History Webcomic / Weregeek

* NotSoDifferent: One of the hunters gets chewed out for seeing a comic book movie, and later is distracted from the job when he spots Ron Perlman.

* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The Vampire game.

* TwiceShy: Mark and Sarah are clearly attracted to each other, but neither one can spit it out, even after [[spoiler: Mark was dumped because Jess incorrectly thought he was cheating on her.]] Mark became involved with Ravenia to help him get over it, which initially upset Sarah, but she accepted it and later agreed to a date with [[spoiler: Hadeed]], becoming quite enamored by him. But when Mark found out about the date, he quickly slipped into a funk and has been mopey outside of gaming since.

* WeHaveBeenResearchingPhlebotinumForYears: The series begins with Mark drooling at a look on dice and being chased by the Hunters. He is saved by Joel and the others, who explain to him that he is a weregeek, just like themselves, which is why he was being hunted. It is much later explained that [[spoiler:Joel, in fact, is the leader of LaResistance hunting the Hunters and he knows much more about them than he tells anyone]].

* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Sarah can't contain an infatuated exclamation when she sees Damien (with his trend goth pretty-boy style). Then she realises she said it [[spoiler: in front of Hadeed, whom she'd recently started dating,]] and is immediately embarrassed.

* {{Polyamory}}: Ravenia makes it no secret that she is in happy, trusting relationships with multiple people. Dustin is cool with it. [[spoiler: Mark initially seems okay with it, but his unresolved feelings for Sarah and lack of experience with the concept make him start to overthink it.]]

* ArmourPiercingQuestion: Mark is able to get through to a monster Murdock by asking him how he plans to destroy all geeks when there are geek subcultures for almost everything.

* YaoiFangirl: Sarah and Abbie's discussion of ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' is rather telling.

** Also at the end of the Comedy break strips, which are generally built around some lame pun.

* PetitePride:[[http://www.weregeek.com/2012/05/23/ Right after Katie and Sarah are busy complaining about how expensive it is having to buy custom bras so they fit, they glare scathingly at Abbie who says she can just pick up from the rack at Walmart for a fraction of the cost.]]

* {{Retcon}}: Originally, Mark's half-orc had STR 20 but has since been dwindled to more realistic (under ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' rules) score of 19.

-->'''Mike:''': Hello? Anybody home! Um...I think he broke Abbie
-->'''Sarah:''' She's squeeing, but I think only dogs can hear it.

* SurferDude: One of Mark's non-geek friends appears to be this. Even though he's only shown for 1 page he has shoulder length hair and talks about is an "awesome party" and uses "like" and "totally".

** [[http://www.weregeek.com/2012/06/27/ A fast food worker temps fate and gets her and her co-worker scare by a couple of vampires in cars]], [[spoiler: lucky for them it's Abbie and her friends in their vampire costumes for the Vampire Larp.]]

* TwiceShy: Mark and Sarah are clearly attracted to each other, but neither one can spit it out, even after [[spoiler: Mark was dumped after Jess incorrectly thought he was cheating.]] Mark became involved with Ravenia to help him get over it, which initially upset Sarah, but she accepted it and later agreed to a date with [[spoiler: Hadeed]], becoming quite enamored by him. But when Mark found out about the date, he quickly slipped into a funk and has been mopey outside of gaming since.

* WebcomicTime: Started in late 2006, with seasons changing and events like the Christmas holidays noted, and up-to-date references on various games and movies. However, Abbie and Sarah have been in college the whole time with no indication they might have moved on to graduate studies, many couples dating as long as Mark and Jess would have at least discussed marriage by now (and Mark's geeky double life is still treated as a recent occurrence), and even [[spoiler:Dustin has been sort-of-kind-of dating Ravenia since early 2011]]. And that's saying nothing about the games they play, with a few months' worth of biweekly gameplay stretched out over half a decade or so.
* WelcomedToTheMasquerade: The story starts with Mark being chased by the Hunters, before stumbling into a vampire coven meeting where he receives his welcome to TheMasquerade... by being turned into a vampire himself. Then it turns out, that it's all just DeepImmersionGaming: the hunters are just regular bullies, and the vampires are a bunch of geeks {{LARP}}ing ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade''. Still, TheMasquerade takes place IRL, as well, as the geeks have to hide their {{geek}}dom from NormalPeople, and Mark (a repressed geek himself) is welcomed to the geek subcultures for real this time.

*** Even more recently, the latest portion of the Vampire LARP had two deaths of [=PCs=] -- [[spoiler: Joel's Demetrius and Dustin's Matthews.]]

* BlatantLies: When Dustin is caught watching ''LiveActionTV/TrueBlood'', we are given this exchange:

** For Halloween Season of 2012, the Halloween story forced on a [[WerewolfTheApocalypse Werewolf]] LARP.

* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The vampire game.

** However, a point of potential drama is that while she knows he's a geek, she doesn't know how bad he's got it. Specifically, he hasn't told her about the whole "weregeeks and hunters" bit and the LARPs.
** [[Averted AvertedTrope]] with Steph, who gets no preferential treatment from Joel in their D&D games, though she does tend to snark at him a lot more than the others would dare to.

** It's pretty common to show it during some of the puns during the '''+2 Comedy Check Productions''' Breaks

* GoodAngelBadAngel: For bonus points, [[http://www.weregeek.com/2008/02/01/ Sarah's angels]] look like her {{PC}}s: the WhiteMagicianGirl she plays in the D&D game for good angel and TheVamp from vampire LARP for bad angel. And her Shadowrun character as a neutral one.

* {{Guyliner}}: Mark at the goth club.
** With Mark, it trope is play as straight as an angel's arrow.
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: The whole story is about Mark coming in terms with his geekiness with other geeks' help.
* HealingFactor: [[spoiler: Joel apparently has one]].

* HunterOfMonsters: There's a whole organization of them here. They hunt geeks though what they do to them or their background has not yet been elaborated.

* HunterOfHisOwnKind: [[spoiler: The resistance accidentally created the "turned hunter" kind]]

-->-- Does this mean we'll have to watch our language and all that stuff?
-->-- Um. You've ''met'' Alice, right?
* LivingADoubleLife: Mark doesn't want his 'normal' friends to find out he's secretly a geek. [[spoiler:It has consequences when his girlfriend stumbles over some messages between Mark and Sarah's Vampire characters.]]

--> '''Twitch's drone:''' [[AC:[[http://www.weregeek.com/2008/03/28/ hello. let's.play.a.game]].]]

Mark once was just an [[TheEveryman ordinary guy]] with an office job and a blonde girlfriend. Except that every once in a while he had a strange urge to hang in front of a tabletop RPG store and stare at its wares pointlessly... Then one day, after a run in with the local [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire coven]] and {{Vampire Hunter}}s, he discovered a mind-blowing truth: there is a secret society out there, TheMasquerade... [-OF {{GEEK}}S!-] And he is [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster one of them]], "a human by day and a geek by night"...

--->[[spoiler:'''Mark:''' You name the show, it has a geek subculture. Not only that, There are sports geeks, Car geeks, Literature geeks, Music geeks! Are you gonna get rid of all of those things?!''']]

* CannotTellFictionFromReality: Mark has demonstrated problems switching in and out of the DeepImmersionGaming mindset - especially once he sinks in, and it takes him a moment to pull back out, which he might not do if he's too keyed-up at the time. A big reveal of the hunter/geek war involves [[spoiler:the war turning out to be a [=LARP=], followed by Mark ''faking'' this to harass Joel over previous instances of Joel dropping him into a game without warning and wrong-footing Mark.]]

* ClosetGeek: Mark. ''He'' knows about his nerdiness, but hides it from his co-workers and girlfriend for fear of being laughed at. He eventually stopped hiding it from his girlfriend [[spoiler:and it factored into their later break-up, another factor beign that said girlfriend was also a grown-up AlphaBitch and looked down on Mark and his friends]].

* DarkIsNotEvil: Their weregeek forms look scary but they're no more evil in them than in normal form.

* DeepImmersionGaming: That's what almost entire comic is about.

* DungeonmastersGirlfriend: Mark's girlfriend tries to join the geeks for a game night. She's not a geek, but doesn't mind that Mark is one.
** However, a point of potential drama is that while she knows he's a geek, she doesn't know how bad he's got it. Specifically, he hasn't told her about the whole "weregeeks and hunters" bit.
** Averted with Steph, who gets no preferential treatment from Joel in their D&D games, though she does tend to snark at him a lot more than the others would dare to.

* FantasticRacism: The hunters aparently hate the geeks for not being mainstream. They hunt the geeks even when their only crime is increasing market revenue by buying as many collectibles as they could carry simply because they occasionally turning into a shadow creature who would sooner play D&D than attack anyone.

* FiveManBand: The five main characters fulfill different roles depending on the game/life situation:

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Played with. Dustin's brother Bruce certainly 'believes' this is the case between the two of them. Since he is thinks it's childish for Dustin to still have geeky hobbies at his age. Dustin however is quick to point out to him he works hard and has a beautiful girlfriend 'because' he is a geek.

*** TheSmartGuy: Myers, the shaman (Joel)

*** TheSmartGuy: Steph, the halfling sorcerer

*** TheSmartGuy: Steph, the halfling ranger
*** TheChick: Sarah, the cleric/spellcaster

*** TheLancer / TheSneakyGuy: Abbie, the elf ninja

*** TheSmartGuy: Sarah, the cleric/spellcaster

** C.S. Lewis expands on this: "...including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up".

->"You, sir, may be a natural-born {{munchkin}}."

* AffairLetters: Mark's girlfriend found the emails his and Sarah's Vampire the Masquerade LARP characters exchanged and failed to understand that it was just part of a game to him, causing the end of their relationship.

* MisaimedFandom: InUniverse, Dustin's brother (the epitome of the Boring Adult), justifies himself with the C. S. Lewis quote: "When I became a man, I gave up childish things." That's only part of the quote, and the rest is "including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up".

* GonnaNeedMoreX: The werewolf PCs are [[http://www.weregeek.com/2012/12/05/ going to need a bigger mop]].