History Webcomic / Megatokyo

** '''Meimi'''. She's the most out-there conglomeration of magical girl [[CharmPoint Charm Points]] that exists. And her magical girl power? Magical theft. She takes magical girl tropes SerialEscalation. There is some evidence that she actually is insane, but most of the time she gives the impression that she's playing it up for whatever reason. At the very least, it's pretty clear that she does [[KleptomaniacHero accidentally steal things all the time]].

* AttractiveBentGender: "Pirogoeth", or Piro's female online persona [[http://www.megagear.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=MT+04-1008 with a sword]]. Some people though require BrainBleach upon seeing Pirogoeth in [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/304 a barmaid's dress]].
** "Piroko" is the [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/828 FPS persona]]. [[http://www.megagear.com/product_p/2001.htm Fear the cute one]], especially when [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1288 undercover as a fetish mod]].

* BrotherChuck: Tsubasa being the main example, being ostensibly their excuse for being in Japan and promptly written out of the comic. However, with the combination of ScheduleSlip and CastHerd, you would be forgiven if you honestly don't recall most of the major players outside of the main 4 - 5.

%% * ChildrenAreInnocent: Or rather omninous, if you're Largo

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Or rather omninous, if you're Largo
* ClassRepresentative: Junko

** '''Meimi'''. Full, freaking, stop. She's the most out-there conglomeration of magical girl [[CharmPoint Charm Points]] that exists. And her magical girl power? Magical theft. She takes magical girl tropes SerialEscalation.
** There is some evidence that she actually is insane, but most of the time she gives the impression that she's playing it up for whatever reason. At the very least, it's pretty clear that she does [[KleptomaniacHero accidentally steal things all the time]].
* UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars: Takes on a [[http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/744 whole new meaning]] in Megatokyo.
* ConRecap.

* CuteClumsyGirl: Kimiko, usually when she's carrying a coffee pot at the Anna Miller's.

** In-universe, Kotone from ''Sight'' is an expy of [[spoiler:Miho, just like every other in-universe IllGirl]].

** Taken UpToEleven [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1311 in this strip.]] [[spoiler:She not only steals everything from Dom's hands and pockets, she steals ''his van.'']]

* IHaveTheHighGround: Miho does this a lot. It's a ''long'' time before it's explained what she's doing on top of light poles and such.

* CerebusSyndrome: Started out as a gag strip with a plotline before a falling out between the original author, Rodney Caston, and Gallagher led to the latter taking full control of the strip and quickly removing almost all of the gag elements in favor of one long continuous serious plot. Funnily enough, [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/51 a strip right before this happened]] could count as a ReverseFunnyAneurysm by depicting what would happen if only one of the two authors controlled the output. Gallagher's version is identical to what the comic turned into. Although the comic has taken a turn for the dramatic and emotional, it still packs enough hilarity and madcap moments to remain amusing.

** In [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1241 this]] strip, for instance, Largo's invocation of NiceHat is [[DiscussedTrope mentioned]].

* NiceHat: Part of Largo's Cave of Evil outfit.

* TightropeWalking: MagicalGirls have an innate skill for this.

* CuteLittleFang: Komugiko.

* DysfunctionJunction: Oh so very much.

* ElegantGothicLolita: Miho

* TheGlomp: Yuki, when [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1249 finally finding]] Miho.

* GroupieBrigade: Kimiko's fan club.

* HiddenEyes

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy

* LittleMissBadass: Ping, Miho and Yuki.

* LostInTranslation: Largo doesn't speak Japanese, so he has trouble communicating with a lot of the characters. Also, Leet Guy ''only'' speaks in leet...[[http://megatokyo.com/strip/172 most of the time.]]
** Which leads to a bit of FridgeLogic, since in a [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/9 very early strip]] Leet Guy literally couldn't speak regular English to save his life. Of course, since spoken Leetspeak is no different from English, [[RuleOfFunny this probably isn't meant to be taken seriously]].
* LoveDodecahedron
* KaleidoscopeHair: Ping can change her appearance in response to user feedback, and the most obvious changes are to her hair. So far, she's had pale grey, hot pink, and turquoise.
* KudzuPlot

* MemeticMutation: [[invoked]] In universe, Ping caused this when she uploaded several ''thousand'' pictures and videos of [[spoiler:a missing Miho]]. Piro even mentioned that it "turned into a huge viral thing." Of course, [[WebcomicTime in comic it's been less than a day]], so it might die down.

* MrExposition: Yuki in [[http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/1199 strip #1199]].
* MsFanservice: Erika, Miho.
* MuggleAndMagicalLoveTriangle: Piro, Kimiko and Miho.

* TheRant

* [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Ridiculously Human]] RobotGirl: Ping.

* SexyCoatFlashing

* SleepCute: [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/967 Here.]]
* SnowMeansDeath: [[spoiler:Ironic, considering...]]

* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Girls]]: Yuki's friends [[DeadpanSnarker Mami]] and [[GenkiGirl Asako]].

