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Awkward Zombie is a wacky weekly gaming webcomic by Katie Tiedrich. While many of the strips are stand-alone gags from various games such as The Legend of Zelda or Earth of Warcraft, the webcomic also features several recurring Super Smash Bros. characters living together in a building and dealing with various hijinks.

Information technology once could be described every bit not actually having much to practice with its title, ^notation Unless you come across information technology equally a metaphor for being a not and so extrovert someone who is socially bad-mannered. until this strip came out.

In that location are also many pages that appear on her DeviantArt gallery only.

She has also started to illustrate (but non write) a brand new webcomic called Aikonia, which can exist found at this site.

In 2012, the author tried to enhance coin to print the comic book; the Kickstarter was a runaway success, and concluded at over a thousand percent funded.

Provides examples of:

Abhorrent Admirer: Ruto, who was weaponized by Link here.
Adaptational Curves: Inverted for Samus, who is much more than built than in the game and has some rather impressive biceps.
Adaptational Jerkass:
Adaptational Ugliness:
Adaptation Personality Change: The comic portrays Marth from Burn down Emblem rather differently than the games do. The author was rather surprised when confronted with a game highlighting the departure, noting that "Sometimes I forget that I kinda sorta totally made up his characterization for the purposes of this comic." While not mentioned as often, the same thing applies to Roy. This is, surprisingly, kept in a sort of canon; whatsoever comic dealing with Marth and Roy in the settings of their own games keeps them more or less in-grapheme, while appearances in the context of Nail Bros uses the made-up characterizations.
Age-Inappropriate Clothes: Nowi is Really 700 Years One-time, looks like a human girl who'south still in elementary school, and wears Stripperific armor. The rest of Chrom's Shepherds are very uncomfortable around her.
All-powerful Bystander: Primary Hand, sorta. He mostly merely chews Roy out for sticking around subsequently he was fired. He besides brainwashed the Smashers (with Mewtwo's help) to fight for him.
Almighty Janitor: In Control, being fabricated the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Control doesn't automatically get top security clearance, leaving Jesse unable to open locked doors. Even the janitors have college clearance than her. ^note The actual reason is that she was promoted during an emergency and couldn't be issued security clearance.
Alternating Character Interpretation: Done in-universe with Marth specially, simply too Link and a agglomeration of others every bit idiots/Jerkasses.
Practical Phlebotinum: Mass Effect is used for lots of avant-garde technology from Faster-Than-Light Travel to Artificial Gravity; but not the translators, that'south magic.
Armor-Piercing Question:
Arc Welding: In this version Ike is from 400 years into Marth's future, but their actual Burn Emblem games take identify in separate universes. Awakening has playable descendants of both Ike and Marth, making this Hilarious in Hindsight.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
Artistic License:
Artistic License – Statistics: One of the strips is congenital out of this and Random Number God. The blurb mentions that Katie actually has studied statistics, but when she plays Fire Emblem she conveniently forgets information technology all.
Art Shift:
- Used as a punchline in this strip. After graduating from art school, BLU Spy makes a sniper disguise that is much more than detailed and differently shaded from the Ruddy Soldier standing next to him, inadvertently giving him abroad.
- Katie'southward Fauna Crossing comics are drawn in a Super-Deformed fashion, to amp up the cute and comedy.
Ascended Meme: In A Link to the Cast, Katie references the silly tier lists meme that popped up around Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's development time, this one being social status of the fighters (where Marth ranks himself and the other royalty members above the "divinity" tier).
Ass Shove: Avoiding this is why Neo opted for the red pill instead of the blue.
Ate His Gun: Snake constitute that preferable to Otacon dawdling on about Pokémon.
Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: It'due south a bad thought to send into a battle a Pokémon in which you are yet on its back.
Author Appeal: Katie really, actually likes Metal Gear, and had every other comic be a Metal Gear comic from x/26/2015 to 12/4/2017 (that'south ii years, 1 month, and 8 days).
Author Avatar: Appears when telling autobiographical vignettes or when she places herself in the role of the principal character from the Pokémon and Animal Crossing games.
Writer Tract: Katie has a strong dislike for Miranda Lawson, and makes sure her audience knows information technology.
Awesome, but Impractical:
Crawly Moment of Crowning: Sort of. Remember when Katie got accepted into college? Well, guess what? She graduated and is now a bona fide mechanical engineer, building spaceship parts. Information technology's a glorious thing.
Ax-Crazy: Kratos is willing to impale people just for giving him advice.
Infant Planet: This comic shows why it would suck to live on one of these. When your planet is the size of a cottage and your nutrient supplies consist of a single coconut, it'southward really easy for your ecosystem to be wrecked by a passing plumber deciding to use your planet's entire food supply as ammunition.
Back for the Expressionless: Roy gets killed by Master Hand. A short time later, he comes back and is killed off once again well-nigh immediately.
Bag of Spilling: Sora got hit with it, just Donald and Goofy didn't.
Bamboo Technology: Deconstructed. Computers made out of wood and tin can cans don't work too well.
Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Katie'south Khajiit grapheme in her Oblivion and Skyrim comics is ever barefoot. Presumably personal preference, since Oblivion and Skyrim Khajiit are perfectly capable of wearing shoes (as opposed to, say, those in Morrowind).
Battle Bays: Apparently, Peach takes trophies from every kill she makes in Super Boom Bros — her main reason for being excited almost Dark Pit joining the roster is that now she tin can decorate her lid with his blackness feathers aslope Pit's white and Falco's blue.

Dazzler Equals Goodness: Lampshaded in Defection Detection when Lyn is looking for an enemy bandit that could possibly defect to their side. Take a guess at who. As commented by Katie, "he's also the just person in that regular army not named Bandit".
Berserk Push: DON'T call Roy "Lord Eliwood". ^note For those unfamiliar with Fire Emblem, Eliwood is Roy'due south father.
Beware the Mind Reader: Mewtwo is seen using his psychic powers to induce embarrassing nightmares in other people.
Bilingual Bonus: The cleaved Russian dialogue on this strip. Approximate translation
Soldier ane: All patrols are of good quality
Soldier 1: I saw a domestic dog today.
