History Webcomic / Fans

* AdultFear:
** Rikk is consumed with keeping his friends and loved ones safe to the point of obsession. Whenever someone is killed or injured, [[ItsAllMyFault he never hesitates to take the full blame, even if there was nothing he could have realistically done.]] This is shown as taking a rather serious toll on his mental state.
** Alysin's parents dealt with the helplessness of watching as their daughter suffered from a rare and deadly disease, to say nothing of the severe personality changes that resulted.
** Will's father murdered his mother, and Will lived in fear that he would turn out like his dad.
** Shanna reined in her imaginative impulses, fearing that she would end up like her insane mother.
** Tim and Julia get a rather nasty taste of this in 'Fade to Black'. Tim gets an innocent text from his wife, letting him know that an old school friend has stopped by the house to visit. However, Tim quickly realizes that it's actually Agent Sully, a vampire and an old enemy of the group from early in the comic. Tim races home, his mind full of thoughts of what could be happening to his family. Then when he bursts in, he and Julia are treated to the sight of Sully baring her fangs and making subtle threats as she ''holds their infant daughter in her arms.''

%%* CosPlay: Everybody to some degree. Especially Will.

** The final arc of the ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' revival ends with a series of wordless single-panel pages showing the future of the strip's cast. [[spoiler: Rumy resumes her art career, the Oberfs have their first child while also bonding with Soulson (Rumy's child with an alien from an early arc), Di hooks up with Dexter and Rico starts noticing Helga. The last strip shows the entire cast as crewmembers of an [[Franchise/StarTrek Enterprise]] {{Expy}} [[AndTheAdventureContinues seeking new adventures]].]]

* BadassNormal: The main cast of characters(before they all got implanted superpowers). To start out, the only real muscle they had on their side was a quiet martial arts expert and a big bruiser. The leader was scrawny and two others had/have severe weight problems. Nevertheless, they hold their own against demigods, vampires, government agents, just plain stab-happy psychopaths, time-traveling warlords, frost giants, mental-brainwashing...the list just goes on. Granted, they did tend to grab their enemies weapons and unleash a wave of energy-blasts but that is just common sense. And the returning threat against all this is a simple rapist/cult leader. Badass normal villain. The 'Faans' make gods run in fear but this creepy bastard has scored some nasty wins.

* BadassNormal: The main cast of characters (before they all got implanted superpowers). To start out, the only real muscle they had on their side was a quiet martial arts expert and a big bruiser. The leader was scrawny and two others had/have severe weight problems. Nevertheless, they hold their own against demigods, vampires, government agents, just plain stab-happy psychopaths, time-traveling warlords, frost giants, mental-brainwashing...the list just goes on. Granted, they did tend to grab their enemies weapons and unleash a wave of energy-blasts but that is just common sense. And the returning threat against all this is a simple rapist/cult leader. Badass normal villain. The 'Faans' make gods run in fear but this creepy bastard has scored some nasty wins.

* DarthWiki/WarpThatAesop:
** Science fiction fans are the only people on the planet who are equipped to solve the problems of the world. If you don't like science fiction, you have no imagination whatsoever, and are mostly useless.
** If someone tries to kill you over a man, there's a good chance you'll end up in a three-way with them both.

* WarpThatAesop:

* InfiniteCanvas: It had a couple of Mind Screw arcs take place within the infinite canvas. Despite the technically poor quality of art, the way it was presented was so good it actually worked.

* OutdatedOutfit: Rumy's family is so old-fashioned that they may as well live in the 19th century. Her sister in particular could give [[TheSimpsons Mr. Burns]] a run for his money as far as an inability to comprehend what people are into these days, and she's never seen out of a kimono.

* ArtShift
* AscendedFanboy: pretty much the basis of the series, both played straight and subverted (literally) to Hell and back.

* AuthorTract: Ho-boy. Where to start.
* BettyAndVeronica: Rumy and Alisin respectively.

* BreakTheHaughty: Katherine.

* ChivalrousPervert: Tim.

* CosPlay: Everybody to some degree. Especially Will.

* DepravedBisexual: Keith Feddyg. [[spoiler:Alisin qualified once, as well. She was a rapist, after all.]]

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Played with, at least with regards to the 'kinkiness = evil' aspect of the trope.

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: A major motif in this.

* LovableTraitor: Desmond Jones.

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Jesse]]

* SenselessSacrifice

* ShoutOut: Too many to list.

* WouldntHitAGirl: Will is defined by this trope. It's justified by his backstory.

* DeconstructorFleet: Deconstructs such SpeculativeFiction and {{Fandom}} tropes as TheCape, TheHerosJourney, HeroWorshipper and, in a {{CrossOver}} with ''Penny and Aggie'', the ButtMonkey / PickedLast aspects of {{{{Nerd}} nerddom}} and {{{{Geek}} geekdom}}.

* DeconstructorFleet: Deconstructs such SpeculativeFiction and {{Fandom}} tropes as TheCape, TheHerosJourney, HeroWorshipper and, in a {{CrossOver}} with ''Penny and Aggie'', the ButtMonkey/PickedLast aspects of {{Nerd nerddom}} and {{Geek geekdom}}.

* DeconstructorFleet: Deconstructs such SpeculativeFiction and {{Fandom}} tropes as TheCape, TheHerosJourney

* ConstrainedWriting: The "Crossover" arc in ''Fans'' is structured so as to form a crossword puzzle at the end, with dialogue-free frames as black squares, and the first letter in each square with dialogue as part of the puzzle's solution.