History Webcomic / WeakHero

''Weak Hero'' is an action webcomic written by Seopass and drawn by Razen. It's hosted on [[https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=710751 Naver]], with the translated version available on Website/{{Webtoons}} [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/weakhero/list?title_no=1726 here]].

* MadeOfIron: Some of the fights can get extremely brutal (rivaling the likes of ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}''), with characters being pummelled so intensely that a visit to the hospital would be required at the very ''least''. However, for the most part, they'll show up the next day looking right as rain aside from a smattering of band-aids.

* MultiEthnicName: In the original version of the comic, every character has a full Korean name. In the translation, however, the characters all have a Western first name (Ben, Alex, Gerard, Donald) combined with a Korean surname (Park, Go, Jin, Na). This practise was dropped in Season 3, with characters introduced in that season having their full Korean names.

The webcomic got adapted into a MiniSeries of 8 episodes on November 18, 2022, under the name ''Series/WeakHeroClass1''. All of the episodes came out on the same day.

* AmbiguousSituation: Though it's undeniable that Oswald's gang are responsible for Stephen falling off the school roof, it's left ambiguous as to whether they physically pushed him off, whether Stephen was forced past the DespairEventHorizon and fell off himself, or whether it was a genuine accident that none of them predicted. The gang's complete [[LackOfEmpathy lack of remorse]] over what happened makes it a moot point though, and their subsequent beating at Gray's hands is well-deserved.

** Donald taunts Wolf into trying to fight him, then effortlessly blocks the fist directed at his face. At the same time he ducks his other fist down to hit Wolf in the neck, incapacitating him for the rest of the battle.

** When Alex offers himself up to be beaten in Ben's place, Donald grabs him by the hair to assert his authority. Fortunately, he's called away before either of them are hurt.

* ChromosomeCasting: Every character of importance is male, and most of the supporting cast are too. 150 episodes in and the amount of female characters can be counted on one hand- of those, only Julia and (debatably) Lily have had relevance to the plot.

** Even though Naksung is drunk, Hwangmo thinks it'll take a long time to curry up to him since they're completely different people. They quickly discover that there is ''one'' thing they have in common: a mutual hatred towards Ben for kicking their asses. Once they've trash talked him a little, they start acting like good friends.
* CompromisingCall: Alex and Teddy manage to shake off a group of pursuers by hiding down an alleyway. Just as they think they're safe, Teddy's cellphone loudly goes off, to their [[BlankWhiteEyes blank-eyed]] horror.

* TheDogBitesBack: Jared forces Toby to host him and his friends at the chicken shop that Toby's father runs. He also forces Toby to serve him alcohol, and then gets the shop suspended for serving alcohol to minors. Toby doesn't feel like he can do anything to retaliate until Jared's gang is taken down by the Eunjang students; once that's done, Toby readily gets back at Jared by exposing his evil deeds online.

* DrawAggro: While hiding from Hyeongshin students, Teddy's cell goes off and accidentally exposes his and Alex's location. Since the students believe that the two split up, Alex runs out of the hiding place and draws their attention so that Teddy will be safe. It seems to work, until Teddy tries to leave and runs into the group's leader.

* FalseFlagOperation: Jared, an underling of Ganghak's Wolf Keum, gets two lackeys to steal Wolf's prized bag containing important business files. He also orders them to steal it while wearing Eunjang uniforms, and then sets things up so that the Eunjang student Rowan ends up toting the empty bag. This is all to direct Wolf's attention to Eunjang High in the hopes that he'll conquer it.

* FeudEpisode: The flashback to Ben and Alex's middle school days shows the period of time where they drifted apart due to being put in different classrooms, with Alex getting embroiled in the wrong crowd and snapping at Ben when he raises concerns over it. Of course, when said crowd [[CowardlyMooks ditches Alex]] when he's attacked by Jimmy Bae, Ben is the one to arrive at his side and protect him.

** Alex is sensitive to people talking shit about Ben, and this was doubly true in middle school. When he overhears a fellow student claim that Ben's strength isn't real and he's just a "bluffing bastard", Alex belts across the school desks to deck him in the face.

* AFriendInNeed: In the middle school fight against Jimmy Bae, Alex is [[FairWeatherFriend abandoned by his new friends]] when they're given the option to run instead of take the beating alongside him. Just when he's resigned to be beaten into unconsciousness, who should arrive but his childhood friend Ben, who takes on both Jimmy ''and'' Donald Na to protect Alex.

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: If a character smokes then high chances are that they're one of the antagonistic, crude delinquents that are opposed to Ben's gang. The only good character that smokes is Gerard, and he regrets how expensive and unhealthy it is for him.

* IronicEcho: Ben carries Gray to the hospital after the fight with Wolf. When Gerard questions why he took Gray to a hospital that was so far away, Alex flashbacks to the time in his past where ''he'' was the one carrying Ben to the same hospital.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Gray's a fan of taking down his opponents in ways that are based off their own bullying techniques:

** When taking down Oswald's gang after they hospitalise Stephen, Gray makes use of the safety pin Stephen gifted him to restrain Oswald, and then wraps them all up in the tape that Stephen used to use, and which got him made fun of by the gang.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: After a lengthy flashback sequence to Gray's middle school days, Alex comments that it feels like it's been a while since the gang have been at high school.
* LensFlareCensor: Many of the delinquents in the series smoke, but showing under-aged characters smoking doesn't sit well with Korean censorship laws. This is mostly worked around by having the characters hold their lit cigarettes and nothing more, but on the rare instance that they have a cigarette in their mouth then it'll be obscured by a ball of light.

