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3 | ''[[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/ Huckleberry]]'' is a {{superhero}} {{webcomic}} created by Tropers/MatterCosmic. It embraces the silly aspects of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver]] Ages of superhero comics, featuring wacky science, a lighthearted tone, a FantasyKitchenSink setting, and many puns. |
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5 | The [[ProtagonistTitle eponymous]] protagonist, Huckleberry, is a young PlantPerson and a [[GreenThumb fruit-themed]] superhero. His career begins in Chunkystew, a small, eccentric desert town of humans and monsters. The comic follows his progression as a costumed adventurer. |
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7 | Not to be confused with the book ''Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'' or the Hanna-Barbara character, [[WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow Huckleberry Hound]]. |
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10 | !!''Huckleberry'' provides examples of: |
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12 | * AcidAttack: One of Huckleberry's primary powers. His hands can produce a powerful citric acid. |
13 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: One location is called '''M'''ock '''M'''ountain. There is also the '''D'''esert of '''D'''isorientation. There is also '''S'''ae of '''S'''and. |
14 | * AllDesertsHaveCacti: Given its desert setting, cacti frequently show up in the background of outdoors panels. |
15 | * AlliterativeTitle: All the main issue titles so far are alliterative. |
16 | ** Issue 1: "'''H'''ello, '''H'''uckleberry!" |
17 | ** Issue 2: "At '''w'''ar '''w'''ith a '''w'''orm" |
18 | ** Issue 3: "'''C'''olorful '''C'''haos" |
19 | ** Issue 4: "'''Wor'''ld of '''wor'''ms" |
20 | ** Issue 5: "'''F'''owl & '''F'''lashbacks" |
21 | * AltText: It's often used for jokes at the expense of the characters. |
22 | * AmicableAnts: The Banana Ant is a good-natured TalkingAnimal who follows Huckleberry around, gives him advice, and provides exposition. |
23 | * AnimalFacialHair: |
24 | ** Wormatt from the cover of issue 4 is a small worm with a head of hair. |
25 | ** Wormius is a giant worm with a mustache and beard, giving him a professorly look. |
26 | * AnotherDimension: The introduction gives us a glimpse of a portal that opened several years ago, bringing extradimensional heroes and villains into the desert and starting the Heroic Age. Most of them eventually went back to their universe. |
27 | * AuthorAvatar: The [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/48 cover of issue 4]] includes a small worm with a head of hair. The author notes describe this as "Wormatt, an annelid equivalent of myself, a joke character created long ago by my sister." |
28 | * BigBallOfViolence: |
29 | ** When [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/22 Huckleberry fights Mechaworm]], it creates a cloud of dust with impact stars and fists flying out. |
30 | ** Wormius sees [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/62/ Huckleberry fighting a gnaworm]] that chewed on his head leaves. Huck's movements are throwing up a cloud of dust around him. |
31 | * BladeEnthusiast: Lord Razoredge introduces himself as a "collector of sharp blades", and wears an armor made of knives and other pointy things. |
32 | * BlahBlahBlah: A [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/51/ closeup of a newspaper]] shows a paragraph consisting mostly of repeated "blah"s. |
33 | * BlindedByTheLight: In battle, Morning Star uses his elemental light to dazzle opponents and shorten confrontations. |
34 | * BulletSeed: One of Mechaworm's weapons is an apple-shaped gun which fires seeds filled with cyanide. |
35 | * TheCameo: Creator/StanLee briefly appears in the first issue to sell a comic to Huckleberry. It was intended as a tribute after he passed away. |
36 | * CatchingSomeZs: Sleeping characters often have Z's emanating from them. On one occasion, the Z's turn into SymbolSwearing during [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1487043 an unpleasant dream]]. |
37 | * ClueFromEd: Mentions of previous chapters get this treatment. Characters can have custom asterisks in their speech bubble, such as Huckleberry's small berry. |
