Line #17 ComicBook/RegularShow


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4	The comic book of the Creator/CartoonNetwork series, ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', was published by Creator/KaboomComics.
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6	Like any series that gains popularity, ''Regular Show'' managed to gain a comic book of its own, detailing original adventures of the Park Crew on printed pages. While there were standalone stories, there were several story arcs (usually 4 issues) as well.
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8	The comic lasted from 2013 to 2016 (ending four months before the final episode of the series aired) with 40 issues and 10 volumes total. In addition, there have been several mini-series and graphic novels as well.
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10	* ''Skips'' (2013-2014): A six-issue mini-series in which Skips finds himself stuck in a time loop while visiting a national park with Mordecai, Rigby and Benson and must help a time cop try and stop it.
11	* ''Hydration'' (2014): Sweltering summer heat has Rigby wishing for a way to beat it and he gets it when a water park suddenly pops up the next day out of the blue. However, it doesn't take long for something weird to happen.
12	* ''Noir Means Noir, Buddy'' (2015): Pops' socks oddly go missing and Benson tasks Mordecai, Rigby, Hi-Five Ghost and Muscle Man to find them, though a disagreement on how to go about it (classic Noir Detective for Mordecai and Fives, and Buddy Cop for Rigby and Muscle Man) lead the pairs on separate paths in trying to solve the case.
13	* ''A Clash of Consoles'' (2016): Mordecai and Rigby set out to try and buy a new console, but end up getting drafted into a literal war between the game companies which see the duo and their friends on opposing sides.
14	* ''Wrasslesplosion'' (2017)
15	* ''ComicBook/AdventureTimeXRegularShow'' (2017-2018): Crossover with fellow 2010 CN series ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', in which the Park Crew help the Ooo residents against a threat to their world. Has its own page.
16	* ''ComicBook/RegularShow25YearsLater'' (2018): A six-issue mini-series set after the end of the TV series. While going to get ice for the park reunion, Mordecai and Rigby accidentally wish to relive their younger days in front of a magical imp. He grants it, but at the expense of taking their children, forcing them to find a way to get them back. Has its own page.
17	* ''The Meatening'' (2018): Mordecai and Rigby get into an card game called the Meatening where Rigby seems to be a natural at it. He enters into the championship and starts to get a swelled head from his victories which puts his friendship with Mordecai at risk.
18	* ''Comic Conned'' (2018): The boys head to a local con to get autographs from their favorite action movie star. But find out he's being held against his will to do his movies and requests their help in freeing him from his executives.
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20	Notable for having Creator/KCGreen as one of the artists and writers.
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22	!!Has the following tropes:
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26	[[folder:Main Series]]
27	* TheNineties: A four-part arc from issues #9-12 revolved around Rigby getting obsessed with his old stuff he collected as a teen, culminating in him being possessed by a spirit of the decade that was trapped within Pogs of all things.
28	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The "My Own Private Gumball" arc had the duo find a genie while exploring a cave. Naturally, since Rigby was the one who rubbed her bottle he gets the wishes, but of course doesn't think them through (him wanting to see the look on Benson's face when he gets punished ended up with him in Benson's head, and giving Mordecai huge muscles naturally makes his arms too heavy to even move and causes him to break things). This leads to the two to try and reverse the wishes, made a bit hard by the fact that Rigby had wished the genie free (ironically the one wish that did go right).
29	* {{Bromance}}: "Mordecai and..." has Mordecai stopping the Make Out Tree by putting Rigby and his initials on it. It works since a love between friends is just as good as any other relationship.
30	* CantTakeCriticism: Thomas uses critiquing to defeat a returning Park Avenue when he takes over the park while most of the Park Crew is away.
31	* DarkHorseVictory: "Local Politics" had neither Rigby nor his opponent (whom Benson was backing) winning the Block President campign, but rather the third barely notable one just due to the fact she asked nicely.
32	* DoingInTheWizard: "Spring-Equinot" had the duo cleaning a rock structure which Mordecai claims is a spot where druids come to battle ice demons to usher in spring. However, it turns out it's just a bunch of [=LARPers=] who hang around the area at that point, much to Mordecai's bewilderment.
33	* DrunkOnMilk: "Grapes of Wrath" had Fives actually getting drunk on grape soda.
34	* FloatingContinent: The "Crystal Catastrophe" arc takes place on one inhabited by crystal people.
35	* {{Foreshadowing}}: During the "Embarrassing Photo" arc, when going over Rigby's past girlfriends, one of them oddly looks like a human Eileen. This was before she started showing interest in him.
