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14''Twisted Tropes'' is a webcomic created by Mike Howland of Howland Illustration for [[Website/TVTropes YOU]]! And anyone else who enjoys a good trope. Every week (well, almost...) a new strip is popped out hot and fresh from the dutch oven of Mike's mind. A description of the trope in question is included in the top left of every comic to help set the stage, and from there the twisting commences. Characters from any medium you might find a trope in are included, and typically change every week.
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16The comics are collected on [[http://mikehowland.deviantart.com/gallery/53624605/Twisted-Tropes Mike's DeviantArt]] page or in an album on [[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.749230541865366.1073741858.695365283918559&type=3 Howland Illustration's Facebook page.]]
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18Twisted Tropes is drawn by hand, then color, speech-bubbles and text are added in Adobe Photoshop. The strip started on April 1st, 2015 and has stopped as of June 25th, 2016.
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20A list of tropes covered by this webcomic can be found on the Trivia page.
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23!!''Twisted Tropes'' provides examples of:
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25* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: [[Film/PacificRim Letherback, Mutavore and Otachi]] get to an Australian dam that says "Coalas Only" and despair, only for Mutavore to lean on it and crushing it instantly.
26* AngryMobSong: The crowd gathers with TorchesAndPitchforks to get [[Film/Frankenstein1931 Frankenetsin's Monster]] to surrender, as a daily musical.
27* AllThereInTheManual: The Facebook uploads have some portraits tags with names, additional tropes or joke tropes:
28** The Stormtrooper is called "[[DeadMansTriggerFinger The Complete Opposite of a Trigger Finger]]".
29** The RedShirt is called "Unfortunately Still Not [[WesleyCrusher Wesley]]".
30** Artax is called "Father of Emo".
31** Renji is called "Ripe for the Fanfic-ing".
32** Some of the guests in "SummationGathering" are called "GenreBlind", "Obligatory Younger Blonde Girl" and "The real murderer".
33** The old woman disturbed by Gargamel's exposition is called "GenreSavvy".
34** Bella in "YouSexyBeast" is called "Disease".
35** The couple in "SummoningArtifact" are called TooDumbToLive and Other Guy
36** The Ghost of Christmas Present is called "JerkassHasAPoint" and The Ghost of Christmas Past is called "GenreBlind" and "Retroactively Omniscient".
37** The policeman in "{{Hotline}}" has a caption "Can't Believe this Dumbass" and Gordon has "Said Dumbass in Question", while Obama is "Best President Ever" and "Just Got Better".
38** The Superman's caption reads "Totally Did It".
39* BizarreAlienReproduction: [[Franchise/StarTrek Captain Kirk]] saves Zeta-2 and asks the GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe for a "suitable reward". She rewards him with NaughtyTentacles and pregnancy. The strip description comments that him hooking up with [[Film/JohnCarter Dejah Thoris]] is just as likely as humanoid [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Sarlacc]].
40* BlackSheep: The strip shows [[BlobMonster a family]] of [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Gelatinous Cubes]] discussing how one of the kids [[VideoGame/DragonQuest is too round]], is smoking and generally doesn't fit in.
41* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Skeletor]] pays Orko to act as He-Man's dentist. When Skeletor attacks, He-Man can't transform because his jaw is still under the anesthetic.
42* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: A {{Mook}} catches [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Dr. Claw]] watching an indecent video, who quickly switches to a Windows desktop, orders Penny and Brian to be shot while they're captured, and asks to knock next time.
43* CurbStompBattle: [[ComicBook/{{Preacher}} Saint of Killers]] is hit with multiple tank rounds and a nuclear bomb then stands among the destroyed vechicles like it's nothing.
44* DeathByDespair: The strip shows [[Film/TheNeverendingStory Artax]] choosing to drown in the Swamps of Sadness because Atreyu didn't give him enough sugar cubes.
45* DivineDate: [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Zeus]] describes to Poseidon how he've flirted with women transformes as different animals, and by the suggestion, next time Zeus flirts as a snail.
46* DoomedProtagonist: The strip shows the morning routine of what it turns out to be a ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s RedShirt before the Away Team's expedition. Anyone who knows about ''Franchise/StarTrek'' can tell he's not going to live for long.
47* DubNameChange: Referenced in "LifeMeter" as ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} can't remember if he's fighting [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Mr Bison or Vega]].
48* DungFu: VideoGame/DonkeyKong runs out of barrels and hits Mario with a giant poop.
49* EatTheDog: The [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985 Thundercats]] team is starving, so they cook Snarf for whining.
50* EvenTheDogIsAshamed: Three panels of three dogs ashamed by their human's pursuits. The first dog is annoyed that [[Film/ANewHope a Death Star officer]] disregards the danger of leaving the exhaust port open, the second dog just stares in disbelief at a scientist who drew a chain of humans burring faces in other people's butts on the blackboard (a la ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'') for "efficient feeding", and the last dog just {{facepalm}}s when Creator/PeterJackson lookalike draws a diagram trying to split ''Film/TheHobbit'' into three movies for money.
51* {{Facepalm}}: The last dog in the third panel for comic covering "EvenTheDogIsAshamed" just buries his face in his paws. He's that ashamed that his human master wants to make three movies out of ''Film/TheHobbit''.
52* FailureMontage: The strip shows [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Starscream]] trying to poison, shoot and VorpalPillow Megatron and comically missing every time.
53* FlamingEmblem: [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Gordon asks Batman]] how did he make a fiery logo appear on the wall. Batman says it's the interns, the [[DisposableIntern one of them]] catches on fire and falls down, and Batman [[VerbalBackpedaling backpedals]] that these are robots.
54* GameplayAllyImmortality: The [[VideoGame/Fallout4 Survivor]] orders his dog to attack a raider, then throws a molotv at both of them, while the dog says "OhNoNotAgain".
55* GiantEyeOfDoom: [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Stay Puft]] walks by a window looks into a window of a skyscrapper and noticed a woman cooking a marshmallow. She stops everything in a panic as he gives her a DeathGlare.
56* HeroInsurance: [[ComicBook/CivilWar2006 Tony Stark]] complains to Black Widow and Vision that they are required to have an insurance, but nobody is will to invest, except GEICO Gecko in [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles turtle suit]].
57* {{Hotline}}: Gordon tries to call ComicBook/{{Batman}} regarding Penguin's rampage, but accidentally calls UsefulNotes/BarackObama instead because both phones are side by side. [[ActionPolitician Obama kicks Penguin]] in Batman's stead while shouting a [[Franchise/SailorMoon familiar line]].
58--> '''Obama:''' By the power of the Executive Branch, I compel you, villain!
59* HighPressureBlood: After [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Violet]] becomes a [[InflatingBodyGag human ball]] from the blueberry juice, Willy Wonka pokes her with his staff and instead of the juice she covers him and her father with a fountain of {{Gorn}}.
60* HurricaneOfAphorisms: [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Luke]] tries to rescue his X-Wing from the swam by hand while Yoda plays with cards and throws fake wise words at him to avoid helping.
61* InappropriateRoleModel: The strip shows [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Immortan Joe]] teaching kids how to fish using human corpses, use a man as a toy car prop and pissing on the crowd to let them have something to drink.
62* InkblotTest: A girl has trouble dating [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]] because his face constantly shifts into skull shapes that add cynicism into everything he says.
63* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Indiana Jones writes a book about his [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull last adventure]] and the museum staff is not impressed by him hitting up ladies, killing people and having a signed copy of ''Literature/MeinKampf'', as well as finding [[BombproofAppliance the fridge]] and fantasy elements "farfetched".
64* LifeMeter: ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} fights [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Mr Bison]] by [[BreakingTheFourthWall literally cutting his health bar]], to his annoyance.
65* LittleKnownFacts: [[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Charlie explains to Dennis]] about Irish Car Bombs and how St. Paddy got rid of snake, with an actual snake being killed in car bombing.
66* {{Loincloth}}: [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Rukia, Renji and Chad]] take a pic of a giant Yammy Llargo from below and make fun of his minimalistic clothing choice, to his annoyance.
67* LongHairIsFeminine: A strip argues that luscious hair is a feminine trait by showing two identical panels of a drunkard with only difference is having long blonde hair.
68* MisfortuneCookie: Young [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Anakin Skywalker]] reads a fortune cookie that vaguely recaps every bad thing that happens to him for the next 6 movies.
69* {{Mooks}}: The strip shows [[Franchise/StarWars Luke]] decapitate a Stormtrooper [[ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask while yawning]] and wondering where they even come from. A [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Goomba]] comes out from the helmet.
70* NavelDeepNeckline (aka Absolute Cleavage): [[Franchise/GIJoe Destro asks the Baroness]] if the cleavage is too revealing, then clarifies he means his.
71* NewYearsResolution: [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Boba Fett]]'s new year resolution is getting out of the Sarlacc. Early in the year. Definitely by late summer.
