History Webcomic / Nefarious

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Dash drags Mack to place where people can pay to rescue damsels, and it's ''not'' on the good side of town. Adding on to that are the "power rings" that have some very drug like side effects.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Princess Foxglove is treated as such by her subjects, to the point where there's no hero for Kyuutopia because they'd gladly let a villain ''[[YouCanKeepHer keep]]'' her if the situation arose. She's actually much more benevolent than her subjects would believe, but neglecting the natives and cutting a deal with their invaders was only done to [[IDidWhatIHadToDo keep the kingdom out of the red]].
** [[spoiler:It gets worse when she kidnaps Farrah Day and starts using her power to take over the world. Her people tell her they just want freedom but Foxglove demands they go for world conquest.]]

* NotSoAboveItAll: Mayapple makes some very ungraceful facial expressions when she finds Crow kidnapping Foxglove.

** Emperor Hacken Slash is an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]], being a horned reptilian creature who rules over an empire of similar reptilian creatures. One of his minions even resembles a buff [[VideoGame/Yoshi|sIsland]].

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Princess Foxglove is treated as such by her subjects, to the point where there's no hero for Kyuutopia because they'd gladly let a villain ''[[YouCanKeepHer keep]]'' her if the situation arose. She's actually much more benevolent than her subjects would believe, but neglecting the natives and cutting a deal with their invaders was only done to [[IDidWhatIHadToDo keep the kingdom out of the red.]]

A year after the its 2017 release, ''VideoGame/{{Nefarious}}'' introduced a webcomic going more in depth about the game's world. Taking place after where the game ended, it follows Crow's further adventures as a CardCarryingVillain, with all the stresses of the job that entails. However, due to Crow's empire getting throttled, it instead follows him as a "Villain for Hire": he, like his Rent-a-Hero counterparts, gets jobs helping other villains out or doing some kidnapping when a hero is out of commission. Naturally, this series is rife with spoilers for the game, so consider yourself warned. Josh Hano returns as the story writer and artist, compiling arcs into comic book-like "issues".

* DevelopmentGag: The cut hero Bomineer is retooled into a villain who appears in Becky's backstory and is given a reason for his absence in the game.

** We finally see what Mayapple's go-kart races look like. True to form, the first track they're shown to be racing on is a pastiche of [[VideoGame/MarioKart Rainbow Road]].
*** Tephra's kart is even the classic pipe frame model from the early days.

** Lineage of Tyranny reveals that Crow has seven siblings with the youngest one being a Bowser Jr parody while Crow and the others were part of a group based off of the Koopalings(though Crow's siblings actually resemble them).
*** And on that note, Rook mentions that they kept getting beaten up by "a fat carpenter".

* Expy: Going off of Dash's Sonic parody we have his new sidekick Nails the One Tailed Rat as his version of Tails.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Crow bought out Becky's service Death By Paperwork, though it remains to be seen if that's still the case.

** Lineage of Tyranny reveals that Crow has seven siblings with the youngest one being a Bowser Jr parody while Crow and the others were part of a group based off of the Koopalings(though Crow's siblings actually resemble them).

* CerebusRollercoaster: The series jumps all over the spectrum of comedic, dark, and darkly comedic. A good example is Painbow Road. On one end, you have Malachite going through serious emotional pain over having to fight his own sister or risk losing everything he has with Aurelia and letting the war between the Dwarves and Ogres pick back up where it left off. On the other end, Crow is being the usual comedic sociopath we all know and love him for.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Dash drags Mack to place where people can pay to rescue damsels. Adding on to that are the "power rings" that make the cause the user to see things completely differently.

** Some of Crow's retired siblings aren't in the best of places. After all, who would hire the kids of a major bad guy who willingly helped their old man? His sister Lark has even been sent to an insane asylum.

* RealityEnsues: Malachite may have ended a hundred year war when he usurped Tephra's reign, but Sukochi is on the verge of economic turmoil since its main income came from all that warmongering. Plus, nobody on the council is willing to help his kingdom out since they don't believe it could change that much overnight.

* PrincessesRule: As in the game, parodied. The princesses have their own yearly kingdom summit, Malachite's position on the throne is seen as an oddity, and the villains can't for the life of them figure out what the letters "Q" and "K" are referring to on their playing cards.

* DatingCatwoman: Not with who you'd think: Mayapple ends up in a committed relationship with villainess Malice. [[spoiler: The way Malice looks at her crown, however, implies [[FalseFriend a different trope]] is at play...]]

** HeelFaceTurn: Of all people, [[spoiler:CROW had a brief life as a hero as Mack's Player 2. It's obviously short lived as Crow is only in it for the fame]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Dash drags Mack to place where people can pay to rescue damsels. Adding on to that are the "power rings" that make the crummy looking stage and actors look amazing.

** We finally see what Mayapple's go-kart races look like. True to form, the first track they're shown to be racing on is a pastiche of [[VideoGame/MarioKart Rainbow Road]].

A year after the its 2017 release, ''VideoGame/{{Nefarious}}'' introduced a webcomic going more in depth about the game's world. Taking place after where the game ended, it follows Crow's further adventures as a CardCarryingVillain, with all the stresses of the job that entails. Naturally, this series is rife with spoilers for the game, so consider yourself warned. Josh Hano returns as the story writer and artist, compiling arcs into comic book-like "issues".

A year after the its 2017 release, ''VideoGame/{{Nefarious}}'' started up a webcomic going more in depth about the game's world. Taking place after where the game ended, it follows Crow's further adventures as a CardCarryingVillain, with all the stresses of the job that entails. Naturally, this series is rife with spoilers for the game, so consider yourself warned.

* PrincessesRule: As in the game, parodied. The princesses have their own yearly kingdom summit, Malachite's position on the throne is seen