The current Wattpad cover of the webcomic.
The Free Willies is a webcomic on Tumblr
and Wattpad by April Elliot Lee (aprilleeofficial). The Wattpad description for the webcomic is as follows: "When old memes start taking over a tragic all-girls high school, it's up to six lame-os to embark on an inter-dimensional adventure and use their wits, poor athleticism, and various memeing skills to save their school."This comic contains examples of:
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truer than putin's hotness
- Big Word Shout: Done by all the characters, but especially Reed. A lot of her speech is also Punctuated! For! Emphasis!.
- Deadpan Snarker: Aaron and Naomi, and Amber to some extent.
- Not Listening to Me, Are You?: Nia says "Wait, what? Sorry, wasn't listening." after the janitor teleports them to P. E. class.
- This Loser Is You
all this frickety frack just to get our sub-par school back
- Blind Obedience: The kids express this towards the janitor.
- Cool Gate: the portal.
- No One Gets Left Behind: Subverted during the Pepe crisis.
memein where no meme has memed before
- Line-of-Sight Alias: Mysterious Monocle Man subverts this when he's asked his name, looks at three items, and then responds with a name (Alec Giav Mayst) completely unrelated to the three items.
- Significant Anagram:
- REABANDONING, obviously, is an anagram of the main six kids' initials.
- Mysterious Monocle Man's alias, Alec Giav Mayst, is an anagram of "Malagasy civet", which is another name for the fossa fossana, his true form!
- The Chosen One: the main six kids, according to the REABANDONING prophecy.
- Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: The Tumblr and Wattpad have ask boxes.
- No Fourth Wall: The fourth wall is especially broken by any shapeshifter characters, namely Mysterious Monocle Man, the Shapeshifter, and the Jamnitor.
Trivia:
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Write Who You Know: The author says the 6 main characters were based on him and his friends at the time of the comic's beginning. Although it might have been meant to be Life Embellished at first, it quickly subverts that trope as the plot thickens. - Fandom Nod: Aaron references My Chemical Romance and he wears a Panic! at the Disco hoodie. In some art he also wears a Slytherin scarf. The tagline "The most mixed up non-delinquents on the block" is from the song Beauty School Dropout in the musical Grease.
