Webcomic / The Non-Adventures of Wonderella

They're super over here, but not over there.

"I started out Wonderella to make an off-the-clock superhero who was an average woman instead of some 24/7 warrior... though somewhere along the line, 'average woman' became a cross between Elaine Benes and Zelda Fitzgerald."

— Justin Pierce

The Non-Adventures of Wonderella is a parody of the DC Comics character Wonder Woman and many superhero tropes in general. It focuses mainly on the mundane parts of the life of Wonderella, a lazy Ladette superheroine who demonstrates little interest in being a hero... or, in fact, doing anything much outside of partying, getting completely wasted, violence, and shopping. She is super-strong, super-durable, she can't fly but she can "totally jump hella high", when tied up she can hork up a giant octopus, she can tell plants to die, and she can curl up in a perfect ball when traumatized. She also has a rarely-used invisible blimp, and the tendency to make prejudiced remarks (especially about gay men, but pretty much every minority group gets a turn).

From September 9, 2006, to August 28, 2016, the comic usually updated on Saturdays, and was accompanied by a message from the writer. Starting in September 2016, Pierce decided to produce longer stories, requiring a more sporadic schedule. As of the beginning of 2022, it looks like the comic has ended, with no new updates since 2019.

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This webcomic provides examples of:

• A-Cup Angst: Mentioned in passing a couple of times, and the driving motivation for this strip.
• An Aesop: Even villains must help teach children lessons.
• Affectionate Parody: The comic as a whole is one of superhero comics in general and Wonder Woman in particular.
  • Specific instances:
    • Of Dinosaur Comics in this strip. Features genuine Ryan North T-Rex dialogue!
    • Of silent cartoons, complete with an Art Shift.
    • Of Back to the Future in this strip.
• Alliterative Title:
  • Roll Reversal.
• All Myths Are True: Wonderella is the child of a generic vaguely Greco-Roman Godhead (manifested as a shiny white sphere). She's also met Jesus (and his father, totally different from the aforementioned Godhead), Satan, various other demons including Moloch, Odin, Thor, Gaia, Santa (she killed him!), Krampus, and Faeries (her sister rules them, apparently). Figures of conflicting theological origins are A-OK.
• Alt Text: Used for humorous self-commentary:
  • EASTER Pussycat Kill KillThe rabbit was meant to be the least scary thing on this page, but somehow the opposite happened.
• Alter-Ego Acting: Justin Pierce's Twitter feed is 100% in-character as Wonderella.
• Ambiguously Bi: Wonderella often dates men, but she also gets into situations with Hitlerella that could be read as bickering girlfriends, has groped Plunderella's behind, and has a pretty obvious crush on Fantomah. An imaginary Ani Difranco explicitly states that Wonderella is a closeted bisexual.
• Anthropomorphic Typography: The strip "Sequential THWART" involves Wonderella and Wonderita getting teleported into the realm of anthropomorphic numbers. They solve a mystery involving number Six stealing Nine's identity, find out the hard way that reciting the digits of Pi is the local religion, and drop as many math puns as possible along the way.
  Prince Seven: I should have known you'd be plotting some angle, Uncle! How could I be so obtuse?!
• April Fools' Day:
  • The latest comics were slightly tweaked◊ for 2009.
  • In 2012, NonAdventures.com was replaced with NoNadVentures.com (a replacement-testicles-for-pets company parodying the genuine Neuticles).
  • In 2014, Justin Pierce re-released ""Rhapsody in Booze" with Jabba the Hutt in place of Wonderella, claiming this better matched his "creative vision".
• Arbitrary Skepticism: The Alt Text in this strip, after magic is dismissed as nonsense:
  "Like all good comic book scientists, Dr. Shark is willing to ignore massive swaths of his own inexplicable universe."
  • In another strip, Wonderella explains to some villagers that "Witches are FAKE, like unicorns, or narwhals!", after a leprechaun sends her back in time. Of course she's wrong about the witches.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Wonderella gets turned into monster size and attacks the city.
• Bat Deduction: The Quizzicle is counting on Wonderella to make one of these. Even the Alt Text notes how there was a fatal flaw in that plan from the very beginning.
• Bat Signal: Wonderella has one. It's a toss-up whether she pays attention to it or not.
• Beware the Nice Ones: And here you thought Rita's only personality trait was being The Ditz. Think again!
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Rita certainly has her moments, despite looking and acting like an airheaded sidekick. Like the time she murdered Ito so he didn't take her job. Or that she frequently ghosts men that date her. Even Dana was horrified by that one.
• Black Dude Dies First: Inverted — Queen Beetle's one of the few superheroes who's never had to come back from the dead.
• Blasphemous Boast: "God answers to ME!"
• Breast Expansion: Even if you shouldn't have breasts at all.
  "Due to overwhelming reader response, I have added breasts to the space dinosaur cowboy."
• Breath Weapon: A result of nuclear exposure.
• Brick Joke: The monster who first appears here pops up again here.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Premature EVACUATION: Devlin says he had a "pants accident", but he means he Jizzed in My Pants.
• Brown Bag Mask: Wonderella dons one of these to hide from her past self. Her past self notices, but draws a penis on the bag instead of investigating.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: This would be an example where the hero said something like that...if Dana qualified as a hero.
  Dana: Who the christ are you?
  Devlin: Er, I'm Devlin. You drove us off a cliff and nearly killed me last year, remember? Hell, we got married two years ago!
  Dana: I marry or nearly kill lots of guys. You'll have to be more specific.
• Butterface: Wonderella describes Earth as this.
• Butterfly of Doom: Daylight Savings CRIME.
  Wonderita: Just seems like there are risks in altering the past, ya know?
  Wonderella: Risks like everything going exactly perfectly, maybe.
• Call-Back: Frequent. For one example, when Nixon is cursed by an ice elemental, Wonderella suggests they build a snowman...with results that apparently occur "every frickin' time."
• The Cameo: Stephen Fry appears as Holmes' brother Mycroft in a strip which came out just after the announcement that he would be in the next Sherlock Holmes film.
• Canon Immigrant: Fantomah is no expy. She's the genuine article, either the very first (or possibly the second) superheroine in all of comics history — and he characterization is spot-on.