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: For the first two seasons, Eunjang's rising prominence is seen more as a thorn in the side of the Yeongdeungpo Union rather than a legitimate threat. Then, at the end of the Season 2, against everyone's expectations, [[spoiler:Big Ben defeats Jake Ji]]. The Shuttle Patch rankings change when they were once thought permanent, and suddenly [[BigBad Donald Na]] has a good reason to start paying attention to Eunjang.

* PartyScattering: This is Forrest's strategy to take down the Eunjang gang- since Ben, Alex, Gerard, and Gray are far too powerful to take as a group, Forrest instead waits for the perfect opportunity to ambush them while they're all seperated. It might've worked too, except he underestimated Ben and Gerard and didn't account for the surprise intrusions of Teddy and Rowan.

* PetTheDog: Teddy is initially introduced as a bully that tormented the weak and antagonized Gray for days until Gray publically defeats him. Later on, he is reintroduced as having been abandoned by his friends and Philip. He goes on to save Eugene from delinquents after remembering Eugene's loyalty to Gray compared to that of his ex-friends. And to further cement [[HeelFaceTurn his Heel-Face turn,]] he is shown adopting [[AbandonedPetInABox a kitten that was under a cardboard box]] in the pouring rain.

** Happens between Ben and Alex in their middle school days. Alex constantly gets in fights to defend Ben's honour, but deflects Ben's questions about it since he doesn't want Ben blaming himself for it. However, at the same time, he expects Ben to understand him even though he doesn't speak up, and resents him for not doing anything about the situation. Had the two boys communicated better, then they might not have run afoul of Donald Na.
** Ben's gang nearly get into a fight with Dean when the latter mistakenly believes that they're picking on his friend Timothy. In actuality, they were just demanding a reason for why Timothy had been following them. However, Alex and Dean are too hot-headed to properly explain themselves, and instead quickly resort to violence. It's only Jake's timely arrival that stops things from getting any worse.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: One of the comic's major themes is Gray slowly befriending Ben and his gang, and coming to realise that he's more powerful with them at his side rather than without. Gray withdrew into himself after his first friend was hospitalised by bullies, but the constant show of camaraderie and loyalty by the gang are able to draw him back out of his shell.

* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Jimmy has a ''fierce'' right hook. In the pool hall he hits a student hard enough to send them rocketing into one of the pool tables. When he fights Gerard he punches him hard enough that the air around him spins as he falls to the ground.

** When Teddy is first introduced, Eugene reveals that he beat up a teacher back in middle school. Later on this is tweaked slightly in order to portray the now-reformed Teddy as less unhinged; Teddy beat up a student who ''acted'' like a teacher and had Professor as a nickname. {{Justified}}, in that the event is played as an exaggeration created through the rumor mill.

* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: The antagonists of the webcomic form a hierarchy that are steadily taken down from the weakest to the strongest. First is Jimmy Bae, a low-ranked thug with a personal grudge against Ben and Alex. After him is Forrest, who proves a bigger threat due to his divide and conquer strategy. Next is Wolf, who's the first fighter to give [[InvincibleHero Gray]] a serious run for his money. After all of them is Jake Ji, the second strongest fighter in the series behind the leader of the Union, Donald Na himself, who's so powerful that he beat down [[MightyGlacier Big Ben]] without taking a single hit.

* StunnedSilence: Gray's turnaround and brutal beatdown of Wolf is so shocking that no-one in the vicinity speaks for a long while afterwards, the silence only broken by Ben arriving on the scene.

* UnknownRival: When the gang are split up by Forrest Lee, Gerard is approached by a thug who proclaims himself to be "Hyeongshin's Scorpion". Gerard is offput by him- not because the Scorpion is intimidating, but because he has ''no idea'' who the Scorpion is.

** Gray analyses Dean during their tussle and realises that Dean doesn't have a weakness for him to exploit. So he makes one by using his head to slam into Dean's jaw, weakening it for Gray to follow-up with a nasty palm strike.

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: After Alex is beaten up and has his arm dislocated by Dongha, the group are all worried about how his best friend Ben is going to react- after all, Ben always flies into a rage whenever Alex is hurt. They're all surprised when he doesn't seem that bothered, merely wishing Alex a speedy recovery before he heads home. Alex, however, notices that Ben called him "Alex" instead of his nickname "Gogo", and knows that he's actually ''extremely'' angry.

* PetTheDog: Jimmy is initially introduced as a bully that tormented the weak and antagonized Gray for days until Gray publically defeats him. Later on, he is reintroduced as having been abandoned by his friends and Philip. He goes on to save Eugene from delinquents after remembering Eugene's loyalty to Gray compared to that of his ex-friends. And to further cement [[HeelFaceTurn his Heel-Face turn,]] he is shown adopting [[AbandonedPetInABox a kitten that was under a cardboard box]] in the pouring rain.