Soldier 2: Cute it was? ("it" is non said dog or even something living)
Soldier one: Yes-
Birds of a Plume: Katie and many of her friends are gamers, and several comics only show Katie hanging out with her friends to play/talk about Pokémon, Guitar Hero, and many others. A good number of comics are written by her married man, Norrin, as well.
Bishōnen: Katie's version of Marth is a parody of the character blazon.
Black Comedy: In practically every other comic. This 1 manages to combine it with Disappears into Lite.
Blasphemous Boast: In Marth's ranking organization for the social condition of the members of the Nail cast, the "royalty" tier — including, of course, himself — is ranked above the "divinity" tier. Given that "divinity" in this context means actual deities like Palutena, Marth evidently feels himself as more of import than gods.
Cake Puzzle: A lampshade is hung on how absurd it is this sort of puzzle some how is effective at keeping Ganon abroad from anything.
Bloody Murder: Parodied here, in a reference to Dragon Historic period. The graphic symbol ends up dying from blood loss.
Body Horror: This strip posits what bear upon a Rabbid using the SupaMerge to cause anarchy might actually have.
Boomerang Comeback: Richter slugs an Clue with his boomerang. He celebrates his victory, and forgets to catch information technology.
Boring, just Practical: In Ace Chaser, most of the defense attorneys employ flashy supernatural or superhuman abilities to scissure cases or find the truth. Not Miles Edgeworth though, he gets things done with... basic deductive reasoning. Everyone else still remarks on how amazing this ability is though.
Brick Joke: When Marth meets Lucina, she tells him she's his great not bad groovy bang-up corking great bully not bad corking corking great not bad keen bang-up bully great great great cracking bang-up not bad dandy great great great great slap-up great great great nifty great grandaughter. ^annotation Yes, that is exactly how many times she says slap-up. Then when she meets Roy and does information technology again, Marth interrupts her, shortening it to descendant.
Brother–Sis Incest / Non Claret Siblings: This strip shows how Fire Emblem Fates allowed for both these options - prompting the chief character to join a monastery.
Fire Emblem is here to offering you whatever grade of cursed romance upsets you the least.
Barrel-Monkey:
California Doublinginvoked: Amusingly, it's California beingness doubled for by Japan in this strip. Apollo is not tickled.
Cat Folk: Katie seems to prefer playing as these in The Elder Scrolls — her characters in The Elder Scrolls Iv: Oblivion and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim are both Khajiit, the franchise's playable race of humanoid felines.
Chain of Deals: The subject of this comic.
Characterization Marches On: Marth went from an Only Sane Man and Deadpan Snarker in the early on strips to an egotistical and condescending snob in the later ones.
Cheated Angle: "Aw, you know me! I had my ain game? Sword Of Seals, Blah, Blah, Blah? My hair points to the left no matter what direction I'm facing?" Rather than directly referencing the game, yet, this seems to be a small jab at the artist's way of cartoon Roy.
The Chew Toy:
- Marth, often the butt of the strip's joke. He becomes a literal chew toy in a strip where he's eaten and spit out in rapid succession by Yoshi, Kirby, Wario, Bowser, King Dedede... and Samus, who cites being function Metroid every bit her alibi.
- Roy, starting with a Running Gag revolving effectually his removal from the roster for Brawl and continuing even after he finally got added back into Smash four.
Chocolate Baby: Two Dartrix are awaiting the hatching of their baby, but instead of a Rowlet, it's a Ditto. The parents then await suspiciously at each other. ^note A Ditto convenance with some other Pokémon will always give the other Pokémon, the only way for a pair of Dartrix to take a Ditto for a child is for both of them to be Ditto in disguise.
Color-Coded for Your Convenience:
Comically Missing the Betoken: When Samus reveals that Ridley killed her parents, he protests it was merely "one time!".
The Comically Serious: Marth. Most of the fourth dimension.
Complication Habit: Professor Layton, as seen under Adaptational Jerkass.
Convenient Questing: The Pokémon games are laid out with wild Pokémon having strength proportional to their distance from the starting town; very convenient for whatever aspiring trainers living out there, bad news for anyone starting out from the last city.
Cow Tipping: In "Pro Tipping", 2 boys get more then they bargained for when they get Miltank-tipping and kickoff its Rolling Attack (even though the Miltank is still asleep!).
Crossplayer:
Damn You, Musculus Memory!: After Katie sets her ringtone to be the "enemy spotted" noise from Metal Gear, she reflexively ducks and covers whenever she hears it.
The Dandy: Marth is always well groomed, and enjoys the futuristic luxuries of Nail Mansion, similar hot showers or Peach'south shampoo.
Dark World: I strip features Link from The Fable of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds getting lost amongst a series of parallel worlds — in gild, Subrosia, the Twilight Realm, the Dark Earth from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and the Silent Realm — while trying to become from Lorule to Hyrule, in a parody of the franchise's tendency to invent a seemingly new only functionally identical version of this trope whenever a game needs 1.
At that place are many parallel universes out there, and it turns out a lot of them are slightly darker and blurrier.
Deconstructed Trope: Many strips regard the consequences of some gaming events and abilities in real life. One example is what using a move like Convulsion in the Battle Subway would logically lead to.
Defeat Means Friendship: Big Dominate makes prolific enough apply of Fulton Recovery Devices in Peace Walker for every soldier in his army to be a sometime enemy henchman that tried to impale him and got knocked out, tied to a airship and sent off to his base.
Department of Redundancy Department: When Katie reclasses the characters in Burn Emblem Enkindling, she has a dragon (presumably Nowi, Nah, or Tiki the shape-shifting manaketes) riding effectually on another dragon.
Agony Assault: Exploited by Lucario, who uses a Smart Bomb to damage himself and thus gain increased power (in reference to Super Smash Bros.).
Determinator:
Distracted past My Own Sexy: Marth is initially stunned by Lucina'southward beauty when she's introduced for Nail Bros. 4. His reaction to learning she's his afar descendant is "that would certainly explain it".
Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest: Invoked by Link when OoT Link cannot defeat Dark Link, so he makes a loud announcement of his beloved for Princess Ruto, then hides, leaving Nighttime Link to bargain with the amorous Zora. Navi thinks this is a chip mean.
