Line #97 Webcomic/InWilysDefense


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3	->''"I think it's a plan that's not just madness and insanity, but in fact transcends them and becomes the shape of a lawnmower."''
4	-->-- '''John "Blues" [=McQueen=]'''
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6	-> ''"And let me tell you, if you think [''In Wily's Defense''] is your average Mega Man sprite comic, slap yourself and think again."''
7	-->-- '''Alan Solivan'''
8
9	''[[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/ In Wily's Defense]]'' is a completed SpriteComic by Mike Renner centered on the question of what would happen if the roles of Dr. Wily and Dr. Light of the classic ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' games were reversed; i.e., Dr. Wily is a roboticist-turned-Twinkie factory owner that only wants a quiet life (but does a fairly poor job at it), while Dr. Light is a megalomaniacal MadScientist dead-set on killing every last one of the Wilys. Throw in a loud, lazy egotistical God and his Angels of Love, Death, Destruction, and Fate, and, well, [[HilarityEnsues guess what happens next]].
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11	About halfway into IWD's third season, Renner began its sequel, ''[[http://southtown.fetchquest.com/archives.php?id=1 Tales of Southtown]]'', another sprite comic primarily focusing on the Seraphim, the children of the three female Angels [[spoiler:(who have been promoted to [[Webcomic/FetchQuestSagaOfTheTwelveArtifacts Goddesses]])]], and a few characters from ''VideoGame/FatalFury'', ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', and one from ''Franchise/StreetFighter''. [=ToS=] was discontinued due to a lack of a concrete plot.
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13	IWD was started again four years after the original series, taking a DarkerAndEdgier turn.
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16	!!These {{Webcomic}}s provide examples of:
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18	%%* ActionGirl
19	%%* AGodAmI: Heat Man, Elec Man during his cameo, Storm Green in season 2.
20	%%* AIIsACrapshoot: Eddie and X.
21	* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Gabriel Knight's soul was stuck inside Freeze Man's encapsulated body for a year before Fiora decided to start working on him]].
22	* AnimatedActors: It wasn't until late in the first season, but IWD was portrayed as a TV show.
23	* AntiVillain: Possibly Mist Violet, if the fact that she still keeps in contact with her "mother" long after her FaceHeelTurn is evident of anything.
24	* ArtShift: In Series 2, the sprites are less ''VideoGame/MegaMan''-based and more original-styled.
25	%%* AuthorAvatar: [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=175 Parodied]].
26	%%* AxCrazy: Eddie, X, Freeze Man, Magdelena.
27	%%* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Cut Man]].
28	%%* BadassBookworm: Pharaoh Man.
29	%%* BeardOfEvil: Dr. Light and Dr. Doppler.
30	%%* BetterThanABareBulb
31	%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: Plant Woman [[spoiler:''kills'' Dr. Light]].
32	%%* BodyCountCompetition: [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=200 IWD 200]].
33	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: "The last thing we need is you attacking the city with fire and lightning and lightning that's on fire."
34	%%* BreakTheCutie: Poor Planty.
35	* ButtMonkey: Kiki.
36	-->'''Kiki:''' Okay, seriously. Why is it that I'm physically or mentally abused even in my own flashbacks?
37	* {{Catchphrase}}: Freeze Man uses the word "spiffy" a lot.
38	* CeilingCling: Gemini Man, by way of being held aloft by "no [[GrammarNazi fewer]] than four large air duct rats".
39	** ChekhovsGag: By Series 2, Plant Woman has learned the language of said air duct rats.
40	%%* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Gabriel Knight, aka Freeze Man]].
41	%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Gemini Man in IWD, Tyrine in [=ToS=]
42	%%* CombatCommentator: [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=456 Played]] [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=457 for]] [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=458 laughs]] by Heat Man and Gyro Man.
43	%%* ConversationalTroping
44	%%* CrystalDragonJesus
45	* CuteAndPsycho: It's really disturbing how cheerful Magdalena can be while talking about destruction.
