History Webcomic / VGCats

** Aeris's shelf in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=290 this]] strip is home to ''[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Gurren Lagann]]'', [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Lucario]], and ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' creature figurines. On the wall is a ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' poster.

* TheCamep: [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] from ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' appears in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=304 Strip 292]], where he calls ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' shit.

%% * TwentyPercentMoreAwesome: Used very nearly by name in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=306 #294]], [[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution They'll Fix You.]] [[Film/RoboCop1987 They Fix Everything]].

%% * AIIsACrapshoot: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=289 They don't call them "bots" for nothing.]] (#277 Cheeseburger Apocalypse)
%% * AffectionateParody
* AlternateUniverse:

%% * AmusingInjuries: Oh so painfully Deconstructed [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=207 here]].

%% * {{Animesque}}

* ArtEvolution: [[http://www.vgcats.com/othercomics/?strip_id=0 Here]] is the earliest appearance of Aeris and Leo, back in 2001. And [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=290 this]] is their early-2010 appearance. Yeah. Character style varies wildly from strip to strip.

* AssShove: Solid Snake's attempt at solving the "temperature sensitive" [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=87 keycard]]

%% * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther:
%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=290 Dawwwwwww.]]
%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=348 And again here.]]

* BlackComedy: In [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=226 one of the parodies of]] ''Manga/OnePiece'', Chopper tries to tell Zoro he has to remove his colon after one of his battles.
-->'''Zoro:''' What's that, Chopper? "Band-Aids Heal Everything"?\\

%% * BlackComedy: Quite common.
%% ** In "[[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=269 The Comedian]]". Also, the [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=247 babysitting gun turret]] from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=137 This]] fits the trope, as well.

%% ** Remember ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''? [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=320 Remember what happens when the user wins?]]
%% * BlackComedyRape: Many examples. [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=48 Here's one]].
%% * BlatantLies:
%% ** "Updated every Monday!"
%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=250 Lampshaded.]]
%% ** [[Film/ManOfSteel IT'S TOO FAST,]] [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=328 I'M DONE FORE!]]

%% * BrainBleach: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=24 Aeris hates Algorythms.]]

%% * CanadaEh: The special Canada Day strip.
%% * {{Cameo}}: [[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee.]] [[note]][[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=304 Strip 292]][[/note]]

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Krug. His last appearance was between issues 269 & 270... which was a guest comic to parody ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}''.

%% * ClusterFBomb:
%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=190 By Popular Request]], in which Pantsman gives his opinion on ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}''.
%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=300 Kinder Surprise]], to Aeris, quite expressively so.
* ConRecap.

%% * CrateExpectations: Played with [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=300 here]]. This is taken straight from the source game, where this happens with 90% of the crates you open.
%% * CuteAndPsycho: Aeris
%% * CuteLittleFang: Aeris, most often.

%% * DarkerAndEdgier:
%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=120 Leo explains the origins of the Tooth Fairy and Chocolate Milk]].
%% ** Their explanation of WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=275 here]].
%% * DeclarativeFinger: Parodied [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=141 here.]]

%% * DigitalPiracyIsEvil: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=76 Parodied here]], at least before it disappears into complete incoherence.
%% * DistantReactionShot
* DontExplainTheJoke:
** Aeris's response to Leo when he makes an incredibly misogynistic joke about why girls like stories about vampires and feels the need to spell out what he's talking about. Leo does this a lot. "'''[[IncrediblyLamePun Recurring]]''', [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=284 if you will.]]"
** And again in #367 (Moostache), rather than letting it speak for itself Leo has to make absolutely certain we understand that the gag is that [[spoiler:the guy doesn't just milk female Pokémon, but males as well]].
* DoubleEntendre: "That is the BIGGEST barrel I've ever seen, is it pump action?"

%% * FingertipDrugAnalysis: Parodied in a strip about ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney''.
%% * ForScience: Leo used it as an excuse [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=192 to do what he did with]] Franchise/WinnieThePooh. [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=271 And his past self]].

%% * FunnyAnimal
* FurryConfusion: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=355 Lampshaded]]. Despite living in a house with a toilet Leo still does his business in a litter box much to the confusion of Areis.

%% * GoodAngelBadAngel: Or rather, [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=137 Bad Angel and Clown]].

%% * HighClassGlass

%% * HulkSpeak: Anything said by Krug.

