History Webcomic / ExterminatusNow

''Exterminatus Now'' is what happens when you mix ''SonicTheHedgehog'', ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', and a truckload of BlackComedy.

** [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2005-03-29/comic/non-storyline/randoms/how-about-we-protest-against-protesting/ At]] [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2005-08-16/comic/facilitating-your-demise/what-the-future-holds/ least]] [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2007-07-20/comic/black-and-white/the-only-thing-he-can-drive-is-people-insane/ three]] to ''RedDwarf''.

* MundaneUtility: Eastwood uses an ancient artifact which contains thousands of souls as a ''bookend''. Even after it's stolen and he finds out what it really is, his primary motivation for getting it back is because he needs a bookend.

** Turns out it's actually the plasma battery version, but Eastwood dislikes the idea of exploding just as much as dying of radiation poisoning.

* NaughtyTentacles: The Daemon do [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2004-01-09/comic/meet-the-crew/just-recording-evidence/ their own tentacle porn]]. But then, that also works as CombatTentacles. Lothar takes the [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2004-01-23/comic/meet-the-crew/cliches-never-fail/ logical path]] to get rid of them.
-->'''Lothar:''' "Look: An underage, yet improbably busty schoolgirl!"

** [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2011-08-09/comic/the-cesspool/clobberin-time/ This comic]] has the obvious shout out to Deadpool, but the girl sitting at the table behind him is clearly [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Applejack]].

* ColorCodeForYourConvenience: In the chameleon's first appearance after [[spoiler:Morth's involvement is revealed, he changes color to black and white.]]

* EvilLawyerJoke: as shown [[http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20070413.html here.]] Apparently, the Inquisition laywers are a snake, a vulture, and a hyena.

** [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2005-03-29/comic/non-storyline/randoms/how-about-we-protest-against-protesting/ At]] [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2005-08-16/comic/facilitating-your-demise/what-the-future-holds/ least]] two to ''RedDwarf''.

-->"[[BlackHelicopter Helicopters?]] Try VTOL aircraft, dude."

* FriendToAllChildren: [[HeroicSociopath Lothar Hex]] was originally going to have a soft spot for children, given that he didn't have a happy childhood. It didn't last. [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2005-01-21/comic/back-to-school/should-we-be-worried-for-our-lives/ So very much.]]

* HeroicSociopath

* ReplacementScrappy: Yuri was an in-universe case. While Eastwood was initially [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2010-03-11/comic/team-scramble/welcome-to-the-both-of-you/ happy]] to have [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2010-03-21/comic/team-scramble/the-international-language-of-lewd/ a cute girl]] on the team, her LeeroyJenkins attitude, NoKillLikeOverkill behavior, and her being TooDumbToLive in general got on everyone's nerves. [[HeroicSociopath Lothar]] [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2010-11-14/comic/voiding-your-warranty/switcheroo/ actually]] ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness hugged]]'' Rogue when he came back.

* HypocriticalHumor: "[[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2011-01-09/comic/non-storyline/randoms/submitted-for-peer-review/ Hammerspace exists only in Taikan cartoons where everybody has huge eyes and silly-colored hair]]." (While his empty glasses are taken by a waitress with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair hot-pink hair]] and eyes that take up half her face.)

:: He was drunk when he said that... does it make it less or ''more'' credible?

** ''Schaefer'' gets a moment of this in the comic "A++, Would Heroically Struggle To The Death With Again" as, after Eastwood sends him after one "E. Bay" to get him off Kyles case after it emerges he has been dealing with cultists, as it emerges there really is an Edward Bay, and, judging from the parody of dramatic action movies everywhere, he ''really is a supervillain.'' Schaefer doesn't just win, but does so in ''style''.

:: Turns out it's actually the plasma battery version, but Eastwood dislikes the idea of exploding just as much as dying of radiation poisoning.

** When Eastwood remembers he became connected to the antique dealer Marley, the guy he left the artifact with, through [[spoiler: Silas Morth]].

* PetTheDog: Lothar's surprising preparedness to bust his [[spoiler:adoptive brother Kyle (a platypus)]] out of captivity, turning ''instantly'' against his employers to do so. Eastwood, [[{{Jerkass}} of course,]] doesn't miss an opportunity to have a dig at the echidna for showing a glimmer of empathy.

*** In canon, [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2011-10-03/comic/non-storyline/randoms/assuming-indirect-control/ Assuming Indirect Control]], [[hottip:*: CABAL is a network of individually non-sentient AIs that are collectively self-aware, does that sound familiar to you?]]

** The sword in [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2011-12-20/comic/non-storyline/randoms/a-grim-dawn/ this]] comic is near identical in appearance to [[{{Darksiders}} Chaos Eater]] and it's name Soulmourne is obviously an homage to the Lich King's weapon in WorldOfWarcraft.

** After years of fan-clamoring, the comic was temporarily given a female main cast member...who was an obnoxius, idiotic TedBaxter who was treated like dirt by literally everyone else in the comic from her first to (so far) last scene.

* YouGetWhatYouPayFor: A [[ObviouslyEvil Bad guy]] hires three teams of mercenaries to steal something from the main characters. [[http://www.exterminatusnow.co.uk/2012-01-16/comic/the-bookend-of-unimaginable-power/international-man-of-mercenary/ Except he goes over budget hiring the first two]] (Expies of the [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 BLU Team]] and the TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles respectively), he hires as the third team a gang of the Mobius equivalent of chavs for "Two litres of White Lightning and a carton of fags[[hottip:*:slang for cigarettes]]". Which they accept. The first two teams break into the house and get killed by Eastwood's [[BrickJoke mechanical attack chicken]], [[TeamPet Blasphemy]] and the possessed toaster. The chavs are arrested by the police before they even try.