Webcomic / WTF Comics

The Main Cast of WTF Comics

A Fantasy Webcomic, created by Jeremy Waller in 2003 (and still running*), based on the world of the well-known MMORPG, EverQuest. WTF Comics is a shining example of well-delivered Fantasy Story, with a lot of comedy, fun, action, and drama.

The story starts with Annashi, a young druid girl who decides to go on an adventure to find her long lost father with one of her father's old friends, a Grumpy Iksar Warrior, Straha Ironscale. Then, as the number of their friends and enemies gather along the way, and the little 2-man party grows ever larger, the story slowly turns into an Epic Fantasy tale of a group of adventurers, each of them there for different reasons, but fighting together against the forces of the Nebulous Evil Organisation "The Vision".

The website can be found here: http://www.wtfcomics.com/

• Unfortunately the comic has not been updated since 2016. This page, meanwhile, needs some Wiki Magic Love.

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This series contains examples of:

• Ascended Extra: Smoke's backstory is being explored in a separate side comic.
• Ass Kicking Pose: Lots of. Nearly everyone gets one, especially Smoke. Heck, it's even easier to count when he's not in one.

• Be Careful What You Say: Shade can't break a promise. Literally.

• Bigger on the Inside: Smoke's box is tardis, but we never see what's inside.

• Brain Food: Played straight and humorously played with/averted by the zombies in Kithicor Forest. Overlaps with Picky People Eater.
• The Brute: Gorax, though he gets one-hand-smaller for a short time after his battle with Straha

• Comically Missing the Point: Maguna tries to explain, via stick drawings, that Straha's powers were greater than they realized and might be limited only by his imagination. Straha (proving her point about his imagination) gets hung up on Maguna's art skills.
• Cool Shades: Smoke's shades. They can even see the invisible.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Smoke, starting as a little pocket Monk with seemingly no real battle capabilities besides dodging things, until Nikisha stabs Anna in front of him, making him go "all out" in rage and annihilating an entire bridge of Mooks along with the bridge itself under them, nearly killing her too in the process.
  • Oh, and did we mention that he can also teleport, modify his own perception of time, resurrect the dead, and see the very fabric of the Timespace around him?
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Literally. Meldrath's machines are powered by human souls.
• Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: Well, Smoke touches it. A lot...
• Doom Magnet: Anna, just... Anna. As shown in this conversation:
  Feless: Dare I ask where our daughter is at the moment Straha?
  Straha: I left her with Anna and the Monk.
  Feless: What?! You left her with the girl you call the walking death magnet and the boy you just call idiot?!
  Straha: I hadn't quite thought about it in those terms, but yes...

• Face–Heel Turn: Kiran starts off simply as the Unlucky Childhood Friend trying to get Anna home. However his complete inability to see her growth alongside his Fantastic Racism against Iksar causes him to refuse to believe Anna wants to continue traveling of her own will, and Straha must be tricking her. This view is furthered by The Vision, who ultimately end up playing on his fear of losing Anna and indoctrinate him. By the Plane of Knowledge arc he's decked out in full Vision gear. Though since Shade showed up he's been Out of Focus.
• Fantastic Racism: Wood and High elves are 'good' races. Trolls and Iskar are 'evil' races, (despite many being rather nice). Obviously they hate each other.

• Genki Girl: Xianle, the Ranger. Apparently, she spent a little too much time in the woods...
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: The bartender at the Maiden's Fancy pretty much says this here.
• Give Her A Normal Life: Straha's reason for giving up Kaitis, since she has the same abilities as him.

• Luke, I Am Your Father: Straha isn't really Kaitis' uncle, but her father. He gave her up to Give Her A Normal Life.

• The Medic: Pie, Pennywise, and Anna, though the later only got effectively good at it recently
• Mooks: Zombie Mooks, Mecha-Mooks, Giant Mooks, Faceless Mooks...
• Minions With An F In Evil: The Gnome Monks
• My God, What Have I Done?: Smoke, after snapping out of his God Mode asskick-time
• My Greatest Failure: Smoke blames himself for Shade killing the woman he used to love, which is the reason he is so over protective of Anna. Also Maguna to a certain extent, who felt guilty over the death of her husband but has since moved on.

• Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie: Cyborg Skeletons, Cyborg Harpies, Cyborg Minotaurs and everything in Meldrath's lab (including Meldrath himself).
• Not What It Looks Like: Straha accidentally falling into the wrong hot spring at the wrong time, arriving in front of a naked Maguna and labeled as a pervert for all eternity
  • In a subversion, he's a reptile and she's a high elf, so he should have absolutely no motivation for ogling. In a double subversion, it has been hinted that she might be interested in him.
• Nuke 'em: Vision mages can cast a minor local Armageddon
• Oh, Crap!: Every time Smoke goes serious, most notably in this◊ scene
• Our Dragons Are Different: Straha, and the entire Iksar race
  • Technically, Iksar aren't related to dragons at all. They're lizardmen, which is basically like a furry race, but with scales instead.
• Playing with Fire: Maguna, just.. Maguna. She has the name Flamedancer for a reason.
• Physical God: Both Smoke and Shade are implied to be this. When using his powers, Smoke has been able to: Alter perceptions of time to teleport instantly, destroy objects nobody is capable of destroying, effortlessly beat scores of Vision soldiers, whom even the GMs couldn't hurt, revive the dead, travel to different dimensions and see the very fabric of time and space. Shade later shows that he's just as capable when he murders an entire train effortlessly, and beats Venril in seconds. When serious, neither can be touched by anything but each other.

• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Nikisha attacks Anna in order to distract him, Smoke proceeds to deliver one of these to her. Oh, and keep in mind that while doing so he's also giving Nikisha a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.

Smoke: It's always the same... wherever I go, it's the same. People like you have no problem hurting the innocent to get at others... can't just come after who you really want. NO! You try to kill a kid who's only mistake was being a friend! Just leverage! A tool! Just like before, just like her! Well not again!

• RPG Mechanics 'Verse
• Running Gag: "ACK! GET IT OFF!!! GET IT OFF!!! GET IT OFF!!!" or some variation in regards to one of the main characters being grappeled by one of the gnomish monks. Two examples can be seen here and here.
• Schedule Slip: Can go without updates for months.
  • Somewhat averted in that its author has never claimed to keep a schedule, and has stated since early on that he only updates when it is convenient.
  • In an interesting case, it has been two years since the news page was updated, stopping around the time the comic itself went on a year-long hiatus. While comics have resumed, news has not.
• Shout-Out: To Solid Snake.
  • Also to Neon Genesis Evangelion as seen here.
  • Also to Cheech & Chong via the KEI junkies (also a bit of a Running Gag themselves).
  • And to a scene from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. "Think thin, tubby" indeed.
  • To Doctor Fucking Who.
    • (Which is just one of the more explicit allusions, considering Smoke's and Shade's ancient universe-spanning feud as the last of their kind.)
  • Possible minor one to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy here.
• Standard Female Grab Area: Kiran uses this on Annashi in an attempt to bring her home. More than once. You'd think he'd learn.
• Storming the Castle: Nearly every story arc starts like this.
• Summon Magic: Maguna's pretty good at it.
• Tranquil Fury: Straha lapses into this for one strip after seeing Anna wounded. He walks calmly outside, giving a "No More Holding Back" Speech almost to himself, before snapping out of it and becoming enraged again. Short lived, but very intimidating.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Dammit...this is gonna hurt.
• Took a Level in Badass: Oh god, Kaitis...
  • Also arguably Anna. For a majority of the series she has been the obviously weakest member of the party, and has been delegated to mostly support. Then during the Secrets of the Kylong arc, she goes toe to toe with Nikisha, a very powerful Rogue who works directly under Haxxor, and manages to push her. Hell she would have won had Shade not interfered at last second. That's some pretty stunning growth from a girl who only an arc ago could barely fight.
    • Considering she's been seen at times being power leveled by her comrades it's not too much of a surprise she's grown so fast.
• Tsundere: Maguna Flamedancer, the living embodiment of this Trope
• Unstoppable Rage: Straha, numerous times. And Kaitis later proves it runs in the family.
  • Smoke too, most notably after Anna is wounded
• Villainous Breakdown: Nikisha suffers it a lot
• We Can Rebuild Him: Meldrath seems to live on this rule.
  • It's even Lampshaded by the Gnomish Monks.
• We Need a Distraction: "Suuure... Monks pull everything."
• Weirdness Magnet: Annashi. When she's around you run into stuff that totally violates the "Natural Laws" of the world they're in.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Nikisha, opposing even Shade by letting Kaitis escape when no one's around.