Webcomic / Two Guys and Guy

Wayne, Guy, and Frank, as usual.

"I've created horrible people."

— Rickard Jonasson

Two Guys and Guy was a status quo gag-per-day webcomic. It followed the day-to-day adventures of three Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists: Wayne, an average slacker; Frank, who is intelligent but amoral; and Guy, a shameless egotist who hangs around for her own amusement and profit. Their Comedic Sociopathy drives the plot of each comic.

While the comic fell into Schedule Slip in the late 2010s, the website domain expired in 2023 with the last update having taken place over two years prior. Before updates ceased, new updates were only made if the author received enough donations on Patreon.

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Tropes:

• Abusive Precursors: Guy’s ancestor had no reason to settle in a cold environment, other than screwing with her descendants.
• The Alcoholic: Wayne.
• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Wayne says something stupid while drunk and then continues to make a surprisingly good argument for it.
• Alien Abduction: Inverted. Frank abducts aliens and subjects them to Anal Probing.
• All Just a Dream: Or rather, a product of Frank's imagination.
• Ambiguous Gender: A briefly Recurring Extra named Alex, who both the straight Wayne and gay Lars find themselves attracted to.
  Wayne: Alex's a chick, right?
  Guy: Sure.
  [63 strips later]
  Lars: Alex's a dude, right?
  Wayne: I'll give you a thousand dollars if you find out.
• And I Must Scream: Frank accidentally doused himself in his "eternal fire" formula, but had time to inject himself with a serum that heals him faster than he burns, leaving him in a state of eternal agony.
  Guy: Must be excruciating though.
  Frank: I'm sure I'll get used to it.
• And Then What?: Wayne's bad pickup line actually succeeds in getting a woman's attention and he has no idea what to do next.
• Anti-Climax: "The public is asked to keep an eye out for a burnt-faced man with a prosthetic hook for an arm."
• Anti-Humor: In one comic Wayne gets one of his jokes shot down in the very first panel, resulting in this.
• Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: "I don't know why I thought we had the same idea. Let's do your thing."
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Emelie gives Wayne leave to see other people, she mentions she'd still be jealous of ghosts, ghouls, vampires, demons, fey, or celebrities.
• Art Evolution: For example Guy's eyes have been getting bigger. Other parts of her haven't.
  • And it comes back to haunt her here◊
• Ax-Crazy: Frank, undoubtedly.
• Back from the Dead/Expendable Clone: Wayne, courtesy of Frank.
  • And another.
• Bad Liar: Guy tells Wayne that she uses so much Brutal Honesty that her ability to lie is terrible... and then subverted in the third panel when she reveals to Frank that she made that whole explanation up.
• Beer Goggles: After a wild party, Wayne wakes up in bed with an inflatable sex doll. The sex doll is disgusted by Wayne.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Despite showing no outward anger, Frank's plan to get back at Guy and Wayne putting a 'kick me' sign on his back apparently involves a clown suit and a shotgun. Sleep with one eye open, you two.
• Bait the Dog/Cute and Psycho/Faux Affably Evil: It turns out Guy and the opposite possibility of her aren't all that different after all.
• Blackmail: Guy, again.
• "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: When Wayne finally puts Frank's morality and occupation into question.
  Wayne: Frank, I've been meaning to ask you: Are you a Super Villain?
  Frank: We prefer the term super ethically challenged.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Frank isnt evil as much as he seems to operate on an entirerly different morality level.
• Blush Sticker: Everyone has them but Guy's are the biggest.
• Body Sushi: The trio complains about people with weird fetishes while eating at such a restaurant.
  Frank: Do we always have to eat here?!
• Butt-Monkey: Wayne, whose role in the comic is to be abused by everyone, but most often by Guy.
  • And Lardo - I mean, Lars. Who still fares better than Wayne by virtue of being a nice guy.
• Call-Back: The 100th strip calls back to the very first.
  • The 346th strip calls back to the third.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: Guy, evidently.
• Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock: Frank keeps his car's self destruct right next to the A-C options.
• Cassandra Truth: "I don't understand why he left the Tesla Coil Safety Zone when I told him what would happen."
• Casual Kink: Guy has an interesting idea of what cheers people up.
• Celibate Eccentric Genius: Frank. It's only mentioned in a couple of strips though. He seems to feel that romance gets the way of more important things, that being science, of course.
• Characterization Marches On: Frank's major personality traits are defined in the third strip. His sociopathy also isn't readily apparent until this strip.
