Webcomic / Cyanide & Happiness

"...or one of us will mock the other for having AIDS?!"^note GAARRFIEELLDD!!!!!!!

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Cyanide & Happiness is a daily webcomic strip at explosm.net drawn and written by three separate people. It was begun by Kris Wilson originally, but after showing his work to some members on the sticksuicide.com forum several others joined in the fun: Rob DenBleyker, Dave McElfatrick, and Matt Melvin (who has since left). They have no shame in exploiting extreme Black Comedy, Literal-Minded-ness and affinities for the most hilariously controversially awkward situations known to webcomickind. Their comics involve the exploitation of simply-drawn stick figures for all they're worth.

Dark, cynical, offensive, irreverent... and we're just getting started.

In 2013, a full animated series based on the comic, named The Cyanide & Happiness Show, was successfully funded on Kickstarter, and began airing in 2014.

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After over six months of absence from the site, Matt Melvin finally announced on August 31st, 2014 that he was no longer a part of the comic due to unspecified reasons. A post from the Explosm site blog followed a couple days later providing further details, as well as expressing thanks for Matt's contributions to the comic and wishing him luck on his future endeavors. Matt has since started work on a new project, currently titled "The Last Nerds on Earth", and has also begun streaming regularly on Twitch.

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Cyanide & Happiness provides examples of:

• Abusive Parent: Billy's Dad in strip 905 after Billy made a Dr. Seuss reference.
• Accidental Athlete: The "Waiting for a bus" short. This being Cyanide & Happiness, the trope is Deconstructed.
• Actually Pretty Funny: "For the sake of that joke, I'm kinda glad it happened now."
• Alt Text: Zig-Zagged. If you look at the URL for the images, many have fairly mundane names like "Bear" and "Debate" but several have jokes in the names.
• Ambiguous Syntax: A slightly inaccurate interpretation of Freud.
  • It also happens here.
• And I Must Scream: Played as straight as possible.
  • "There is an app on Blueshirt's phone that makes Greenshirt shut the hell up, causing his mouth to be stitched up".
  • Poor Larry just so happened to be in the hospital with a full body cast at the time that the Delberry Dismemberer went on a killing spree through said hospital.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: In the video short "Junk Mail", the protagonist becomes rich and popular when the spam e-mails he responds to turn out to be legitimate. Then he gets a chain letter about a vengeful poltergeist, and he bizarrely assumes that this particular e-mail must be fake. Predictably, he dies.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Inverted.
• Art Evolution: Yes, in a stick figure comic:
  • Kris's figures started out as being tall with has generally gotten shorter in height with relatively large heads in comparison (see first comic). By 2008 the body has shortened considerably (such as this comic) and has remained largely remained unchanged as of 2013.
  • Rob's figures in his first comics (example) had more of a rhomboid face before steadily becoming rounder and flatter with time. As with Kris's drawings, Rob's had largely developed into his signature format by the end of 2008 remaining the same for the next five years or so.
  • Matt's first comics started out in a similar fashion to those of Kris's. Diverging occurred within the first two year, with the dot eyes becoming short vertical dashes by mid-2006. The bottom of their torso's turned from round to square in November 2008 (before/after), have a few changes (before/after) and progressively shortened afterwards. For the record, this is the last comic he drew for the site.
  • Dave's initial comics could be considered a mixture of the first three at first. However his figure's torsos turned square in August 2005. The comic style at the topic of this page (done in 2007) and more modern comics (such as this one in 2013) have remained largely unchanged, although the eyes got a bit larger around 2010 and have gotten smaller since then.
  • Overall, the strips look a lot less amateurish than they did in the first couple years of the comic's run, even though the art is still usually very simplistic.
  • The animated shorts have shown vast improvement over the years. Seriously, they've gone from looking like this◊ to THIS◊.
• Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Implied in this strip.
• Ass Shove: Taken just about as far as it's possible to go in "Pull My Finger".
• Ate His Gun: Literally.
• Author Appeal: Dave really likes drawing weird facial expressions as of around 2013.
• Bad Boss: Ted bear's producer fires him because he refused to eat his own penis.
• Badass Mustache: Musclestache!
• Balloon Belly: Literally.
• Bathtub Mermaid: Parodied in one strip, where a mermaid dies after being put in a bathtub due to it not being saltwater.