• Can't Believe I Said That: This strip.
  Wonderella: ...that's like the worst comeback ever uttered by the human mouth.
• Captain Ersatz: The vast majority of the cast, some being more blatant than others.
  • Wonderella is Wonder Woman with Superman's origin.
  • Wonderita is Donna Troy mixed with Robin.
  • Titania is Hippolyta.
  • Penumbra is Doctor Strange, with a dose of Raven thrown in.
  • Hitlerella is the Red Skull and Baroness von Gunther.
  • Queen Beetle is The Wasp.
  • Doctor Shark is Curt Connors, AKA the Lizard.
  • Intelli-Ape is Gorilla Grodd.
  • KGBetty is Red Guardian and KGBeast.
  • Ginormus is Galactus.
  • Spirral is Starro.
  • Patrianna is Captain America.
  • Jokerella is The Joker, sort of. (More like Harley Quinn in a world without her beloved Mr. J.)
  • The Orchid is Poison Ivy.
  • Speedstar is The Flash.
  • Firebrand is Firestar.
  • The Quizzicle is The Riddler.
  • Cinnaman is the Marvel Sandman.
  • Teen Angel is a villain version of Angel.
  • Paris Troika is Triplicate Girl
  • Cooper and Cementron are Optimus Prime and Megatron. And they're gay.
  • Strawman is Scarecrow. (Replace fear with irrationality.)
  • Harmageddon is Apocalypse.
  • Penemue is Trigon the Terrible.
  • Jeremy Irons, despite being a real person, is used here as a reference to John Henry Irons, who was one of the replacement Supermen during The Death of Superman.
  • Sirena is Namor the Submariner.
• Captain Patriotic: Patrianna. To a lesser extent Lady Liberty.
  • Deconstructed with Uncle Slam, who's supposed to embody the spirit of America...except the America of 2016 is so polarized it's basically left Uncle Slam with a split personality.
• Car Fu: She doesn't even remember her own strength!
• Card-Carrying Villain: Amongst Wonderella's Rogues Gallery, Hitlerella is really the only one enthused about evil as a concept.
• Care-Bear Stare: The actual stare from Care Bears turns out to have bad effects.
• Catchphrase: "Time to get wonderful!" To Wonderella's horror.
  • "To the time machine!" whenever she decides to time travel. Which she seems to do every five minutes or so.
• Character Blog: Twitterella. Notably, it's remained active while the comic tapered off in 2019.
• The Chew Toy: Jokerella.
• Clip Show: Briefly.
  "Don't you hate when lazy sitcoms reuse old material in clip shows?"
• Clothes Make the Maniac: The dress is made from evil incarnate, but it was marked 70% off.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Rita.
• Combining Mecha: Penumbra's Faerie Force provides a magical version.
• Combo Platter Powers: As mentioned in the description above, Wonderella's powers include Super Strength, being able to kill plants on command, and vomiting an octopus. She's hinted at further powers as well.
• Come Back Tomorrow
• Comedic Sociopathy: Wonderella's blatant disregard for the safety and well-being of everything other than herself (and possibly, her mother). Lampshaded when she travels to a Mirror Universe (see below).
• Comic Book Death: "Rita, Rita. Superheroes don't die. And if they do, they come back in like, a week!"
  • Lampshaded here:
    Wonderella: Apparently a lot of 'em are dead now.
    Crowd: GASP!
    Wonderella: Superhero dead, guys.
    Crowd: Ohhhhh.
• Comically Missing the Point: Wonderella embodies this trope.
  • When acting as Firebrand's attorney, she insists she's qualified because she's seen the first half of every Law & Order episode. With only the occasional rare exception, the first half of every episode of that show focuses on the cops tracking down the suspect, with the trial beginning in the second half.
• Continuity Nod: "The Easter Bunny doesn't exist!" "Gasp! What about Santa?" "Sure, 'til I killed him!"
• Conveniently an Orphan: Wonderita doesn't have any parents. It's the reason Wonderella even took her in as a sidekick. One strip in 2016 hints that Wonderella herself might be her mother.
• Cool Crown: Wonderella, her mother, and Wonderita have tiaras as part of their superhero outfits...though strangely they wear it with their civilian outfits too.
• Composite Character: Wonderella is, of course, based on Wonder Woman, but as the author notes she rapidly became a composite of Wonder Woman, Elaine Benes and Zelda Fitzgerald.
• Crossover Cosmology: Lampshaded in the end of the Saving Christmas two-parter; then later, with the Norse.
• Curse Cut Short: When Wonderella appears on children's television.
  Wonderella: You wanna know what you can't do on television?! YOU CAN ALL GO FU-
• Cursed with Awesome: Any blade that Rita touches now becomes dull as a river-washed stone. This includes blades attacking her.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Invoked here upon Wonderella's disappearance, but Hitlerella immediately gives it all up when she returns.
• Cuteness Proximity: Turns out the best counter for Kitlerella (the catverse version of Hitlerella) is to bring the human Hitlerella over and let her gush all over her. Who knew?
• Cyberspace: Wonderella saved it from whitespace sites trying to take over.
• Darker and Edgier: As with everything she does, Jokerella screws this up. Although Hitlerella also had her own embarrassing Darker and Edgier stage.
  • His depiction in Killroy and Tina is an unusual take on the archetype. The story begins with Killroy already defeated and put on trial by the galaxy's superheroes as punishment, stripped of his powers and exiled to a backwater planet named Earth. It's uncertain whether Killroy genuinely makes a Heel–Face Turn, or is just biding his time until he can escape and enslave the galaxy again. (The comic was abandoned before the story arc could get any closure.)
  • In The Non-Adventures of Wonderella he's a straightforward Darkseid expy, although Played for Laughs. His attempts to conquer Earth are undone by bizarre shenanigans, like Wonderella vomiting a giant octopus onto him, or his getting distracted by arguments over billboard punctuation.
• Deadpan Snarker: Wonderella's mother.
• Deal with the Devil: Wonderella learns a harsh lesson in avoiding this.
• Death Glare: Jesus Christ gives one.