• Childhood Friends: Subverted. Guy claims that she and Wayne have been friends since preschool... only for him to reveal that they actually met a few years ago, when she quickly glanced at him and mistook him for her actual childhood friend who was a couple seats over. And that she hasn't noticed since.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: This girl.
• Cold Reading: Wayne's been taking psychic classes and they work... sort of.
• Comeback Tomorrow: Wayne did this to something Guy said three years ago -- and since forgot about.
• Comedic Sociopathy: Everyone, especially Guy and Frank.
  • The author will also deliberately invoke this trope in his blog comments related to the comic, making himself appear this way to further the joke.
• Comical Overreacting/Drama Queen: Subverted and Inverted in this strip:
  Guy: What's Wayne doing?
  Frank: Overreacting.
  Wayne: I gazed upon the soul of the devil... and the devil gazed back!
  Frank: You gazed the soul of "A" devil and "A" devil gazed back. He's got a bit of a flare for the dramatic.
• Comic Trio: Typically, Guy is the leader/navigator, Frank the idiot/driver (though he enables the situation through his apathy rather than his ignorance), and Wayne the complainer/backseat, though the roles can shift depending on the joke.
  • Perfect role correspondence here.
• The Comically Serious: Frank, epitomized here.
• Compensating for Something: Wayne tends to do this a lot, see Testosterone Poisoning.
• Continuity Nod: Yeah, totally lame...
  • Apparently, the reversecism worked.
• Crapsack World
• Cute Is Evil: Guy... though also Subverted in the strip where we meet Guy's Bizarro Universe counterpart. Apparently ours is the compassionate, reasonable one.
  Good gosh you're weak!
• Didn't Think This Through: Frank, surprisingly, in this strip.
• Discriminate and Switch: Guy refuses to shake hands with one-armed people, but for the same reason she won't do so with those who don't own sinks.
• Doomsday Device: Frank is making these all the time.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: When Guy provokes strange men, Wayne gets sent to the hospital, via speed dial.
• Dull Surprise: Frank.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Early strips seemed to set up Wayne and Guy as the two Jerkasses and Frank as the Straight Man and Butt-Monkey. However, it only took a few strips for Frank do develop into a seemingly emotionless Mad Scientist and Wayne to take the role of Guy and Frank's victim.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Wayne's life and friendships are so messed up that he honestly has no idea how to react when someone acts nice to him for a change.
• Evil Me Scares Me: Well, Guy only keeps her Leaking Can of Evil sealed up because she would be annoyed by the reactions of the authorities.
  • At one point, Frank had a mirror to an alternate universe. One universe had a smiling Frank, which caused the main universe Frank to immediately smash the mirror.
• Exact Words: It would appear “group therapy” means something different when it comes to Guy.
  • This also seems to be a habit with Frank, as evidenced here and here.
  • Guy as a beach bully pulls this too.
  • UFO means "unidentified flying object." If Frank can identify it, then it's not a UFO.
• Extreme Doormat: Wayne can never stand up to Guy. We can't really blame him for that, given that any act of defiance will likely result in catastrophic injuries.
• Failed a Spot Check: Evidently, Guy's default state of being due to being so self-centered. Observe.
• Fanservice Pack: In the early days of the strip, Guy looked very much like a man. As the strip continued, however, her hair went from boyishly short to womanly big, she got a nice tan, and her form filled out quite nicely .
• Fiery Redhead: Guy
• Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Wayne's on Guy, the second example is stuff she bought herself and so doesn't count.
• For Science!: Frank's main motivation, including this.
• For the Evulz: This summarizes how Wayne's and especially Guy's mentalities work.
  • To be specific with Guy, even when she took pills to treat her anger issues, she decided to keep mistreating Wayne because it's more satisfying for her to be a Jerkass when it's based on free will and uncorrupted by anger.
• Funny Background Event: Despite frequently eating at a sushi bar, Wayne apparently still can’t hold chopsticks properly.
  • You’ll notice in this strip that Frank is setting a rat trap in the first two panels.
  • Guy's magazines are frequently titled something funny.
  • Guy's sign at the protest/rally, apparently even she doesn't know what she's doing here.
• Genius Ditz: Surprisingly, Wayne as of this comic is a statistical analysis prodigy.
• Godwin's Law: Apparently, that Hitler comparison wasn't as accurate as people thought.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: Guy has more than two and none of them are good.
• Gold Digger: Guy. She even considers Wayne's father as a potential Meal Ticket.
