History Webcomic / Scurry

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Said word for word in Chapter IX by Resher to [[spoiler:Kessel, after Kessel tries to redeem himself by arresting Resher and saving Wix and Pict. Resher has him killed seconds later]].

''[[http://www.scurrycomic.com/ Scurry]]'' is a webcomic scripted and illustrated by Mac Smith that went online on Sunday 17 January 2016. The story involves a colony of mice who struggle to survive amid the ruins of a desolate suburb. Not helping are feral cats and other hazards. The main protagonist is Wix, a veteran scrounger, aided by the amiable rat Umf. Well above average as far as visuals are concerned.

* ChekhovsGunman: Nemesis the Hawk returns in Chapter IX after being absent since Chapter III. [[spoiler:She ends up saving Pict by abducting and presumably killing Resher, the same way Nemesis abducted Pict when she was hiding in a birdhouse]].

* EarNotch: Wix has two in his right ear, a sign of having learned mastery of scrounging the hard way.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Erebus in spades. He makes stabs at this from time to time, but the small matter of his bloodcurdling insanity gets in the way.

* GodOfEvil: Erebus pulls this off effortlessly. [[spoiler:He even has a raven death cult worshipping him, and his more normal packmates do not dare go against him - even to the point of devouring one of their own.]]

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Kessel tries to save Pict and Wix when Resher attempts to murder them, and he even tries to have Resher arrested for everything he's done. Resher immediately has one of his goons stab him in the back, killing him]].

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: The Colony elder Orim has one as a sign of his increasingly failing health.

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Kessel is working with Resher, although he's far from happy about it]].

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Resher, who is treacherous enough to pay the cats with catnips just to move the colony by having them kill a party of loyal scouts.]] Later he [[spoiler:fatally poisons Orim]].

* BigNo: Resher as [[spoiler:he's carried off by Nemesis]] in chapter nine.

* VillainDecay: As the comic goes on, Erebus undergoes this, looking more and more like an ordinary wolf rather then the outright AnimalisticAbomination of before. After the second book, his own pack starts openly criticizing him. [[BadBoss He takes it as well as you'd expect.]]

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Resher initially wants to save the colony and believes that waiting until things get better will result in everyone starving to death. But he goes to extreme lengths to accomplish this, such as by having cats attack scavengers, attempting to murder Pict when she finds out about his schemes, and [[spoiler:fatally poisoning Master Orim]]. It's made clear in Chapter IX when Resher [[spoiler:leaves the entire colony to die in a fire that ''he'' orchestrated]] that all he cared about was being ''leader'' of the colony, not the colonists themselves.

* BigBad: Erebus, the leader of the wolves, is the main antagonist.

* YouAreTooLate: [[spoiler:Pict manages to escape Resher's goons and goes to warn Wix's party that they're being sent into a feline ambush. She arrives to find only Wix and a badly-injured Kessel still alive.]]

** The moose Atlas is a genial [[CoolOldGuy old fellow]] who allows Wix to ride on him though he's quite [[BadassGrandpa formidable]] when [[BewareTheNiceOnes he needs to be]].

* MonstrousCannibalism: [[spoiler:Erebus's pack eats one of their own after he breaks his leg trying to attack Atlas,
saying he's no use to the pack anymore.]]

* BattleAmongTheFlames: In chapter nine, Wix and Pict face off against Resher and his goons [[spoiler:as the colony's house burns down around them]].

* BloodlessCarnage: Averted ''hard'', though it stops short of outright {{Gorn}}.

* MrExposition: The opossum that Wix and Pict find back in the suburb finally reveals the nature of the guardian and what happened to the world.

* MonstrousCannibalism: [[spoiler:Erebus's pack eats one of their own after he breaks his leg trying to attack Atlas, saying he's no use to the pack anymore.]]
* MouseWorld: None of the comforts, but the mice have an organized system for scouting for food and scrounging necessities, and are based in an abandoned house.

* TreacherousAdvisor: The head raven Nyll is able to manipulate the beaver king due to his [[TheCaligula deteriorating mental state]].
* WhamEpisode: Pict gets carried to the city by a Harris' Hawk, [[spoiler: and finds it a flooded ruin.]]
* YouAreTooLate: [[spoiler:Pict manages to escape Resher's goons and goes to warn Wix's party that they're being sent into a feline ambush. She arrives to find only Wix and a badly-injured Kssel still alive.]]

** The rat Umf is almost double the size of Wix, but he's amiable and docile, so the mice accept him as a useful oddity.

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Resher, who is treacherous enough to pay the cats with catnips just to move the colony by having them kill a party of loyal scouts.]]

* HumansThroughAlienEyes: The opossum interpreted humans rioting and nuclear war as [[HatePlague a plague of madness]] and waging war on the stars themselves. She also believes the subsequent mushroom cloud and fallout to be [[SavageWolves great wolves]] of fire and the sky who's packs burned the cities and poisoned the woods.

* BigGood: The mysterious Guardian of the forest, whose absence prompts Erebus and his pack to move in. The opossum and the Witches seem to know the Guardian personally.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The predators, with the notable exception of the Witches, a trio of vixens with a mysterious agenda. [[spoiler: They save Wix, and go out of their way to help arm and direct Wix to Pict so he can defend her from Gorgon. Then they kill the boss raven before he can warn Erebus.]]

* TheReveal: The opossum finally reveals what happened to the world. [[spoiler:A nuclear war, described as 'three great wolfpacks'. The nuclear fireballs were 'Fire Wolves' consuming human and animal alike. The second were the 'Sky Wolves' - fallout, which spread death wherever they went and killed the Guardian's son. The final wolfpack was Erebus the Mad Alpha's, Erebus somehow having survived both nuclear fire and radiation poisoning. The Guardian, a grizzly bear, took the death of her son very poorly and disappeared into her den, never to be seen again. He says that if she stays missing, Erebus will bring about the end of the world, just like the ravens said.]]

* AnimalisticAbomination: Most of the predators look like [[NightmareFuel Nightmare Fueled horrors]], but Erebus, the mad alpha wolf, embodies this ''completely''. Take a good look at the YMMV page. [[It's revealed that he was once an ordinary wolf, but survived both a nuclear explosion AND the subsequent fallout. The combination twisted him into the abomination that he became.]]

* AnimalisticAbomination: Most of the predators look like [[NightmareFuel Nightmare Fueled horrors]], but Erebus, the mad alpha wolf, embodies this ''completely''. Take a good look at the YMMV page.

* MrExposition: The opossum that Wix and Pict find back in the suburb. [[spoiler:When last we saw him, he was about to finally reveal the nature of the Witches, and the mysterious guardian of the forest.]]

* SpiritGuide: Wix gains an absolutely nightmarish one in the form of [[spoiler:Titan wreathed in hellfire.]] As horrifying as he is, said SpiritGuide helps Wix out more than once during his DarkestHour.