History Webcomic / Fanboys

* Sylvia, the Microsoft[=/=]UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} fan. Never handled a console before the Xbox, came out of nowhere in the second episode but found a place in Lemmy's heart quite soon.

[[https://web.archive.org/web/20160429185646/http://fanboys-online.com/ F@NB0Y$]] is a web comic by Scott Dewitt that ran from 2006-2015. While it's website hasn't been online since 2020, It's strips can still be viewed on the Internet Archive. The comic is centered on two fanboys and one fangirl, each rooting for their own company.

[[https://web.archive.org/web/20160429185646/http://fanboys-online.com/ F@NB0Y$]] is a web comic by Scott Dewitt. The comic is centered on two fanboys and one fangirl, each rooting for their own company.

'''Note:''' most of the links below are broken, as the website has, at some point, changed providers, and then discontinued entirely. Feel free to link the appropriate strips to archived pages.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=248 You put some real thought into this, huh? (dead link)]]

* BrainBleach: A running gag involves Paul walking into the house to find Lemmy and Silvia participating in questionable acts dressed as different fictional characters.

* EyeScream: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=281 The perils of ice cream shaped like faces.]]
* FanDisservice: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=464 Paul challenges Sylvia]] to ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', dressed as the ''female'' trainer. Hairy legs and [[WhoWearsShortShorts Daisy Dukes]] do not mix.
* FanService: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=271 Sylvia cosplaying Midna.]] It looks like she ''doesn't'' wear any clothes, just bodypainting. She also wears a skintight Zero Suit [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]]-Costume in one Halloween strip and there is a [[BeachEpisode Beach Arc]].
* FiveTokenBand: Parodied [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=297 here]].
* TheGrimReaper: He [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=269 enjoys pool]] and is [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=238 bribed by Paul]].
* IncrediblyLamePun: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=358 Paul is not amused.]]

* JustOneMoreLevel: In-universe with Sylvia playing ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' games [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=128 for the first time]].

* NoodleIncident: Paul shows Lemmy and Sylvia the night of their lives when Lemmy wins ten thousand dollars. [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=249 This is the aftermath.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=314 This Team Fortress 2 parody.]]

* RashomonStyle: [[http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=239 Compare]] [[http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=240 these]].
* RealMenWearPink: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=333 Paul and Lemmy are]] [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic bronies]].
** When he's not wearing two giant demon's tusks as a shirt, [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Garrosh Hellscream]] wears a [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=451 pink bathrobe and pajamas]].
* RecycledInSpace, FreakyFridayFlip, SpinoffBabies: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=167 Parodied in "Popular Trends."]]

* SelfDeprecation: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=278 Here.]]

** [[http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=14 Look]] closely in the background, and you'll see someone from another [[Webcomic/VGCats videogame webcomic]]...
** [[http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=250 From]] the same webcomic, has a hobo but is not ''that'' hobo, instead has an animal from the webcomic.

* SupremeChef: Turns out Lemmy [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=312 can]] [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=316 cook]].
* SustainedMisunderstanding: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=423 Lemmy and Sylvia]] are going through his old ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' collection, and finds the fold out posters it used to have; Paul walks in and it looks like they're looking at a porn magazine. Lemmy realizes what Paul is thinking and [[NotWhatItLooksLike tells him that]] it's VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog. At first Paul thought it was odd, but that creeps him out.
* TakeThat: A comic mocking the idea of a "dark, epic" Franchise/{{Spyro|The Dragon}} game segues into a ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' joke, but not before [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=301 taking a shot at an infamous Ctrl+Alt+Del panel]].
* TestosteronePoisoning: The [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=362 TESTOSTER-PHONE]]. Running on MANDROID.
* UpToEleven: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=47 "That's right. I hacked the board game."]]

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: When Paul accidentally steps on a [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=439 Halloween pumpkin]], he sets up a few more pumpkins and creates a scene depicting the aftermath of Mario stomping a goomba.

--> '''[[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=130 Paul:]]''' You know, it's usually the girl who proves the guy wrong.\\

[[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php F@NB0Y$]] is a web comic by Scott Dewitt. The comic is centered on two fanboys and one fangirl, each rooting for their own company.

The main characters are supported by their somewhat quirky pets/friends/furniture and run into some well known [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=26 individuals]] from time to time.

[[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=293 The comic basically takes the familiar videogame-styled web comic, blatantly ripping off ideas from other comics, comments about the lack of originality]] and then proceeds to fly off into one situation to another.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=248 You put some real thought into this, huh?]]
* ApplianceDefenestration: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=367 A certain show puts Paul in a fit of rage.]]

* BileFascination: {{Conversed}} InUniverse in [[http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=360 this strip.]]
* BrainBleach: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=28 Paul sees Sylvia and Lemmy]] dressed up respectively as Spike and Twilight Sparkle from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. And Sylvia is trying to ride Lemmy.
* CerebusSyndrome: The author tried this when people on Website/SomethingAwful mocked his comic for being too generic. The ensuing {{Wangst}} that the characters displayed pissed everybody ''else'' on the Internet off, and he decided to come to hit a happy medium between the two afterwards. Strip 200 also {{lampshades}} this, providing the trope's page image.
* ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive: Played for laughs in a [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=468 [=WoW=] joke]].

