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Characters who are oblivious to their own descriptions in Webcomics.


  • In Captain SNES: The Game Masta, Sabin loses Locke and Celes's wedding rings. Upon hearing this, Edgar coyly suggests that a thief stole them from Sabin. Locke gets angry, saying they'll need to search all the guests, before suddenly realizing Edgar meant himself: Locke is something of a kleptomaniac (which is roughly canon) and Edgar explains that his kleptomania goes into overdrive when he's nervous. Indeed, Locke pickpocketed his own wedding rings from Sabin and either forgot or didn't realize that he had done so.
  • After a murder is committed outside her door in The Handbook of Heroes, Magus, resident rapier-wielding catfolk, does some detective work, announcing to all present that the victim was killed by someone with fur wielding a piercing weapon. Her teammates are all facepalming at this point, knowing that now they'll have to catch the actual killer to clear her name, and that they're probably not going to get paid to do so.
  • Katamari: Ace gives The Prince a nasty speech about trying to steal all the glory for himself, blissfully unaware that the lecture he's giving him would be better directed at him.
    Ace: So what do you think, Prince? Are you willing to admit your arrogance, set aside your vanity for once, and ask me for help?
  • My Best Friend (Who I Love) Fell Completely in Love with My VTuber Self: Sukoya is completely oblivious to the fact that her best friend Teruko is the Virtual YouTuber Doujima Taiga, no matter how oddly specific their shared tastes and mutual experiences are. Even when Taiga recommends Sukoya's niche manga to all her viewers and explains it in exacting detail, Sukoya still doesn't get that Taiga personally knows the author.
  • The Order of the Stick: After Durkon is turned into a vampire, Roy argues that he can still be part of the team (with supervision). Belkar, the Token Evil Teammate who's known to kill people because he can, is quick to point out the ways this could go wrong.
    Belkar: I just don't trust the idea of us using a horrible bloodthirsty savage to fulfill our goals while we — oh, I get it.
    Roy: Yeah, we already made the parallel.
  • Schlock Mercenary:
    • Captain Tagon comments on the emblem with his side-face (and conveniently stands so you can see his side-view and see how accurate it is).
    • Petey says that he is making a retirement offer to Tagon's Toughs because he's trying to take a band of career sociopaths out of circulation. Schlock asks him whom he should shoot.
    • At one point, Kevyn theorises that the predatory animals he and a few others are having to fight with spears will use pack tactics to separate out the weakest of the group to kill and eat. He then stops and asks the others, all of whom save Schlock (who isn't edible anyway) are noticeably larger and more muscular than he is, why they're all looking at him.
      Elf: Maybe you'd better stand in the middle.
  • Girl Genius, after seeing Othar Tryggvassen (Gentleman Adventurer!) do something impressive to get a doohickey for Agatha's lightning stick:
    Tarvek: I keep forgetting he's a Spark.
    Violetta: Really. So you've completely missed that he's overbearing, self-aggrandizing, and certain death to be around?
    Tarvek: Well, no, but... what's your point?
  • Shortpacked!:
    • Ethan and Robin are discussing Transformers: Prime.
      Robin: Miko's the best part of that show! There's just something about her that speaks to me. The lack of boundaries for her over-the-top behavior is the catalyst for half of everything that happens on that show. Thank god she never learns anything and the rest of the cast is so forgiving.
      Ethan: Something about that speaks to you, huh?
      Robin: Yeah, maybe she reminds me of Rainbow Dash.
    • Played more seriously when Robin seduced Leslie to stop Malaya flirting with her, even though she and Leslie were broken up at the time and Leslie wanted to sort through her feelings rationally.
      Robin: Just think, you were this close to bangin' some control freak self-absorbed chick who won't consider your feelings.
      Leslie: (head in her hands) Closer than you think.
  • In Something*Positive, Davan tells Peejee he used to have a crush on a girl, but she didn't return the sentiment. They became really good friends and it ended up being for the best. Peejee insults the girl for not realizing Davan's great, he replies that, no, she's one of his favorite people. He walks away. Peejee catches on and blushes.
  • The title character from Vexxarr can't (or rather, refuses to) recognize that he fits the ever more specific profile to undertake a mission in the Lattroxx Hegemony.
  • Scarlet Lady:
    • In "Syren", as part of their game to tell secrets to each other, Ondine puts the message "I am super in love with a boy who doesn't suspect anything" for Kim to retrieve. When Kim reads it, he says that the boy must be an idiot for not noticing it, which Ondine privately agrees with - because the "idiot" happens to be Kim himself.
    • Inverted in "Dark Cupid": when ChloĆ© snatches and reads the Valentine letter Adrien has been writing, she points out that her eyes are cornflower blue and her hair is golden. Adrien corrects her - the letter isn't meant for her.

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