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openNo Title Webcomic
openDivine tech support Webcomic
The main character is "called" in a dream by the forces of good about incorrect billing information. Would this be Afterlife Bureaucracy or something else?
openExpressive body part? Webcomic
This is a weirdly specific question. One of the main characters in Headless Bliss is a humanoid who learns eventually that she is a character out of someone's unfinished story. At one point, she loses the end of her right index finger, but instead of nothing being there after, there's a black squiggle where the end of the finger should be. It occasionally forms words, such as here
and here
. Do we have a trope that covers this?
openA sequel that's more of a coda. Webcomic
Is there a trope name for story that's technically a sequel but really doesn't stand very strongly as a unique story? It's the case where the reader really has to have read the first installment in order for the sequel to make sense? Basically, the sequel is really more of an extended coda to the first installment.
openCo-ed living situations Webcomic
I'm trying to find a suitable trope for a detail in the webcomic Magellan. I'm just not sure how prevalent it is in any other medium. In it, the superpowered cadets have a co-ed living situation, which includes sharing not only their dorms, but also their showers with both sexes. It's partially to inoculate them to the uniforms they'll be wearing later on, since it's hard to be distracted by a boob window or a skimpy leotard when you've already seen that person naked for six years.
openBad Guy Kinda did Something "Good" by Accident Webcomic
I need help with an example for the Sandra on the Rocks character page, 'cuz it's kind of like a circle.
Sandra is the POV character who the readers are meant to sympathize with and root for because she's a nice gal type. Except she repeatedly cheated on her boyfriend, Pierre, without him knowing about it.
Eloise is an antagonist to Sandra, because it's one of those stories where the good guy always has what the bad guy wants and is seemingly better than them at everything. That includes Pierre, who just so happens to be Eloise's cousin and her secret crush.
So: After finding out about Sandra's infidelity, Eloise arranges it so Pierre finds out
about it in order to break them up so she can have Pierre for herself. The plan works, causing Pierre to dump Sandra
and Eloise hooks up with her cousin afterward.
This makes it seem that The Bad Guy Wins, except had Eloise not brought Sandra's cheating habits to Pierre's attention, they'd still be together and Sandra would've continued to cheat behind his back because she was never going to tell him about it. So Eloise sort of did Pierre a favor, albeit for selfish reasons.
How would you categorize that situation?
Edited by MiinUopenTradesnark, but what else? Webcomic
Panels 4 and 5 of this
Ennui GO! strip are definitely Tradesnark™ (thanks, ~St Fan), but do they fit something else? It feels like a weird take on Saying Sound Effects Out Loud but I'm not sure that it really fits.
openWhat's going on here? Webcomic
NOTE: Comics are NSFW, take care when checking links.
In Ennui GO!, Sarah has a number of strips where she takes something said by someone else and goes off on tangents of odd examples, such as here
and here
, which usually annoys whoever's around her. I'm almost certain we've got a trope for this, but I have no idea what it could be.
openDark Thoughts Webcomic
What would it be if a character briefly thinks about killing themselves, but doesn’t?
open"Stationary TARDIS"? Webcomic
Is there a trope for a magical location or building that features several time and/or space portals?
Like, a castle with several doors, and each door leads to a different era - or works as a portal to a different city, with the owner passing as a denizen of all of those cities?
openWilde Life: Heart Magic Webcomic
In the webcomic Wilde Life a shaman character stole a powerful magical artifact, a heart of a god, from a villain some time before. He is now using it to help an injured person but not using it to make the injured person that powerful. Just help him recover from a different monster's attack.
Would this qualify for Utility Magic?
openVillain/Antagonists gets put under the pressure and reveal their true colors Webcomic
What is that trope where the villain/antagonist all of a sudden gets stripped of their charisma and the writer puts them under the pressure to reveal their true selves? It is a trope that is often used to make villains/antagonists more pathetic or even more foolish than normally would be?
openViolent Neutral Killer Monster Webcomic
Is there a trope for creatures or groups that are practically unbeatable, but obey their own set of rules, like being attracted to a magical beacon or fulfilling a prophecy. Thus, both sides of the conflict try to take advantage of it by having the non-malicious entity attack the other side?
I'm thinking in particular of the NASA monsters from The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, which kill anyone who attacks a NASA scientist regardless of context.
openVillain is gone, but that's clearly temporary Webcomic
An antagonist is dealt with in some way, but to the viewers, some tension remains on when they'll be coming back (not if, when).
The best example I have is The Quick and Dirty Life of Fritz Fargo. After some conflict with the main antagonist is sorted out, we don't see him for a while until one single page where we find out he's been trying to call Fritz' phone and he looks very pissed off
openA canon character yet to be formally introduced Webcomic
So...the trope I'm looking for:
So this is a character that the Comic writer had drawn, and has talked about. It's a character that will be introduced in the comic at some point, but for now is just being developed outside of the comic (drawings, Patreon stuff, Word of God a la Social Media, etc.). They're in the universe, but we don't officially see them yet.
A character yet to be introduced.
openNormal Conversation, Insulting Thoughts Webcomic
Two characters have a normal conversation with each other, unaware that both of them are insulting the other in their head (sort of like Two-Faced Aside but internalised).
- Bob: Did you enjoy your vacation to the Bahamas?Bob, thinking: You rich snob.Alice: It was lovely, thanks for asking.Alice, thinking: Nosy bastard.
openDid We Just Have Cthulhu For Tea? Webcomic
The latest Sandra and Woo ([1286] Shub-Niggurath, Lightly Roasted), has characters eating "octopus", i.e. severed tentacles of the Eldritch Abomination.
So, presumably, this is a "playing with" of "Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?", but is it a parody, inversion, subversion or what?!