• Deconstructive Parody
• Digital Piracy Is Evil: Wonderella Sr. did an old video promoting the web, which included a message about this trope... in rap form.
• Disney Owns This Trope:
  • Universal forbade Rita from asking a flapper to go "Back to the Future" with her and Dana.
  • When Santa Claus came back from the dead to seek revenge against Wonderella, she locked him in the Disney Vault.
  • The day after an April Fool's prank turned Wonderella into Jabba the Hutt, Justin Pierce reported that Disney forced him to change Wonderella back to normal.
• Do Not Adjust Your Set: Hiterella takes over Wonderella's TV signal.
• Does Not Like Guns: "Superheroes aren't supposed to use guns, but bludgeoning people with giant, metal implements? Totally kosher."
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Being an archnemesis. Seems it requires lots of dedication and the unspoken agreement to limit torture and captivity to a single heroine (or her plucky sidekick). The heroine, by herself, is bound to listen her nemesis' villainous rants and, after beating her nemesis, stay there until the police comes. Connect some dots...
• Dresses the Same: Parodied, as they're both *evil* outfits.
• Drugs Are Bad: Parodied. Beer and cigarettes are the way to go.
• Dude, Not Funny!: Wonderella calls this on herself when she sees Queen Beetle looking depressed:
  Wonderella: It's Mardi Gras! You need a hurricane in each hand. Is that too soon? Might be too soon.
• Dude, Not Ironic: Rita's punishment isn't ironic, as her punishment didn't fit her crime.
• Dumbass Has a Point: Wonderella might be a ditz, but she knows a bad catchphrase when she sees one.
• Eldritch Abomination: Spirral.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In an obvious riff on DOOM (2016), Wonderita uses an ID card to go to a monster's home.
  Xama: Please, please just spare my baby!
  Child Alien: Xama, I'm scared!
  Xama: Xama's here baby oh my god just please don't hurt her
  Wonderita: I'm so sorry Mrs. Alien!
  Wonderella: Why did they even add this? Why is it in the game?!
• Even Evil Has Standards: Hitlerella is outraged by people having to work on Thanksgiving. She also doesn't like people using the "R-word". So yeah, Hitlerella's sense of ethics is rather...eccentric. As has been duly lampshaded.
  Hitlerella: My satellite feed gives your prison cell a front row seat... to your city's destruction!
  Wonderella: On that old piece of crap?
  Hitlerella: Out of this entire scenario. You have a problem. With the TV.
  Wonderella: I'm just sayin'. You put all this time and effort linking a global satellite feed to some remote cave off in WhoGivesastan...and you hook it up to a $10 Craigslist special?
  Hitlerella: For your information, I got it from a nice old lady in Queens. And, yes, it was reasonably priced.
  Wonderella: You're gonna blow up Queens with an atom bomb you stole! How the hell do your ethics even WORK!?
• "Everybody Laughs" Ending: Parodied with everyone laughing over Wonderella's double laying dead on the ground.
• Everyone Has Standards: Dana's horrified when Rita explains she ghosts potential dates all the time by showing up as Wonderita first to see if the guy is a dud or not.
  Dana: Damn, Rita, that is coldblooded! You're s'posed to be the nice one! Who taught you to be like this?!
  Rita: I haven't looked 20 for the past decade by worrying about what some boy thinks of me.
• Evil Laugh: Jesus Christ has one.
• Exact Words: Not the best direction there, Dr. Shark.
• Eye Beams: An allergic reaction to shellfish.
• Fairytale Wedding Dress: That even had a white version of her tiara.
• Fake Static: "The last time I called her to announce my Manifesto for Simian Domination, Wonderella alleged she was going through a tunnel!"
• Fangirl: Hitlerella with regards to Wonderella Sr.
• "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: Wonderella talks a tumor into leaving a boy's body.
• Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Much like the medium it parodies.
• Fate Worse than Death: Santa becomes Intellectual Property of Disney...and they never give back.
• Fetish: A few are brought up.
  • Like why the Beast would easily find someone to love him.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: Dr. Shark, as established here. Also lampshaded in the Alt Text here:
  "Like all good comic book scientists, Doctor Shark is willing to ignore massive swaths of his own inexplicable universe."
• Flat "What": Three in a row when Wonderella's mother signs her up for a Superhero Dating App.
  • Wonderella drops two more when she finds out that Hitlerella had stolen Hitler's right testicle.
• Flawless Token: Queen Beetle, the black female superheroine, who is intelligent, well-mannered, and has a functioning moral compass—very much in contrast with the lead.
• Flight, Strength, Heart: Wonderella's powers start at standard original Superman and get weirder.
• Foe Romance Subtext:
  • Wonderella and Hitlerella. Their fights are compared to sex — "You never stick around after our fight any more", "I want someone who will be there when the police turn up" and so on.
  • During Hitlerella's Darker and Edgier phase, Wonderella certainly seemed to appreciate the assless chaps. Then again, knowing Wonderella, it could easily be for the limitless blackmail material they give.
  • "You certainly date a lot of screamers"
  • Also seen between Wonderella and Plunderella here.
  • There's also Hitlerella's reaction to Wonderella ranting about Hamlet.
    Hitlerella: Oh my god, would you shut up about the damn play already? So you read Hamlet! Welcome to the 8th grade! I built a war machine, Dana! A WAR MACHINE.
    [Wonderella, dejected, hangs her head and walks away]
    Hitlerella: Oh, so you're gonna be like that, huh. REAL NICE, DANA. ...honey come back i'm sorry
• Foot Popping: When Wonderella first meets Devlin.
• Forgot About the Mind Reader: Wonderella forgets that Lady Liberty has Telepathy.
• Former Kid Sidekick: Wonderella was "Wonderita" when her mother held the titular office. It seems to have had a bad effect.
• Fortune Teller: She gives Wonderella a portent of doom.
• Freudian Trio: The three main superheroes Wonderella, Queen Beetle, and Patrianna fit this dynamic quite well.
  • Wonderella is the id, a selfish boor who mainly does things for the sake of pleasure and gratification.
  • Queen Beetle is the ego, serving as the voice of reason and sanity to her fellow heroes (or "heroes"), usually willing to serve a reality check, though she also has her limits.