** "Fsck!", a unix command that finds and fixes any hard drive errors. [[note]]fsck is being used as a generic swearword by unix sysadmins since epoch 0. Since Largo is skilled enough to use a beowulf cluster as workstation, he qualifies. [[/note]]

* BringMyBrownPants: Ex Magical Girls sometimes make crude jokes that a panty shot of someone fighting for their life is probably not as nice as some anime suggests.

* BringMyBrownPants: Ex Magical Girls sometimes make crude jokes that a PantyShot of someone fighting for their life is probably not as nice as some anime suggests.

* {{Meganekko}}: Kimiko when she isn't wearing contacts, Yuki when she's in her maid uniform or zombie riot gear, and [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1007 Ping briefly]].
** Miho as of [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1308 this strip.]]

* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught

* OddShapedPanel

* TearsOfRemorse

* TenderTears

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: One character has purple hair; another's changes from gray to pink to blue green. Though the latter is a sort of subversive joke, since the comic is mostly in black and white; hair color can only be determined from occasional colored strips or when a character points it out.
-->'''Junko:''' ...blue-green hair. How do you get away with this? Is your mom like, color blind?

** There are ''multiple forms of censorship running simultaneously'', explained [[http://bridgebunnies.com/?p=619 here]]. It'd be easier to say that there are multiple mutually exclusive {{Extra Strength Masquerade}}s in effect -- look in the right direction at the right time with the right eyes and you can see anything from {{Kaiju}} to entire {{Magical Land}}s. There's an {{Anime}} population, full of {{Magical Girl}}s and {{Sentai}} groups battling [[MonsterOfTheWeek various threats]]. There's the [[MoralityTropes Morality]] population, where [[GoodAngelBadAngel Shoulder Angels]] attempt to guide the human race to their own ends. On top of both is the GovernmentConspiracy, which attempts to [[HeroInsurance regulate the destruction created by the Anime heroes]] without [[ObstructiveBureaucrat getting the world blown up in the process]] -- they drive HumongousMecha [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight on the street in broad daylight]]. And some censored populations are subject to censorship themselves! Heroes only see their own threats, and can get pushy when they are interfered with by [[PoliceAreUseless cops]] or [[LetsYouAndHimFight other heroes]]. No one sees Shoulder Angels save their clients. The mecha-riding regulators tear their hair out on a regular basis trying to deal with the madness. '''''And the {{Muggles}} can't even agree on what to ignore.'''''

* {{Mondegreen}}: In universe, Largo manages to misconstrue the name of the Witch [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica "Walpurgisnacht"]] with "wall purging knight", and, Largo being Largo, makes no attempt to realize that he had the name completely wrong and accepts "wall purging knight" as an entirely new concept.

* CreepyCoolCrosses: Meimi wears one.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Ping and Tohya. [[NotWhatItLooksLike If not]] then it [[LesYay still looks like it]].

Has been called the ''Series/{{Lost}}'' of webcomics for its complex plot line and character histories, most of all the enigmatic Tohya Miho. [[InvokedTrope Quite intentionally]], it includes a number of anime tropes. Interesting to note, however, is that it is one of few works who take flak for being JustForFun/TropeOverdosed, despite it having a trope count of around 620.

Has been called the ''Series/{{Lost}}'' of webcomics for its complex plot line and character histories, most of all the enigmatic Tohya Miho. [[InvokedTrope Quite intentionally]], it includes a number of anime tropes. Interesting to note, however, is that it is one of few works who take flak for being TropeOverdosed, despite it having a trope count of around 620.

** Also happens in [[http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/522 this strip. BOMPH!]]

* StockSuperpowers: The magical girls have super speed, super strength, as well as a few odder abilities--one seems to have teleported, and another can apparently shrink things. Meimi eventually calls in a retired m-girl to make Yuuki's pet zombie "less poisonous," which results in [[spoiler:it being turned into a LittleBitBeastly CuteMonsterGirl]]. That surprised ''everyone''.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:Yuki Sonada]] is revealed to be a Magical Girl, with many of the associated superpowers. While using some of these newfound powers, various injuries in the newfound non-magical sidekick are caused. [[spoiler:Just go ask Kobayashi who was injured from the increased acceleration.]]

** In the fifth collection of Megatokyo, Gallagher [=FINALLY=] detailed [[WordOfGod his explanation for this phenomenon]]: "[[http://wikitokyo.org/wiki/What_is_Megatokyo_all_about%3F ...the main theme of ''[=MegaTokyo=]'' is how everyone has different perceptions of the world around them...]]" Everyone sees the world slightly differently. Piro and Largo are on the extreme ends of the scale--Piro only sees "mundane" things (and dismisses the fantastic things as mundane things) and [[CrazyAwesome Largo]] only [[CloudCuckooLander sees "fantastic" things]], and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation comes up with fantastic explanations for the mundane things he sees]]. Everyone else is somewhere else on this scale, nearly always between those two extremes. In this world, there are no {{Muggles}}: Piro can't see Largo's world and Largo can't see Piro's world, and they both think the other is crazy. [[spoiler:It's only through gradual immersion that Piro finally ends up dealing with the horde after Miho.]]

* CrazyAwesome[=/=]CrazyEnoughToWork: This is pretty much Largo's modus operandi. [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/902 Case in point]].