36	* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: The "Lost Movie" arc has Rigby and Fives hanging out together when normally they would be with Mordecai and Muscle Man respectively.
37	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: "Wasps" has Benson order Mordecai and Rigby to get to work taking down a wasp nest. While Benson is watching TV, we see the duo trying to swat it down with a bat leading to them accidentally hitting it right through the window into the living room where Benson is sitting.
38	* FurAgainstFang: The "Supernatural Romance Novel" arc devolves into this when the two book companies (run by vampires and werewolves respectively) start fighting one another for the right to publish Muscle Man and Starla's novel.
39	* GreyGoo: The eponymously-titled "Grey Goo" story in Issue #21 sees Rigby accidentally releasing nanites that attempt to consume everything around them. They also have [[AIIsACrapshoot artificial intelligence]].
40	* HumongousMecha: "Sombrero World" has the titular tourist trap turn into one when the duo don't stop at it.
41	* MundaneMadeAwesome: As with the TV series, anything simple will naturally be blown out of proportion.
42	* MundaneSolution: A backup story arc had Rigby becoming so filthy he actually spawns small raccoons on his back, freaking out most of the park residents. The crew are about to go through a convoluted scheme to wash him until Benson walks in, finds out what's going on, promptly grabs a hose and sprays down Rigby with it.
43	* NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe: The "Lost Movie" arc starts with Mordecai and Rigby watching some old movies they loved as kids. But naturally, now that they're adults, when they watch them again they realize how corny or frightening they all are. The plot even gets kickstarted when Rigby tries to track down a particular movie that no one knows about save one person who warns him to stay away. He gets Fives to join him (who likewise saw it) and they manage to find it, only to find out it's not the family-friendly movie they were expecting but a ''beacon to summon alien dinosaurs to come destroy the Earth''!
44	* ResetButton: A story arc involving looking for a lost movie ended with alien dinosaurs coming to destroy the Earth. A movie clerk reveals she had built a time machine in case it happened ([[NoodleIncident again]]) and Fives volunteers to go to stop Rigby from initiating the search, succeeding just before a T-Rex was set to kill Mordecai, Rigby and Muscle Man.
45	* ShaggyDogStory:
46	** "Arm Skills" has the duo enter into an arm wrestling competition to win money to buy a slot car set from Pops. Not only don't they win it (due to the judges giving the money posthumously to their final opponents who sacrificed themselves to stop dimensional invaders) but it turns out all they needed was $10 to buy the set. However, by that point, Muscle Man has already claimed it.
47	** The haircut two-parter had Mordecai go to a barber to fix a haircut Pops gave him. After managing to get away from him, they go to Skips who does the job since, as he stated earlier, he does his own hair after letting Pops cut it at one point.
48	* ShoutOut: Naturally:
49	** "A Prank Most Foul" parodies ''Film/TheFugitive'' when an animal control worker mistakes Rigby for a skunk criminal.
50	** During the story arc about embarrassing selfies, when Mordecai and Rigby escape a spider web in the Dark Mainframe, cats resembling [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Espurr]] and the Doge meme can be seen.
51	** One of the covers of Issue #9 parodies the Film/{{Jaws}} poster.
52	** The 90s arc has plenty to toys of the decade: Stretch Armstrong, Gak, Troll dolls, Tamagotchis and Pogs. Likewise, they parody ''Film/{{TheExorcist}}'' for a bit.
53	** One short had Fives write a story that was very clearly ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
54	** A story arc had Rigby and Fives look for a movie involving [[WesternAnimation/WereBackADinosaursStory dinosaurs, cereal and time traveling]].
55	** The "Supernatural Romance Novel" arc is one toward ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', only with the VampireWerewolfLoveTriangle being displayed as book companies.
56	* SoulJar: The spirit in the 90s arc has his in his Pog slammer. Mordecai, Benson and Skips trick him into destroying it by challenging him to slam it as hard as he can.
57	* {{Spoiler}}: "Spoiler Alert" revolves around this when the duo go see a movie and upset the (oddly all canine) patrons. The silly thing too is that the twist of the movie was pretty obvious, but it kept lingering on the scene so long that the duo got annoyed. Ironically, when they get punished by having Death show them how they're going to die, the scene takes so long to get to the death everyone save the duo fall asleep, allowing them to escape.