** {{Inverted|Trope}} in a ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' strip where [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=300 Banjo & Kazooie]] cosplay as [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=279 Lemmy & Sylvia]], with Mumbo Jumbo taking Paul's place.
* DemotedToExtra: [[TheAlcoholic Chess]] and [[StopHavingFunGuys Will]]. {{Lampshaded}} when [[http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=238 Will returns]] and Lemmy doesn't remember him.
* DescriptionCut: Sylvia [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=128 tries]] ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'':

* DontFearTheReaper: He's actually [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=238 pretty chill]]. Apart from having a ''twisted'' sense of humor, that is.

'''Note:''' most of the links below are broken, as the website has recently switched software twice, changing most of the [=URLs=]. As such, all links in the old format will redirect to the site's front page.

* SustainedMisunderstanding: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=423 Lemmy and Sylvia]] are going through his old ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' collection, and finds the fold out posters it used to have; Paul walks in and it looks like they're looking at a porn magazine. Lemmy realizes what Paul is thinking and [[NotWhatItLooksLike tells him that]] it's SonicTheHedgehog. At first Paul thought it was odd, but that creeps him out.

** [[http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=14 Look]] closely in the background, and you'll see someone from another [[VGCats videogame webcomic]]...

** When he's not wearing two giant demon's tusks as a shirt, [[WorldOfWarcraft Garrosh Hellscream]] wears a [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=451 pink bathrobe and pajamas]].

* Sylvia, the Microsoft[=/=]{{Xbox}} fan. Never handled a console before the Xbox, came out of nowhere in the second episode but found a place in Lemmy's heart quite soon.

* FanService: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=271 Sylvia cosplaying Midna.]] It looks like she ''doesn't'' wear any clothes, just bodypainting. She also wears a skintight Zero Suit [[{{Metroid}} Samus]]-Costume in one Halloween strip and there is a [[BeachEpisode Beach Arc]].

* Paul, the Creator/{{Sony}} fan. Unemployed -for a while- snarker of the team. Previous {{Sega}} fanboy and childhood friend of Lemmy.

* CerebusSyndrome: The author tried this when people on Website/SomethingAwful mocked his comic for being too generic. The ensuing {{Wangst}} that the characters displayed pissed everybody ''else'' on the Internet off, and he decided to come to a happy medium afterwards. Strip 200 also {{lampshades}} this, providing the trope's page image.

** {{Inverted|Trope}} in aVideoGame/BanjoKazooie strip where [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=300 Banjo & Kazooie]] cosplay as [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=279 Lemmy & Sylvia]], with Mumbo Jumbo taking Paul's place.

** {{Inverted|Trope}} in a BanjoKazooie strip where [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=300 Banjo & Kazooie]] cosplay as [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=279 Lemmy & Sylvia]], with Mumbo Jumbo taking Paul's place.

* Paul, the {{Sony}} fan. Unemployed -for a while- snarker of the team. Previous {{Sega}} fanboy and childhood friend of Lemmy.

* ArtEvolution: Went through a drastic one after the comic was criticized on SomethingAwful.

* CerebusSyndrome: The author tried this when people on SomethingAwful mocked his comic for being too generic. The ensuing {{Wangst}} that the characters displayed pissed everybody ''else'' on the Internet off, and he decided to come to a happy medium afterwards. Strip 200 also {{lampshades}} this, providing the trope's page image.

* TakeThat: A comic mocking the idea of a "dark, epic" Franchise/{{Spyro|The Dragon}} game segues into a {{Rugrats}} joke, but not before [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=301 taking a shot at an infamous Ctrl+Alt+Del panel]].

* TakeThat: A comic mocking the idea of a "dark, epic" VideoGame/{{Spyro|The Dragon}} game segues into a {{Rugrats}} joke, but not before [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=301 taking a shot at an infamous Ctrl+Alt+Del panel]].

* TakeThat: A comic mocking the idea of a "dark, epic" {{Spyro}} game segues into a {{Rugrats}} joke, but not before [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=301 taking a shot at an infamous Ctrl+Alt+Del panel]].

* CosplayOtakuGirl: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=67 Sylvia]], at [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=260 various]] [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=262 times]].

* SupremeChef: Turns out Lemmy [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=312 can]] [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=316 cook.]]

* ShowerOfAngst: [[spoiler:Which turns quickly into a ShowerOfLove]]

* CerebusSyndrome: The author tried this when people on SomethingAwful mocked his comic for being too generic. The ensuing {{Wangst}} that the characters displayed pissed everybody ''else'' on the Internet off, and he decided to come to a happy medium afterwards. Strip 200 also {{lampshades}} this.

* OldShame:
** [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=37 Yep]].
** Lampshaded [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=360 here]].

* ScheduleSlip: The comic has a tendency to occasionally go dead for months, before temporary springing back to life.

The main characters are supported by their somewhat quirky pets/friends/furniture and run into some well known [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=25 individuals]] from time to time.

[[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=304 The comic basically takes the familiar videogame-styled web comic, blatantly ripping off ideas from other comics, comments about the lack of originality]] and then proceeds to fly off into one situation to another.

** Under Review abruptly ended after the critic arrived at the store.

--> '''[[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=186 Paul:]]''' You know, it's usually the girl who proves the guy wrong.\\

* SustainedMisunderstanding: [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?id=423 Lemmy and Sylvia]] are going through his old ''NintendoPower'' collection, and finds the fold out posters it used to have; Paul walks in and it looks like they're looking at a porn magazine. Lemmy realizes what Paul is thinking and [[NotWhatItLooksLike tells him that]] it's SonicTheHedgehog. At first Paul thought it was odd, but that creeps him out.