Nerf NOW!! / YMMV - TV Tropes

Alternative Character Interpretation: Mega Man as a mindless killing machine and Link as a serial kidnapper, pure Nightmare Fuel there.
Anvilicious: His Author Filibuster is usually dropped with the subtlety of an anvil.
Arc Fatigue: Until a while ago, most of the fans were complaining about Jo focusing too much on Dota 2 comics and rarely doing any other comics. With how long the Dota 2 comics have gone on, and Jo adding a comment pending attribute to his site, the rage stopped and turned into silence. When Angie came back, however, he agreed that he had done too much DOTA 2, and would focus on games that his fanbase would like to see comics made of.
Broken Base:
- There is a considerable rift between those who prefer Team Fortress 2 comics and those who prefer DOTA 2 comics which isn't helped by the fact that most of the gags for either will only make sense if you really know the games meaning a huge chunk of the base simply won't get the joke for either.
- Some strips reference the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic series. Some of the base is "Alright! Welcome to the herd, Jo!" and the others are "Seriously? This is one of the last pony-free places on the Internet! Not you too!". And those are the milder comments. You can read the rest here.
- When Jo compared a good game to a well-done steak, many readers are not happy... so he made a follow up strip about his preference on steak, which is "well-done".
Cargo Ship: In-Universe: Zenyatta and Torbjorn thought this was the situation between Angie and Bastion during 'Booooop', 'Rage Against the Machine', and 'Maintenance'. It wasn't, Angie was just giving Bastion a much-needed, thorough, diagnostic. A very thorough diagnostic.
Epileptic Trees: Just how does the dispenser heal someone?
Fandom-Enraging Misconception:
- Referred to Link from The Legend of Zelda as Zelda in this strip, sparking incendiary comments.
- The constant reference of the entire Super Smash Bros. series as Brawl, even if the latter's name was only from the third game.
Fan Nickname: Or rather fan name, after the four current TF2-tans got real names but the kicked-out Engie didn't; many Engie-Tan fans have taken to labeling her as Angela, a Punny Name based on the fact that Angela=Angie=Engie.
Fridge Brilliance:
- In this Christmas comic, why did Engie-tan's sentry gun attack Santa Claus? Well, she's the BLU Engie, and Santa wears red...
- Why did Jane seem to be trying to be at odds with Morgan? Jane and Morgan are Gender Flips of the Soldier and Demoman respectively and the two classes had an event competing against each other.
Growing the Beard:
- Originally started off completely textless in an attempt to be the antithesis of Ctrl+Alt+Del, and to the detriment of its humor. Because Tropes Are Not Bad, once the strip became a lot more lenient with allowing text (and as a result shifting from the emphasis on TF2-tan Moe fanservice towards general gaming humor), it became a lot more consistently funny.
- It's not that clear-cut for some though, as some prefer the earlier strips. Whether that is a legitimate complain or just a case of They Changed It, Now It Sucks! is in the eye of the beholder.
Heartwarming in Hindsight: A short storyline had Samus show up to the bar desperate for a job after having been completely rejected by Nintendo. Not long after, E3 revealed that Samus would be returning for Metroid Prime 4.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- One of the rants Jo attaches to his strips had him trying to convince people that the Wii would be Nintendo's last home console. Barely a day later, many sources started claiming that Nintendo would be unveiling their new console at that E3 2011.
- Cast your eyes on this comic, which was released about a day or two after the Uber Update. Now, have a look at one specific item that Valve added into Team Fortress 2 on the first of July, about a week after the Uber Update.
- The author has a habit of accidentally predicting Team Fortress 2 updates, it seems. Such as robot Pyros, which came with the rest of the robot classes in Mann Vs. Machine.
- The author made a joke where he briefly consider genderbending the male heroes from Dota 2 before deciding against it. What makes this funnier in hindsight is that Valve is planning to turn one of the male heroes (Legion Commander) into a woman for Dota 2.
- In this comic, Crystal Maiden got a Snowl after getting curbstomped. 25 comics later...
- This comic poking fun at the fact that Phantom Assassin is the only one of the assassin heroes to not have an invisibility. Now that PA does have an invisibility in her reworked Blur, she has much less to pout about now.
Ho Yay:
- Of course, done between the Heavy and Medic. Hell, he even fights over the Medic with a female one. On the other hand, the Medic goes with HWGirl instead.
- And between Louis and Francis for survival purposes.
- Jane and Morgan are basically a hair from being explicitly in a romantic relationship. Also, they both find Furiosa dreamy. Considering them being significantly at odds in most cases regarding their gaming tastes, it's also pretty much Slap-Slap-Kiss.
  - It became explicitly romantic. Eventually they got married.
Moe: Oh so very, very much.
Memetic Mutation:
- Back when readers could add notes to specific areas of a comic (which feature was eventually removed due to circumstances beyond the author's control, taking all the readers' notes with it), every comic would have at least one person put a "spy here!" photo note on some area of empty space, nearly every pointed finger would have a photo note of "POW! Haha!" and anything with a female would have a photo note that lays claim to the female (or just part of their body). Lines from the Meet the Team videos were also commonplace, and to a lesser extent, "Nerf Now, now with more trope.". Lampshaded by the author in this strip and this strip.
- If any character's open hand is visible, somebody will probably leave a photo note saying "Slap my hand!" referencing the Spy asking for a high five. If there are even more hands visible, the photo notes follow the Spy's line, such as "Come on, slap it now!", and "This is NOT a trick!"
Older Than They Think: Jopiera borrows the TF2-tan style from another artist, who in turn borrowed from Japanese doujinshi.
Seasonal Rot: Later comics have strayed away from cute characters doing amusing things and seem to serve more as a way for Jo to state an opinion about something.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The author's reaction when 2K studios announced a FPS sequel to the X-COM series.
Watch It for the Meme: How Morgan talks Jane into trying Final Fantasy XIV by mentioning that there are memes about short people. Jo notes that memes were what inspired him to try Girls' Frontline and even led to the creation of Nerf NOW!! in the first place.
The Woobie: The comic has a few:
- Samus arguably takes top billing here - virtually every appearance in the comic has her bemoaning her lack of recent games and generally being treated as a pariah. See here and here and here and here and here and...
- Similar to Samus, Daisy frequently finds herself left out of any opportunities for appearances in new games.
- Engie, during her "game-making" phase had some woobie moments of her own.

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