept showing up in Ash's hands.

* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Count Baklava explains his evil plan in complete detail to the kidnapped mayor, to get it off his chest and [[DefiedTrope ensure he doesn't blab it to an actual hero]] who might use it against him. The mayor tells the heroes instead.

''[[http://www.dragon-mango.com Dragon Mango]]'' is a "possibly funny" webcomic, set primarily in the Kingdom of Fafnir. When the human population was nearly wiped out a thousand years ago, the Dragon Slayers arrived to save them. Now a modern-day Dragon Slayer is anxious to prove her worth and restore her family's honour.

* BigNo: Spoofed in [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter05/dm05-10.htm this strip]], when Pumpkin's father returns after a four-year journey into faraway lands and gives Mango a rare treat, called a "sweet swirl stick", which Cherry eats in one bite.

* ColdIron: Elves are extremely vulnerable to iron, but can [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower learn to resist it]] through TrainingFromHell. Afterwards they use iron armors as a PowerLimiter. [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter02/dm02-22.htm Half-Elves]] are completely immune to it, likely due to their human half's iron-based blood.

* DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel: The princess of Stalashen [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter10/dm10-27.htm wears]] a t-shirt that invokes the trope, saying "Kidnap Me ♥".
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Black and white. [[http://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter05/dm05-47.htm sometimes with splashes of color]]

* FlungClothing: In [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter06/dm06-20.htm this page]], Lemon manages to take ''all'' of her clothes off in a single dramatic pull. Apparently it's a ninja thing.

* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: The Tarrasque shops [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter06/dm06-03.htm apparently have]] a reputation for this, and licenses are required for such shops. It helps that they can literally be packed and unpacked from enchanted suitcases. The shops set up in popular locations are more likely to linger.

** Lampshaded [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-55.htm here]], when two characters introduced in a way that [[{{Retirony}} heavily]] [[RedShirt suggested]] that they were cannon fodder found themselves alive a number of comics later.
** Also lampshaded [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter10/dm10-12.htm here]], when Bleu figures that the overly designed guy is more likely to have plot-relevant information than the highly generic townspeople.

* OurGryphonsAreDifferent: [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter02/dm02-28.htm They're really cute]]. ([[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter02/dm02-29.htm And half-hippo]]).

* SantasSweatshop: In [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/extra/xmas/xmas2016.htm one of the]] Christmas comics, Satan Claus kidnaps a bunch of elf children and uses them as slave labor to build cheap toys for export.

* SchmuckBait: [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-12.htm Free Meat!]] In the middle of a large red target. Next to a "Free Meat" sign. Directly under a sixteen-ton weight. And poisoned. [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-13.htm In response]]:

* SecretShop: Tarrasque shops can get set up in some absurdly obscure locations. One member of the dragonslayer council [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter05/dm05-49.htm mentions]] that he found one behind a wall in a dungeon he had to blow up with a bomb to find.

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

* TrainingFromHell: Lord Sherbert teaches the [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-15.htm ''Sherbert School of Incredibly Dangerous Swordplay'']]. He is said to have "more fatalities than graduates", but an Elf who makes it through can withstand wearing an ''iron'' armor without even twitching from pain, while [[ColdIron a simple direct contact with iron can kill an untrained Elf]].\\

** Dr. Yong-Yi changes an injured and unconcious Mango to treat her. When she [[http://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter07/dm07-26.htm realizes this]] she has a [[DelayedReaction delayed]] NakedFreakOut and doesn't accept his insistence that he's a doctor as an excuse and enters PervertRevengeMode, sending him flying out of the building and with him saying [[UnprovokedPervertPayback he doesn't feel he deserved that]].
** Happens to her again not long after with Mango [[http://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter07/dm07-42.png falling unconscious after a fight]]. This time [[http://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter07/dm07-67.htm when she wakes up]], Dr. Yong-Yi tells her he made sure he healed her with his eyes closed and had female nurse dress her.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: The goblin king refuses a sack of gold and [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-78.htm demands something useful like a chicken or a box of donuts]], saying that they have literally whole walls made of the that "worthless gold". [[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-79.htm Then]], war is averted with a happy ending when the true worth of gold is explained to him (and almost immediately goblins are reclassified from monsters to people by surrounding nations)

* WhyAmITicking: [[spoiler:When Agent Catarina becomes a case of HeKnowsTooMuch, Fenix Corp remote detonates the ExplosiveLeash they quietly planted in her body. She notices her instruments claim that everything is normal, but feels a strange power surge. She guesses what is happening just quickly enough to push Dug through his portal, asking him to avenge her, as the explosion annihilates the building she was previously standing in.]]

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Square One maintains surveillance cameras that allow them to detect troublemakers.

** The https://www.dragon-mango.com/April2023.htm 2023 comic]] previews Dragon Mango, the live action movie! All created with AI art based on Stable Diffusion and edited with Photoshop.

* PropagandaMachine: The main reason Fenix Corp is a VillainWithGoodPublicity. WordOfGod states that Fenix Corp has a stranglehold over the media of Square One. Most of the Square One upper class are decent enough people, who have no idea that their lives are being supported by the suffering of the underdwellers. Meanwhile, the underdwellers themselves consider themselves to be lucky to even be alive after the {{Magitek}} accident, and are under the assumption that everyone else is just as bad off as them, little realizing the ways in which Fenix Corp is taking advantage of them.

His current pupil, an alumnus from another such school, ''asks for more'': When he learns the girls are in danger, he asks Sherbert to crank it UpToEleven so he can quickly graduate and rush to their help. Even Sherbert is surprised.

** The directors of Fenix Corp, who rule the city-state of Square One and are responsible for poisoning its underclass so that they can use them as [[LivingBattery living batteries]]. They are implied to be GodhoodSeekers who plan to erase all of existence to remake it InTheirOwnImage.

** The directors of Fenix Corp, who rule the city-state of Square One and are responsible for poisoning its underclass so that they can use them as [[LivingBattery living batteries]].

* {{Thoughtcrime}}: All rumors about V.E.R.G.E. have been flagged by the AI as misinformation. {{Magitek}} is completely safe. [[AGodAmI Fenix Corp]] has [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial no plans]] to [[InTheirOwnImage erase reality]]. By viewing this untruthful disinformation with no basis in fact, you have been placed on a list. An officer will be with you shortly to check your thinking.

* MixAndMatchCritters: One of the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters many]] main characters summoned a hippogryff -- half-hippopotamus, half-griffin.

* MeaningfulName: The government of Square One calls itself Fenix Corp, after the [[ThePhoenix legendary immortal bird]]. The revolutionaries opposing them call themselves "Ashes", which is what they plan to reduce them to, permanently, without letting them ride again.