History Webcomic / WellThatWasUnexpected

* KickTheSonOfABitch: In Chapter 6, Marnia beats the living hell out of a sorcerer named Serg mostly just because she mistook him for Rand. Luckily, Serg also happened to be a sleazy gang boss involved in a particularly ugly type of slaving, so there was no reason to feel very sorry for him.

* BoomStick: In addition to the Guardian Spears used, as in Warhammer canon, by the Adeptus Custodes, the comic features what appear to be [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser]]-[[BladeOnAStick Halberds]] being used by the Khorran Confederacy soldiers seen at the beginning of Chapter 10.

* WorldOfBadass: Being a setting that mashes up ''Dungeons and Dragons'', ''Warhammer 40,000'', and various action science fiction elements, the world of Aios winds up being one of these. With exactly two exceptions - [[ButtMonkey Lord Magebane]] and Rand's little brother Gromm - the entire cast are high-level characters, starting at fifteenth level and going up, with all of the combat skills and ability to take ridiculous amounts of damage that entails. [[spoiler:And even Gromm turns out to be a demon lord in disguise.]] As for the rest of the world, while there are certainly lots of ordinary non-badass people, the main cast are by no means the only high-level characters on Aios: between the repeatedly-referenced fact that [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking "nobles are the deadliest mortal sons of bitches in the world"]], the Arcane Incarnations everywhere, and the miscellaneous other powerful beings - such as a tarrasque acting merely as a minion for a terrorist group - the planet clearly qualifies.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Kaylethia, Marnia, and gender-bent Rand are just as prone to being made fools of and being comedically injured as the male characters are, and Arc (who is ambiguously female) might be even more so.

* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, a great deal of both confusion and humor has arisen over the course of the comic from the fact that the Emperor of the Magebane Empire shares the title that is his only known name with the (God-)Emperor of Mankind. From a meta perspective, however, the author [[WordOfGod once said]] that he regretted not giving Magebane's Emperor a more distinctive title.
** The fact that "Arcane Incarnation" is often abbreviated to "AI" can be a bit confusing when there are also a number of ArtificialIntelligence characters in the comic.

* BalefulPolymorph: In [[http://s290.photobucket.com/user/EmperorIng/media/220.png.html Comic 220]], Lord Secundus polymorphs the entire adventuring group besides Xeno into [[http://s290.photobucket.com/user/EmperorIng/media/221.png.html forms that reflect their worst fears]], kicking off a subplot that lasts for the rest of Chapter 4. Rand [[SeriousBusiness loses his tail]], Torn becomes a kobold, Kaylethia becomes a [[DraconicHumanoid "dragonoid"]] (for reasons that are a mystery at the time), Marnia becomes undead, and Powers [[KarmicTransformation becomes a Tau.]] However, most of them get over it surprisingly fast, and the effects are all eventually either dispelled by Rand or wear off on their own.

* NiceHat:
** True to ''Warhammer 40,000'' canon and fandom traditions, a number of large and ornate hats are shown being used by characters from the Imperium of Man, including the commissar caps used in disguises by Rand, Limbaw, and the lich-lord from the beginning of Chapter 10, and High Lord Levinary's bizarre headgear [[http://s8.postimg.org/v95ldau75/Levinary.png describable only as a cyber-miter.]]
** For [[RuleOfFunny unclear reasons]], the Eternus Royal Palace ''itself'' has a giant hat with the Eternus "E" on its roof. It's even been called a "spiffy hat" in-universe in [[http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll246/EmperorIng/255-1.png Comic 255]].