Webcomic / Sugar Bits

Run, run, run as fast as you can, can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!

Somewhere in a world unseen by human eyes, lies a realm known as Harmonia. It is a place that represents the good things in life: Toys, Love, Sweets, you name it. That last one falls under the jurisdiction of the kingdom of Confectionaria, and it is they who make all things which tickle our sweet tooth. It is a delicious place, though not without danger: plaque monsters and the like invade the kingdom on a regular basis. Confectionaria is ruled over by as-of-yet king, along with his daughter, Princess Ginger. Lately, however, Ginger has not been herself, and this catches the attention of Hansel, the gingerbread captain of the royal guards, baked up by Ginger herself. One thing leads into another, and the two find themselves pulled into a bleak world with numerous dark forces gunning for them. And that's just the top of the cupcake.

The third Webcomic by Vinson Ngo a.k.a Bleedman (fourth if you count his one-shot for The King of Fighters) but, unlike Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi and Grim Tales from Down Below, this one is not a fanwork but an original creation of the author using fairy tales for the inspiration (i.e The Gingerbread Man among others). He announced the creation of Sugar Bits in 2007, uploading character designs till the comic eventually started over at Snafu-Comics (by that point Bleed had moved all of his webcomics there, making this his only webcomic not started on DA.)

Like much of Bleedman's work, the comic tends to tread the line between cute and cuddly and nightmarish and grotesque. Though out of his three comics, Sugar Bits has the least amount of bloodshed and mature themes.

It can be found here.

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The webcomic has the following examples of:

• Action Girl: Bo and the other female Bravehearts. Cupcake kicks ass as well.
• All Just a Dream: For the little red riding hood.
  • Or Was It a Dream?: Most likely the Red that was chained was her subconscious, since all the rest are still fighting.
• Almost Dead Guy: Bo after catching an attack. One attack too many.
• Art Evolution: Wolf first appeared as a Living Shadow, but later in the story was drawn with detailed brown fur.
• The Atoner: Wolf implies that Brave is this.
• Author Cameo: Tell me if Boobear doesn't look a lot like Bleedman.
• Badass Adorable Don't underestimate Hansel's just cause of his cute looks, he can throw down with the best of them. Bo isn't no slouch either.
• Bait-and-Switch: When Boobear shows up, his speech and mannerisms makes him seem like a child molester. Then he gets stabbed to death by the little girl he was talking too. The picture he was carrying implies that Boobear is genuinely a nice guy.

• Big Red Devil: Gene, assuming he's a devil of some sort. He also has horns.
• BFS: One of Bo's weapons.
• Blood from the Mouth: Bo
• Canon Welding: With Skullboy story "Deliver Us Evil". It's revealed in Sugar Bits that the pizza Skullboy was delivering (and got attacked by angels for) was for Gene and his guests.

• Chivalrous Pervert: Brave. When Hansel is accused of getting frisky with Ginger and Cupcake, the other Braves berate Hansel while Brave gives him a thumbs up with a gleam in his eye. He repeats this when Ginger kisses Hansel.
• Crossover: Surprisingly not with a TV show but with a fellow Snafu-Comics series, Ever After. Red appears as a lackey of Licorice and the Big Bad Wolf shows up at the end of Chapter 2.
• Cute Bruiser: Hansel and Bo. Also Cupcake, of all people.
• Dark Action Girl: Licorice, from what is seen.
• Dark Is Evil: Mindsnare.
• Deadpan Snarker: Ginger, Licorice, Gene, Robin and Bo love getting their snark on.
• Determinator: Hansel and Brave.
• Down the Rabbit Hole: Or more like warp gate. One of the characters also sprouts this line.
• The Dreaded: Everyone fears Bleed Heart.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Bleedman clearly started work on this while Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi was first published, as Ginger is showcased among the first cartoon chart on Deviantart as well as a prototype comic.

• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Licorice.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When Brave manages to defeat the Big Bad Wolf, Wolf asks what keeps him going. Brave answers "Courage" which prompt this response...
  Wolf: That's...a load of shi--SPLAT-

• Evil Twin: Licorice to Ginger, though as the arc draws to a close it is heavily implied that she is more the physical manifestation of Ginger's grief over her mother's loss, specifically the anger and bargaining. So she's more an Enemy Without.

• Food Fight: There was one with cakes.
• Furry Confusion: Cupcake, a bunny humanoid with a bunny pet.

• Girl with Psycho Weapon: Licorice loves to turn lollipops into mini spears. Also, Gene's maid and a butchering knife.
• Gory Discretion Shot: Ouch.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Justified, as it's quite reasonable that living confections would use "fudge" as an expletive.
  • And then Licorice drops an F-Bomb and S-bomb in the same speech panel. That might just be her character, but it was kinda shocking.
  • Bo curses when sufficiently stressed, just in symbols.
• The Grim Reaper: At least implied with Bleed Heart who was first shown when he came to take away Queen Hope's body after she died.
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: Licorice calls Gene Ginger's boyfriend, she denies such thing.
  Licorice: Oh sweet! Dibs then.
• Heroic BSoD: Bo seems to be having one on top of Heroic RRoD.