46	%%* CuteClumsyGirl: Keimi
47	* DarkerAndEdgier: The second series. [[spoiler:Thanks to Freeze Man and Doppler's actions, robots have come under increasingly severe scrutiny in fear that they too will go on a rampage. The prologue explicitly states that Amy and co are blamed completely for Freeze Man's Megapolis attack [[UnwittingPawn (which is KINDA true)]] and resentment towards Robots being treated equally as humans have sparked several mass riots (some led by Glenn Beck). Oh, and the series proper ''opens'' with a massive terrorist attack by a group of renegade robots [[SerialEscalation even more powerful than Freeze Man]], Dr Knight is revealed to have had a hand in the attack and is arrested, and Amy herself is also under suspicion of being involved in the attack. Hell, the first chapter is basically a SmugSnake government agent interrogating Amy on her role in the attack]].
48	** Even the villains are far more brutal and dark. In the first series, even Freeze Man and [[spoiler:Sputnik]] had most of their atrocities kept off-screen, and Freeze Man was played for laughs just as often as he was played seriously. The Prism Masters, though? Of the ones we've seen so far, [[PsychoForHire Red]] incinerates a hapless civilian, [[MoreDakka Indigo]] massacres dozens of security guards, [[AGodAmI Green]] [[spoiler:''KILLS'' Crystal, brutally]], and [[BigBad Black]] [[spoiler:strangles an unarmed woman ''right in front of her preteen daughter'']]. All of this happens completely onscreen.
49	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Cut Man
50	* {{Denouement}}: Part of Renner's SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: knowing what this means and using it as the name of an arc.
51	* DisproportionateRetribution: [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=326 "So, this all started because nine-year-old Amy depantsed Dr. Light. Yeah, I'd say that's grounds for trying to kill Dr. Wily's entire family and destroying the entire multiverse."]]
52	%%* DistaffCounterpart: Plant Woman
53	%%* DontExplainTheJoke: [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=235 Here.]]
54	%%* ElementalPowers: the Seraphim
55	%%* EmotionlessGirl: Aria, sort of.
56	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=315 The consequences of the Space Distortion going awry]]
57	%%* EnemyWithin: [[spoiler:Sputnik]]
58	%%* EvilBrit: Dr. Dominic Doppler
59	* {{Expy}}: Heat Man's egotistical God complex came directly from Sphere (who predates the comic)
60	%%* EyesAlwaysShut: Tyrine
61	* FetchQuest: discussed in IWD; Renner [[LampshadeHanging notes]] the irony of such, since it has nothing to do with his [[Webcomic/FetchQuestSagaOfTheTwelveArtifacts magnum opus of the same name]]
62	* FinaglesLaw: the most frequently re-occurring RunningGag, called Murphy's Law
63	%%* FluffyCloudHeaven: lampshaded
64	%%* FunetikAksent: used exclusively with Pierre Delacroix, IWD's director
65	%%* GhostInTheMachine: [[spoiler:Literally.]]
66	* GodIsEvil: "Evil" might be too strong a word, but on the rare occasions Sphere gets off his rear and does something, it usually involves mass destruction
67	* GodwinsLaw: Blues is immediately disqualified from participating in the Battle of Wits because, to quote Cut Man, he'd "invoke Godwin's Law within the first ten seconds". This ultimately leads up to:
68	--> '''Blues:''' "[[ThisIsReality This ISN'T the internet]], you fascist Nazi pigdog!"
69	--> '''Napalm Man:''' "You lose."
70	* TheGrimReaper: Who's also a part-time weatherman with a love for tornadoes and hurricanes
71	--> '''Death:''' "Go ''towards'' the tornado for an extra life! They want to be your ''friends''!"
72	* {{Hammerspace}}: "You're using Looney Tunes jokes to explain your actions now?" "I've clearly lost my mind."
73	%%* HandsomeLech: Sphere and Antilles
74	%%* HalloweenCosplay
75	* HaveYouSeenMyGod: Sphere is too lazy to do a damn thing about anything.
76	* HilariousOuttakes: Actually just [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=372 a series of one-panneled gags]]
77	%%* IdiotHair: Kiki and Fir. [[LamarckWasRight Musta been hereditary]].
78	%%* IdolSinger: Athena Asamiya claims to be one
79	%%* IncendiaryExponent: Heat Man
80	%%* InnocentFlowerGirl: Plant Woman again, sort of
81	%%* InstantAIJustAddWater
82	* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne
83	--> '''Dr. Light:''' I hope you know that I never liked you.
84	--> '''Amy:''' And I hope you know that I think you're an old, fat blight on humanity whom, if he were to suddenly explode and disappear, would not be missed by ''ANYONE''.
85	--> '''Dr. Light:''' Hey, I'm not fat!
86	%%* {{Jerkass}}: '''''EVERYONE!'''''
87	%%* JesusWasWayCool
88	* KangarooCourt: Agent Wilfork is basically a one-man version of this. He ''claims'' that he's impartial and only wants the truth, but his [[SmugSnake arrogant, condescending attitude]], his near constant smug grin, and his obvious disdain for robots and roboticists make it clear he's ''not'' on Amy's side.
89	%%* KarmaHoudini: Parodied with [[spoiler:Freeze Man.]]
90	%%* KeepCirculatingTheTapes
91	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Pharaoh Man.]] Renner even pulled an 8-Bit Theater here, having to make a strip confirming that he's dead and not coming back.
92	** Later [[spoiler: Gyro Man bites the dust for good.]]
93	%%* LargeHam: Again, Heat Man and Blues.
94	* LaughablyEvil: Freeze Man. He's a complete lunatic, but he's so comedic and likable that [[spoiler: he gets off without any real punishment (unless you consider being turned into a Mettool sufficient).]]
95	%%* LightIsNotGood
96	%%* LoveFreak: Kiki, who even gets called [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Flonne]] at one point
97	%%* LoveTriangle: Among Gemini Man, Plant Woman, and Pharaoh Man
98	%%* MagicalGirl: Athena Asamiya
99	%%* MirrorUniverse
100	%%* TheMafia: Made entirely of Mettools, led by Don Bluehat
101	%%* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Dr. Doppler]], but really, it ends up being pretty obvious
102	* MediumAwareness:[[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=454 "This box makes Gutsy blind"]], among other examples.
103	%%* MegaManning: Mega Man and X, natch
104	%%* MentalWorld: the Dimension of Eddie
105	* MonsterClown: Cut Man [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=512 uses this trope to his advantage]] in the battle of wits in response to Napalm Man's claim that [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Kefka]] was "nothing more than a glorified clown".
106	%%* {{MST}}: [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=196 Gyro Man's backstory]]
107	%%* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=200 "My dear, beloved angels...and Kiki..."]]
108	* MythologyGag: Robots are classified from Mark One (rather weak or dumb) to Mark Six (almost human-like); however, the Robot Masters in the series are all ranked at the number of the game in which they appear (for example, Guts Man is Mk. 1, while Plant Woman is Mk. 6, being the DistaffCounterpart of Plant Man). This leading to the fact that Freeze Man, who comes from ''7'', is ridiculously overpowered.
109	** Cut Man is [[spoiler:the Mk. 8]]. Renner says that he "kinda felt like he was cheating" when he made that decision.
110	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:As Blues explains, destroying Doctor Light's ArtifactOfDoom turns out to have been a ''very'' bad idea, mainly because destroying it unsealed [[PersonOfMassDestruction Freeze Man]].]]
111	* NoFourthWall: It gets worse over IWD's run, to the point that characters break the fourth wall [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=295 by way of lampshading it]]
112	* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler:Doppler]] tries to make this comparison to him and Freeze Man when the latter calls him on his plans for [[spoiler:deicide]]. Freeze Man's response?
113	--> "Yeah, but I'm ''[[AxCrazy insane]]''. What's your excuse?"
114	%%* NoSenseOfDirection (Amy. [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=399 See here.]])
115	* NoodleIncident: Benny lost his eye because of an accident involving a [[color:red:duck]], a [[color:red:stapler]], and a [[color:red:plastic toaster.]]
116	%%* OhMyGods
117	%%** [[AGodAmI Heat Man]] also goes by "Oh my me" and others "What in the name of ME")
118	%%* OlderAndWiser: Plant Woman, in the second series.
119	%%* OmnicidalManiac: see Ax Crazy
120	* OurAngelsAreDifferent: the four Angels in IWD are described as aspects of Sphere and maintainers of the world, though Death and Magdelena are highly irresponsible.
121	* OutrunTheFireball: subverted: [[spoiler:Gabriel tries and fails to outrun the explosion that kills him]]
122	* PatrioticFervor: [[http://southtown.fetchquest.com/cast.php?id=geese Geese Howard]], going above and beyond the (coincidentally-named) [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Keith Howard]]
123	-->'''Terry Bogard:''' "You look like the douchebag hellspawn of Uncle Sam and some two-cent Japanese whore."