• Beat Panel: Kris seems to love using these.
  • A non-Kris example.
• Bedsheet Ghost: An attempted costume fails when the sheet isn't clean.
  • There are some bedsheet ghosts that aren't even costumes are in these comics like 4097, 4081, Don't Go To Space (go to 1:48), 3341, 4090, and 2693.
  • A trick-or-treater can be shown wearing it in strip 4093.
  • "I'm a vampire wearing a sheet."
• Better to Die than Be Killed: "PEANUT ALLERGY, BITCHES!"
• Black Comedy: Pretty much every other strip deals with this.
  • Literal "Dead Baby" jokes can be found in strip 3371, strip 2325, strip 55, strip 4661, strip 138, strip 271, strip 322, strip 1034, strip 1968, strip 2097, strip 2237, strip 2273, strip 2316, strip 2165, The sign part 2.
    • Some are only discussed, like here and here, while some are actually treated seriously/semi-seriously, like here, here, here, or here.
    • See also strip 1782 and strip 1846.
    • Not to forget this brilliant woman.
• The Blank: This comic.
• Blessed with Suck: One of the resident superheroes, Seizure Man
  • And Mind Fuck
  • Sword arms aren't as great as you might think.
• Body Horror: I'm giving birth to piranhas!
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Implied here, with plenty of Squick.
• Breast Expansion: Unexpectedly.
• Brick Joke: A lot, but their short Waiting for the Bus is probably their best example.
• Broken Echo: In this strip, a man notices the cave he's in has an echo and eagerly shouts "I love you!", expecting to hear it back. After a moment of silence, the cave instead replies "Echo... echo... echo..."
• Bungled Suicide: Because he was too tall.
  • Sad, Sad Larry is chock full of them.
• Burn the Witch!: Combined with insult "burns".
• Butt-Monkey / The Chew Toy: There are good reasons for Sad Larry to be so, well, sad.
• Butter Face: This comic is pretty much a straight demonstration of the trope.
• But Wait, There's More!: At about 0:55 in the video The Book.
• The Cameo: The most brief of ones. In Barbershop Quartet Hits On Girl From Taxi, pay very close attention at the 6 second mark - a bus goes by, and the 50 MPH man is running beside it (he's on the far side, but if you pause at exactly the right time, you can see the top of his head).
• Captain Ersatz: On this strip, which is a direct follow up to this one.
• Captain Obvious: Literally.
• Caught with Your Pants Down: Double Subverted in this strip.
• Checkers: Street checkers!
• Chess: With added Alabama rules.
• Children Are Innocent: Subverted in this strip.
• Chirping Crickets: Exploited by one guy who wants to kill those crickets.
  First Guy: Hey Naked Guy With A Shotgun! What're you doing?
  Naked Guy With A Shotgun: Hunting crickets.
  First Guy: Isn't that a bit much?
  Naked Guy With A Shotgun: Nah, they only come out during awkward silences. Now, grab my ass!
  *awkward silence*
  *crickets*
  Naked Guy With A Shotgun: AARGH! *fires shotgun several times*
• Chocolate Baby: Inverted in this strip.
  • "Mike, you son of a bitch!!"
• Cloning Blues: An unusual take in this strip.
• Clown Car: A source of black humour here.
• Comically Missing the Point: Stick-figure ignorance is how most of the other squick-related tropes come into play.
  • This strip is a perfect example of this trope.
• Compensating for Something: Discussed.
• Compliment Backfire & Digging Yourself Deeper: Taken to comically-tragic extremes on this trip, as well as in this trip.
• Continuity Nod: The guys in this comic are the same as the ones who found Jesus here.
  • In season 2's 'Too Many Superheroes," all of the superheroes from previous shorts are brought back.
• Crapsack World
• Credits Gag: Waiting for the Bus 2 has as much credits as animation.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Inverted...or something in this strip.
• Cut-and-Paste Comic: Starting on this strip, there was a brief streak of comics done in this style. The humor was also a weird blend of surrealistic antics and so-unfunny-they-are-funny jokes during that period.
  • "Son... you were copied and pasted..."
• Darker and Edgier: "Depressing Comic Week", a week where the guys take a more serious approach to subjects they would usually play for laughs.
