History Webcomic / Chicanery

* EnemyMine: Ness's gang (piloting TV's Frank) and [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Rigid]] [[Franchise/MetalGear Shaft]] (inside Dr. Andonuts's mecha) end up working together to stop all life on Earth being wiped out by a [[VideoGame/{{Worms}} concrete donkey.]]

[[MindScrew Mind-flayingly]] [[SurrealHumor bizarre]] SpriteComic barely based on ''Videogame/EarthBound''. After stealing Giygas's $44,000,000 retirement fund, Pokey reunites with Ness and uses the funds to hunt for treasure. At least, that's how it starts out. What follows is a barely coherent acid trip of an adventure, as Ness, Pokey, Jeff and Mr. T battle monkeys, [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mr. B Natural,]] soul-stealing photographers, the Eagleland education system and pretty much everything they meet.

* GoKartingWithBowser: Pokey and Ness are the best of friends in this series - Pokey being TheDragon in ''Videogame/EarthBound'' [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation was apparently part of a scheme to steal Giygas's money.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: The formerly kind, altruistic heroes from ''Videogame/EarthBound'' are now profit-driven sociopaths. Partially inverted with Pokey - he has reigned in his omnicidal, reality-destroying ways and become more interested in gaining wealth.

* WorldGoneMad: Takes ''Videogame/EarthBound'' and pushes it from "offbeat" to "scrawling-on-walls-with-blood-and-fecal-matter psychotic".

* WidgetSeries

* WorldGoneMad: Takes ''Videogame/EarthBound'' and pushes it from "offbeat" to [[UpToEleven "scrawling-on-walls-with-blood-and-fecal-matter psychotic"]].

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Jeff is a sniper who prefers shooting people at point-blank range.
** Adding to this, his preferred type of ammo is noisy and flashy, practically requiring it to be shot at point-blank range to be effective at all.

* [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President Action]]: Apparently, Jet Jaguar.

* RunningGag: Any nuclear explosion will have HelloKitty's face in it. Why? ''[[RuleOfFunny Because.]]''

* BrotherChuck: Paula appears exactly once, during a flashback to Jeff's memories of the events of the first game.
* Creator/BruceCampbell: Kidnapped by Ness, Mr. Saturn and Pokey as part of a plan to hold the world hostage with a nuclear-armed mecha. [[ILied It Makes Sense In Context.]]

* CutShort: The series appears to have stalled completely, with the last update being over 2 years ago.

* GoKartingWithBowser: Pokey and Ness are the best of friends in this series - [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Pokey being]] TheDragon [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation in Videogame/EarthBound was apparently part of a scheme to steal Giygas's money.]]

* Creator/MrT: Using the ''Videogame/EarthBound'' sprite that looks like... well, Mr. T.

* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: Levels of gore will run from PrettyLittleHeadShots to G.E.D. grading machines randomly spewing blood to [[KillerRabbit Killer Rabbits]] surfing on [[BloodyHilarious knee-deep pools of blood]] using the savaged corpses of their victims.

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness - Pokey, Ness, and Jeff. Some other characters tend to dip into this as well.

-->'''Pokey:''' "Ha ha! Take that, boring intermission!"

* WorldGoneMad: Takes ''Videogame/EarthBound'' and pushes it from "offbeat" to [[UpToEleven "scrawling-on-walls-with-blood-and-fecal-matter psychotic"]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: Ness and Pokey are put on trial for skipping class. Pokey is sentenced to death by firing squad, while Ness is sentenced to RagnarokOnline.

-->''"WARNING: By reading this comic, you legally join Ness and the others in a lengthuous hunt for fortune. You will be required by law to see Mr. T throw people, Battles between giant objects, and things that float gracefully over the comic, begging to be defined but cannot be explained. Disaster labs cannot be held responsible for any injury or fatality involving photons emanating from this comic. Do not read while operating heavy machinery. Do not read while watching Alf. If accidentally ingested, consult god."''

