History Webcomic / RealLifeComics

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: ''Pepsi.'' Apparently some guys from Pepsi looked the comic over once and didn't see anything objectionable, so they didn't ask Maelyn to stop.
** While traversing alternate dimensions in one arc, she finds a universe where she drinks Coke. She chokes her while screaming [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=title-801 "Die infidel!"]]

* HairstyleInertia: One comic has Liz calling out the author for updating Mae's hair every month while she was growing it out, but not updating Liz's for 20 years even though real life Liz had grown it out. This is fixed with an updated but still shorter haircut for liz because Real Liz has cut it short again recently.

** And why should they? She LOVES herself some Pepsi. She is not damaging Pepsi's reputation.

* AuthorAvatar: There is not only Maelyn Dean in the comic, but also the Cartoonist, who is usually portrayed as a disembodied god. When she does appear in-strip, she looks like Maelyn but with slightly longer hair and different clothing.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: A Federation time traveler gives Mae five bars of gold-pressed Latinum in exchange for not selling her warp core lamp. When she goes to Tony for advice on how to actually cash them in, Tony tells her that the latinum would be worth about $4000 dollars in 2024 money. And the [[InsistentTerminology "worthless gold"]] holding the latinum was worth $100K.

''[[http://www.reallifecomics.com/ Real Life Comics]]'' is a LifeEmbellished webcomic by Maelyn Dean[[note]]credited as Greg Dean prior to coming out as transgender in 2020[[/note]]. [[NonindicativeName It's not as faithful to real life as it claims]], but the majority of the cast does consist of the AuthorAvatar and [[WriteWhoYouKnow people she knows]]. The comic has been going since 1999, making it among the oldest webcomics out there, predating Website/{{Keenspot}}, ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}'', and ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge''.

* DriverFacesPassenger: Greg does this in an early strip while excitedly offering to play {{Videogame/Quake}} with Dave after Crystal declines. [[https://reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=title-45 Shown here]].

''[[http://www.reallifecomics.com/ Real Life Comics]]'' is a LifeEmbellished webcomic by Maelyn Dean. [[NonindicativeName It's not as faithful to real life as it claims]], but the majority of the cast does consist of the AuthorAvatar and [[WriteWhoYouKnow people she knows]]. The comic has been going since 1999, making it among the oldest webcomics out there, predating Website/{{Keenspot}}, ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}'', and ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge''.

* CaffeineBulletTime: [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=title-692 "Note to self: Eat 8 Krispy Kreme donuts, phase out of existence."]]

* SmashCut: When [[https://reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=july-23-2021 Mae is going under general anesthesia]] for her orchidectomy and talking about how she's never experienced that before, the comic jumps midsentence to her waking up afterward in a completely different room. It's as jarring for her as it is for the audience.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[invoked]] [[InUniverse In one strip, Maelyn puts forth the theory]] that Creator/WaltDisney, who took existing works and rewrote them to suit his own tastes, was a {{Fanfic}} author. Liz threatens to murder her for this.

** Additionally, Liz threatened to kill Maelyn when she suggested that Creator/WaltDisney was a {{Fanfic}} author.

** The below mentioned instance of Dave chewing Tony out was cut short because Mae found out mid story that the real Dave and Tony had had an argument recently.

** The below mentioned instance of Dave chewing Tony out was cut short because Mae found out mid story that rel Dave and Tony had had an argument recently.

%%* GuestStrip

'''Liz:''' Sweetheart, you... you haven't blinked since I've gotten here.\\
'''Maelyn:''' Can't blink. Blinking loses races.\\
'''Liz:''' ''[looking freaked out]''...I'm just going to cut my losses, not ask what ''else'' loses races, and never sit on that couch again.