38 | * ColorCodedSpeech: Morning Star's bubbles and text are teal, matching his color scheme. |
39 | * CranialEruption: In issue 4, lumps show through Mechaworm's helmet after Huck repeatedly hit him on the head. |
40 | * TheDarknessGazesBack: Nihk-Nahkt the mummy is introduced this way, with red eyes shining inside an underground cavern. |
41 | * DemonicPossession: Nihk-Nahkt the mummy possesses the Diamondback's body by wrapping it in bandages. |
42 | * DishingOutDirt: Pulpland controls earth, sand, and rocks. |
43 | * DominoMask: Huck wears a purple one that covers almost half of his face. He also keeps spare masks around. |
44 | * TheFaceOfTheSun: Some pages show a sun with a face and various expressions, even [[SinisterSentientSun looking sadistic]] when scorching an evil mummy. |
45 | * FastestThingAlive: Superfast is said to be the "fastest superhero of all". |
46 | * FearsomeCrittersOfAmericanFolklore: A [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/51/ newspaper]] shows an artist's depiction of a hoopsnake -- a snake spinning hula hoops around its body. |
47 | * FeatheredSerpent: There is at least one "serpixie" slithering in the background. It's a normal-sized snake with feathered wings, described as a "nature-aligned amphiptere". |
48 | * FrustratedOverheadScribble: Squiggly or jagged lines often appear above characters when they're frustrated, angry, or yelling. The scribble-in-thought-bubble variation is seen [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1495800 when a worm is caught in a box]]. |
49 | * FunWithAcronyms: |
50 | ** All the pages that explain the protagonist's powers have titles beginning with HAHA (Huckleberry's Awesome Hidden Abilities). |
51 | ** Every page of the ''Diamondback Under the Desert'' short story is titled "DUD page 1", "DUD page 2" and so on. |
52 | * FuumaShuriken: In the second issue, Morning Star successfully throws a person-sized star ornament like a big shuriken. |
53 | * GemTissue: The Diamondback is a desert snake with [[PunBasedCreature literal diamonds on its back]]. |
54 | * AnIcePerson: Winter Princess can create and manipulate snow, as seen in [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/adventurecal this Christmas side story]], where she uses it to make a snowman and create a snow arm to lift and throw a ball. |
55 | * InSeriesNickname: Huckleberry is called "Huck" for short. |
56 | * KidHero: Huckleberry's exact age hasn't been revealed, but he was born during the recent Heroic Age, and everyone calls him a kid. He also survived many encounters with supervillains or powerful creatures. |
57 | * LifeOrLimbDecision: When Professor Wormius is caught in a trap with no one around, he ends up ripping off the end of his tail (which was caught in the trap's chain) to escape. Being a Big Worm, fortunately he can regenerate. |
58 | * {{Malaproper}}: Huckleberry sometimes mixes up words and sayings, like saying "armordingo" instead of "armadillo", or "who in tarantula" instead of "who in tarnation". |
59 | * MorningRoutine: The first issue uses half a page to show Huckleberry waking up, singing [[SingingInTheShower "awful shower songs"]], and having a big breakfast. The following issue also shows him waking up... then skips ahead to the actual plot. |
60 | * {{Mummy}}: Nihk-Nahkt the mummy is an undead predator who possesses bodies by wrapping them in bandages. According to the author notes on DUD page 3, there are many kinds of mummies. |
61 | * NoPunctuationIsFunnier: In issue 4, when Huck slips on some oil and goes flying, his reaction is just "why". |
62 | * OneWayVisor: Mechaworm's helmet has a red visor that conceals his eyes. |
63 | * OurKoboldsAreDifferent: Kobolds are humanoids with greenish skin. They're said to be very capricious. |
64 | * PictorialLetterSubstitution: |
65 | ** On the cover of issue 2, "At war with a worm", the "o" in the title is an apple with a hole in the middle, representing Mechaworm and his apple armor. |
66 | ** In "Diamondback: Under the Desert", the "i" in the title is dotted with a diamond. |
67 | ** For issue 4, "World of worms", the "o" in "World" is a picture of an Earth-like planet, the "o" in "worms" is a donut, and the rest of the letters in "worms" are worms arranged into the appropriate letter shapes. |