• A Date with Rosie Palms: This comic, while not featuring the act itself, takes it to extremely awkward levels.
  • The web shorts feature it here and here. This comic as well.
  • This comic shows Mike masturbating to a picture of his girlfriend.
• Death by Racism: The Speed Racist animated skit.
• Deconstructed Trope: Child Prodigies with jobs, in the Doctor Baby series.
• Defiant to the End: Couple with Do Wrong, Right.
  You guys did a poor job nailing me up here. I know. I'm a carpenter.
• Demonic Possession: This comic's punchline.
• Disney Creatures of the Farce: On this strip.
• Disproportionate Retribution: What this kid does when he doesn't get his ice cream.
• Don't Explain the Joke: A perfect example.
• Doorstop Baby: Done here, with depressing results.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: If you can't beat 'em..
• Double Subversion: Many, many times.
  • This is but one example.
  • Strip 1547. Strip 1635. Strip 1806. Strip 1895. Strip 1911. Strip 2020. Strip 2168. Strip 2319. Strip 2701. Strip 2705. Strip 2730.
  • Gasp, could it be? TRIPLE Subversion!
• Downer Ending: "Waiting for the Bus".
• Drench Celebration: A more medical variant.
• Dressed to Plunder: This strip hangs a lampshade on the trope.
• Driven to Suicide: By not being able to find Waldo.
  • It also happens on this strip. ^note ...To avoid listening the overly long ramblings of an old man that he was trying to rob just before it.
  • It also happens here, due to a Hurricane of Puns.
  • It also happens on this due to a list of famous pedophiles.
  • An Artist does it in an attempt to become more famous.
  • Too hardcore for this world.
  • The Dog.
  • Some people interpret the death of the 50 Mph Man as this.
• The Eeyore: Dan the Downer.
• Eldritch Abomination: Or whatever this thing is...
• Everyone Has Standards: Ted Bear is willing to do a lot of revolting, embarressing and cruel things (such as letting people think he died) for the sake of his show, but even he is horrified when he is ordered to 'eat his own penis' on camera.
• Evil vs. Evil: One of the funniest examples ever.
• Exact Words:
  • "I see Oscars and Tonys in your future!"
  • These pills make you look thinner.
• Explosive Instrumentation: The stopwatch exploded in Waiting for the Bus because the 50mph man runs too fast...
• Extreme Omnivore: This guy.
  • Also these guys.
• Eye Scream: The Purple-Shirted Eye Stabber's M.O.
  • Also, these comics.
  • This example.
  • This comic is about a guy's eyes being dragon eyes.
• Eye Shock: They don't go back, though.
  • In two recent strips, it was combined weirdly with Black Bead Eyes.
• "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: Inverted.
• Fan Disservice: A sexy car wash soon turns into Nausea Fuel.
• Faux Horrific / Absurd Phobia: Just when you thought pregnancies, fathers who don't love their families anymore, being stuck in a slowly dying mortal body that can't fly, Ivy League schools and long lost children are scary...
• Felony Misdemeanor: This guy is really mad about his roses.
• Flat "What.": This comic, which also counts as a Fridge Logic moment:
  The "she" in "that's what she said" is really annoying in bed.
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: The purple shirted eye-stabber.
• Fourth Wall Psych: Considering how weak the fourth wall typically is, this comes at a bit of a surprise.
• Frame Break: Here and here.
• Friend to All Living Things: Subverted.
• Fright-Induced Bunkmate: Here, we see a ghoulish cyclops appear over someone's bed... because it had a bad dream and needs someone to sleep with.
• Gallows Humor: "Cancer comes with a free robot!?!"
• Gasshole: This strip.
• Ghostly Gape: Strip 4008 has the third panel where the doctor scares his victim away.
• Glasgow Grin: Satan, when depicted, is shown to wear one of these.
• Go Out with a Smile: See Better To Diethan Be Killed. and also One of the character's dad's death. Doubles as a Funny Moment.
  • Also this guy.
• Godwin's Law: Even with hi fives.
• Gold Digger: Subverted. She's a literal gold digger, and he's the figurative one.
• Gone Horribly Right: Cloning yourself won't alleviate loneliness.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: Invoked as they discuss the merits of cheating on a science project.
• Good Cop/Bad Cop: Double subverted in the animated short, "The Interrogation".