  • Patrianna is the superego, who takes to enforcing law and order, and holds her fellow superheroes to strict standards, messed up as they may be sometimes. In addition, her daytime job is as a literal judge.
• Friendly Enemy: No villain is as nice to a hero at her mercy than Hitlerella is to Wonderella (she may lock her in a cell and force her to watch her city burn, but at least she lets her watch it on a widescreen in 3D), and the feeling seems mutual.
• Fun with Acronyms: A spy organization.
  Dana: What does M.A.L.I.C.E. stand for?
  Wonderella Sr.: It stands for EVIL, darling.
• Genie in a Bottle: Lampshading the Disneyfication.
• Genius Loci: Target and Walmart.
• Genre Savvy: Wonderella is fully aware when she is stuck in Yet Another Christmas Carol.
• The Ghost: Although mentioned a number of times, the villain Orgy Biv has never been seen on camera.
• Gift of the Magi Plot: Subverted here, in that Wonderella merely wrecked the gift instead of trading something the other gift needed.
• Gilligan Cut: "S O O N :" This is used no matter the amount of passed time during the cut itself, be it a few minutes, thirty years or time travel.
• Girls with Moustaches: It's Hitlerella's greatest weakness.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Wonderella is apparently really friends with every villain.
• Gold Makes Everything Shiny: A gilded grappling hook.
• Golden Mean Fallacy: Lampooned in "Fear and Balanced."
  Wonderella: Wait, why is [the total enslavement of humanity] even a debate? When did we decide that every tugjob with two bumper stickers and a microphone has a valid viewpoint?
  Anchor: Now Wonderella, perhaps the truth lies somewhere in the middle!
  Wonderella: Are you serious?! Are we gonna debate whether baby punching makes sense? Whether dogs are all holograms?! Whether birds shit GOLD? I mean if we're eating at The Dumbass Buffet, we may as well try a little bit of everything!
  Lord Killroy: To be clear, I would punch a baby, were it deemed a threat to the security of this great world.
• Goth: Mother ELLA: When Wonderella was Wonderita, she was goth.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol: A gilded one.
• Grenade Tag: On a defenseless Plant Person.
• Guile Hero: Wonderella occasionally manipulates her enemies into defeat when they overpower or outnumber her, but usually she's just feeling too lazy to actually bother fighting.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Wonderella/Dana Price.
• Harmless Villain:
  • Jokerella, ever since her on-panel debut.
  • Strawman isn't dangerous, but he's just so annoying Wonderella shoves him off a building.
• Hates Everyone Equally: The Ku Klux Krayons, who hate all colors. Wonderella points out that they fall under that umbrella themselves.
• Have a Gay Old Time:
  • Parodied here, perhaps in homage to the infamous "Batman's Greatest Boner":
    "You just pulled yourself a boner so big, you're all wet!"
  • Wonderella's mother hasn't been that aroused in ages!
    Wonderella: Aw hell no, Ma—that better mean something different in old person terms!
• Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": Rita wrote herself into a story very like The Twilight Saga.
• Heroes Want Redheads: Devlin the arsonist, whom Wonderella bumps into and breaks up with every year at Valentine's Day. (And the solstice.)
• Hidden Depths: Whoa, back up. Rita plays Warhammer?
• Hitler Ate Sugar: Done in reverse.
  Wonderella: [to Hitlerella] You know who else did monologues all day? Hamlet.
• Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Queen Beetle is Genre Savvy to this one.
• Hockey Mask and Chainsaw: Rita is attacked in last panel here by a killer using both.
• Homage:
  • To Planet of the Apes.
  • Also The Lord of the Rings movies.
  • Lampshaded The Simpsons homage. Straddles the line with being a Kandor parody, and adds on a Star Wars Shout-Out at the end.
  • To Watchmen.
  • To Big.
  • Subtly to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
  • To Max and Dave Fleischer.
  • To Wes Anderson.
• Homemade Sweater from Hell: in this strip Wonderella complains about how treating the trope like a kitschy tradition just makes people "look like horse's asses".
• Humanity on Trial: Due to Earth's bad directions on DIY products.
• Hurricane of Puns: While the strip itself is no stranger to pun-based humor, NaCl Sandwich is filled to the brim with them.
• Hypochondria: Was once sure she had bird flu.
• I Take Offense to That Last One: Reversed in this strip. When Wonderella tells an over-the-top story about her day, the part that Wonderita questioned...was Wonderella baking.
  • The next comic has Hitlerella capture her, imprison her somewhere far away, and force her to watch the destruction of New York City by atom bomb over a satellite feed. What grinds Wonderella's gears? Well...
    Hitlerella: Out of this entire scenario. You have a problem. With the TV.
• I Want Grandkids: Ginormus's mother, as referenced in this strip
  • Titania actually hires villains to try to make Wonderella be a mother.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each strip is titled with a purposely terrible pun, with the punning word in all-caps. "Daylight Savings CRIME", "Mostly ARMLESS", "Bad to the CLONE", etc.
• Imagine Spot: In a hot air balloon race.
• Impact Silhouette: Wonderella leaves one one a wall after breaking into a migrant detention facility. One kid lampshades how it doesn't make any sense that her cape is part of the hole but Wonderella doesn't understand him since he's speaking in Spanish.
• In a Single Bound: One of Wonderella's abilities.
• Incompatible Orientation: Plunderella suffers from having an all-male crew who are "queer as giraffes."
• Incredibly Obvious Bomb: Lampshaded in the alt text. Then Wonderella leaves one of her own.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Jokerella, although many of the other villains have their moments.
• Insult Backfire/Your Mom: "What about Heidi Klum? She's German." "So's YOUR MOM." "...wait, did you actually just say that?"
• Ironic Hell:
  • Wonderella annoys an Iranian representative with talk about Jihad and afterlife virgins. She proceeds to get herself killed and find herself presented with 72 female virgins.
  • Wonderella is rude to God and ends up in hell. Her punishment is to be turned into a muppet and be forced to listen to Wonderita's inane babble, which Wonderella describes as her own personal ironic hell.
  • "You will die as you lived... Recycling old Simpsons jokes for all eternity!"
  • This strip shows young Dana repeatedly griefing Penumbra in Battletoads
    Alt-Text:Everyone who did this is going to a special circle of Hell where you just ride hover bikes forever.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Lampshaded here.
• Jedi Mind Trick: Penumbra mistakes it for using force lightning.
• Jerkass: Everyone has Jerkass moments, but Patrianna and Wonderella definitely fall into this.
  Dana: Bruce, it was me, Dana! Holy crap, THAT was frikkin' GREAT! "Mommy are you proud of me?" HA HA HA!
  • Hidden Heart of Gold: Dana doesn't even need to say anything after she does this for a fan.
• Jesus Was Way Cool: Our Lord and Savior makes an appearance every so often. Pretty chill dude who gets embarrassed by Activist-Fundamentalist Antics.
• Jizzed in My Pants: Devlin sees his date has fire powers. Unfortunately, due to his ambiguous phrasing, his date probably thought he'd wet himself in fear.
• Just Between You and Me: Evil terrorists telling Wonderella about their death rays.
• Just in Time: Wonderella's mother gives an in-universe justification for enforcing this trope here.
• Kangaroo Court: Patrianna is Wonderella's Jerkass, snarky, rival heroine. She's also Anna Petri, the only judge in their nameless city. This combination can lead to real awkward results...
• Kid from the Future: Turns out to be evil.
• Kill Sat: With a bit of No Endor Holocaust.
• Klingon Promotion:
  • Satan.
  • And ninjas!
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": In a very odd villainous example, Hitlerella is very excited to meet Wonderella's mom, even though she has her and her daughter at her mercy. (Or so it seems...)
• The Lad-ette: Wonderella herself.
• Ladyella: Wonderella, Hitlerella, and Jokerella are the most prominent, but not the only ones.
• Last-Second Word Swap: When Wonderella Sr. is talking down Jokerella.
  Dana's Mother: Jokerella, I know that every daug— [Dana scowls next to her] I know that most daughters want to please their mothers.
• Lawyer Friendly Cameos: Of other DC characters, referred to only by first name. Aquaman. The Atom. Batman. Captain Ersatzes of Marvel characters occasionally appear, too.
  • And Paris Hilton and Whatsername.
  • Mace Win--er, Samuel L. Jackson in a bathrobe.
• Legacy Character:
  • Her mother Titania was the original Wonderella. Titania's duties as an Earth hero and Queen of the Fairies (or something) are split between the current Wonderella and her sister, Penumbra. This is deconstructed, as a few strips show that Wonderella only got the job because she was expected to replace her mother, explaining her lackluster efforts.
  • Queen Beetle and Patrianna were later revealed to have legacies of their own.
• Leotard of Power: Wonderella's outfit.
• Little Black Dress: Woven from evil incarnate.
• Logic Bomb: Attempted here. It doesn't work.
  • Jesus drops a major one on Wonderella.
• Magic Feather:
  • "See, this is why I don't do pep talks."
  • Invoked and lampshaded in this spoof of Wonder Woman (2017).
• The Magic Touch: On this page, Wonderella gains the power to give life to anything she touches.
• Mayfly–December Friendship: Very literal case of this happens when Wonderella feels sorry for a mutant mayfly who's depressed because it found out it will die only a day after it was born—minutes ago—and spends the day with it to make it feel better.
• Medium Awareness: God.
• The Men in Black: Parodied.
• Merchandise-Driven: Wonderella gets a silly car, cape, and gun to sell toys.
• Midas Touch: Animating touch.
• Mind-Control Device: When Wonderella was captured in a spaceship, she saved the aliens from a monster that have taken over it. Afterward, the aliens used one of these devices to control Wonderella's mind so she'll drive home and not remember any of that.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Intelli-Ape comes to this conclusion after making the mistake of prying too deeply into Wonderita's mind.
• Mini Dress Of Power: Wonderella Sr. wears a short skirt and top variant.
• Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: Changed into a Non Sequitur for April Fools' Day.
• Mirror Universe: Wonderella's doppelganger is just like her, because "The opposite of neutral is still neutral."
  • But then Wonderita's counterpart shows up, leading to Wonderita...making out with her.
    Wonderella: I feel like we should maybe do something about that.
    Mirror Wonderella: Then I guess I feel like we maybe shouldn't.
• Misattributed Song: In-Universe, Dana and Rita think Frosty the Snowman was sung by Sinatra, much to his annoyance when they summon him to see why Dana's plan to make a snowlem as menial help isn't working.
• Mistaken for Profound: Wonderella's selfishness somehow saves Earth when it's mistaken for something worthwhile of humanity.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Dr. Shark first appears as a mad scientist who turns a city's entire populace into sharks just for the hell of it. However, it's averted for the most part, with his villainous acts being few and far between.
• Most Common Superpower:
  • Notably averted.
  • Briefly played straight when she gets "relaunched."
  • Wonderella's notable lack of this power becomes a plot point in this strip.
• My Eyes Are Up Here: Despite not having the Most Common Superpower, Wonderella's breasts are still nice to look at, apparently.
  Dana: But this isn't a movie. This is real. As real as the breasts you're looking at instead of my eyes.
  Patrick Stewart: I'll do it.
• Negative Continuity: Comics have ended with Wonderella dying, the entire human population turned to vampires, and Earth flat-out being destroyed. The universe reboots whenever Wonderella screws things up.
• Nerds Are Virgins: "Sorry, I wasn't in the A/V club. I had sex instead."
• Never the Selves Shall Meet: Parodied, like many, many other Time Travel tropes.
• New First Comics: A minor example, but "Cape FEAR" was the original first page when the comic initially launched. "The TORMENT of a Thousand Yesterdays" (a flashback that gives Wonderella's origin story) went up a few weeks later, then was retroactively moved to the beginning of the archives not long after.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands:
  • "I got powers I ain't even discovered yet."
  • Don't make me go to Lobsterfest. You wouldn't like me when I'm at Lobsterfest.
  • I'm electricity, Ma!
  • Honestly, even I don't know 'em all!
• Nice Guy: Although he has a Berserk Button or two, Doctor Shark is pretty decent the rest of the time, which is noticeable in a world where almost everyone is a Jerkass of some variety.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Wonderita gives CinnaMan a bright idea.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Shark versus Ape!
• No Sympathy: In the 2018 St. Patrick's Day strip, Wonderella's request for rescue is met with an image of the world's tiniest violin.
• Not Hyperbole: When Wonderella declares that she'd "fight God and His angels for a cup of coffee", she ends up doing just that.
• Not Quite Flight: Wonderella can totally jump hella high.
• "Not Wearing Pants" Dream: When giving a graduation speech.
• Number of the Beast: Wonderella's house number is 616.
• Offing the Offspring: In an alternate future, Wonderella had a daughter. Wonderella being Wonderella, she proved a poor parent and her daughter ended up as a villain. Said daughter travels to the current time to kill her future mother, which results in Wonderella announcing she intends to take birth control pills. Said daughter proceeds to be Ret Gonned, and Queen Beetle lampshades the fact that even had her daughter succeeded, it would have resulted in Grandfather Paradox anyway.
• Oh, Crap!: Wonderella sees her mom about to sing a rap song.
• Oh, Cisco!: Wonderella Sr. says a weak joke and everyone laughs.
• Old People are Nonsexual: In strip, Wonderella is helping an elderly couple with the young Bedsheet Ghost haunting their home. When the old woman complains that the ghost's presence interferes with sex with her husband, the ghost is so disgusted that he ascends right to the afterlife.
  Wonderella: Ghosts can't really vomit in their own mouths. He was out of options.
• Old Shame: Hitlerella has one of these In-Universe. Want to see it? Click here.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Dr. Shark, though he's supposedly a biology professor. Anyone else with the slightest scientific leanings shows it, too.
  Dana: What exactly are you a doctor of, anyway?
  Dr. Shark: Oh, who remembers anymore?
• Once a Season: Around St. Patrick's Day, Dana and Rita attempt to catch a Leprechaun in hopes of getting his gold, only to be teleported into another dimension, area, or time period. Usually after being tricked, Dana exclaims "Aw, bitches!"
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Neither KGBetty nor Jokerella can be Wonderella's arch-nemesis. Hitlerella already is.
• Only Sane Man: A role frequently played by Queen Beetle.
• Orifice Evacuation: It seems Wonderella can puke out a large octopus to squish enemies.^note The alt text of that comic noted that the Japanese would have made it an Orifice Invasion.
  • She does it again here. It's a purple one this time!
• Orphaned Series: Justin Pierce's previous webcomic, Killroy And Tina (which he dropped largely in favor of working on Wonderella).
• Overly-Long Gag: Wonderella's mother recruits her nemeses to repeat the words "baby" and "babies" over and over in place of any actual plans.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Wonderella never removes her tiara and the collars of the shirts she wears as Dana all make a "W" shape, exactly like her costume's.
• Parodied Trope: About 90% of the strips.
• The Parody:
  • To Charlotte's Web.
  • To COPS.
  • To The Da Vinci Code.
  • The monochrome-plus-red Sin City grittiness.
  • And The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
  • To Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
  • The "Secret Wars" from Marvel Comics.
  • To Transformers, with some Does This Remind You of Anything?.
  • Gotta have Back to the Future.
  • To Second Life.
  • To Frosty the Snowman.
  • Thor. Both the comic and the movie version.
  • Green Lantern. The entire Green Lantern mythos after War of Lights.
  • Beauty and the Beast. With an In-Universe sprinkle of Fridge Brilliance on Wonderella's part, as she realizes both that the Beast's servants were unjustly affected by his punishment and that beating up the fairy could have been a possible solution.
  • The Little Mermaid (1989). Owing to the source material, the ending result is more a (failed) Silent Snarker than a Cute Mute.
  • "Electric BUGABOO" is one of Superman's "electricity powers" storyline.
  • To The Red Balloon, of all things.
• Patrick Stewart Speech: With Patrick Stewart, even.
• Peek A Bangs: The blonde terrorist lady in the spy story, has one.
• Pimped-Out Dress: Her outfit in a prison that Martha Stewart designed.
• Pink Means Feminine: Wonderita will not accept a Ring of Power that's any other color.
• Pink Product Ploy: Wonderita plays a game with a guitar controller that's pink.
• Piranha Problem: Hitlerella has a piranha tank that she drops Wonderella into. Wonderella's inedible to the piranhas, so they just make friends with her.
• A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: The Chesapeake Bay Pirates.
• Pity the Kidnapper: Wonderita gets Hitlerella to just let her go.
  • And she didn't learn, apparently.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: For a given value of "hero".
• The Power of Rock: But will it work against bears?
• Pragmatic Villainy: When Wonderella dies, Hitlerella comes to the epiphany that she can get far more value out of using her inventions for legitimate if still evil means. Then Wonderella comes Back from the Dead and Hitlerella immediately suffers Aesop Amnesia. (Though given she has "Kill Wonderella" built into her DNA, she might not have much choice in the matter.)
• Primary-Color Champion: Wonderella's and Wonderella Sr.'s outfits are blue with red capes and some yellow on their tiaras.
• The Problem with Pen Island: 2012's NoNadVentures.com April Fools' Day gag.
• Product Placement: Parodied in Wonderella's own comic-within-the-comic.
• Public Domain Character: Lampshaded.
  • Played straight with Fantomah, who is portrayed completely accurately; all humor is derived from Wonderella and Wonderita's reactions to her, ahem, distinctive modus operandi.
• Public Service Announcement: Don't drink cheap booze until you're already sloshed.
• Puff of Logic: Wonderella beats WHITE SPACE this way.
• Pun: Many examples. A French supervillain who can split herself into three people? "Paris Troika."
  • "PASTURE and Commander" starts off with "She's not Raspy! She's just a little horse!" and gets worse from there.
• Pun-Based Title: Every single comic has a punny title.
• Punch-Clock Hero: Taken to the limit.
• A Rare Sentence: In the Tiny Newsbox, in reference to this comic:
  "Due to overwhelming reader response, I have added breasts to the space dinosaur cowboy.
  "This was not a statement I was expecting to make today (or ever), but your logic is irrefutable and I am not above admitting my own mistakes."
• Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: A variant occurs in this comic. Instead of following Wonderella's instructions for improving her grave, Rita writes them on the grave.
• The Real Heroes: Not according to Wonderella.
• Reverse Polarity:
  • Here.
    Wonderella Sr.: Not so fast, Hitlerella! I reversed the polarity of your pulse cannon half an hour ago! The only one getting blasted with radiation is you!
  • Backfires on Wonderella here.
    Wonderella: Sucker! I reversed the polarity on your inversion bomb!
    Rita: Yeah, me too!
• Rogues Gallery
• Runaway Bride: Here, even though she apparently already eloped with the guy.
• Running Gag:
  • Wonderella and Wonderita trying to catch the leprechaun and teleporting into another universe.
    [POP!] Aw, bitches!
    Wonderella: [sixth year it happens] I don't even care about gold anymore! I just wanna kick his ass!
  • Wonderella can totally jump hella high.
  • The birthday surprise, complete with someone else's name poorly covered up on the banner.
  • Wonderella using the time machine for mundane purposes and causing horrible temporal paradoxes.
  • The Valentine's Day encounters with Devlin.
• Russian Reversal: In Soviet Russia, water softens YOU!
• Ruthless Modern Pirates
• Saving Christmas: With Jesus.
• Screw Yourself: In one strip, the main character is split into two individuals, each representing a part of her personality. One Wonderella asks whether they have to have sex with each other to fix the problem. The other Wonderella says she’s straight but is willing to "lay back". Dr. Shark eventually solves the problem without any intercourse.
  • Later, Wonderita has an encounter with an evil alternate-universe counterpart. They go from threatening each other to making out in two panels.
• Semantic Superpower: Queen Beetle's powers include control over Volkswagen Beetles.
• Semi-Divine: Wonderella is the daughter of a mortal Diaphne woman, who might also be the fae queen Titania, and God Head, a sort of gestalt Greco-Romanic deity. Likewise, her half sister, Penumbra, shares the same mortal mother and has a Fallen Angel of writing named Penemue for a father.
• Shooting Superman: Referenced here.
  • And here is a whole strip Lampshading this trope. Also, it gets worse when, after shooting failed, you try tossing the empty gun at her...
• Shout-Out:
  • To Super Robot shows such like Voltron/GoLion, Mazinger Z, and Getter Robo.
  • To the Joker's "boner", as popularized by Superdickery.
  • To both Blue Öyster Cult and The Elric Saga when thousands of guitars swarm together and imperil the city by playing in unison.
  • To the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Expository Theme Tune.
  • To Speed Racer in the second-to-last panel.
  • To Bad Dudes.
  • To "Firestarter" by The Prodigy.
  • To The Adventures of Dr. McNinja.
  • To the Super Mario Bros. series.
  • To Ghostbusters.
  • To The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
    • A more subtle one here; both a whale and a potted plant improbably fall from the sky.
  • To Frisky Dingo with its "ironic scare quotes".
  • To Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London".
  • To Dumbo in the last panel.
  • To Beauty and the Beast, where Wonderella punches the enchantress for cursing the whole castle.
  • To Dinosaur Comics when explaining her actions as the vice president.
  • To The Adventures of Superman, when Wonderella exclaims "Great Ceasar's Goats!" in reference to Perry White's usual expletive of "Great Ceasar's Ghost!"
  • To V for Vendetta, when Wonderita goes through the process of becoming Wonderella's Sidekick.
  • Her Twitter profile picture currently shows◊ her disintegrating into ash as a reference to the infamous ending of Avengers: Infinity War.
• Shown Their Work: When Wonderella discovers Blotter, Dr. Shark informs her on that that she has Trichomoniasis, and actually details the correct treatment option.
• Side Effects Include...: Wonderella's... frank regarding what it does, but not regarding its side effects.
  "Not gettin' paid by the word here."
• Sidekick: Wonderita, who serves as a ditzy foil to Wonderella.
• Skyward Scream: Really brings out Wonderella's Skewed Priorities.
• Slash Fic: With Ronald McDonald.
• Smoke Out: Parodied. Wonderella tries and fails to get out of an awkward conversation this way.
• Snap Back: There are no storylines to speak of, and very little continuity between strips. The loose consistency of the comic is constantly Lampshaded.
• Someday This Will Come in Handy: Averted and lampshaded.
• Space Whale Aesop: Referenced here, given the final panel.
• Spanner in the Works: Wonderella can do that on her own.
• Spoof Aesop: "If most people don't care about something, nobody should."
  • In the first appearance of Dr. Shark, everybody in town gets turned into sharks and dies. The mouseover text tells us "Don't make the same mistakes these people did. Don't be sharks."
• Squee: Hitlerella is so excited to see Wonderella Sr.
• Stealth Pun: But spelled out in the alt text.
  • Happens again with another bit of Alt Text: "Camel jokes are the last straw".
• Stepford Smiler:
  • Wonderita lays it out: "Silly! Human ladies are always supposed to smile, even when we aren't happy at all! See?"
  • Name-dropped by Wonderella during one of her ads—this one for "The Titanicker".
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: Patrianna's civilian name is Anna Petri.
• Straw Character:
  • A Harmless Villain, named the Straw Man, is a straw character for straw positions!
  • Thoughts, Prayers, and Shares are even worse heroes than Wonderella, who deliberately prevent action to make other people feel better.
• Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Wonderella's Arch-Enemy, the aptly-named Hitlerella, is constantly coming up with new, strange devices to annoy Wonderella with.
• Suckiness Is Painful: Wonderella is literally set on fire by her mother's awful attempt at rapping.
• Super Hero: Wonderella, technically—she's got the "super" but not the "hero", and seems to have gotten the label mostly because she has powers and on average causes more good than harm. Her colleagues are mostly exasperated at her antics.
• Super Hero Origin: Wonderella's is a parody/pastiche of Superman's and Wonder Woman's.
• Superheroes Wear Capes: Most of the superheroes of the strip wear capes or cloaks.
• Take That!: At so many things.
  • Coors Light.
  • The Decemberists.
  • The Beatles.
  • Sarah Palin.
  • Psychiatrists.
  • Squirrel Girl.
  • Dan Didio and the post-Flashpoint DC reboot.
  • Sutter Home.
  • Twilight.
  • Harmageddon is one to The Dark Age of Comic Books in general and Rob Liefeld in particular, particularly with his excess pouches and the way he carefully stands with his feet concealed behind two rocks.
  • Apparently, Justin has a rather pronounced hatred of Griefers in Battletoads.
    Alt Text: Everyone who did this is going to a special circle of Hell where you just ride hoverbikes forever.
• Taken for Granite: Happens to Dana in one strip, and it's even the title of that installment.
• Talking the Monster to Death: The geeks pull this off here by criticizing the Overseer's choice of superheroes and trying to hone in on the action.
• Tampon Run: Wonderella sends her ninja squad on one.
• Temporal Paradox: So going back in time to fix an already broken past negates the reason for going back to the past...
• Theme Naming: Wonderella, Hitlerella, and Jokerella. When our heroine meets plant-based villainess The Orchid, she suggests "Flowerella" instead.
  "Look, I just have this naming convention. If you wanna be my villain, you might as well have a name that rhymes."
• There Is Another: Parodied and subverted.
• This Isn't Heaven: Through Frank Sinatra.
• Throne Made of X: After Wonderella beats the Devil at a Drinking Contest and takes over hell, she is annoyed that her throne is made of skulls.
  Wonderella: Do we have any thrones that aren’t made of skulls. My hair gets caught in their teeth and it bugs me.
  Demon: I get sodomized with the business end of a flaming rake twenty-seven times a day.
  Wonderella: Yeah but… skulls.
• Token Minority:
  • Queen Beetle, a black woman with the power of beetles.
  • Poorly-conceived token black bear Onyx Star!
• Too Dumb to Live: The Wondertweens, who take the Earth with them.
  Dan: Form of matter!
  Daisy: Form of anti-matter!^note They annihilated each other.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: In ""Guess Who's Coming To DINNER." Tim Allen is apparently too spicy for Galactus Ginormus.
• Totally Radical: There's an old video of Wonderella Sr. telling kids about the wonders of the internet and then doing a rap song about how internet piracy is bad.
• True Neutral: (Invoked) Or, as Dr. Shark puts it, "Personality pH 7."
• Truth Serums: Hitlerella discovers that injecting a Cloud Cuckoo Lander like Wonderita with one is a bad idea.
• Un-person: The ""Some Asshole initiative" would seek to do this to mass shooters — instead of an expose and speculation on why they committed the crime, they'd just be called "Some Asshole", with a bucket of chum standing in for their photo.
• Unexplained Recovery: The Quizzicle. "Remember when this guy died? That was great."
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Wonderella, who tends to cause more problems than she solves on-screen. Why go punch giant lizards when you can have a beer and watch soaps?
• Utopia Justifies the Means: So does clutter-free web design.
• Video Will: "Oh! Hello there! I am dead."
• Villainous Harlequin: Jokerella, skimping on the "villainous". Her mother Pirouette was a much straighter example.
• Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: "Those, madam, are called scare quotes. I'm using them to strike terror into the hearts of my enemies."
• Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: She doesn't just want one, she gets one. The Alt Text says it's not even her first one.
• The War on Straw: Strawman is a scarecrow-like villain (well, more or less) who spouts nonsense related to almost every trope on that page. Wonderella shoves him off a building (despite the fact he was just creating a public disturbance) because he was just so annoying.
• Waxing Lyrical: The entirety of Wonderella's speech here was cribbed from Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car".
• Weaksauce Weakness: Hitlerella's greatest weakness is that she has a moustache. It's not pretty.
  • Wonderella halts an invading alien force with alcohol. (It doesn't poison them or anything, it just makes them think flying into the sun is a really good idea...)
• Weapons-Grade Vocabulary: When massed guitars try to destroy city using song, it didn't work. Then those guitars decided to use some experimental songs from Pete (a garage band), it resulted in a Big "NO!" from Wonderella and sidekick.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Patrianna's outfit.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Apparently Wonderella's original powers were so lame she was given new ones.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Nearly Once an Episode. It's that kind of strip.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Here:
  Hitlerella: A giant pickle jar. Christ. Does anyone else here even own a gun?
• A Winner Is You: Rita has to deal with it here. Beating the game on hard mode gives the message an extra exclamation point!!
• Wizarding School: Harry Potter style.
• Wolverine Publicity: Mocked when Wonderella's mom suggests she delay foiling the villain's plan until the last minute.
  Wonderella Sr.: Run around with the bomb! Waste time with some planes and tanks. You've seen how Batman does it.
  Wonderella: Yes, we've all seen the HELL outta Batman, Ma!
• Wonder Woman Wannabe: Wonderella herself. She has a costume similar to Wonder Woman's, but is a heavy-drinking, foul-mouthed Jerkass. She also has much stranger powers, like killing plants with a word and coughing up octopi when restrained.
• World of Pun: Puns happen constantly in the strip titles and the Alt Text. Such as Peter Pan being thrown to the sharks by Somali Pirates yielding "Thanks, chum!" as the Alt Text stinger.
• World's Smallest Violin: The 2018 St. Patrick's Day strip.
• Worth It: The snarky sign finds getting its store burned down was worth it just to throw a can at Wonderella's head.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Wonderella is annoyed that finding a genie won't get her wishes.
• Yaoi Fanboy: God, actually. And gays cause hurricanes by distracting Him from stopping them.
• Yaoi Fangirl: Wonderella's "friend" who might or might not have downloaded gay porn on her computer and given it a virus.
• Yet Another Christmas Carol: "A Christmas PERIL." Provides the quote for that page.
• You Cloned Hitler!: ...sort of.
• You Keep Using That Word: Queen Beetle has a tendency to nitpick other people's word-choices in the middle of a fight, as seen here and here.
• You Kill It, You Bought It: Parodied with the Ninja clan. Given a Continuity Nod later.
• You Know I'm Black, Right?: With Stephen Hawking.
• Zombie Apocalypse: A Russo zombie, not a Romero zombie.

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