Dramatic Wind: Ricken from Burn Emblem Awakening asks Chrom how his cape is fluttering like that, when there's no wind effectually. Chrom doesn't want to be seen around such unmajestic people and orders everyone to make their capes/cloaks breaker in the wind too.
Driver Faces Passenger: Fox is so impressed with the new targeting arrangement in Star Fox Zero that he's not paying attention to where he's actually flying.
Dumb Blonde: Ocarina/Melee Link, in a gender-inverted example. At least he'south good at puzzles.
Easter Egg: Clicking on the "O" in the site's championship lets you lot alter the color scheme of the webpage, at least for your figurer.
Everyone Has Standards: Marth may be a narcissistic prick, but hearing about how he'll spiral upward his country in the futurity triggers a Heroic BSoD for him. Expert thing Ike made the whole affair upward.
Evil Analogue: Parodied in this comic. Dark Pit and Wolf speculate virtually what Dark Samus looks similar nether her helmet, imagining that she looks just like Zilch Arrange Samus with stock dark counterpart traits (such every bit an eyepatch, blackness hair, and red eyes). To their horror when they inquire her to remove her helmet, they larn that unlike other nighttime analogue characters, what makes Dark Samus different from Samus is that instead of just being a Darker and Edgier version of her, the armor is where the similarities begin and end.
Wearied Center Bags: A notable characteristic of Katie's Author Avatar.
Expendable Clone: Played for blackness comedy in a Minish Cap comic, where Link creates a clone to aid him with a task. The new clone spends several panels coming to grips with his condition as a newly living being and enjoying the world around him... until he runs into a tree and shatters moments after his birth, at which point Ezlo casually tells Link to just brand some other clone.
Exploding Cupboard: How Katie plays the Fallout games.
Eye Scream: In this comic, a Tauren from World of Warcraft puts stamina gems in every socket of his armor, as well as his eye sockets.
The Face up of the Sun: Seen here.
Failure Is the Simply Option: Katie sees taking out bosses non-lethally in Metal Gear Solid every bit this, pointing out in Worth a Shot that fifty-fifty if the actor does it, the following cutscene will invent a reason for the boss to die.
Fanon Aperture: Katie seems to have adopted an "I oasis't played it, therefore it didn't happen" mental attitude toward Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. invoked
Felony Misdemeanor: The police are more strict nearly laws to not send out more than one Pokémon at a time in a Unmarried Battle than they are in stopping a crime boss from trying to kill almost of Globe'southward population.
Festering Fungus: In one Minecraft comic, mushroom growth starts to get a tad out of hand as thick carpets of shrooms offset growing under every tree, all over the player's house, all over the player...
I know that the mushroom spread rate has increased, simply they have a tendency to completely overtake whatsoever patch of darkness they can wedge into. It'due south entirely unsettling.
Flat-World Atheist: Pull a fast one on mocks the Fantasy-based Smash bandage for believing in gods, merely for Palutena to show upward.
Flat "What": Katie is a fan of this.
Forced Tutorial: No, Shauna, I already take a squad full of Pokémon, and collected all the gym badges, and caught the legendary, and I've been doing this since before you were built-in. I don't demand a tutorial on how to take hold of a Pokémon.
Foreboding Compages: Katie Shepard knows what a room with waist loftier walls ways.
Freaky Is Absurd:
- The Horde may be this to Katie. Well-nigh all of the WoW comics are of the Horde, with Tauren, Trolls, and the Forsaken being prominent; the merely comic that is about the Alliance is about the Worgen, and Katie wishes they were a Horde race.
- Her Elder Scrolls comics use a Khajiit master character.
Refrigerator Logic: Katie's specialty is pointing out the logical holes in her favorite games. invoked
- Ane older example is "It Seemed Like a Expert Thought at the Time", which points out that in Metroid Prime number, the Space Pirates have doors in their facilities that are openable by beams that seemingly only Samus has.
  There are doors on the Space Pirate frigate Orpheon only attainable with some of Samus'southward unique weaponry, which the Pirates only develop after in the game (conveniently, right after you larn information technology yourself)...merely what I want to know is why they built doors they knew they couldn't open. Then over again, the frigate was probably designed by the same Science Team that decided it was a good idea to engineer Pirate armor that leaves a gaping pigsty in front of what looks like a very big and vulnerable vital organ. Um, seriously. But perchance, if you lot punch a Space Pirate square in the heart, he becomes all huge and stiff for like thirty seconds.
- "Missing Link" points out how the engineering science in the Metal Gear serial seems to always be improving, even when the games are prepare before ones with worse technology:
  The hard role about releasing a game in 2015 set in 1984 that's a prequel to a game released in 1987 and set in 1995 while yet itself a sequel to several games gear up further in the by is that you've bracketed yourself into a narrow band of available engineering. I love that Kojima couldn't help himself from putting iPhones and Gundams into MGSV, so I guess all of the futuristic scifi eighties stuff exploded earlier the events of the original Metallic Gear and they all had to go back to using radios.
- In 24-Hour Comic 2017, Norrin wonders why Bowser ◊, when he went on vacation in Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, didn't take Bowser Jr. with him. All Katie tin call back of is that Bowser doesn't similar his son.
- Deposit Limit is about how it's weird that the wallets in the Zelda series have a difficult cap on how much coin you can hold, given that the currency in virtually games consists of Rupees of the same size in unlike colors - Midna has a trouble with Link putting back a regal Rupee worth 50 Rupees because he "can't comport whatsoever more than", when from a logical perspective he should be able to discard a light-green Rupee worth but 1 and supercede information technology.
Furry Defoliation:
- Equally seen in Animal Crossing, where two domestic dog citizens react with horror to seeing Katie's Author Avatar walking a regular dog on a ternion.
- Having people effectually who fall all over the Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism can lead to confusion, equally Ganondorf finds when he starts to absentmindedly scratch someone lying next to his armchair, earlier looking up to find that the Duck Hunt dog is at the other end of the room and he's been petting Fox'southward caput.
- When Isabelle meets the Duck Hunt canis familiaris for the first time, she greets it as she would any other Funny Animal from her franchise. The dog'southward reaction is to scratch itself, bark and wander away.
