History Webcomic / Minus

* OneHundredAndEight: minus [[spoiler:dies]] in the 108th strip.

A webcomic by Ryan Armand that ran for 130 episodes from February 2006 to July 2008. The original website is down. but it can still be found on [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150513012610/http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus1.html archive.org]].

* AncientAstronauts: DoublySubverted: After hearing about the hypothesis, minus goes back in time to try to meet the aliens. She doesn't find any... but at the end of the strip it is revealed that yes, aliens were responsible for the human race. She just didn't go far enough back in time.
* AnnoyingArrows: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus23.html #23]]. That has got to hurt...

** [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus91.html This comic]] demonstrates another rule: [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Make it short and easy to pay attention to.]]
* BlackKnight: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus74.html #74]]

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus79.html #79]], where a carnival has great food, great rides, and even great food...... that you can ride!

* CarnivoreConfusion : This [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus5.html strip]]

* ContinuityCreep: Strip [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus50.html #50]]. Apparently minus's actions have consequences after all...

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus106.html This guy]]. And he's a KarmaHoudini who's the only one shown to do something to minus and not suffer any consequences.

* EgomaniacHunter: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus39.html Ends up boxing the lion he shot]].

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus46.html #46]].
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus73.html #73]]
* ExcitedShowTitle: Temporarily, when [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus107.html minus becomes...wackier?]] The [[TheRant rant]] for that comic is just a single exclamation point.

* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus40.html To her credit, she isn't the originator of this]].

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus73.html #73]]

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Subverted in [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus13.html #13]].

* JackassGenie: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus60.html The end of this strip and most of the next]], although like everything else minus does it's JustForFun.

* KrakenAndLeviathan: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus50.html Alien invasion? Zombie apocalypse? Famine?]] Summon a kraken!

* LoveAtFirstSight: minus plays cupid in [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus23.html #23]].

* PerspectiveMagic [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus95.html #95]]. Also [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus14.html #14]].
* PetTheDog: minus [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus61.html has her moments.]]

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus91.html #91]].
* LaResistance: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus74.html #75]]

* RewritingReality: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus21.html here]] and anywhere else in the comic. Continuously.

** Various references to anime [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus13.html here]]. In order of lines, the immortal who wants to be human is from ''Manga/SoulHunter'', the second one sounds vaguely like a quote about immortality from ''GalaxyExpress999'', the one about the witch giving up her powers is ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', and the quote about everything coming easy sounds similar to a lament made in ''Anime/MagicUsersClub'' by Takeo's gay friend.

* TheSlowPath: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus25.html #25]] and [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus26.html #26]]. Slight subversion as [[spoiler: she wouldn't make it back at all; minus brings her back in her old age to say good bye.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus75.html The ponytail girl.]]
* UnstoppableMailman: The paper cutout man minus creates ''will'' deliver her the candy she asked him to get, [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus105.html no matter what]].

** Although to be fair, had [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus106.html the chalk salesman]] not entered the picture, things wouldn't have snowballed to that degree.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Even the [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus36.html in-universe characters]] have trouble pegging minus.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus123.html This strip]], though it's meant to make fun of TrueArtIsAngsty.

* WrongGenreSavvy: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus91.html This couple]] appears to believe that minus is a [[RulesLawyer rules lawyering]] LiteralGenie, quite forgetting that she's really just a naive little girl with a rather short attention span.
* YouAndWhatArmy: ''[[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus98.html This]]'' army.

* YouNeverAsked: Referenced [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus120.html here]].
* ZombieApocalypse: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus109.html Here]] and [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus110.html here]]. It's more of a childish prank than a full-blown apocalypse, though.

%comment% The word below is intentionally "grownups". Don't change it!
%comment% The joke is that minus is a comic that adults will find a bit disturbing but children will not.
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Compare and contrast with "ItsAGoodLife".