• Goodbye, Cruel World!: Matt created his last comic in which Blueshirt decided to write a suicide note, goes to space and hangs himself in said space.
  • This strip is when a woman hanged herself, leaving a note that says "I'm fine".
  • Too hardcore for this world.
  • This kid wrote a suicide note with poor grammar.
  • This strip right here.
• Goomba Stomp: ...A darkly hilarious variation.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: Not what you'd expect, though...
• Groin Attack: "Congratulations, it's a girl!"
  • EQUALITY!
  • Problem solved.
• Gross-Up Close-Up: Betcha didn't think the characters are as ugly on the outside as they are on the inside.
  • Need more proof? Of course you do.
• Grotesque Cute: The stick figures drawn by Kris and Dave are somewhat adorable. Sadly, the cuteness probably won't stay.
• Handicapped Badass: Suzy in the Gym Class short. And how.
• Hands-On Approach: Parodied here.
• Has Two Thumbs and...: This strip.
• Heel–Face Turn: The Purple Shirted Eye Stabber finds himself homeless and without meaning in life...then aliens with massive eyes land on Earth attacking humans. He got to work immediately.◊
• The Hero Dies: The 50 Mph Man, the protagonist of "Waiting for the Bus". How he died? He tries to start running again as an old man, but poor eyesight, lots of rain, and a wall do not mix.
• Hipster: Mocked a few times, like here, here, here, and here.
• Historical In-Joke: Apparently, Edvard Munch used a live model as reference for "The Scream".
• Hitler Ate Sugar: This comic.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Wordplay on the phrase, not an actual example.
• I Always Wanted to Say That: Parodied or deconstructed, depending on how you look at it.
• The Illuminati: They apparently control the food pyramid.
• Impossible Thief: "The greatest thief I've ever met!"
  • The guy in this strip, who somehow took the other person's heart without him noticing.
• Incoming Ham: Here comes the drama teacher.
• It Always Rains at Funerals: Even cellphones aren't exempt.
• It Came from the Fridge: "Oh! There it is".
• It's What I Do: In this strip, a woman mentions that she's a full-time mom. The person she's speaking to asks "Who'd you fuck to get that job?", which normally is an insult, but here there's a perfectly good response to it — "My husband."
• Jail Bait Wait: With a touch of incest.
• Jesus Was Way Cool: Being crucified? Put some wheels on that cross and go skating like a boss. Sunglasses are included.
• Kick the Dog: Literally.
• Lame Pun Reaction: Characters reacting badly to silly puns is the basis of a few strips, like this one.
• Lampshade Hanging: Did someone say ''hat off?''
• Last Request:
  • Jesus uses his last meal request to get fish and bread, and multiplies them to allow him to escape crucifixion
  • A death row inmate orders a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Innocuous, right? The inmate is deathly allergic to peanuts and uses this to avoid execution.
• Late to the Punchline: Hey, wait a minute!
• Literal-Minded: Where plenty of the gags come from.
  • One particularly notable example of this was the 'Facebook' strip.
  • In a combination of horrible puns, literal-mindedness, really old references, and nudity, Pole Position.
  • "u no if n e milk is in fridge?" "i dunno. go to fridge and c4 yourself"
  • "Just listen to your heart." Two for the price of one.
  • "You know the camera adds 10 pounds."
  • "You need a 180 to win."
• The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: Put to Mind Screw-y use in this strip.
• Logic Bomb: The fate of Attorney-Tron.
• The Long List: Of diseases.
• Made of Plasticine: Ice cream cones are dangerous.
• Magic Feather: Can I have my money back?
  • Four examples of varying awesomeness.
• Male Frontal Nudity: C'mon Man.
• Mathematician's Answer: To "Did you say 'excitement' or 'excrement'?"
• Matryoshka Object: Russian prostitutes.
• Medium Awareness: "It's not your turn. Why are you here?" and "Oh my God, there is only three panels!!"
• Mexican Standoff: Another literal case...^note ...Ultimately subverted.
• Minor Injury Overreaction & Major Injury Underreaction: Used at the same time!^note By the way, the thing that was bothering the character wasn't even an injury.
• Mood Whiplash: The New Year's time travel series of comics is usually humorous, but one of them is part of a Depressing Comic Week. It's fairly jarring. The next strip we see them in still has the dog's blood on the time machine.