58	* TakeThat: One of the old films Mordecai and Rigby watch in the "Lost Movie" story arc is "''[[WesternAnimation/RockADoodle Rock-A-Poodle]]''". Mordecai calls it the worst movie ever.
59	* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Margaret does this to the fly people in #16 when they start serving their own coffee rather than have Eileen and her doing it, which would put them out of a job. Surprisingly, the fly people actually apologize for this and their behavior and leave.
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63	* EldritchAbomination: The Destruction Lord, which is the ''real'' cause of the time loops due to sleeping within the geyser.
64	* GroundhogDayLoop: The basis of the story in which Skips keeps reliving the same day in which he, Mordecai, Rigby and Benson arrive at a national park and a geyser erupts due to soda and pop rocks being dropped into it.
65	* MistakenIdentity: While trying to look for Mordecai and Rigby in the second loop, Skips mistakes two similar-looking strangers for the duo.
66	* MundaneSolution: Attempted. After various attempts to keep Mordecai and Rigby from dropping the pop rocks and soda into the geyser, Benson gives Skips the idea to just take the duo away from the park before they even get near the geyser. However, the Destruction Lord still ends up awakening regardless and resets the day.
67	* TimeLoopFatigue: Skips and Ted go through so many time resets that naturally they start growing weary of them to the point where they often just take break on a few of them to try and strategize what to do. Skips is on the verge of nearly giving up until a talk from Benson gives him an idea which leads to him and Ted finally finding out what's causing the loops.
68	* TimePolice: One that Skips runs into named Ted Powers keeps posing as a sunglasses salesman and keeps trying to get Skips to wear some (though until the third issue, doesn't explain ''why'' he should). Eventually, he reveals they showcase possibilities on how Mordecai and Rigby keep dropping the soda and pop rocks into the geyser and aids him in trying to stop the time loops.
69	* YearInsideHourOutside: For Mordecai, Rigby and Benson, the whole proceeding just takes place within a day. For Skips and Ted though, who carry knowledge from each Time Loop (Skips being immortal and thus outside of time, and Ted's equipment protecting him), it's been ''months'' for them being stuck in it before they're finally able to put an end to it.
70	* YouCantFightFate: No matter what Skips and Ted do, they can't seem to keep Mordecai and Rigby from dropping pop rocks and soda into the geyser no matter how implausible it might seem. For example, they take them away from the duo and throw them aside only for a passing eagle to catch it, fly over the geyser and drop them into it. Skips tries to prevent the duo from buying them and instead buys them some water and apples, only for the duo to trade them with some nearby hippies who had gotten pop rocks and soda by mistake. [[spoiler: Eventually, it turns out they're not the cause at all - the Destruction Lord awakening was and it was just bound to wake up sooner or later, as evident when Skips gets the duo away from the park and the Destruction Lord still wakes up without their involvement. Them dropping the pop rocks and soda into the geyser is just odd timing.]]
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74	* BerserkButton: Uncleanliness to the hydra. It gets angry when Rigby ends up peeing in a pool and trying to use Muscle Man to combat it doesn't help matters. It is later revealed in a backstory of its creation that it was angered by the mess Professor William kept making in his apartment from all the studies he was doing. As such, they ''really'' have it out for him when they see him.
75	* {{Fingore}}: William reveals he lost his pinky finger when attempting to waterslide while holding onto a cup of tea. It's what lead to him to try and make a safer water park which lead to the events of the story.
76	* FusionDance:
77	** The Baby Ducks mecha returns again to battle the hydra, but gets another version when Margaret and Eileen take over for a bit and combine with them, albeit a bit weakened since Eileen has allergies to ducks.
78	** The backstory about the hydra park reveals it was a combination of a mutant python, a fusion formula dripping down from the apartment of an upstairs neighbor, the model water park dome Willaim was making and a regrowth formula it had drank to become the monster it is in the story.
79	* HydraProblem: The Park Crew find out their living park is actually a hydra, and cutting off a head just has it regrow a new one.
80	* PuttingThePeeInPool: The main situation of the plot gets kickstarted when Rigby ends up peeing in the pool, awakening the hydra which, by that point, was docile.
81	* ShoutOut: The ''Ice Cuzzos'' video game that Mordecai and Rigby play features two snowmen who are a combination of the Franchise/SuperMarioBros and the [[VideoGame/IceClimber Ice Climbers]].
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85	* AgonyOfTheFeet: Rigby keeps kicking in doors while trying to find out where Mordecai, Fives, and CJ are. Though by the third door, he admits his foot is getting sore from doing so. Considering he isn't wearing footwear, it's not surprising.
86	* BigBad: Van Jance, a mole businessman.
87	* ChekhovsGunman: Thomas leaves to go about conducting his own investigation in the missing socks. In the climax, he reveals himself as one of the ninjas driving the truck, having revealed he went undercover and in fact had positioned the truck so Van Jance's henchwoman would be hit by a road sign.
88	* ContinuityNod: Van Jance claims he rose to the top because the former #1 millionaire died in a blimp explosion. Said millionaire was Rich Buckner, the BigBad of the Thanksgiving special in the TV series.
89	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Mordecai's section of the story is done in black and while for the most part like a usual film noir story. It's not until he, CJ and Fives get captured and the story goes over to Rigby and Muscle Man does the color returns.
90	* HeelFaceTurn: Wormzo, who was reluctantly working for Van Jance along with his bretheren. He ultimately decides it's not worth it and switches sides.
91	* LogicalWeakness: When Mordecai and Rigby find themselves face to face against Van Jance and him [[NoSell No Selling]] their Death-Kwan-Do, they opt to shoot off his sunglasses since, as a mole, he needs them to see in the sunlight.
92	* LowClearance: Van Jance henchwoman, Amanda, is defeated when the truck she and the protagonists are on goes under an overpass and she's knocked off by hitting her head on a sign.
93	* {{Ninja}}: Van Jance employs them as his muscle.
94	* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: Despite becoming the #1 millionaire in the country, Van Jance was unsatisfied since he felt he didn't earn it. This leads to him investing in Butt Coins, his stock tanking and the whole events of the story.
95	* PrivateEyeMonologue: Mordecai keeps giving one through most of the book as he goes about his investigation.
96	* ShoutOut: During a flashback, Van Jance talks about [[Franchise/DuckTales a duck diving into his own money bin]].
97	* TemptingFate: When Van Jance's henchwoman, Amanda, manages to defeat Mordecai, Rigby and Muscule Man in direct combat, she claims she's immovable...right before she's beaned by a sign when the truck they're on goes under an overpass.
98	* TraintopBattle: The climax takes place on two moving trucks filled with the lollipops Van Jance stole from Pops' vault.
99	* WorthlessYellowRocks: The big bad's main goal is to get into Pops' secret stash and rob him, thinking his lollipops will make him rich after a bad stock investment tanked him. However, once he's stopped, Mr. Maellard tells him his son's stash is pretty much useless outside of Lolliland.
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102	[[folder:A Clash of Consoles]]
103	* BlandNameProduct: All the consoles are obviously based on certain popular ones: Tonare: Nintendo, Not-S: Sega with a dash of Sony, and Macrosty: Microsoft.
104	* CaptainErsatz: One of the characters that is summoned at a battle is called Rapide the Gemhog, totally not based on any [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog game character that runs fast]] ([[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot or a marsupial who breaks boxes]]. Considering he's French too, he is likewise not based on [[VideoGame/{{Rayman}} a certain limbless character either]]). Likewise, [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Large the Dogbutt]] is of course not based on any fishing cat.
105	* ChekhovsGun: The love potions Benson accidentally brought while playing a dating sim. He uses them in conjunction with the hats he sold to drop them over the soldiers and finally end the war.
106	* ContinuityNod:
107	** When going into the Tonare army, Rigby shows the general the gold badge he got in "Gamers Never Say Die".
108	** Wormzo from the "Noir Means Noir, Buddy" story makes a reappearance, starting off a conversation by asking where CJ is. When Mordecai is reluctant to answer, Wormzo correctly guesses the two broke up, indicating this takes place sometime after season 6.
109	* EnemyMine: At one point both Tonare and Not-S forces find themselves facing against Muscle Man, Fives and the Baby Ducks, who are on Macrosty's side, forcing a ceasefire between the two to defeat them.
110	* FunWithAcronyms: A.N.D.I., the robot in Rigby's troop, stands for "Another Neat Device Idea".
111	* FalseFlagOperation: The generals of the three armies are revealed to be triplets and the ones who started the war in an effort to get revenge on the big three game corporations and their presidents as their own console ended up failing because no developers were willing to make games for it.
112	* FusionDance: Muscle Man, Fives and the Baby Ducks do this to form their own mecha while fighting the Tonare and Not-S troops.
113	* HeroicSacrifice: Non-fatal example. Benson was willing to destroy the hats he sold to the soldiers and refund the money he gained to help stop the war.