  Isabelle (thinking): What a freak.
- Incineroar gets subject area to this as well by Roy, thinking he's a sapient brute person similar the Star Play tricks characters instead of a Pokemon.
  Incineroar: meow
  [Roy buries his face in his hands]
Furry Reminder: Fifty-fifty with the Animal Crossing folks' nearly-human status, the deer scare nevertheless does its job.
Gang Up on the Homo: "Everyone end fighting! There's a weird old man on the roof!"
Genius Ditz: Link, as mentioned under Dumb Blonde.
Gift-Giving Gaffe: When Corrin gives Charlotte a new chapeau, Keaton asks if he can have an accompaniment likewise. Corrin says sure, and steals dorsum the hat to give it to Keaton.
Glad I Thought of It: Ignis isn't the near innovative chef around. When presented with a recipe volume, he immediately hides it behind his back and states that he has invented a new recipe.
Go-Karting with Bowser: Discussed and defied in this comic as why Ridley isn't office of the playable roster in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U (or whatsoever game in the series until Ultimate). As said in the blurb underneath:
Katie: Ridley is kind of the but Nintendo villain who'south e'er done annihilation actually awful — Bowser'south a wiggle and Ganondorf tends to make everyone anxious for a while, just both are still probably hands forgiven.
Skilful Lawyers, Proficient Clients: The Ace Attorney series' use of this trope is lampshaded here. Athena asks Phoenix what his hole-and-corner to winning so many cases is, but he tells her all she has to do is trust in her client. Nosotros so run across an part memo with a list of Punny Names of potential clients, most of which are either Names to Run Away from Really Fast or otherwise suggest they're guilty. Phoenix is then seen offering his services to the lone exception, Mr. Inne Nocent.
Gross-Up Close-Up: Mana using classes in Earth of Warcraft use h2o to replenish their mana supply, which besides has other benefits.
The Guards Must Be Crazy: The Fire Emblem serial has its reinforcement system poked at with how piece of cake it tin be to thwart information technology.
Invitee Strip: Katie did a invitee comic for VG Cats and one for Fanboys.
Guide Dang It!: This comic ridicules some of the empty-headed recruitment methods in Fire Emblem. Information technology goes so far that other characters kickoff questioning the sanity of the people giving orders.
Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty: Parodied in the strip "Guilty Until Proven Guilty." The judge accepts that Athena's customer couldn't have possibly committed the offense. Notwithstanding, since she did non bring up a possible suspect, the gauge decides to declare Athena'due south client guilty anyhow because "someone should get to jail."
Half-Dressed Cartoon Brute: The hedgehog insists on crafting pants despite other Animal Crossing denizens non wearing them at all.
Hands in Pockets: Katie Tiedrich admits in the description of this page that she hates drawing the pinnacle of Midna's helmet, and thus ever puts her at the top of panels in this folio and subsequent comics including her.
Heroic Build: Trick asks where Samus' guns are - she just flexes her bicep.
Hidden Depths: Yen Sid, equally it turns out, has a bachelor's degree in manner design and withal tailors vesture, and is a fleck put out at people not realizing this. According to the strip's description, he also has a main's in theater arts.
High-Pressure Blood: Equally seen here, in parody of Dragon Age, where a blood mage stabs his manus and sprays a hose-like jet of blood over a team of soldiers.
- And hither, where Katie'due south character does the same move with both hands, only to die of blood loss.
Homoerotic Dream: One of the perks of being a Psychic-type Pokémon is the ability to screw with others' dreams — as Mewtwo demonstrates when giving Marth a dream of Roy jumping on and messily making out with him.
Horrible Guess of Character: The entire plot of Kingdom Hearts: Birth past Slumber is soundly mocked when Eraqus introduces the Obviously Evil Xehanort as his all-time friend and truest marry, and Terra falls for it hook line and sinker.
Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: When a Pokémon breeder gives Katie an egg that her Pokémon had, and says he has no idea where it came from. Katie calls him out on this, as a breeder he should know where eggs come up from. The breeder then points to the very different Pokémon that Katie left at the 24-hour interval care, and asks if she knows where an egg would come from.
Hypocritical Humor: Perchance unintentional, merely when Marth congratulates Breath of the Wild Link on being a purple knight, he dismissively refers to previous Links as "orphans, peasants and caprine animal farmers". This despite Marth himself being an orphan.
Impact Silhouette: Samus turns down Captain Falcon's advances by throwing him through several walls, leaving holes the size and shape of Captain Falcon'due south tumbling body.
Implacable Man: In sometime Fire Emblem games, the characters didn't visibly block attacks and would just say "no damage", whether they merely took an axe to the face, or got impaled with a spear. In this comic, the victim of said impaling then walks downwardly the spear to stare at point blank range with the spearman.
Improbable Age: Ace Attorney's prosecutors are apparently prodigies — most seem to take begun prosecuting in their early twenties and late teens, and one became chief prosecutor at twenty-vii. Given that it takes four years of police force school to be fifty-fifty eligible for a bar examination — after regular college — these ages are rather improbable to say the least.
Incendiary Exponent: "My truck is going and so fast it outburst into flames? Crawly!"
Infernal Retaliation: Happens to Link twice in The Fable of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
- The first time, he fires a fire pointer at a keese... which comes dorsum to strafe him as a flaming variant of itself.
- In the second fourth dimension, he uses Din'due south Fire to engulf a room in flame and quickly light several torches at once. As it turns out, at that place were besides several keese in the darkness, all of which become burn keese and start swoop-bombing him at once.
Space Canvas: This strip, which uses an extra-long panel to convey a Visual Pun about Marth missing the romantic undertones in Caeda'due south comment.
Insistent Terminology:
- The Super Smash Bros. games are spelled with a colon separating the title and subtitle (i.e. Super Smash Bros.: Melee), which has never been used officially.
- "Oh, you mean Blackjack." "NO. It's the FUTURE. It'due south called QUASAR."
Instant Flight: Simply Add Spinning!: Has a take on how Doduo, a flight Pokémon with no wings, tin can fly using this trope.
Instantly Proven Incorrect: Marth in Rubix Rubes, later on failing to solve a Rubix Cube which Link so steals.