• Mundane Ghost Story: 4102.
  • Another fine example is seen in this strip.
• Mundane Made Awesome: The Man Who Could Sit Anywhere
  • Also The Book
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Subverted. Two men fighting over a girl kill her to solve the problem, instead.
• Must Not Die a Virgin: "Um... That line only works if I'm about to die."
• My Eyes Are Up Here: But this guy knows what he's looking at...
• Nameless Narrative
• Nightmare Sequence: More of a very strange hallucination sequence; Larry has one in "It's a Sad Christmas, Larry" that depicts the car crash that killed Larry's dad and put Larry in a wheelchair.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Vampire Zombie Werewolf, actually. And herpes.
• No Fourth Wall
• "No. Just... No" Reaction: The common reaction to puns.
• No Mouth: Comics drawn by either Kris or Dave feature characters with no mouths when they're not talking.
• No Sympathy: Ted Bear doesn't want to bite off his penis for the sake of his show. Nobody else cares. He ask's why they don't just use effects. The producer demands he do it live on camera or he's fired.
• Nonstandard Character Design: It has been used from time to time. For example...
  • In this comic.
  • And this one... Which might be one of the most disturbing things shown in this comic so far.
• Not His Blood: Played for Bloody Hilarious in this strip where a character throws up blood only to add that it's not his.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: "This conversation actually happened."
  • The Take That! directed at Ctrl+Alt+Del is titled "Tim Actually Said This."
• N-Word Privileges: Played with on this strip.
  • Parodied and subverted here with Holocaust jokes.
  • Parodied again here.
• Oh, Crap!: The Wardrobe has the pedophile expressing this when the kid remove his disguise to show a lion(another costume/disguise).
• Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List: Subverted in this strip.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: It sure would be nice to know how those guys got chopped in half and decapitated.
• Old Friend, New Gender:
  • Played with somehow...
  • Also done here
• Onion Tears: Subverted or something.
• Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?: Double Subverted here.
  • Regular Subverted here.
  • "YOU SICK SON OF A BITCH!"
  • Played completely backwards but without actually saying the "happy to see me" part.
• Ouija Board: These four comics, seriously.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: And whenwolves, whywolves, and whowolves.
• Overly Long Gag:
  • So long it needs a scroll bar.
  • "Ow, My Dick" has a guy screaming somebody hurt his dick for the entire duration of the episode (four minutes) and there isn't even a satisfying punchline.
  • Mocked in "Ted Bear 3", where he suddenly appears and shows the entire video, and then again in slow-motion. All as an April Fool's joke.
  • A guy tries his hand at a "Test Your Patience" sideshow game. He's still waiting for the result in a later strip.
• Overly Pre-Prepared Gag: this strip.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The 50 Mph Man and his wife dress accordingly, as do their children (one son and one daughter).
  • Well, to be fair, the wife dresses in more of a light purple...
• Plucky Comic Relief: Done super-straight.
• Precious Puppies: Uh, you be the judge of that...
• Prosthetic Limb Reveal: Parodied in a skit about an old sailor who tells a tale about how he wasted his life hunting for the elusive buttshark. He claims that the buttshark took his butt, among other things. When the listener mockingly questions this, the sailor turns around to reveal... peg legs in place of his buttcheeks.
• Raging Stiffie: Inverted here.
• Rambling Old Man Monologue: Can come in handy on occasion.
• Reality Ensues: In this strip. That's actually a fairly accurate depiction of how real boomerangs (fail to) work!
• Red Herring: A lesson on how to use it. ^note or was it "how NOT to use it"?
• Refuge in Audacity: Exemplified by this comic.
• Rule of Three: The third time the same joke is used, it's typically curveballed. Case in point.
  • And another example.
  • And yet another one
  • Also these ones.
• Running Gag: Tons.
  • The Purple-shirted Eye Stabber is one of note, though he has since deceased fighting huge aliens. Godspeed, Purple-shirted Eye Stabber - godspeed.
    • He got better!
  • There's also the old man who becomes a seagull by flapping his hair like wings and detatching his head.
  • *squeeze*
  • Every depressing comic week contains something getting killed by a car.
  • "Did someone say [X]-off?" Followed by two characters trying to outdo each other at whatever [X] is. Inevitably led up to this.