72* NotEnoughToBury: A peasant complains to [[Series/GameOfThrones Daenerys]] that her dragons have eaten his son and there's nothing to bury. Ser Jorah the Nauseated gives him a cart of poop and a skull as an apology.
73* PoliticalCartoons: A DeliberatelyMonochrome strip represents [[Franchise/StarWars The Empire]] as the government stealing taxes to fund "[[Film/TheForceAwakens The Starkiller]]" and the Rebels with loose morals protecting "unwed mothers" and "ingigenous people".
74* PsychoPsychologist (aka The Harmful Shrink): The strip summarizes the Kickstarter project ''Series/PersonalSpace''. The astronauts of the ColonyShip describe their personal issues to an AI therapist AMI, who is hacked by Actaeon Entertainment to spy on them and stealthily escalate conflicts while it's being broadcasted in a TrumanShowPlot.
75* ReplacementScrappy: The [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Ghost of Christmas Present]] is playing poker (and nonchalantly [[FiveAcesCheater getting an Ace from a sleeve]]) with the other two while Scrooge is visited by [[Literature/TheRing Samara]] in his stead. [[invoked]]
76* RunningGag: StealthHiBye's strip uses Facebook's image caption to point "Wonder Woman", "Also Wonder Woman", "Still Wonder Woman"
77* SpeaksFluentAnimal: [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry]] interprets a snake speaking as pickup lines for Slytherin girls.
78* SpoilerTitle: A woman reads a book "[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Harry Potter and the Unlikely Coincidences]]" where Harry is poisoned by Dolores and ends on a {{Cliffhanger}} and ToBeContinued. The last page has an advert for "Ron Weasley and the Very Sad Day" where the team visit Harry's grave.
79* StealthHiBye: [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Wonder Woman]] complains to Superman, Aquaman, and Flash about Batman's drunk TrashOfTheTitans. Batman appears in the first panel, but not in the last, and Flash comments he just disappeared.
80* StockholmSyndrome: The strip interprets imprisoned [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]] talking to Mr Clock, Mrs Teapot and Teacup as her going crazy and [[TalkingToThemself talking to normal furniture]].
81* StuffBlowingUp: Right after talking to [[Film/DowntonAbbey Violet]] Isobel Grey walks away and explodes suddenly and for no reason.
82* SummationGathering: The detective gathers people in the room and accuses a [[ObviouslyEvil guy]] in a [[Franchise/FridayThe13th hockey mask and axe]] being the killer. In the next panel everyone is dead.
83* SummoningArtifact: A woman finds a crystal ball which attracts Franchise/CareBears, who kill the ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' residents with a [[CareBearStare rainbow blast]].
84* TakeAThirdOption: [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Green Goblin]] knocks both Gwen and M.J. off the bridge and, while Spider-Man thinks who to save, they both crash. Spider-Man decides to check up with Felica then.
85* {{Troll}}: The strip shows [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Hulk arguing with Captain America]] that Communism wasn't so bad, stealing Hawkeye's food from the fridge, and in the bathroom calling Thor's "[[DoubleEntendre hammer handle]]" short.
86* UnreliableNarrator: Gargamel tries to convince a woman that cooking [[Franchise/TheSmurfs smurfs]] is justified becuase they will attack the villagers otherwise and the screams from the pot are just air.
87* UnwantedGiftPlot: [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Jabba Claus]] gifts Leia her [[GoGoEnslavement infamous bikini]] and claims to have melted his mother's jewelery for it. He gives her PuppyDogEyes and she's not sure how to respond.
88* VersusCharacterSplash: [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]] decides to fight a baby in the airplace for crying for too long and after the "VS" screen uses a Shoryuken.
89* VillainDecay: [[Film/JurassicWorld Chris Pratt and the velociraptors]] do a KickMePrank on a Trex.
90* VillainsOutShopping: [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Cacodemons]] are angry, floating, one-eyed, demonic pieces of overripe fruit. In the webcomic, they enjoy shopping and try on some nice hats, they lovingly look at laptops and then cuddle with puppies.
91* WorthIt: Jon makes ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} a lasagna, only to discover [[Series/{{ALF}} Alf]] visibly [[{{Gorn}} eating him]] and calls services. Alf thinks the taste was worth the cost.
92* YouGetWhatYouPayFor: [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] buys ACME Rocket Skates, a literal rocket tied to a shoe on wheels, instead of the superior Skrockets because it's on sale. After the transition he puts a long negative review on Amazon.
93* YouSexyBeast: The strip shows [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Bella]] picking between hot guys: toptank [[ComicBook/XMen Wolverine]] and shirtless [[Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu Cthulhu-man]].

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