• Guest Strip: Plenty of examples. Some examples include this, this, and this.
• Gypsy Curse: Subverted in this strip in that while she doesn’t appear to have any supernatural powers, she has other ways of making Wayne suffer.
• Hartman Hips: While Guy's hips are slimmer than normal, the rest of her is so thin that these stand out. Though as of August 2014, her shoulders have become more broad and her hips slimmed down a little.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Frank, though the "heroic" part is mostly nominal. Guy sometimes too.
• Hot Witch: Wayne's girlfriend Emelie seems to have a working knowledge of the dark arts.
• Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: "I can't believe you'd just throw away years of friendship over this."
• Hypocritical Humor: "Effin' perverts!"
  • "He's dangerous, ya should kill him!" "Maybe later."
• Jerkasses: Our main trio are a bunch of violent, sociopathic jerks.
• In Medias Res: Every single strip is started without any notion at all of How We Got Here. (Not that it matters, anyway.)
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Wayne, while not as bad as the other two, is a rude selfish slacker and often subjected to Guy's rage.
• Killer Rabbit: Frank's goldfish, apparently.
• Kill the God: Good news, Frank didn't do it by accident.
• Kissing Cousins: Wayne's 87.5% solution
• Lack of Empathy: Wayne definitely has it, but Guy and Frank take the cake.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Wayne is this for Frank and Guy.
  • Apparently, Guy is also this compared to her Bizarro Universe counterpart.
• Limited Wardrobe: Lampshaded in #134, "Makeover".
• Literal Metaphor: “Don’t go into my closet.”
• The Mad Hatter: Frank. See "Ax Crazy."
  • Conversed here.
• Mad Scientist: Frank, whose inventions and experiments are both incredibly brilliant and revolutionary as well as dangerous and borderline psychotic.
• Makes Just as Much Sense in Context: Provides the page image.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: In fall 2016, Wayne got into a relationship with a pink-haired girl named "Death." It's not a very defined relationship, though.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Wayne and Guy, evidently.
  • No kidding. She can even grow a beard when he can't.
• Mind Screw : Done often.
• Minimalist Cast: Its just Guy, Wayne and Frank, plus the reoccurring extras.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Frank has a diploma in applied pseudoscience.
• Naked People Are Funny: Frank appears naked several times and there's almost never a good reason for that.
• Never Gets Drunk: Frank, seemingly.
  • Well SOMETHING happened after this party!◊
• Nice Guy: Lars and his friends, who seem to the Good Counterparts to Wayne, Guy and Frank.
• No Sense of Humor: Frank.
• Nonindicative Name: Guy, who is the girl.
• Not What It Looks Like: No, that’s… uh, Wayne’s cousin!
• Older Than They Look: Frank.
• On One Condition: When Wayne's uncle dies, Wayne inherits his mansion if he can stay the night in it. Wayne turns out to be less distressed by the fact that its supposedly haunted than by the lack of wifi.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The gang's adventures in the Hell Dimension.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Guy is a nickname that everyone refers to her by; her real name might be Prudence.
• Only Sane Man: Averted. Up until the 5th strip, you might have thought Frank was. You’d be very, very wrong.
  • Although, it's worth noting that he seems to be this in the mad science community based on this.
  • When he does show up, Lars is relegated to this duty.
• Pet the Dog: Guy in this comic. Well, kind of.
• Playing Cyrano: Unfortunately, Wayne chose Frank to be this.
  Frank: No, I said I’ve turned down romance in favor of science.
• Poke the Poodle: “You’re surprisingly bad at this.’’
• Political Overcorrectness:
  Guy: Wayne, as modern Caucasians, we're just going to have to accept that everything we say, think and do is racist.
  Wayne: Really?
  Guy: It'd be racist not to.
• Polyamory: Emelie has another boyfriend in addition to Wayne, and has no objection to him seeing other humans (but no undead, Fair Folk, or celebrities).
• Powered By A Dead Aunt: Apparently, Frank's car.
• Power Glows: Subverted when Frank gives Wayne superpowers: the glowing is the (only) power.
• Prophecy Twist: What seems to be happening here.
• Recurring Extra: This guy looks suspiciously familiar.
  • Wayne's cousin Lars.
  • Gender-ambiguous Alex.
  • The not-very-helpful therapist.
  • This blond chick. She later becomes Wayne's roommate.
  • Wayne's new psychotic pink haired girlfriend, Emilie, is becoming one now.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: subverted
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Guy (hot-tempered and aggressive) and Frank (stoic and easy-going), respectively.
• Rule of Funny: Looks like even blow up dolls don't wanna wake up next to Wayne.