Marth: No offense intended, Link, but if I couldn't solve it, at that place just isn't a chance that you-
*Link slams the completed Rubix Cube on the desk*
Interchangeable Antimatter Keys: 1 strip parodies how Link can't seem to open a locked door without breaking the key he used to do it.
Interface Screw: Jensen gets so used to his implants highlighting important items with yellow outlines he goes nuts trying to interact with a bedspread that has a yellow trim.
Jensen: Tell me your secrets.
Interface Spoiler: Katie has a hearing problem, and turns on subtitles on everything. This causes bug when the subtitles run ahead of the actual sound.
ISO-Standard Urban Groceries: Carried by Lydia at the stop of a comic depicting the Dovahkin fumbling around because of imprecise controls.
It's All Upstairs from Here: Bowser puts his infite stairs to good use past using them as a vertical treadmill to get in shape for an upcoming fight with Mario.
Information technology's a Long Story: Solid Snake asks Main Miller where he learned so much about wild fauna. Cut to Venom Snake surrounding Kaz with a zoo'south worth of animals in Female parent Base, and then maxim the trope proper name.
It Seemed Like a Good Thought at the Time: The title of this Metroid Prime-based strip. The "good idea" in question is a Infinite Pirate facility that has doors that can just be opened by weapons that only Samus owns.
Jabba Tabular array Manners: Effie swipes a loaf of staff of life meant for someone else and stuffs the matter into her face.
Jerkass Gods: Zagreus expresses dismay to Achilles over being asked to pick a favorite betwixt Aphrodite and Poseidon only for the loser to try killing him - Achilles gives him a volume about Greek mythology when Zagreus expresses hope that it won't happen again.
Look, just...don't say anything they might take the incorrect fashion. Or say anything, really. Also, try not to be likewise hot, or not hot plenty. Honestly, maybe you're improve off in hell.
But Eat Gilligan: Or Just Eat the Pikmin, in this example, as the protagonists of Pikmin iii figure that eating the plant-based pikmin themselves is a amend way to gather food than scrounging for fruit.
Karma Houdini: Two hundred years of community service turned out to be really useful for getting Twinrova into Heaven despite having been unrepentant villains in life.
Kicking the Dog: All part of Plan B. Katie figures that she must become a colossal jerk for people to actually criticize her, so she starts riding a motorcycle while punting people'south dogs over the horizon.
Klingon Promotion: In Control, ane gets college security clearance past finding someone with higher clearance than you and besting them in single combat, or threatening them with a gun, whichever works.
Lampshade Hanging: A good portion of the comics hang lampshades on all aspects of games from mechanics to story points usually by following them through to their cool conclusion.
Large Ham:
- Katie, in her author notes at the bottom of the folio.
- Master Hand, with his No Indoor Vocalisation.
- Roy, with his over-exaggerated expressions.
Final Identify You lot Look: One strip has Katie talking about how if she can't feel her possessions in her pockets she gets paranoid. Even if she'southward belongings the item she'southward worried about and is in the procedure of using information technology.
Look, I'll call y'all dorsum. I think I lost my phone.
Literal-Minded: Apparently, Naked Snake did non get what they meant past "Alloy in with your surroundings".
Literally Shattered Lives: I Pokémon strip has a Noivern exist frozen solid by an Ice Axle... in midair, causing it to fall to the ground and shatter like drinking glass.
Logical Fallacies: Y'all SURE you lot don't have any claret to track him downwards with?
Long Title: Played for laughs when Norrin declines the cats' requests for more than food in 24-60 minutes Comic 2015:
Norrin: You Already Ate. Subtitle: I'thou Non Feeding You Again. Parenthesis: The Tom and Crow Story.
Expect Behind You: In the text underneath this strip:
"...How did Virion get stabbed in the back if he leapt face-starting time into danger, yous enquire? Well, there's a rational LOOK A BEAR"
Lucky Charms Championship: Technically the title of the comic is Δwkward Zombie, as Katie tends to write majuscule Equally every bit Δs.
Major Injury Underreaction:
Male person Gaze: This strip (and especially the commentary) lampshades Mass Effect two's tendency to focus on Miranda'south posterior.
Man in a Kilt: Link, to Midna's displeasure.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: In the Pokémon comics, Katie ordinarily wears the male trainer's outfit (though for RSE she had a pants variant of May's outfit), and Norrin wears a variation of the female trainer'due south outfit (with pants instead of shorts or skirts). In the short-lived Nuzlocke comic he wears Leaf'due south outfit, skirt and all, after losing in rock-paper-pair of scissors.
Meaningful Proper name: How Phoenix picks his clients.
Mind Spiral: Ike does this to Marth for kicks. Aforementioned for Mewtwo, only more literally.
Min-Maxing: When Katie played through Fire Emblem Awakening the second time, she played it on Lunatic Mode, which required min-maxing all the characters into unstoppable killing machines, resulting in some unusual character builds. This is followed by abusing the human relationship system to get particular skills on their children.
Mistaken For Flatulence: In i comic, Katie, while riding in an airplane, scrapes her foot on the ground and it makes a fart sound, causing Katie to fear that people will practice this. She ends upwardly trying to recreate the sound in order to make herself not expect weird and gross, and while she succeeds, she besides makes herself look weird anyway.
Mistaken for Pedophile: Nowi, from Fire Keepsake Awakening, is a 1000 year erstwhile dragon, who looks like a prepubescent girl and wears an absolutely scandalous outfit. Everyone else avoids her explicitly because of this, and even Katie says she needs to go to jail just for drawing the comic.
Mistaken for Racist: Miranda'southward Dad in this comic, due to his idea of a "perfect human being" apparently being a white woman.
Money for Zilch: The description of "Acquit On" explains how Katie plays video games non to defeat the Large Bad but to sell things for money that she won't spend. But it's totally worth it.
More Dakka: "This possibly could accept been avoided if you hadn't Congenital THE SHIP ENTIRELY OUT OF GUNS."
Mundane Utility:
My God, What Have I Done?: Played for Laughs when Miranda'south dad freaks out rather hilariously when it's pointed out to him that the "genetically perfect being" he made happens to be white. Information technology'south either due to this or massive awkward discomfort at the thought of being seen every bit racist when that had never even crossed his listen driving him to leap out the window to spare himself from the awkward state of affairs.