114	* KeepTheReward: Subverted. The game presidents were more then willing to give Mordecai and Rigby new consoles for saving them, but Benson stops them before they can and tells the duo they can earn it in overtime work like they originally intended before the war.
115	* MistakenIdentity: When Mordecai is signed up for the Not-S army, he notices the woman who takes in registrations looks like a human version of CJ. Expectedly, he reacts in shock.
116	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: After Mordecai and Rigby get blown out of the sky while in bomber jets and have to parachute out. Eileen yells out...
117	-->'''Eileen:''' Riiiiigby! Oh and Mordecai. Hope you're both okay!\
118	'''Mordecai:''' ''(Annoyed)'' Gee thanks.
119	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: One of the soldiers in Rigby's group is revealed to be a Were-Minotaur. However, due to the VR glasses that were stuck on her head, she ended up changing due to seeing a red moon through the lenses and can't change back until she sees a normal one.
120	* RousingSpeech: Mordecai and Rigby attempt to end the war by making a passionate speech that the soldiers are all gamers and that brand loyalty shouldn't keep them from trying other consoles and meeting other gamers just for the love of gaming. It nearly works...until some warmongering jerkasses have to make some derogatory comments and start things up again.
121	* ShapeshifterModeLock: Tauny, a were-minotaur in Rigby's troop, is stuck in beast form because of the experimental VR glasses on her head keeping her from seeing the normal moon to change back. Luckily, Eileen uses her know-how to get the glasses removed.
122	* ShoutOut:
123	** A.N.D.I. is based on [[VideoGame/RoboticOperatingBuddy R.O.B.]]
124	** The Minotaur Girl yells the lyrics to Music/MileyCyrus' "Wrecking Ball" song while attacking some Macrosty soldiers.
125	** The game character the Macrosty soldier uses is based on [[VideoGame/{{Halo}} Master Chief]].
126	** When fighting a Macrosty soldier, the Minotaur Girl shouts:
127	-->'''Minotaur Girl:''' [[VideoGame/BadDudes Are you man enough to Minotaur with me, muscles!]]
128	** While trying to outrun the fused Muscle Man, Fives and Baby Ducks, the Minotaur Girls mutters "[[Film/JurassicPark Must go faster!]]".
129	** The jets Tonare sends to Mordecai, Rigby and Eileen are based on Platform/Nintendo64 controllers, as well as fly around similar to [[Franchise/StarFox the Arwings]].
130	** When attempting to guard the park house, Mordecai, Rigby and Eileen use [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} Tetriminos]] to do so, with predicable results when the duo fill in some open slots.
131	** During their RousingSpeech, Mordecai and Rigby hold up various controllers and handheld systems, referencing various games released for the respective systems:
132	-->'''Mordecai:''' I have [[VideoGame/{{Pitfall}} swung over crocodiles]] and [[VideoGame/PacMan eaten all the ghosts in a row]]. I have been to both a [[VideoGame/AlexKidd world of miracles]] and a [[VideoGame/FantasyZone zone of fantasy]]. I have [[VideoGame/SuperMetroid escaped an exploding planet]], and I have also defeated the [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger monster at the end of time]].\
133	'''Rigby:''' I have [[VideoGame/{{Shinobi}} saved all my ninja brothers]], and I've [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog collected all the emeralds to see the true ending]]. I have [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening wakened the fish from its slumber]], and I have [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue captured all one-hundred and fifty-one monsters]]. I have even used the [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Maximum Glove]] to control a car. It was bad.
134	* TakeThat:
135	** One of the products mentioned and stuck on the head of the Minotaur Girl is based off the Platform/VirtualBoy. When doing a mission that involves seeing nothing but red, Rigby calls it the worst.
136	** When one of the Macrosty soldiers creates his virtual army, he starts to quote the "[[VideoGame/ZeroWing You have no chance to survive make your time]]" meme only to be cut off by Rigby.
137	-->'''Rigby:''' There'll be no dank memes on my watch!
138	** The console the triplet brothers were trying to sell is based on the Platform/{{OUYA}}.
139	* WarIsHell: Parodied. No one really dies during it, instead being pixelated to varying degrees (32-bit, 16-bit, 8-bit and ultimately a single pixel which ''is'' fatal if hit one more time) that is reversible over time, but it's treated no differently then a real war and even stated that they wouldn't let kids join it. The duo even state as such in the finale:
140	-->'''Rigby:''' Maybe someone will quickly be declared the winners?\
141	'''Mordecai:''' No real winners in war, Rigby. Only losers...
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