  • Random superheroes with unusually specific powers/themes.
• Sailor Earth: Parodied using Captain Planet and the Planeteers as an example here.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: With a big dose of Squick inducing it...
  "What exactly are you searching for?"
• Self-Deprecation: Also counts as Hypocritical Humor in this strip.
  • This comic was one of the winners in a rewrite contest.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: "...I wish the guys were here."
  • Which is a straight retelling of a classic joke.
• Shaped Like Itself: THOSE MEAN THE SAME DAMN THING!!
• Shout-Out: To the infamous "horse's head in a bed" scene of The Godfather.
  • And this one to the "Small, far away" scene.
  • This one to Christina Aguilera's "Candyman" video.
  • This comic is drawn in the style of xkcd.
• Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Played for Squickiness.
• Slasher Smile: "I do it for the ol' fashioned joy of killing."
  • Also courtesy of the cupid himself.◊
• Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism - One moment the strip is Black Comedy, the next it's standard, and there are times where it gets innocently silly.
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: "THAT'S NOT A REAL CURSE!"
• Stable Time Loop: HELLO!
• Stealth Insult: This one.
• Stick-Figure Comic
• Strange Minds Think Alike: See the first strip, among others.
• Straw Feminist: Defied here.
• Take That!:
  • Rips Ctrl+Alt+Del a new one in this comic.
  • Also in the opening week of August 2009, they all took turns doing strips for one another in the other artists' "style." Each was a Take That! against whichever artist they were covering for, with the fun starting here.
  • Getting punched in the face is better than the Twilight movie.
  • Makes fun of Nickelback here.
  • They also make fun of Metallica here.
  • This strip works as a generic Take That against all those run-of-the-mill Webcomics about Two Gamers on a Couch with lots of Walls of Text.
  • The Radioactive Sparrow Man (he was bitten by a radioactive sparrow)
  • A direct and simple, yet hilarious, meta-example appears on this strip.
  • "I don't understand why you're against gay marriage."
  • To Bitcoin, here.
  • Someone did not like high school geography...
  • Buzzfeed isn't very well liked.
  • This strip sums up this trope in 3 panels.
  • One to candy advertising.
  • They apparently do not like the selfie stick that can be used with phones...
• Take That, Critics!: "Youtuber comments on the more recent Cyanide and Happiness videos
• Tempting Fate: "What if she doesn't have any skin?"
• Those Two Guys: The green shirted and turquoise shirted figures who star in the random comic generator, and they literally have an endless possibility of, well, random misadventures to go on.
• Throwing Off the Disability: raarodied. Inspiring comic day!
• Title Drop: Here: 04.15.2005
• Unishment: A father, annoyed at his children's repeated "Are We There Yet?", turns around back to Disneyland.
• Too Dumb to Live: If every spam email on your phone came true, including the ad that allowed your penis to instantly grow as long as you are tall, why would you ignore one that threatened to kill you?
• Undead Child: Johnny the ghost kid from Strip 3898.
• Unsettling Gender Reveal:
  • Inverted. Or something like that.
  • Played straight here.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: These guys aren't terribly excited about catching a glimpse of Superman.
• Viewers Are Geniuses:
  • People who don't know that C4 is a plastic explosive will never get this one.
  • This comic will require a bit of web browser knowledge to get.
• Visual Pun: In this comic, a guy laments the lack of beer with "Aw man". In the next panel, a superhero with 'AW' emblazoned on his chest touches down...
• Wangst: Invoked with The Incredible Sulk!
• White Dude, Black Dude: Parodied.
• Who You Gonna Call?: Not exactly.
• Wingding Eyes: Doesn't stop at his eyes, though.
• Wishing for More Wishes: In this strip, a character successfully bypasses the three-wishes-per-genie rule by wishing for more genies.
• World of Pun: Half the point of the comic are the absolutely horrendous puns.
• Worth It:
  • Here. Winning that thumb war was very important, apparently.
  • Jesus's comment about a joke he made.
• Yaoi Fangirl: Then give him butt-to-butt resuscitation!
• You Wanna Get Sued?: "Blast!! Copyright-Infringement-Man!"
• Your Head Asplode: Somewhat common. Usually caused by a Logic Bomb, although there have been exceptions.
• Your Mom: "That's what your mom said when I banged her...twenty-six years ago."

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