Named Later on Somebody Famous: Katie and Norrin's cats are named Tom Servo and Crow, after two of the robots from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Narcissist: Marth. Played for Laughs in one strip where the just other person he would be willing to depict equally cute... is his 32nd-great-granddaughter from the future who looks nearly exactly like him, just with longer hair.

Nice Chapeau:
- Katie is normally depicted wearing a large red hat, though she later switched to a grey one. Fans did not like the change, for some reason. She also has a squeamish green fuzzy ane.
- Norrin is always seen wearing a Diamond Helm in the Minecraft comics.
Nice Guy: Granted, we don't run into information technology that often, but much like in Uprising, Pit shows this by beingness one of the only two people to actually recognize AND congratulate Roy. Especially when you consider that Pit was considered Roy'southward Suspiciously Similar Substitute.
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: This comic will never allow you lot to come across Pokémon Centers the same fashion ever again.
No Face Nether the Mask: Dark Samus, equally seen in this comic, has absolutely goose egg below her helmet.
No Indoor Voice: Primary Hand. "FOOOOOOOOOOOLS!!" Or in one comic, where he finds out Roy is back. "NO"
"No. Only... No" Reaction: "Disney Backwards" has Sora warp into Song of the South and see Br'er Rabbit coming downwards the path, but and then Yen Sid slaps Sora out of that world.
Yen Sid: SOME WORLDS STAY SLEEPING FOR A REASON.
Noodle Implements: In the Mythbusters flash cartoon:
Adam: To bust this myth, I'll need four owls, a dog skull, and vii gallons of pudding!
Not the Intended Use
Non Proven: Katie takes a jab at Ace Chaser's court system where the defendant can notwithstanding go to jail even when proven to be not guilty because the existent perpetrator is nevertheless unknown.
Not What It Looks Like:
No, Yous
Manifestly Evil: Parodied with Katie's beginning depiction of Master Xehanort in "Nort of Appeals", where he is depicted in Stylistic Suck to make him look even more gremlin-y. Aqua and Ventus react appropriately, and Terra, well...
Oblivious Guilt Slinging: When Alm is sent to the world of Fire Emblem Heroes, he exclaims that he doesn't have time to be fighting there, since he has his own kingdom to protect. Afterward asking Anna "Don't yous think the heroes you've summoned take amend things to practise than fighting for someone else's entertainment?", a certain group of warriors are looking pretty guilty. Well, most of them anyway.
Odd Couple: Marth and Roy. One is a narcissistic prick, the other is an immature pyromaniac. They're nearly ever together, considering the contrast is hilarious.
Ane Size Fits All: Or not.
Only Sane Man:
- Apollo Justice tends to find himself in this position in Ace Attorney strips.
- In the later Ace Attorney strips, Athena Cykes takes on the spot as the only sane one. Exemplified hither.
- In the earlier Super Smash Bros. strips, Marth. Since and so, he has deviated towards being the Narcissist, and Samus has taken his place, mostly considering seeing the bounty hunter's reactions (or, rather, lack of them due to her 24-Hour Armor) is inherently funny.
- Generally, this role volition drop into the lap of the person who is most likely to brand the gag funnier. For example, Hector taking upshot with Eliwood's irrational supply hoarding and, well, other role player-driven antics.
- The Metal Gear comics laissez passer around the Sanity Ball regularly, but the one who holds it about of the time is Kaz.
Outgrown Such Empty-headed Superstitions: In one comic where several characters are having a heated debate over their religious differences, Fox—the only ane from a Scientific discipline Fiction space age setting rather than a High Fantasy world—drops in to mock the whole concept of organized religion.
Trick: Oh, you primitive cultures and your god-worship. How quaint.
Out-of-Grapheme Moment: Or, considering the nature of this comic, more like "In-Character Moment" if you volition; this strip features Marth showing a surprising amount of humility and even self-depreciation.
Pals with Jesus: "Gnostic" has the characters start feuding over their respective religious beliefs (Zelda's a polytheist, Marth's a monotheist, Fox has Outgrown Such Featherbrained Superstitions) - and then Palutena walks through the door, shutting them all upwardly while leaving her confused.
Perpetual Frowner: Marth, which comes as no surprise considering what he's putting up with.
The Perry Bricklayer Method: Poked fun at with Phoenix Wright, in which the defence force provides an airtight alibi for the customer - but since they didn't suss out the real culprit, the Judge states "Well, SOMEONE should become to jail, shouldn't they?" and proclaims the Defendent guilty. Katie's comic clarification points out that all a person needs to avert getting caught is to not be in the courtroom at the time of trial.
Pet the Dog: A literal example with Ganondorf here.
Poor Advice Kills: The whole mess in Bravely Default could've been avoided if the heroes and villains had just stopped and talked everything out. When Edea'south male parent tries to get his point across, and Edea is willing to mind to what he has to say, he grabs the Idiot Ball and doesn't tell them a damn thing.
Popularity Polynomial: invokedLampshaded in "The Pokemon Effect", which is about how Pokémon was extremely popular when the Katie was in form schoolhouse, unpopular in high school, and became popular over again in college.
Power-Up Letdown: Several strips accept Link's iron boots tear off his feet, and one strip has a fresly-constitute pair trounce his skull when he drops them on his confront. Another strip has a newly-institute pair of hover boots fly away.
Pull Yourself Down the Spear: Hector somehow takes no impairment from a spear going correct through his shoulder, then he walks down the spear to come confront-to-confront with his attacker.
Punctuation Changes the Meaning: Give Up, the Ghost adds a comma to the saying "surrender the ghost", turning it from a effigy-of-speech about dying to a commentary about how the ghost from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening can't become Link to take him seriously.
Punny Proper name: Phoenix Wright picks his clients based on how innocent their proper noun is.
Puppy-Dog Optics: Shauna uses these to get Katie to sit through the Forced Tutorial on how to catch a Pokémon.
Preemptive "Close Up": Subsequently Link solves a Rubik'south Cube in two panels flat and takes off with a small key above his head, nosotros accept this "exchange".
