Webcomic / Vinigortonio

Vinigortonio (here in English and here in original Portuguese) is a hand drawn webcomic about three friends: Vinicius, Igor and Jose Carlos (and Igor's pet platypus) and the craziness that is their lives. Random antics and video game references abound.

Unlike most webcomics which are updated with a single strip on a weekly basis, Vinigortonio updates monthly with full comic stories about 50 pages long more like a traditional comic.

Arcs thus far are

• A Day: Igor goes to Vinicius's house. What can go wrong?
• The Sewer: Vinicius and Jose Carlos decide to investigate exploding manholes and Igor finds a way to prove mammals lay eggs: PLATYPUS!
• The Debt: Igor gets arrested for being unable to pay immense damage fines and while escaping gets into hot water with an island of intellegent alligators.
• Natural Sciences: Exam stress gets to be too much for Vinicius.
• The Rescue: The gang travels to the south pole to rescue Platypus from a helicopter accident and stumble across the evil Raichan and his plot to take over the world.
• The Card: Raichan returns to seek revenge on our protagonists.
• The Fan: Igor's air conditioner is compromised, so he buys a fan. Very normal, except not.
• The Search: Vinicius wants to buy the Japan-exclusive Chibi Robo. Unfortunately, it won't be so easy.
• Achievement Unlocked: Igor finds out a new way to earn achievements! But maybe he's going a bit too overboard...
• E3 2012: Obligatory E3 special of Vinigortonio. The three friends go to Los Angeles to watch the event, because live streaming wasn't enough.
• The Moon: The Moon is going to crash on Earth in 3 days and Igor's gonna know exactly how Link felt like in Majora's Mask.
• The Inventor: Igor learns never to mess with Vinicius' Brawl disk again.

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Vinigortonio contains examples of:

• Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Large enough to fit a full sized boat in with plenty of room to spare.
  Jose Carlos: I had no idea sewers were so large!!
  Vinicius: You'd be surprised at how much they hide from us.
• The Ace: Steven
• Adventure Archaeologist: Max Adventura. It's in the name.
• Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: The pendant, which grants its wearer the awesome Pendant Attack jump kick.
• Amusing Injuries: Igor mostly, but everyone in the cast gets their share.
• Artistic License – Geography: Jose Carlos sets fire to trees at the South pole. There haven't been trees in Antartica for who knows how long.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Vinicius hates natural sciences so much he inexplicably grew and went on a King Kong-esque rampage.

• Big Damn Heroes: Steven saves Igor and Platypus from Raichan in The Card and saves Vinicius from Raichan in the Search.
  • Parodied with AAAAAA who comes out of nowhere to stop Raichan.
• Break the Fourth Wall:
  Igor: Use this convenient plot element!
  • Detective Oak breaks a text box in half with his fist.
• Butt-Monkey: Luck, reality and the laws of physics are definitely not on Igor's side. Case in point: he swithces the air conditioner on and causes a blizzard.
  • Also transfered to any character that he's playing in games as Sonic found out.
• Call-Back: For such a random comic they have a lot of continuity gags.
  • Igor getting Platypus in the second comic calls back to his stuborn belief that mammals lay eggs in the first one. In the eighth one his parents are trying to teach him otherwise.
• Calling Your Attacks: PENDAAAAAAAANT!
• The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: Jose constantly speculates that things are illusions. And he turns out to be right about the bomb.
• Cooldown Hug: The one thing that can stop Vinicius's rampage Super Smash Bros Brawl
• Cool Shades: Always have them on hand in case you run into a Matrix Bullet Time parody.
• Cloning Piracy is Evil: Zig-zagged. Vinicius beats up an Alligator Mad-Scientist for cloning his Nintendo 3DS but has no qualms about Igor using the clone to pay off his ridiculously large debts.
• Everybody Hates Mathematics: Math makes Vinicius get in a state of uncontrollable rage, completely contrary to his usual behavior.
• Facial Composite Failure: Platypus's sketch looks like a human with a Platypus beak.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Light Bittencourt.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: After foiling the evil anthropomorphic crocodiles' plans and blowing up their entire secret base, Vinicius plays Team Fortress 2 online with one of the members of the organization.
• Handwave: {in-universe} Max Adventura glazes over impossibilities in his stories as "minor details".
• Haunted House: After buying an ancient Egyptian electric fan Igor's house is turned into one.
• Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Parodied with AAAAAA the generic JRPG protagonist.
• Here We Go Again!: After going on an adventure to get Chibi-Robo! DS Vinicius can't find his DS
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Platypus to Igor. The little guy's loyalty is just about all Igor has going for him.
• I Am the Trope: In a parody of Judge Dreas's famous line
  Detective Oak: Now I am the laws of physics!
• Iron Butt Monkey: Despite his luck (or lack thereof) Igor's worst injury only had his arm in a cast. He's survived being blown from the South Pole to Rio.
• Made of Explodium: All of downtown Rio according to Igor.
• Mass Hypnosis: Raichan pulls this off on the whole of Rio with his Need Cards minus our protagonists (all for different reasons)
• Meaningful Name: Raichan is revealed to have electric powers in combat.
  • Also, Max Adventura is an adventurer.
• Missing Steps Plan: Raichan's evil scheme to take over the world hinges on destroying Igor's place of residence for some reason. Turns out it was built on the only known source of Raichanium.
• One-Scene Wonder: Firefighter Andre Martins, who flies a space shuttle to help our heroes.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Platypus is able to infitrate the Police building with nothing more than a Police cap.
• Scaley Confusion: To avoid getting headshot by Platypus's pendant attack a sentient alligator uses the Croc-o-style Sniper set... which is made from a skinned and decapitated crocodile... Best not think about it too hard.
• Shout-Out: If Video Games aren't part of the plot they will be found everywhere as background jokes.
  • A rare non-game one happens in The Sewer when Vinicius sings the song from Titanic after the cruiser sinks.
  • And a reference to the Genki Dama/Spirit Bomb in The Card.
  • Igor shouldn't have done that.
• Take Over the World: Raichan supposedly needs to destroy Igor's building to achieve his goal of world domination.
• 13 Is Unlucky: Igor's appartment number. Lampshaded.
  Max Adventura: Is this your home, young adventurer?
  Igor: Look at the number. What do you think?
• Villains Out Shopping: The villain, Raichan, is found on the same airplane as his enemies... but it's alright, he was just travelling to Los Angeles to watch E3.
• With Friends Like These...: Can decend into this at times
  Igor: (after Carlos fired him out a mortar launcher) Why do I still talk to that guy...?
• Word Salad Title: The title is a mashup of the names Vinicius, Igor and Antonio, even though only the first two are actual characters. Nobody named Antonio is ever mentioned at all.
• Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: The Master Chief

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