124	-->'''Geese Howard:''' "My mother was ''American''. And ''five'' dollars."
125	%%* PhysicalGod: Sphere. The Angels and Seraphim, to a lesser extent
126	%%* PowersThatBe: the Multiversal Commission.
127	%%* PrematurelyBald: Dr. Wily.
128	%%* PsychoLesbian: Amy
129	%%* RidiculouslyHumanRobots
130	%%* RobotGirl: take a wild guess
131	%%* RousingSpeech: [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=330 again, parodied]]
132	%%* RunningGag: Dodongo dislikes tropes.
133	%%* SanitySlippage: See AndIMustScream
134	%%* {{Satan}}: He's buddies with Freeze Man. [[spoiler:And Sputnik.]]
135	%%* SayItWithHearts: ''[[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=544 Magda]][[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=558 lena.]]''
136	%%* SealedEvilInACan: Freeze Man, though he's technically not "evil", just AxCrazy.
137	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: In Renner's words, you need a dictionary to understand his work. "Tachyon" comes to mind.
138	** For the record, a tachyon is a hypothetical particle that moves faster than the speed of light.
139	%%* SharingABody [[spoiler:Fiora and Aria.]]
140	* ShrugOfGod: The author pretty much admits that he has no idea how Gyro Man knew about the location of the Globe.
141	%%* SoLongSuckers
142	%%* ShoutOut: IWD is ''filled'' with them
143	%%* ShrinkingViolet: Keimi, though she's actually the most powerful of the Seraphim.
144	* SmugSnake: Agent Wilfork. He makes it perfectly clear in his first scene that he's already decided that Amy's [[spoiler:guilty of supporting the new terrorists]], and is only letting her tell her side of the story just to see her squirm.
145	%%* SmugSuper: Heat Man
146	%%* SwirlyEnergyThingy: The Megalopolis Spatial Distortion
147	%%* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Dr. Light]]
148	* TalkativeLoon: Happens to Gemini Man whenever he copies himself (and sometimes when he doesn't ([[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=356 "Flying jalapeno!"]])) until [[spoiler:Fiora]] fixes him
149	* TalkingIsAFreeAction: IWD's second most re-occurring RunningGag is the "Dodongo" comic, in which the old man from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' that originally said "Dodongo dislikes smoke" appears amidst the stack of speech bubbles and says "Dodongo dislikes X," where "X" is something related to what the person or what said person is talking about. X has been things like "[[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=26 text]]", "[[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=213 Axl Rose]]", "[[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=133 shrimp]]", "[[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=168 Pharaoh Man]]" (who is the one to most frequently cause a Dodongo comic), "[[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=376 quasiphysics]]", and "[[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=554 Satan]]".
150	** Don't forget [[http://iwd.fetchquest.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=275 Elvis]]!
151	* TimeSkip: Series 2 takes place in 2X13, five years after the Megalopolis Incident that dominated Series 1.
152	* TimmyInAWell: Parodied, naturally, when Mega Man encounters Skull Man, who can only communicate through intricate dances.
153	-->'''Mega Man:''' "Look, Little Timmy can just go fend for himself. I'm tired of him falling down the well!"
154	%%* ToThePain: Used almost disturbingly frequently).
155	* {{Uncanceled}}: After four years, Renner has started IWD up again out of nowhere.
156	%%* UncannyValleyGirl: Magdelena. Bonus points since she's ''literally'' a ValleyGirl.
157	%%* UnsoundEffect
158	%%* VerbalTic: Dr. Doppler, yes?
159	%%** Oi oi, Freeze Man.
160	%%** And Gyroman, buddy.
161	%%* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
162	* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: "Dénouement", ends with Blues (who's narrating) about to talk about himself, when Heat Man cuts him off with "You can stop now. No one has ''ever'' cared about you."
163	%%* WrenchWench: Amy
164	%%* YaoiFangirl: [[spoiler:Cut Man's trump card in the Battle of Wits. It works.]]
165	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Doctor Wily is only forty-eight. According to Pharaoh Man, excessive use of hair growth treatments are to blame.

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