Roy:
Marth: Don't.
Product Placement:
Psychic Nosebleed: Happens to Ness when a bomb goes off in Magicant.
Quip to Blackness: Done here.
Raised past Wolves: To Marth'due south annoyance. Samus and Falco share a morning ritual of crowing at the sunday.
Marth: What, you lot too?
Samus: I was... I was raised by birds...
Random Number God: The RNG is not kind to Katie in Fire Emblem.
The Rant: One appears in nearly every Writer comment.
Reaction Shot: Mocks Golden Sun: Dark Dawn's utilise of this in Express. It didn't help that, as Katie admits, she picked upwardly the game without knowing it was a sequel and, having not played the previous games she had no attachment to most of the things the characters were reacting to.
Read the Fine Print: Marth tried to practice this when signing up for Blast Bros. Too bad Master Mitt had Mewtwo nearby just in case.
Really 700 Years Old: Throughly mocked here, where all the characters refuse to interact with Nowi because a prepubescent daughter in a Stripperific outfit is creepy no thing how old she claims she is — to say zip of starting a canonically sexual human relationship.
Remembered I Could Fly: Afterward getting captured in this comic, Est either forgot or was only being polite.
Remix Comic: A popular action on the forums. Normally, the Rule Rod, Katie's Dad, and Entei come up at least one time. Nowi has appeared as well, overshadowing Entei and Katie's Dad...until the edits escalated to well-nigh NSFW levels and were greatly reduced in appearance every bit a upshot. The Entei t-shirts are on the rising too. Presently after the release of the comic, a number of forum members shopped a shirt onto their avatars. The same happened on the forums with the Troubadourable shirts after the comic where most of the Shepherds wore one.
Required Secondary Powers:
Resurrection Sickness: This comic reveals why World of Warcraft players suffer from this if they resurrect at a graveyard.
Roommate Com: The basis for about of the Super Smash Bros. comics, where the series' ever-increasing roster of characters live together in a behemothic apartment complex. Hilarity Ensues.
Rule of Three: Katie in Hourly Comic Twenty-four hour period Comics 2021.
Condition coming together with my technology team
Katie: Do this thing
Condition meeting with my production team
Katie: Practise this thing
Status meeting with my test team
Katie: Exercise this thing
Leftover dim sum for lunch
Katie: nom
Running Gag:
- "[name] wrote this comic. Information technology is about [something]."
- Whenever the topic of Pokémon comes upwards, Katie's grapheme will ever exist dressed equally the male player character, while Norrin will be dressed as the female histrion character.
- Katie'due south hourly comics always tend to mention "Today's Podcast", in reference to the podcasts she listens to during certain hours.
- The hourly comics besides oft have panels dedicated to the birds Katie sees around her house.
- In 24-Hour Comic 2020: Katie wondering when her cats laid on her.
Scary Stinging Swarm: As seen here, where Katie is prepare upon past aroused swarms lurking in trees, drawers, mailboxes, rivers...
Scientific discipline Marches On: Lampshaded In-Universe in a comic near Golden Sun, where the planets associated with the four elements match classical pairings — and, because Earth wasn't always considered a planet, world doesn't go with World and is instead paired with Venus.
And, naturally, the planet that best embodies the characteristics of the earth: Venus!
Seen It All: Phoenix Wright.
Nahyuta: [hits Phoenix with his beads] He's... He's totally unaffected by my beads of constriction... This is no ordinary defense chaser — He must have had years of gainsay training—!
Phoenix: [recalls being tazed, whipped, having hot coffee thrown at him, and getting scratched up past a militarist]
Selective Magnetism: This comic portrays The Fable of Zelda: Twilight Princess's use of this trope more realistically to the extreme.
Cocky-Deprecation: Loads, only it might get improve. Non to mention many of the blurbs on the early comics are her constantly complaining and apologizing for her quality of artwork.
Shipper with an Agenda: This strip, in which the Avatar from Burn down Emblem Awakening is depicted as one of these. For context, Galeforce is a Game-Breaker skill exclusive to a female person-just class. Via some complex rules of inheritance and gender-exclusivity, a daughter fathered by Gaius tin go that grade. Panne, who Gaius was near to ask out in the first panel, always has a son. Tharja, on the other hand, always has a girl.
Shout-Out:
Sidetracked by the Gilt Saucer: Katie has a bit of a problem with this. invoked
I have turned the game on, played Voltorb Flip for like an hour, and and so turned the game off without actually looking at any Pokémon. TEAM ROCKET'S INSIDIOUS PLOT WAS A SUCCESS.
Silence Is Golden: Quite a few strips rely solely on the visuals for the joke, with the only words beingness written audio effects.
Single-Biome Planet: According to Wolf, there's a beach planet.
Sliding Calibration of Anthropomorphism: Fob seems to edge between different tiers of this scale. He looks like a furry human with a fox's head and tail… until he takes off his boots to reveal fully digitigrade legs, making Samus very dislocated about how he can possibly seem plantigrade when he's wearing pants and shoes and digitigrade when he isn't.
I accept no idea if Trick is maybe just a normal-proportioned homo dude with way too much pilus or instead a weird canis familiaris that has crushed its horrible body into the vague shape of a man. Someone needs to ask Nintendo these tough and of import questions??
Soap Within a Evidence: The first part of this comic has ane from the Mushroom Kingdom. Peach is obviously into information technology, while Marth is not impressed.
Something Nosotros Forgot: I strip for Metallic Gear Solid: Peace Walker has Kaz turning Mother Base into a tortilla chip mill, when Big Boss pipes up.
Big Boss: Weren't we supposed to be doing something in Republic of costa rica?
So Much for Stealth: Adam Jensen is surprised when this doesn't happen afterwards he knocks downwards a pile of oil drums. Just then he tries tiptoeing away and is immediately noticed and shot.
Infinite Whale Aesop: These must be those dangers of eating pigment I've heard then much almost.
Sphere Eyes: How Katie usually draws eyes.
Foursquare Race, Round Class: Katie switches Miriel from a mage to a war cleric, giving her a boxing axe, which she can't even elevator.
Stripped to the Bone: Master Hand does it to Roy here. Later, Katie announces her new chore building rocket parts, and shows her performing tests while standing too shut.