--> Yes, I am aware of the hypocrisy!
%% * ICannotSelfTerminate: Oh '''''god''''', [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=192 this strip]]. And worse, [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh begs piglet]] to kill him!

%% * IncrediblyLamePun: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=181 Lampshaded.]]

* JackassGenie: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=296 What happens when you ask the Monkey's Paw for]] VideoGame/DukeNukemForever. Three wishes left...Two if you include Leo's wish for a [[IncrediblyLamePun large]] wiener.

%% * LampshadeHanging: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=312 Why are you a cat?]]
* LetsMockTheMonsters: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=1 You know, maybe we shouldn't be jamming the helpless critters into airtight balls]] and [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=45 hemorrhoids]].
%% * LightFlickerTeleportation: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=17 Here.]]

%% * ManEatingPlant: [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullpetal Botanist]].

%% * NotWhatItLooksLike: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=131 Good game, Leo.]]

%% * PooledFunds: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=300 Meanwhile, at Valve...]]
%% * PunctuatedForEmphasis: ''Film/ThreeHundred'' is parodied [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=229 here]].
%% * QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Leo's dad, Leo Leonardo The Second.
%% * RapidFireComedy: A rare webcomic example.

* SelfDeprecation: He's fond of this, typically with a heaping helping of HypocriticalHumor.
** In addition to the randomized "[[ScheduleSlip Updated whenever]]" comments in the title bar, [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=295 this]], and [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=308 the first strip of 2012]].
** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=330 After calling out]] Sonic's [[WesternAnimation/SonicBoom new design]] being suspiciously similar to the recent [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]], the following panels reveal that Aeris and Leo are not too different from a certain other [[Webcomic/PennyArcade webcomic duo]]...
%% * SeriousBusiness:
%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=267 "Waiting"]], for one. [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/090423.jpg "Nerd Rage"]], for another. And don't even ask about [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=111 this guy]]...
%% ** Plus Aeris' love for Jean Luc Picard and ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. And, conversely her hate for ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.
%% * ShipTease:
%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/100111.jpg This comic.]]
%% ** Also [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=201 this comic]].
%% * ShockSite: A pixellated Goatse appears on a TV in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=294 this comic.]]
* ShoutOut:
** Remember Elcor's ramblings in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=309 this strip?]] [[Film/ThePrincessBride "To which he replied... ]][[IAmNotLeftHanded I'm not left-handed... either.]] Pointless narration... and ''then''..."
%% ** Ditto: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=248 This.]]
** Oh, and the main characters are named [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aeris]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Leo]]... both of which are ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' characters who are killed by the main villain of their respective games.
%% ** In [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/100111.jpg this strip:]] [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Fullfillith Thine Fight]].

%% ** To ''Film/ThreeHundred'', [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=229 here]].
%% ** To ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=304 this]] Series/PawnStars parody strip.

%% * ShowerOfAngst: [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]] after realizing she slept with [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Master Chief]].
%% * SkywardScream: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=296 MONKEY PAAAAAW!]]
%% * {{Squick}}: [[VideoGame/Left4Dead Hunter and Boomer's]] reaction to Smoker's new [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=283 girlfriend]].
%% * StayInTheKitchen: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=252 Get back to cooking, Mama]]
%% * TakeThat: To Manga/{{InuYasha}} [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=190 here]].
%% * TakeThatCritics: In response to complaints over an abortion joke, we got [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=270 this]].

%% * TheyChangedItNowItSucks: An in-universe subversion [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=296 here.]] Leo starts to do this, but then decides it's for the best.
%% * ThickLineAnimation: Especially prominent during 2004-2006. Almost nowhere to be seen in later comics.
%% * TooAwesomeToUse: Parodied [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=358 here]].

%% * {{Troll}}ing: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=300 Spy Leo does this to Scout Aeris.]]
%% * {{Tsundere}}: Aeris.
* UnexplainedRecovery:
** Leo, after Aeris "Aborted [him]... from '''time'''". Blatantly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]], to boot.
** [[spoiler:[[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=327 Doctor Hobo]]]] as well. (Strip 327 That Show that's not Bob's Burgers)

%% * UnsoundEffect: FACE!
%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=190 *MONOCLE*]]
%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=91 *Quietly* *Storm* *Off*]]

%% ** Dr. Hobo CassandraTruth 's this way back in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=58 the 58th strip]].
* VagueAge:
** Aeris's ID in the ([[OneEpisodeWonder very brief]]) AnimatedAdaptation simply reads "Legal". She might at least be going to college, given [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=290 this strip]].

%% * VideoGameCrueltyPotential:
%% ** The subject of many comics, as seen in this [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=122 strip]] about ''VideoGame/TheSims''.
%% ** Also happens in this [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=198 comic]] for VideoGame/{{Spore}}.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Aeris and Leo, for all her antagonism and his dim-bulb moments, do care for each other. [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=290 Shown in this comic]].

* [[WantedPoster Wanted]]: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=188 Leo Leonardo, dead or alive. Reward: 90,000,000 dollars]].
%% * WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=282 This strip]]. Entrusting [[OlympusMons unfathomable power]] to a bunch of kids. What could possibly go wrong?
* WhatDidIDoLastNight?: [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]] gets this after a [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=128 Christmas party]]. The answer is "[[Franchise/{{Halo}} Master Chief]]."
%% * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=164 This strip]] spoofing ''[[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Captain Planet]]'' inspired the meme.
%% * JustForFun/XMeetsY:[[invoked]] [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=287]] Film/InglouriousBasterds meets VideoGame/TeamFortress2
%% * YaoiFangirl:
%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=126 Aeris]] [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=221 it]] [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=288 sems]].
%% * YourMom: One of Leo's favourite forms of joke. He suffered for it in the end.
* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Leo knows four Pokemon-style moves -- Eat, Sleep, Breathe, and Videogames. He forgets "Breathe" in order to learn "Poop" and promptly faints.

* AndZoidberg: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=309 Ashley Williams]] of ''Franchise/MassEffect'' is specifically mentioned over the other species as [[AnythingThatMoves stuff Commander Shepard would have sex with]] (except in her case, not).

** Before that he created a Comic replacing [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Byakuya and Ichigo]] with Aeris and Leo, and recreated the scene where Ichigo first used his [[SuperMode Bankai]].[[note]]http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=223 strip number 224[[/note]]

** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=188 This strip]] has Aerith setting up the apartment with speakers so she can get the best aural experience for ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'', legal release dates be damned. Turns out [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil the cops]] are prepared for someone watching it a [[PoliceCodeForEverything a 1015]] and just as Cloud and Sephiroth are about to get to their climactic duel... the player gets a disc read error. That's when Aerith lets out a LITERAL use of the trope.

%% * GagBoobs: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=260 This strip]].

* GeoEffects: Parodied in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=150 "High Ground"]], where standing on the high ground actually gives Obi-Wan a statistical advantage over Anakin, to witch Anakin cries, "Hax!"

%% * GeoEffects: Parodied in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=150 "High Ground"]].

%% * GrammarNazi: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=171 Yes]].

''[[http://www.vgcats.com/ VG Cats]]'' is a video game-themed FunnyAnimal webcomic by Scott Ramsoomair. Rather than directly emulating the TwoGamersOnACouch format that was popularized by ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', this comic instead does humorous parodies of video games and anime, with the comic's characters -- {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Leo and SnarkKnight Aeris -- via DeepImmersionGaming.

Also includes subcomics ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI Adventure Log]]'' and ''Webcomic/SuperEffective'' (which starts [[http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=0 here]]).

All of these comics have consistently good artwork (a few instances of re-used backgrounds not withstanding), but not so much with the updating schedule. There were a grand total of nine strips in 2010, and eight in 2017. Add that in with Adventure Log being cancelled and Super Effective not seeing an update in years, you have some serious ScheduleSlip.

In 2020, Scott popped back up and said the strip's downtime was due to a combination of other projects and depression. He is currently working on a new website, and has said ''VG Cats'' will eventually resume, but ''Super Effective'' is finished. As for Leo and Aeris, he is working on a prequel story on Patreon revolving around them first moving in together. The strip [[https://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=393 finally released a new page]] in September 2020, but has only posted three more strips after it, and hasn't been updated since early 2021. On February 2022, Scott finally made an official announcent on his Patreon about ending the main comic with one last strip as a good-bye for the characters.

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Leo knows four moves in a Pokemon manner: Eat, Sleep, Breathe, Video Games. He wants to learn "poop", so he chooses to forget "breathe". Most of these moves are natural functions of the body.

