History Webcomic / Henchgirl

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: [[spoiler: Heavily hinted at with Mary's parents long before she turned to a life of crime due to the fact she didn't seem to develop superpowers (least beyond super strength which they don't consider very flashy).]]
* WidgetSeries: The comic is more a set of random misadventures then any overarching plot.

* SurpriseCreepy: The way [[http://www.henchgirlcomic.com/?p=242 Tina introduces her powers]]. Especially considering Mary, Fred and Sue were eating carrot cake before then.

* RealityEnsues:
** The bank where Fred works gets robbed frequently, so much so that it eventually closes down as they have no money to support themselves and their customers.
** Mary uses a magic wand to stop a supervillain hoping to get some glory. Instead she's arrested for killing a man on live television. What's more since she wasn't in disguise when she did it, it's outs her identity to the Butterfly Gang who promptly have her fired.
** [[spoiler: Mary uses Amelia's time amulet to go back into the past in the hopes of leading a better childhood. She uses knowledge from her diary and her parent's autobiography to claim she's a psychic. It seems to work until she's pulled back into the present while her younger self on national TV with her mom. Since her present mind wasn't there to keep the charade going, it ends up damaging her family's credibility when she's revealed as a fraud.]]

Started in 2013 as a self published book, Kristen decided to put it up online after the release of the fourth issue. The comic eventually came to an end in Dec 2016. Near the end of its run, Kristen revealed that Dark Horse picked up the comic and will be publishing the collected edition (which will have extra material). However in respect of that, she removed that latter half of the comic beyond the fourth issue in the webcomic version (ironically) and announced the site will soon die off on it's own which it eventually did. So please support the book where available.

''[[http://www.henchgirlcomic.com/ Henchgirl]]'' is a comic drawn by Kristen Gudsnuk.

** [[spoiler: And played utterly straight in the Extended Edition. On one hand, Tina's evil clone is stopped and she has likewise saved Crepe City, and later goes on to become a superhero in the Fairness Federation (this world's version of the Justice League). But Mary gives up the superhero life to become a security guard to a museum (with a newspaper mocking her for it). She does manage to beat Monsieur Butterfly and his new gang when they try to take revenge, getting them thrown in jail and even better Fred gets a new body from Amelia thanks to a magical golem she aquires which now grants him invulnerability, giving him a shot at being a superhero. But as Mary watches, she figures shes gotten too old for him (as he never aged as a spirit while she did before possessing the new body) and just... waddles off back to work to get drunk. End story.]]

* BoringButPractical: We find out that Mary has some partial super strength but she doesn't see it as a very interesting superpower [[spoiler: compared to her younger sister, Pagie's, time stopping power. Her parents seem to have the same sentiments as she was growing up.]]

* MeetCute: Multiple instances of this between Mary and Fred in the first two issues. Fred (as Mannequin) carries Mary home after finding her passed out in trash bags in an alley after Mr. Great Guy foiled the Butterfly Gang's bank heist. [[spoiler: They meet again the next day – Fred is a teller at the bank Mary's gang hit the night before, and Mary was depositing the money she stole back into the bank! Fred is not pleased. They meet again when Fred is working catering at Greg Gaines' ball in Issue 2, and Mary tries to go in the service entrance after being turned away at the door (and insulted by Coco) – and Fred interrupts Mary's stealing some jewels. He doesn't turn this charming young thief in then...]]

** [[spoiler: And played utterly straight in the Extended Edition. On one hand, Tina's evil clone is stopped and she has likewise saved saving Crepe City, and later goes on to become a superhero in the Friendship Federation (this world's version of the Justice League). But Mary gives up the superhero life to become a security guard to a museum (with a newspaper mocking her for it). She does manage to beat Monsieur Butterfly and his new gang when they try to take revenge, getting them thrown in jail and even better Fred gets a new body from Amelia thanks to a magical golem she aquires which now grants him invulnerability, giving him a shot at being a superhero. But as Mary watches, she figures shes gotten too old for him (as he never aged as a spirit while she did before possessing the new body) and just... waddles off back to work to get drunk. End story.]]

* AntiClimax: The Extended Edition shows what happened after the initial ending to the story which head the heroes about to [[spoiler: confront the Carrot Army to rescue Tina from her evil clone. Tina sees her friends in trouble, attacks her evil clone and manages to literally bite her head off and takes back control of the carrot army. Yep, that easy.]]

* AntiClimax

** [[spoiler: And played utterly straight in the Extended Edition. On one hand, Tina's evil clone is stopped and she's saved likewise saving Crepe City, and later goes on to become a superhero in the Friendship Federation (this world's version of the Justice League). But Mary gives up the superhero life to become a security guard to a museum (with a newspaper mocking her for it). She does manage to beat Monsieur Butterfly and his new gang when they try to take revenge, getting them thrown in jail and even better Fred gets a new body from Amelia thanks to a magical golem which now grants him invulnerability, giving him a shot at being a superhero. But as Mary watches, she figures shes gotten too old for him (as he never aged as a spirit while she did before possessing the new body) and just... waddles off back to work. End story.]]

In June 2019, Kristen revealed on Twitter that [[http://wmqcomics.com/news/gudsnuks-henchgirl-to-be-adapted-for-tv/ the series will be adapted into a TV Series]].

Dark Horse will be re-printing the trade paperback with a release date of September 16, 2020, with new cover art and 16 pages of new comics seeing what's happening with Mary and the other denizens of Crepe City.

* KudzuPlot: The comic does have a bad tendency to bring up plot points only to never get around to resolving them and moving onto the next part as quickly as possible, ultimatly living a lot of unanswered questions.

Dark Horse will be re-printing the trade paperback with a release date of September 29, 2020, with new cover art and 16 pages of new comics seeing what's happening with Mary and the other denizens of Crepe City.