History Webcomic / IjiCaptainLhurgoyf

* LighterAndSofter: To the nth degree.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The author used to keep a list of character stats in the first post. It got too big to continue after Sector 3 (out of ten).
** Not helped that, due to [[FacelessGoons the limits]] of the original game, a good deal of them look exactly the same.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The cyborg gorilla.

* NameMcAdjective: The names Krotera and Vexorg used for their imaginary fiends: [[UnfortunateNames Stupid Idiot McMoron and Foolish Imbecile McBraindamaged.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The Komato have been retconned as being evolved velociraptors, like many people thought they were supposed to be before it was {{Jossed}} by WordOfGod. [[AuthorAppeal But Captain Lhurgoyf liked it better that way.]]

** SelfDeprecation: In the conversation between Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley over respect for the classics, they bring up the author intentionally CompletelyMissingThePoint of the original story.

-->-- '''The author himself''' at the end of the [[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?28448-Iji&p=4399176&viewfull=1#post4399176 Recap]].

[[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?28448-Iji Link to the adventures]] (It's not mirrored because the FourLinesAllWaiting story format doesn't interact well with the mirror's format)

** Find it [[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?28448-Iji&p=4653305&viewfull=1#post4653305 here]], in the spoiler block of '''Shwart!!'''[='s=] post.

* DubNameChange: Asha's name here is Vexorg, a name borrowed from a ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon. RuleOfFunny at work here.

* CrossOver: With ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Invoked when Death Demonhead Mobster Kingpin, Bec Noir, Team Sleuth, and every single ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' character other than Team Sanae get into a giant battle...when we only see a reaction shot from a spectator describing how awesome it is.

* FrickinLaserBeams: With a [[Webcomic/TurnSignalsOnALandRaider "FREEM"]] sound effect.

* {{Adorkable}}: If there's anyone to prove it's not necessarily AlwaysMale, it's Iji.

* {{Flanderisation}}: In the original game, Iosa was a relatively calculating, intelligent person who just so happened to be fanatically devoted to battle and a [[TheBerserker berserker]] in combat. In the adventure, she's basically an Angry Marine. Within the adventure, there's also Iji's relation to ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'' - originally, she was just supposed to like ''the comic'', the joke being that [[TheDitz she's too oblivious to realize]] [[MisaimedFandom it's supposed to be ironic]]) and, before the adventure was placed in the ''Homestuck'' universe, it was uncertain as to whether or not she realized it was supposed to be a ShowWithinAShow. After Dave himself started making appearances and Iji visited his blog, she ended up being a giggling fangirl who wants to bear his child.

* BigNameFan: Creator/DanielRemar, the creator of the [[VideoGame/{{Iji}} original game]], reads and enjoys the adventure. He's even used pictures from the adventure as an avatar on various forums.

* CosyCatastrophe: From what we see of the survivors of the Alpha Strike ([[CaptainObvious besides Iji]]), life is still fairly normal for most people by six months after the initial attack. Most people even are still able to live in the bombed-out ruins of their houses. Sweden even has a government intact, although that's because they had the help of Notch somehow making the physics of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' work in real life.

* ArmedFarces

* AuthorAvatar: Captain Lhurgoyf has appeared at least twice, represented by his avatar ([[VideoGame/CaveStory The Doctor]] with a [[MagicTheGathering lhurgoyf's]] head). However, he's...[[YourHeadASplode not treated as invincible or a]] MarySue.

** Iji's attitude towards explosions also recalls [[MagicTheGathering Jaya Ballard.]] Given that the author's username comes from a ''Magic'' creature, this isn't that surprising.

* FantasyKitchenSink

* RuleOfCool

* TakeThat: The [=GameBro=] review of ''VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'' contains some verbatim quotes from a Destructoid review of ''Iji'' that basically admitted to not paying any attention to the storyline. Iji brushes it off as misinformed.

** TakeThatMe: In the conversation between Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley over respect for the classics, they bring up the author intentionally CompletelyMissingThePoint of the original story.

* WebcomicOfTheGame

* [[strike:[[WorldOfBadass World]]]] [[strike:[[WorldOfBadass Galaxy]]]] ''[[WorldOfBadass Multiverse]]'' [[WorldOfBadass Of Badass]]

* MemeticBadass: reallyjoel's Dad makes a cameo fighting flying sharks with lasers on their heads over the Himalayas and Imaginary Gensokyo goes into [[AwesomenessIsVolatile Spiral Nemesis]] when Creator/ChuckNorris, Creator/MrT, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, Vin Diesel, and [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] stop by. In-universe, [[HeroCore Flip Hero]] has Chuck Norris-style "facts" written about him.

* NextSundayAD: It takes place in 2016, apparently too early for there have been no apparent technological or social innovations but just enough for Iji's lust for Dave Strider to not come across as {{Shotacon}}.

* TakeThat: The [=GameBro=] review of ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'' contains some verbatim quotes from a Destructoid review of ''Iji'' that basically admitted to not paying any attention to the storyline. Iji brushes it off as misinformed.

* MemeticBadass: reallyjoel's Dad makes a cameo fighting flying sharks with lasers on their heads over the Himalayas and Imaginary Gensokyo goes into [[AwesomenessIsVolatile Spiral Nemesis]] when ChuckNorris, Creator/MrT, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, Vin Diesel, and [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] stop by. In-universe, [[HeroCore Flip Hero]] has Chuck Norris-style "facts" written about him.

->''"And this is why Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann fans should never be allowed to retell deconstructionist anti-war stories."''

->''"And this is why GurrenLagann fans should never be allowed to retell deconstructionist anti-war stories."''

* ArtShift: Just as in ''GurrenLagann'', suitably badass moments are drawn in a looser, sketchier style.
* AuthorAppeal: If, reading the adventure, it comes as a surprise at all that Captain Lhurgoyf's favorite anime is ''GurrenLagann'', you're obviously not actually reading it.

* AwesomenessIsVolatile: The explanation of how Retribution works. Also, [[GurrenLagann Spiral Nemesis]] has occurred ''twice'' for this reason (once in a non-canon segment, once in AnotherDimension).

* CaptainErsatz: Due to Captain Lhurgoyf's inspiration from ''GurrenLagann'', many of the characters parallel members of its cast. For example, Iji is Simon [[CompositeCharacter with some traits from Kamina, Yoko, and Nia]], and Vexorg is a cross between Viral and Cytomander. On the OriginalCharacter side, there's an Elite who dresses like Kamina and pilots a mech resembling the Gurren Lagann...

** Not to mention Ron's [[spoiler:adopted]] oldest son Simon, who is a dead ringer for [[GurrenLagann Kamina]] and wields [[VideoGame/SengokuBasara Tadakatsu's]] drill-spear.

* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: [[GurrenLagann Row Row Fight The Power]] is quoted multiple times, for one. See DoNotDoThisCoolThing.

* HotBlooded: The author has admitted that Iji here has more in common with [[GurrenLagann Simon]] than [[ReluctantWarrior her]] [[BreakTheCutie canon]] [[TheWoobie counterpart]].

* MemeticBadass: reallyjoel's Dad makes a cameo fighting flying sharks with lasers on their heads over the Himalayas and Imaginary Gensokyo goes into [[AwesomenessIsVolatile Spiral Nemesis]] when ChuckNorris, Creator/MrT, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, Vin Diesel, and [[GurrenLagann Kamina]] stop by. In-universe, [[HeroCore Flip Hero]] has Chuck Norris-style "facts" written about him.

* SerialEscalation: It's ''GurrenLagann'' inspired.

* ShonenHair: Iji's was more of WildHair in the game, but here she has it even ''before'' falling into a coma, mostly due to RuleOfFunny, recognition, and it being more fun to draw. And the adventure adheres to {{Shonen}} principles quite nicely, considering its [[GurrenLagann inspiration.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''GurrenLagann'', of course, but in addition, Captain Lhurgoyf got the original idea from a MSPAFA playthrough of ''VideoGame/CaveStory''.

* DubNameChange: Asha's name here is Vexorg, a name borrowed from a ''TheFarSide'' cartoon. RuleOfFunny at work here.

* ShanaClone: Iosa is an example of this happening ''entirely accidentally'', since Captain Lhurgoyf isn't familiar with ''ShakuganNoShana''. Granted, she's flat because everyone else in her species is.

* {{Flanderisation}}: In the original game, Iosa was a relatively calculating, intelligent person who just so happened to be fanatically devoted to battle and a [[TheBerserker berserker]] in combat. In the adventure, she's basically an Angry Marine. Within the adventure, there's also Iji's relation to ''SweetBroAndHellaJeff'' - originally, she was just supposed to like ''the comic'', the joke being that [[TheDitz she's too oblivious to realize]] [[MisaimedFandom it's supposed to be ironic]]) and, before the adventure was placed in the ''Homestuck'' universe, it was uncertain as to whether or not she realized it was supposed to be a ShowWithinAShow. After Dave himself started making appearances and Iji visited his blog, she ended up being a giggling fangirl who wants to bear his child.

* ImaginaryEnemy: Both Krotera and Vexorg create one they want to humiliate and torment (resp. named [[FailOSuckyname Stupid Idiot McMoron]] and [[NameMcAdjective Foolish Imbecile McBraindamaged]]), but those quickly turn the tables on them.

* StopBeingStereotypical: Daniel Remar (who is Swedish)'s response to being [[HelloInsertNameHere named]] "Sven [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Moose]][[TheMuppetShow Bork]]esson."

* FailOSuckyname though NameMcAdjective: The names Krotera and Vexorg used for their imaginary fiends, Stupid Idiot [=McMoron=] and Foolish Imbecile [=McBraindamaged=].

* CosyCatastrophe: From what we see of the survivors of the Alpha Strike ([[CaptainObvious besides Iji]]), life is still fairly normal for most people by six months after the initial attack. Most people even are still able to live in the bombed-out ruins of their houses. Sweden even has a government intact, although that's because they had the help of Notch somehow making the physics of ''{{Minecraft}}'' work in real life.

* FrickinLaserBeams: With a [[TurnSignalsOnALandRaider "FREEM"]] sound effect.

* FusionDance: [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Bro]][[YumeNikki boa]].