• Running Gag: Guy and Frank taking Wayne to the ICU.
  • Wayne misusing the word "literally", receiving punishments from Guy as a result.
• Schedule Slip: Started out as a M/W/F webcomic, went on an extended and unwarned hiatus in late December 2016, resumed to a Patreon-sponsored "whenever" update rate in October 2017.
• Sapient Pet: One shows up, courtesy of Frank. Who else?
• Share the Sickness: Whenever Guy gets sick, she demonstrates her Jerkass nature by spending all day riding public transit in hopes of infecting as many people as possible.
• Ship Sinking: Readers really like the idea of Wayne and Guy getting together. The creator shows up in the comic himself to tell one such reader off, while another comic has this acknowledged in-universe.
  "Okay guys, I tried to hook them up but it didn’t work. Now stop emailing me!"
• Ship Tease: Subverted in the third panels of these two comics.
• Shower of Angst: Wayne didn’t really care about that children’s book, no sir!
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Guy didn’t start as this, but became one via Art Evolution.
• Skewed Priorities: Wayne doesn’t want Guy to date a guy who tried to murder him... because if he just tried, he’s a quitter.
• The Slacker: Wayne.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Guy. Exemplified here.
• Smoking Is Cool: Inverted. Guy uses cigarettes as people repellent.
• Spontaneous Mustache: In one strip, Guy successfully wills herself to grow a beard just to prove that she is manlier than Wayne.
• Staging an Intervention: Has a subverted intervention in which the goal is to get the character to stop hinting that he has a problem and shut up.
• Status Quo Is God: Noted especially in this strip.
• The Stoic: Frank, along with Stoic Spectacles. This strip suggests that it may not be natural.
  Wayne: Frank, what’s wrong with you, man? Laugh once in awhile!
  Guy: Yeah, you weirdo!
  Frank: Strange. I thought I did…
• Straight Gay: Lars
• Strong Family Resemblance: Wayne, and his cousin Lars, though they are not entirely identical.
  • They themselves don't see it.
• Sure, Let's Go with That: CONSTANTLY used by Frank.
• Tan Lines: Guy has a farmer tan here. Which strangely switches to a full-body tan later.
• Terrible Trio: Guy as the leader, Wayne and Frank as the henchmen.
• Testosterone Poisoning:
  • Wayne needs this to counteract a very specific kind of medical exam.
  • In a rare female example, Guy shows she can do some nearly impossible things (like growing a beard) just to spite Wayne.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: Please call the police.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Double Subverted. Wayne seems pretty content, having nothing to do.
• Tomboyish Name: Guy, who is a girl.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Parodied on multiple occasions, one memorable one is here.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Guy tries to encourage Lars's less friendly side, but doesn't seem to succeed.
• Tsundere: A platonic example. Guy acts this way to an adorable ferret. But this is still Guy, so the closest we see to "dere" (a sweet side) is her not slapping him off the table. It's later reveled that Guy is like this with all adorable creatures because she hates the fact that they have so much control over her.
• Two Guys and a Girl named Guy.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: All three characters are awful people in different ways, so we don't feel bad when awful things happen or they do awful things to each other.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: All three, though Guy and Wayne in particular.
  Jonasson: If I'm not being emotionally abused, then how do I know it's friendship?
  • This pretty much sums Wayne and Guy's relationship.
• We Want Our Jerk Back!
  Wayne: Is this nice version of Guy freaking you out, too?
  Frank: Yep.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Frank gives Wayne a superpower: bioluminescence.
  Guy: What kind of power did you give him, anyway?
  Frank: Bioluminescence.
  Guy: That's... mediocre.
  Frank: Well, it's really bright bioluminescence.
  • This is especially amusing because Wayne assumed the glowing was due to him now brimming with power, and running off to "show them all".
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Wayne's full name is Wayne W. Wayne. Guess what the middle W stands for.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Actually played straight.
  • Implied in this strip.
• With Friends Like These...: Guy and Wayne hate each other and Frank couldn't care less about the two of them. Several strips plays around with this concept such as revealing that Guy was originally friends with another Wayne who looked vaguely physically similar to the current Wayne, but she was so self absorbed she never noticed she sat down next to the wrong person on the bus, and Frank is implied to be a serial killer who targets people with Wayne and Guy's general appearance.

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