-->''"WARNING: By reading this comic, you legally join Ness and the others in a lengthuous hunt for fortune. You will be required by law to see Mr. T throw people, Battles between giant objects, and things that float gracefully over the comic, begging to be defined but cannot be explained. Disaster labs cannot be held responsible for any injury or fatality involving photons emanating from this comic. Do not read while operating heavy machinery. Do not read while watching Alf. If accidentally ingested, consult god."''

* HumongousMecha: "[[Music/WeirdAlYankovic The 2000"]] [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 TV's Frank]] is online! Go forth and smite evil!"

* BreakingTheFellowship: The protagonists have been split up after [[TooDumbToLive willingly inhaling knockout gas]], with Ness lost inside a ''Film/{{Cube}}'' parody with a [[KillerRabbit psychotic]] [[VideoGame/ChronoCross Pip]]; Mr. T trapped in [[Film/{{Hostel}} a cross between an upscale hotel and a snuff film]]; Jeff and Pokey locked within [[Film/{{Saw}} a dark, blood-splattered basement...]] and Mr. Saturn [[Film/HouseOf1000Corpses cheerfully counting dead bodies]].

[[MindScrew Mind-flayingly]] [[SurrealHumor bizarre]] SpriteComic barely based on ''EarthBound''. After stealing Giygas's $44,000,000 retirement fund, Pokey reunites with Ness and uses the funds to hunt for treasure. At least, that's how it starts out. What follows is a barely coherent acid trip of an adventure, as Ness, Pokey, Jeff and Mr. T battle monkeys, [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mr. B Natural,]] soul-stealing photographers, the Eagleland education system and pretty much everything they meet.

* GoKartingWithBowser: Pokey and Ness are the best of friends in this series - [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Pokey being]] TheDragon [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation in EarthBound was apparently part of a scheme to steal Giygas's money.]]

* Creator/MrT: Using the ''EarthBound'' sprite that looks like... well, Mr. T.

* TookALevelInJerkass: The formerly kind, altruistic heroes from ''EarthBound'' are now profit-driven sociopaths. Partially inverted with Pokey - he has reigned in his omnicidal, reality-destroying ways and become more interested in gaining wealth.

* WorldGoneMad: Takes ''EarthBound'' and pushes it from "offbeat" to [[UpToEleven "scrawling-on-walls-with-blood-and-fecal-matter psychotic"]]

* BreakingTheFellowship: The protagonists have been split up after [[TooDumbToLive willingly inhaling knockout gas]], with Ness lost inside a ''Film/{{Cube}}'' parody with a [[KillerRabbit psychotic]] [[VideoGame/ChronoCross Pip]]; Mr. T trapped in a cross between an upscale hotel and a snuff film; Jeff and Pokey locked within a dark, blood-splattered basement... and Mr. Saturn cheerfully counting corpses.

[[MindScrew Mind-flayingly]] [[SurrealHumor bizarre]] SpriteComic barely based on ''EarthBound''. After stealing Giygas's $44,000,000 retirement fund, Pokey reunites with Ness and uses the funds to hunt for treasure. At least, that's how it starts out. What follows is a barely coherent acid trip of an adventure, as Ness, Pokey, Jeff and Mr. T battle monkeys, [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mr. B Natural,]] soul-stealing photographers, the Eagleland education system and pretty much everything they meet.

** MrBNatural's giant corpse is used to feed orphans.

* BreakingTheFellowship: The protagonists have been split up after [[TooDumbToLive willingly inhaling knockout gas]], with Ness lost inside a {{Cube}} parody with a [[KillerRabbit psychotic]] [[VideoGame/ChronoCross Pip]]; Mr. T trapped in a cross between an upscale hotel and a snuff film; Jeff and Pokey locked within a dark, blood-splattered basement... and Mr. Saturn cheerfully counting corpses.

* KillerRabbit: [[VideoGame/ChronoCross Pip.]] Pip and his [[NightmareFuel high-speed, rotating buzzsaw teeth.]]

* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: Levels of gore will run from PrettyLittleHeadShots to G.E.D. grading machines randomly spewing blood to [[KillerRabbit Killer Rabbits]] surfing on [[BloodyHilarious knee-deep pools of blood]] using the [[NightmareFuel savaged corpses of their victims.]]

* {{BRUCECAMPBELL}}: Kidnapped by Ness, Mr. Saturn and Pokey as part of a plan to hold the world hostage with a nuclear-armed mecha. [[ILied It Makes Sense In Context.]]

-->'''Jeff:''' Hi!
-->* PEW!*
-->* SEVER!*

* [[DesignatedHero Designated Heroes]]: ...Though to be fair, they ''do'' save the world a couple of times.

-->'''Tough Kid:''' I'll see YOU after school, geek!
-->'''Pokey:''' NOT ANYMORE!
-->[[UnsoundEffect * spork!* ]]
-->'''Tough Kid:''' OWOWOWOW

-->'''Ness:''' Wanna trade?
-->'''Pokey:''' Hell, no.

* FridgeBrilliance: There's a number of PokeyThePenguin [[ShoutOut references]] in dialog. Pokey tends to say these most of the time. [[strike:YES]]

* ImAHumanitarian: After Jeff kills the Photo-man, Ness and the gang eat him before [[strike: it's too late]] they change their minds.

** [[MrBNatural Mr. B. Natural's]] giant corpse is used to feed orphans.

-->'''Rigid Shaft:''' Crap. It's Ness. Standing in filth as usual. I aint fighting that guy. He has stuff that will instantly kill me, if not make me cry uncontrollably or feel strange.
-->''[several panels later]''
-->''[[AC: KER-FLASH!]]''
-->'''Shaft:''' Waaahhhh.
** And that's actually a list of the actual status effects PSI Flash can cause in EarthBound.

* RunningGag: Any nuclear explosion will have [[HelloKitty Hello Kitty's]] face in it. Why? ''[[RuleOfFunny Because.]]''

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Ness & chums are forced to [[EnemyMine work with Rigid Shaft]] to prevent the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt - but once TheLifestream shows up, the protagonists simply call it a day and [[strike:walk]] Segway off.

* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Averted - Ness and Pokey are arrested for their [[EarthBound extremely long absence]] from school and are forced to gain their GEDs before they can continue their adventures.

* SolveTheSoupCans - Ness gets challenged to a game of Return to Zork's Survivor, which is one of these. Defied, as instead of playing the game Ness launches into a lengthy explanation on how broken the game is and solves the puzzle by kicking it at the ones who challenged him when he's finished.

* WallOfText - Subverted, one comic starts off going into MrExposition mode, but the second panel with a text wall has Pokey bringing in Pip to eat the text.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs

* EnemyMine: Ness's gang (piloting TV's Frank) and [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Rigid]] [[MetalGearSolid Shaft]] (inside Dr. Andonuts's mecha) end up working together to stop all life on Earth being wiped out by a [[VideoGame/{{Worms}} concrete donkey.]]

* [[{{BRUCECAMPBELL}} Bruce Campbell]]: Kidnapped by Ness, Mr. Saturn and Pokey as part of a plan to hold the world hostage with a nuclear-armed mecha. [[ILied It Makes Sense In Context.]]

* MrT: Using the ''EarthBound'' sprite that looks like... well, Mr. T.

* [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Screw This I'm Outta Here:]] Ness & chums are forced to [[EnemyMine work with Rigid Shaft]] to prevent the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt - but once TheLifestream shows up, the protagonists simply call it a day and [[strike:walk]] Segway off.

-->* PEW!*
-->* SEVER!*

* HumongousMecha: "[[WeirdAlYankovic The 2000"]] [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 TV's Frank]] is online! Go forth and smite evil!"

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Jeff's philosophy to designing "ludicrously deadly" bullets.