• Innocently Insensitive: Bo is not happy when the first thing Hansel asks her is if she knows anything about "Sugar Bits" instead of say, if she's feeling better after nearly dying.
• Invisible to Normals: Licorice, as she's the Split Personality later Enemy Without of Ginger. Beside her, Bleedheart could see and touch her even, and just for a few seconds, King saw her too.
• Ironic Nursery Tune: "Mary had a little lamb, a lamb that she soon lost. And no one tried to find this lamb, not at any cost..."
• Kill the Cutie: Bo appears to be heading towards this.
  • As of this comic, it may be averted. She's in critical condition, but not dead yet.
  • Cue this comic. She's getting better. And feeling better, too.
• King of Beasts: King, a talking Lion who's leader of the Bravehearts and King of Confectionaria.
• Lack of Empathy: Bleed Heart's done his duty as a grim reaper for so long and has heard the pleas of so many spirits he's grown deaf to them.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Brave pulls this, but he seems to be Nigh-Invulnerable and possesses Super-Strength, he's fine.
• Little Miss Badass: Bo.
• Little Miss Snarker: Ginger.
• Love Imbues Life: Gingerbread men only come to life if they are baked with love. Ginger failed to make a live one many times before her mother revealed this to her. By following her mother's advice, Ginger was finally able to bake a living gingerbread man: Hansel.
• Loves My Alter Ego: Inverted. Licorice has her eye on Gene, who may or may not like Ginger.
• Love Triangle: Bo seems to have a thing for Hansel, who does like her but has a crush on Ginger, who has a thing for him and therefore gets jealous when he's around Bo. Yeah, I'd say this qualifies.
• Magic Skirt: Not only is this a given, but Bleedman one-ups it with Magic Towels!
• Mind-Control Eyes: Something's not right here.
• Missing Mom: Ginger's mother, Lady Hope, died of an illness when she was a little girl. The current arc is a result of Ginger and Licorice trying to find Bleedheart, this world's version of The Grim Reaper, and in doing so seeing her mother again.

• More Dakka: Excessive force indeed.
• Ninja Kindling: Brave slips Robin out of her cloak, leaving a bundle of kindling in her place. It takes three pages for her to notice she's naked.
• Not Herself: Ginger at the beginning, according with Cupcake and Hansel, the ones that know her better. Later revealed it could have been Licorice all along since as Ginger's Split Personality, other couldn't see Licorice acting through Ginger's body.
• Playing with Fire: As this strip shows, Brave and Hansel apply for this trope. Hansel deserves special mention, since he deals in vibrant blue flames.

• The Power of Love: Ginger's mother once told her that gingerbread men will only come to life if they are baked with love.
• Princesses Prefer Pink/Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Ginger's outfit and her royal dress are pink with purple details.
• Putting on the Reich: BleedHeart, ruler of the Sorrow Sanctum. This is most visibly evident in his hat and boots.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Licorice, combined with...
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Licorice.
• Requisite Royal Regalia: To show that Ginger is "tamed" again after getting caught and brought back to Confectionaria, she's wearing her royal dress and crown again while grounded.
• The Runaway: Ginger (and Licorice by extension) have escaped her house arrest and is wandering Dystopius.
• Scars are Forever: Bleed Heart's arms are still raw and skinless after Brave burned them.
• Sexual Euphemism: This gem.◊
• Ship Tease:
  • Hansel and Ginger. Which considering she created him... But that hasn't stopped Bleedman before.
  • There's also Bo's rather obvious crush on Hansel.
  • The new version give us some Ginger and Gene. See Umbrella of Togetherness below.
• Shout-Out:
  • Ever wonder what Kratos would look like as a giant werewolf?
  • The Brave Little Toaster is a Braveheart. Makes sense.
• Silent Bob: Brave only communicates through hand signs.
  • Averted once here. It counts as a Shut Up, Hannibal! moment, to say nothing of a Moment of Awesome.
• Split Personality: Licorice became one for Ginger, a la Smeagol/Gollum style.

• "Take That!" Kiss: Ginger gives one to Hansel, but as a Take That! to everyone except him.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Gene; lampshaded by Licorice.
  Hellooooooooooo...
• The Unintelligible: Professor Cocoa who only talks in raspberries.
• Title Drop: On this page. Lampshaded by the special font used for it.
• Umbrella of Togetherness: Gene brings an umbrella with him because a storm is coming and pulls Ginger in just when it started, to Licorice's delight.

• Webcomic Time: "Finally! It seems like this fight's been going on for a year!"
• Yandere: Gene's maid didn't like what she saw.
• You Are Grounded!: Ginger is under "house arrest" inside her room after all she has done. Strictly speaking, it's a slap on the wrist considering everything that happened, but the fact that it was really the doing of her Enemy Without probably alleviated the sentence she would otherwise have received.
• You Do NOT Want To Know: Pretty much a motto of Dystopius.

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