Stupid Sacrifice: Virion, you're not supposed to block for someone in a heavy suit of armor.
Super-Deformed: This is the manner the characters are drawn in Katie'due south Animal Crossing comics.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- Johnny Silverhand forcibly takes over V'south body and wakes up the next day with no memory, bold he went on a wild drug fuelled rampage. But thank you to their bodies having differences in drug tolerances, he actually but ended upwardly drinking ii beers and passing out.
- Edelgard learns that conquest isn't simply the battles themselves, information technology's a massive logistical nightmare to accept care of. This is non helped past the fact she quit the Officeholder's Academy to launch said campaign.
Edelgard: I knew I should have finished my conquering degree before I started conquering...
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Pit for Roy. Foreshadowed in an early comic later information technology was appear that some characters wouldn't be returning to Brawl, made official after the game was released, Roy was kicked out of the house by Master Mitt and Pit started taking his place in the jokes, though Pit annoys the others a lot less.
Accept a Third Option:
Take That!: this comic calls out Hurdle Hijinx and Playtonic (specifically for Yooka-Laylee) for making retro games that copy many of the same hardware limitations that frustrated players of their era, making them Nintendo Hard non by gameplay, but by poor design. Despite this, Katie says she really liked the latter game a lot, at to the lowest degree.
Accept Your Fourth dimension: Sam is given a mission to deliver medicine to the Elder within 30 minutes, but he has other deliveries to do and the Elder is non on the same route. Because the timer doesn't kickoff until he accepts the medicine; he leaves the medicine behind, saying he'll do information technology tomorrow.
The Tetris Outcome: Katie sets her ringtone to be the Metallic Gear "enemy spotted" tone... and freaks herself out whenever the tone actually sounds.
The Thing That Would Not Go out: Roy has apparently been camping out in front of the Smash Bros. house since he was kicked out, determined to become dorsum on the roster.
This Ain't Rocket Surgery: "And so Katie became a rocket scientist."
Thousand-Yard Stare: Phoenix Wright does an impressive one when Nahyuta Sahdmadhi tries to use his "beads of constriction" on him. Nahyuta thinks he'due south existence stoic and unaffected, but Phoenix is just flashing back to all the other times he's been assaulted in courtroom.
Throw the Dog a Bone: After constantly existence ignored or unrecognized by his peers, 1 is given to Roy in this strip, when someone actually takes the fourth dimension to congratulate him on his re-entry into Blast.
Timey-Wimey Ball: The Smash Business firm has characters from different time periods, similar Marth and his great not bad great great corking great peachy... descendant, Lucina. When Roy comes back to the house afterwards a long hiatus, he wonders but how long he was gone for.
Championship Drop: A veeeeery subtle one here.
Tomboy: Katie's Author Avatar oft takes the place of video game protagonists, and is almost ever shown wearing the male outfit (when there are multiple options).
Also Awesome to Use:
Too Dumb to Live: As seen here.
Trademark Favourite Food: Garlic is this for Katie, if the hourly comics are to be believed.
[making lo mein for dinner]
Norrin: Is this plenty garlic?
Katie: No
Norrin: Yous didn't even look
Katie: (angry face up) It volition never be plenty garlic
Undead Author: Lampshaded in Storied By where Former Snake asks Drebin how he knows Laughing Octopus'southward past when she's the only survivor and lost her mind. Turns out, Drebin made it up.
Unexplained Recovery: The beginning fourth dimension Master Manus killed Roy, Roy came back to life past taking a stock from Marth, only to be almost immediately killed by Master Hand a second time. He later appeared alive and well in other comics without any explanation for how information technology's the case. Lampshaded in one strip.
invoked Unfortunate Implications:
- Miranda'southward dad fabricated her to be the perfect human in all respects. Jacob is a fleck miffed that this includes being white. The unsaid accusation of racism makes Miranda's dad then uncomfortable that he literally jumps out of a window.
- Yen Sid admittedly refuses to let Sora wake a globe based on Song of the South.
  SOME WORLDS STAY SLEEPING FOR A REASON.
Unreliable Narrator: Katie'south bio smacks of this.
Unsound Outcome: BELAY! and ANGST!, among others.
Uriah Gambit: Katie tries to kill off Miranda in the suicide mission.
The ending of Mass Result i conditioned me to expect one of my teammates to die at the terminate of Mass Outcome 2, and I fabricated as much of an effort as I could to make sure it would be Miranda.
War Has Never Been So Much Fun: Subverted at the last second in this Advance Wars strip. Also an example of Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick.
The War on Straw:
What the Hell, Hero?:
What Measure out Is a Non-Cute?: Animal Crossing characters will take evictions if they know the character moving in is going to be far cuter than they are.
With Catlike Tread: Jensen completes a stealth mission undetected, but Sarif sends a helicopter to extract him. Jensen is the only one to realize how stupid this is.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Used past Isabelle in Smash Bros Ultimate. Despite being a combatant in a fight; she acts similar an innocent little girl and screams "Ow!" when Little Mac hits her, causing the other fighters to gang upwardly on him.
Wreaking Havok: Seen in this Skyrim comic.
If something gets knocked to the floor, you may also but resign yourself to its new permanent location.
You Bastard!: This i goes out to all y'all Pokemon trainers in 10 and Y that did nothing but Wonder Trade.
- ...and likewise those who raised and showed love to a Pokemon merely to get information technology to evolve, and then simply let it rot forever in the PC box afterwards.
You Can't Go Home Again: Roy tries to break back into the Smash Bros. house, and is confronted by Primary Hand who says no one is allowed to render, except Dr. Mario... and a couple Links... and Mewtwo.
You Keep Using That Word: Katie'southward rather peeved about how The Last of Us described the Clickers' targeting ability as "echolocation".
Y'all Killed My Father: While many of the antagonists in Nintendo'south universe alive in the Smash Bros. business firm alongside their rivals, Samus refuses to allow Ridley bring together because he killed her parents. That may be a line too far crossed. There's an actress joke in that his excuse of "One time!" isn't fifty-fifty truthful. He killed her biological and adoptive parents!
You Shouldn't Know This Already: