Examples of Flipping the Bird in webcomics.
- 8-Bit Theater: Black Mage does this two pages
in a row while suffering from taffy-related lung trauma. - Used twice in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, once as Ben Franklin commits a Dukeicidenote , and once by the good doctor himself, after he surfed a robo-Dracula down from the moon.
- American Barbarian ends with the titular hero giving Two-Tank Omen the middle finger as they both die.
- This Basic Instructions strip.
- Bicycle Boy: One of Darla's favourite gestures.
- In Blip, as K is considering what picture to use for her myspace profile, she realizes that every digital photo she has involves her flipping off the camera. Even the picture where she's nearly unconscious. "Why am I giving the finger all the time?"
- Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Lucy has become fond of it of late.
- Apple flips off Sony in this Consolers strip after hearing him accuse his games of "not being real games".
- Tecmo does this to Namco several times as part of his revenge declaration.
- Tecmo does this to Namco
- This Dominic Deegan strip, done by Rocky the Elemental. Slightly justified in that he can't speak and communicates through gestures.
- Later, when Stunt badmouths him when he thinks he's not around, Rocky shoves a single arm up through the soil. Guess the gesture.
- In Dresden Codak, this is Kimiko's reaction when she wakes up in her hospital bed and sees her Disappeared Dad for the first time in many years.
- In Drowtales, Kiel'ndia gives Khaless both barrels at once to show that she's less than impressed by her Breaking Speech. Two pages later her demon friends respond in turn (which, given how they represent the fans, proved to be an accurate depiction of the forum response).
- In Dumbing of Age, when Carla's Rube Goldberg Device for revenge on Mary successfully delivers a Pie in the Face and Carla's own name in lasers (because "the one thing that angers you more than anything in the world is that I exist"), she tops it off with double birds.
- In this El Goonish Shive sketchbook strip, Ellen does it in order to demonstrate how pixelation of just the finger is ineffective.
- In this Endtown strip, Aaron Marx gives a double British version to an approaching team of enemy Topsiders while helping other characters escape.
- Implied in Freefall to be what everyone does when they "interact" with Sam. That, and hiding their wallets.
- This Fuzzy Knights strip (click to page through it), which was posted as a response to the 2005 terrorist bombings on the London Underground and made rather appropriate reference to the origin myth.
- Homestuck: Confusingly, John flips off the audience at one point when WV's enthusiastic commands become increasingly rude.
- Much later, in his "talk" with Meenah Peixes, Kurloz Makara, who has so far not said a single word or made a single other gesture, flips her the bird when she asks what the "wicked word is these days."
- Damara Megido has a special sprite animation for flipping the bird with each hand.
- Erisolsprite does this during the Act 6 Part 5 opener. Jake English doesn't seem offended at all.
- Used several times in Loserz, like here and here.
- Mall Monkeys had one strip which was three identical panels of Eric giving these followed by the message "Mall Monkeys will resume a frequently updated schedule very shortly."note
- Emily is quick to flip off Ash when they first meet in Misfile.
- We learn later on that this is quite out of character for her. However, she was having a bad day.
- The Order of the Stick:
- Vaarsuvius uses the spell "Bugsby's Expressive Single Digit" to flip off Qarr off-panel.
- And Xykon's "Hey, I just grew back a finger. Guess which one."
- Also, Illusory Belkar combines this with a Narrative Profanity Filter: "Forceful assertion of open resentment toward authority. Please view accompanying hand gesture."
- The real Belkar finally gets to do it off screen to Roy and Elan.Roy: Is he flipping me off as he floats gently down to the ground?
Elan: Belkar, that's the wrong kind of bird! That one can't fly!
- Outsider: As the Loroi are preparing for a possible boarding action by their archenemies, Fireblade gives Jardin the Eye Am Watching You gesture, to which Jardin responds by flipping her off.
- The Poke the Poodle page caption features Tycho from Penny Arcade doing this at a box of kittens.
- in Ruby Quest, Ruby flips off Filbert as the monitor he speaks through cuts to static as he threatens her.
- Schlock Mercenary:
- After taking an arm from the Creeth Ambassador...Ennesby: I learned this one from a documentary about twentieth-century traffic signals.
[a CENSORED sign is seen over the hand] - Kevyn responds, thusly...Kevyn: I believe my line here would be "Is that your age or your IQ?"
- And it gets implied later!
- After taking an arm from the Creeth Ambassador...
- Slightly Damned:
- Rhea lets Buwaro know she isn't interested in what he has to say.
- Later on, Azurai does this when Iratu smacks him for being a Jerkass Psycho for Hire.
- Rhea lets Buwaro know she isn't interested in what he has to say
- Stick in the Mud: Rod has a shirt that displays a hand doing this.
- SWAP Ensemble: During Trudy and Vincent's argument in Day 6, Trudy lifts a finger while the rest of her hand is out of frame. Context alone would explain which finger she's using, but a shot of her whole hand reveals that only her middle finger has the same colored nail as the isolated finger.
- 30-Something Wolf: In the second panel of one strip, Zephyri is seen flipping the bird towards a character representing Society, against the latter's wishes that she "needs to like girly things" that don't involve having actual girlfriends.
- User Friendly. "Can you count on your fingers in binary? Then I send you a 'four'." note
- Leo receives two in VG Cats when he confronts BioWare about the DLC and ending of the Mass Effect series.
- Dietzel, of Wapsi Square, apparently knows this one, too. Let's just say he isn't amused by Timmy in a Well jokes. Like the Garfield example above, it occurs "off-screen".
- In Yokoka's Quest, Mao flips off Yokoka, with a Censor Box over his middle finger, in a Q&A strip.
- Mentioned in You Damn Kid, in which the narrator thinks it's unfair that Dot's friend Sadako was punished for doing this. Sadako has six fingers on each hand, so the finger she raised technically wasn't her middle finger "and therefore not a bad finger".