* MadBomber: [[Videogame/LegendOfZeldaFourSwords Red Link]] goes on a bomb-fuelled rampage [[https://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=105 for Force Gems]].

* MadBomber: [[Videogame/ZeldaFourSwords Red Link]] goes on a bomb-fuelled rampage [[https://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=105 for Force Gems]].

In 2020, Scott popped back up and said the strip's downtime was due to a combination of other projects and depression. He is currently working on a new website, and has said ''VG Cats'' will eventually resume, but ''Super Effective'' is finished. As for Leo and Aeris, he is working on a prequel story on Patreon revolving around them first moving in together. The strip [[https://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=393 finally released a new page]] in September 2020, but has only posted three more strips after it, and hasn't been updated since early 2021.

In 2020, Scott popped back up and said the strip's downtime was due to a combination of other projects and depression. He is currently working on a new website, and has said ''VG Cats'' will eventually resume, but ''Super Effective'' is finished. As for Leo and Aeris, he is working on a prequel story on Patreon revolving around them first moving in together. The strip [[https://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=393 finally released a new page]] in September 2020.

-->'''Leo:''' So I've secretly been [[IAteWhat peeing in her coffee]] ever since!\\

* RealityEnsues: In [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=226 one of the parodies of]] ''Manga/OnePiece'', Chopper tries to tell Zoro he has to remove his colon after one of his battles.
-->'''Zoro:''' What's that, Chopper? "Band-Aids Heal Everything"?\\
'''Chopper:''' ''[holds up a colostomy bag]'' This is going to be your new rectum.

%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=300 And here, not quite so literally.]] Instead, it gives a ClusterFBomb immediately afterward.

* NotRareOverThere: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=258 Used as part of a rant when]] Ash gets sick and tired of Team Rocket chasing after his Pikachu for ten years while it's not even special and he has about eight more of them, not to mention loads of othe Pokemon as well.

%% * FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: Trope namer and page image.

%% * IdenticalPanelGag: ''Very'' frequent, usually doubled as {{Beat Panel}}s. Notably used [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=188 just before]] Aeris's AtomicFBomb.

%% * NoDeadBodyPoops: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=240 Averted.]]
%% * NotRareOverThere: Used as part of a rant by Ash, [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=258 here]].

%% * OfCorsetHurts: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=71 Parodied]].
%% -->'''Ms.Dipshits:''' You don't need oxygen when you look [[FashionHurts this good]]...

%% * TooDumbToLive: Leo is this very, very often. Or maybe Leo is too stupid to ''die''.

%% * YouHaveResearchedBreathing: The trope article's picture.

* OrwellianEditor:
** Not all of Ramsoomair's rejected comics are in the "Misc Other Comics" archive. In particular, two are just flat-out ''gone''. In the first, Aeris & Leo had their own table at a convention, and Aeris commented nastily on the attendees. Apparently, some interpreted this as a swipe at convention-goers in general and it seems Ramsoomair responded by removing it without a word. Next was the aforementioned ''Friendship Is Magic'' strip which some fans took the wrong way despite Ramsoomair making it clear from that very news update that he is a fan of the show himself. He's also worked in other references to the show in the comic in later issues, so it's safe to say that was just a joke taken the wrong way and he felt bad about it (he did warn that he would do it, though he didn't exactly say why). In both cases, UnfortunateImplications won the day.
** Other times, he simply edits comics. He's removed references to Leo raping and murdering Aeris' mother to simply raping her anally, for example, while he took a giant swing with an axe and cut the vast majority of his ''Splatoon'' comic where he made a joke about the passing of Satoru Iwata that fans found tasteless. He doesn't always announce these either.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Aeris and Leo, for all her antagonism and his dim-bulb moments, do care for each other.[[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=290 Shown in this comic]].

%% * AtomicFBomb:
%% ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=188 Literally.]]

** Also, from #76, the second appearance of Johnny Evilguy where he talks Leo into buying his "Orange Sapphire of Might", (a random rock from the ground) as an insta-kill item. Leo's attempt at using it on a high-level enemy results in this trope.

In 2020, Scott popped back up and said the strip's downtime was due to a combination of other projects and depression. He is currently working on a new website, and has said ''VG Cats'' will eventually resume, but ''Super Effective'' is finished. As for Leo and Aeris, he is working on a prequel story on Patreon revolving around them first moving in together.