American Barbarian
is a comic-book-style webcomic — rather Kirby-esque adventures — set in an extremely strange United States — apparently far future.
Tropes included:
- After the End: The world-ending catastrophe is referenced as the "Great Clusterfuck"
- Base on Wheels: The Moving Fortress, a city built inside a massive tank-like vehicle..
- Big Bad: Two-Tank Omen, a gigantic "satanic pharaoh" who has full-sized tanks for feet.
- Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: Dinosaur Riders.
- Fake Defector: Rick pretends to join Two Tank Omen's army in an effort to get "R-E-V-E-N-G-E-!-!-!"
- Get It Over With: Gunthor to Rick, once he gets the sword.
- Give Me a Sword: Uli gets back Rick's sword and throws it to him.
- Go-Go Enslavement: Called "Jabba's Technique" in the comments.
- Green-Eyed Monster: the protagonist's brother betrays him because he lost the Tangle of Swords.
- Human Sacrifice: "Meet god!" (actually a Beholder-like entity)
- Leave No Survivors: Two-Tank-Omen's modus operandi
- Love Triangle: Averted and lampshaded: Rick is glad that she turns out to be the sister of the other man.
- Multicolored Hair: The Yoosamons all have red, white, and blue striped hair. Pa has this pattern in his beard.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Rick is horrified by how his attempt to win Two-Tank Omen's trust give Omen a chance to wreak destruction.
- Number of the Beast: The Big Bad has a stylized triple-six emblem on his headdress.
- Really 700 Years Old: The inhabitants of the Moving Fortress.
- Rule of Seven: Rick is the youngest of seven sons.
- Smooch of Victory: Uli gives Rick one after Gunthor flees and the battle is over.
- Stable Time Loop: The first Time Machine test caused Rick to become the strange rainbow-humanoid explorer who gave himself cryptic advice. He also takes the Medusa Bolas with him, because that's what the explorer did.
- Temporal Paradox: Rick refuses to undo the apocalypse, since it would erase everyone who lived in his post-apocalypse world. Well, almost everyone.
- Two Lines, No Waiting: Two-Tank Omen's arrival and the city plotlines were displayed in parallel.
- You Did Everything You Could: Uli assures Rick of this after one attempt on Two-Tank Omen failed entirely.
- Youngest Child Wins: Rick