68 | ** When Huckleberry and Mechaworm [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/58/ meet again]] in issue 4, [[YouSquared they both say "You!"]] The letters making up the word are angry/tough-looking faces shaped like a "Y", "O", and "U". |
69 | * PlantHair: As a plantman, Huck got a full head of leaves. They occasionally molt like feathers. |
70 | * PlantPerson: Huckleberry is a plant-based humanoid. He has green skin, leaves for hair, and plant-based powers like generating citric acid and wooden shells. |
71 | * PrimaryColorChampion: Interestingly inverted with Huckleberry, the heroic protagonist, who wears the colors of a SecondaryColorNemesis (purple and orange costume, green hair and boots). |
72 | * ProtagonistTitle: The comic is named after its main character, Huckleberry. |
73 | * PunBasedCreature: The Diamondback is a desert snake with [[GemTissue literal diamonds growing on its back]]. Its name is a play on the real life diamondback rattlesnake. |
74 | * RockMonster: Huck discovers the "Rock Giant" in the first issue. It's so big that its head alone passes for a mountain. |
75 | * SemanticSuperpower: Huckleberry is a fruit-themed plant person. This means he possesses a variety of vegetal abilities, such as [[AcidAttack citric acid projection]], generating a [[ElementalArmor thorny protective shell]], or [[SuperSliding sliding like a banana peel]]. |
76 | * SpeciesSurname: Olaus Wormius is a Big Worm. |
77 | * SpeedStripes: They sometimes fill panels when Huck uses his ElementalSpeed. In one page it's [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1562479 subtle and sky-colored]], in another the lines make [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1472041 purple and green stripes]]. |
78 | * SpontaneousWeaponCreation: In issue 4, Huck uses his shell generation to create a club-like mass he calls the "Shell Saber". |
79 | * SssssnakeTalk: Snakes such as the Diamondback draw out their s's when they talk, and even in their thoughts. |
80 | * SuperSpeed: |
81 | ** Huckleberry's banana-based superspeed makes him go very fast, with immunity to air friction and some control over his direction. |
82 | ** Superfast, "the fastest superhero of all", is shown outrunning Huck. |
83 | * SuperSliding: Huckleberry can produce banana atoms and slide on them, giving him a slippery, [[ElementalSpeed vegetal version of super speed]]. |
84 | * SweatDrop: When Huck shows off his "Shell Saber", Mechaworm has a sweat drop appear on his head as he points out that it looks more like a club. |
85 | * SymbolMotifClothing: |
86 | ** Huckleberry wears a purple costume with many orange fruit shapes. |
87 | ** Morning Star wears a star-patterned robe. |
88 | * SymbolSwearing: Turns out Huck takes it literally, and utters things like "Skull and percents!". |
89 | * ThatsNoMoon: In the first issue, Huckleberry climbs a mountain that turns out to be a rock giant. |
90 | * ThemedCursor: The website has an orange arrow cursor, like the arrows of the orange golem. |
91 | * VillainExitStageLeft: When Mechaworm's first fight against Huck is interrupted by the more powerful Morning Star, he immediately calls it quits. |
92 | -->'''Mechaworm:''' I'll be back with a better scheme, and Morning Star will fall! Until then... bye! |
93 | * VisualPun: In a page titled [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1122416 "Nightcrawler"]], a worm is seen crawling his way into town at night. |
94 | * WeNeedADistraction: In the 2021 Advent Calendar story, Winter Princess creates a snowman to distract the Ochre Golem so she can get past it. |
95 | * WormInAnApple: Mechaworm, a MadScientist worm, invokes this when he wears his apple-shaped armor. He also had an apple-shaped laboratory, and uses an apple seed gun. |
96 | * XRaySparks: During a fight, Mechaworm throws an electrified weapon at Morning Star, who catches it. The shock turns his body translucent and we see his alien skeleton. |
97 | * YouMeanXmas: The Desert Towns have a Christmas-like midwinter event where extradimensional plants inside Mock Mountain produce gifts and send them to well-behaved people. |
98 | * YouSquared: When Huckleberry and Mechaworm run into each other again in issue 4, they say "You!" at the same time. |
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