A webcomic by Ryan Armand that ran for 130 episodes from February 2006 to July 2008. It is archived [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus.html here]], with extra strips for afterward [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minuse1.html here]], and [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/mnus1.html here]]. There is also [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/store.html#minus a print version]] with some extra strips. A larger version of the comic is [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minusb1.html here]].

!!''minus'' contains examples of:

* ShoutOut: Various references to anime [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus13.html here]]. In order of lines, the immortal who wants to be human is from ''Manga/SoulHunter'', the second one sounds vaguely like a quote about immortality from ''GalaxyExpress999'', the one about the witch giving up her powers is ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', and the quote about everything coming easy sounds similar to a lament made in ''MagicUsersClub'' by Takeo's gay friend.
** The dishman who was out dojo-hunting obviously battled a practitioner of [[BattleAngelAlita Panzerkunst]].

* ShoutOut: Various references to anime [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus13.html here]]. In order of lines, the immortal who wants to be human is from ''SoulHunter'', the second one sounds vaguely like a quote about immortality from ''GalaxyExpress999'', the one about the witch giving up her powers is ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', and the quote about everything coming easy sounds similar to a lament made in ''MagicUsersClub'' by Takeo's gay friend.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus123.html This strip]].
** More like making fun of TrueArtIsAngsty.

* MoralityPet: the green-haired girl with the pigtails. Better things and happy endings happen to minus's newly-sentient lifeforms when she's around.
* NamesTheSame: That the eponymous character shares her name with the term for someone whose powers make them antisocial in ''Manga/MedakaBox'' has not gone unnoticed by some readers.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Strip [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus10.html #10]] was the first one actually drawn, and at the time the creator had not yet decided whether minus would actually be all-powerful or just a shape-shifter. If he had chosen differently, the comic would have turned out very different.

** [[spoiler:It's implied that these are future generations of dead people (so I guess ghosts can have kids and grow up). They never had legs.]]

** [[spoiler: Subverted when you remember that minus still has her godly powers and, ergo, can change the world back to how it was and do anything else to no longer be sad or melancholy.]]
*** [[FridgeHorror Hooray, the cosmos is still in the thrall of a mad, amoral god for eternity!]]
**** Perhaps she'll come back alive and temper a bit over time.

**** Perhaps she'll temper a bit over time.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Despite, as can be told by most of the rest of this page, having a reputation for being dangerous, in truth, all things considered, minus' stops doing more negative things very quickly - by halfway through the comic she's almost entirely neutral: only doing negative things out of naivete rather than intentionally doing them, and she often adds things to her some of the less positive things she caused to make them bittersweet or even good. She never stops callously making synthetic sentient beings, however.

* ShoutOut: Various references to anime [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus13.html here]]. In order of lines, the immortal who wants to be human is from ''SoulHunter'', the second one sounds vaguely like a quote about immortality from ''GalaxyExpress999'', the one about the witch giving up her powers is ''[[OjamajoDoremi Magical DoReMi]]'', and the quote about everything coming easy sounds similar to a lament made in ''MagicUsersClub'' by Takeo's gay friend.

* AlternateUniverse: minus has made several.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: And Green hair, and red hair, depending on minus' mood it seems. Some of the normal characters have green or red hair regardless of minus.

[[caption-width-right:298:[[StrangeGirl minus]] is weird like that.]]

* OnlySixFaces: It becomes increasingly difficult to tell Minus from characters with similar hairstyle.

* TheEndingChangesEverything: Courtesy of [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].

* AccidentalMurder :[[spoiler: by the green haired girl, of all people. And it stuck.]] minus does this on occasion.

* {{108}}: minus [[spoiler:dies]] in the 108th strip.

%%* AmbiguousInnocence
%%* AncientAstronauts

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!!This work contains the following examples:

* PerfectHealth: minus never gets sick unless she wills herself to.

* BodyHorror: minus turns a balloon selling guy into a balloon himself when he yells at her for popping all his balloons. [[spoiler:[[NightmareFuel Then he pops.]]]]