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* AncientOrderOfProtectors: In [[http://clichequest.com/index.php?pos=12 this strip]], Ohforf joins a guild. Upon learning their name, "The Righteous Protectors of the Crimson Star", he imagines them as this trope, but it turns out they're just a roleplaying guild with a NonIndicativeName.
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[[http://www.thenoobcomic.com The Noob]] is yet another gaming {{webcomic}}, which sets itself apart from most others by focusing almost entirely on parodying {{MMORPG}}s. The story originally revolves around Ohforf'Sake, the PlayerCharacter of an [[TheEveryman Everyman]] gamer who [[WalkingTheEarth wanders aimlessly]] and [[IdiotHero cluelessly]] around the world of [[EverQuest Clichequest]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a brutally stereotypical fantasy MMORPG]] and gets into and barely survives ([[DeathIsCheap or not]]) all kinds of shenanigans.
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** Allusions to movies are pretty frequent as well - there have been references to, at least, ''Film/BladeRunner''[[hottip:* :Sir Bob's "I've seen things you newbies wouldn't believe..." speech]], ''DoctorStrangelove'', ''ForbiddenPlanet''[[hottip:* :the id-monster]], ''TheGraduate''[[hottip:* :Cyborella's attempted seduction of Ohforf]], ''Film/TheWarriors''[[hottip:* :the PK guilds chasing the Outcasts]] and probably some others too.
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** Allusions to movies are pretty frequent as well - there have been references to, at least, ''Film/BladeRunner''[[hottip:* :Sir Bob's "I've seen things you newbies wouldn't believe..." speech]], ''DoctorStrangelove'', ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''[[hottip:* :Your Name Here and D34dly facing the horde of PK:ers]],''DoctorStrangelove'', ''ForbiddenPlanet''[[hottip:* :the id-monster]], ''TheGraduate''[[hottip:* :Cyborella's attempted seduction of Ohforf]], ''Film/TheWarriors''[[hottip:* :the PK guilds chasing the Outcasts]] and probably some others too.
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* {{Stripperific}}: Parodied. Hypatia complains about it, and not to mention the cover for the game's patch...
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* {{Stripperific}}: Parodied. Hypatia complains about it, and not to mention the cover for the game's patch...expansion...
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: After killing 4 [=GM=]s, Fred the Dread daydreams about accending to PK Valhalla.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: After killing 4 [=GM=]s, Fred the Dread daydreams about accending ascending to PK Valhalla.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: After killing 4 GMs, Fred the Dread daydreams about accending to PK Valhalla.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: After killing 4 GMs, [=GM=]s, Fred the Dread daydreams about accending to PK Valhalla.
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* {{Expospeak}}: In-universe example: The developers use these as 'lore-nukes' to put players in coma, to hide that the game content isn't done yet.
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* {{Expospeak}}: In-universe example: The developers use these as 'lore-nukes' to put players in a coma, to hide that the game content isn't done yet.
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* BribingYourWayToVictory: The Cliche quest App for cellphones, '[[UnfortunateNames App Yours]]'. The free version lets you access your character's bank. The paid version lets you access other player's banks.
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* BribingYourWayToVictory: The Cliche quest Clichequest App for cellphones, '[[UnfortunateNames App Yours]]'. The free version lets you access your character's bank. The paid version lets you access other player's banks.
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* BribingYourWayToVictory: The Cliche quest App for cellphones, '[[UnfortunateNames App Yours]]'. The free version lets you access your character's bank. The paid version lets you access other player's banks.
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* FridgeLogic: In the first comic, Ohforf's player picks up his pre-ordered copy of Clichequest", which implies the game just released. How come everyone he meets seems to have been playing the game for months or years beforehand?
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: After killing 4 GMs, Fred the Dread daydreams about accending to PK Valhalla.
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* ReadTheFinePrint: When Ohforf's player installs the game, he clicks past this little gem:
-->'''Clichequest EULA:''' [[DivineComedy Through me you pass into the city of woe]], [[{{Hell}} Through me you pass into eternal pain.]]
-->'''Clichequest EULA:''' [[DivineComedy Through me you pass into the city of woe]], [[{{Hell}} Through me you pass into eternal pain.]]
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* TakeYourTime: {{Justified}} by quest givers who aren't really in a hurry to see [[KleptomaniacHero that guy who broke all their barrels]] come back.
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* TakeYourTime: {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} by quest givers who aren't really in a hurry to see [[KleptomaniacHero that guy who broke all their barrels]] come back.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The head developer responds to accidentally being knocked in a lake by Ohforf by starting the Nerfaggedon, massively nerfing everyone around him.
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* KarmaHoudini: The Pking pros kills almost everyone without repercussions.
** Not for lack of trying; their opponents are just too clueless to actually hurt them.
** And there was the time the devs included Limb-Loss (a parody of Stat-Loss as was used in a [[UltimaOnline real game]]) for [=PKers=] when they were killed as a form of karmic retribution. This is the reason Fred the Dread has a hooked hand. And Drakoola had killed so many players before dying himself, he is literally only a nose by this point.
** Not for lack of trying; their opponents are just too clueless to actually hurt them.
** And there was the time the devs included Limb-Loss (a parody of Stat-Loss as was used in a [[UltimaOnline real game]]) for [=PKers=] when they were killed as a form of karmic retribution. This is the reason Fred the Dread has a hooked hand. And Drakoola had killed so many players before dying himself, he is literally only a nose by this point.
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* KarmaHoudini: The Unsuprisingly, the Pking pros kills kill almost everyone without repercussions.
** Not for lack of trying; their opponents are just too clueless to actually hurt them.
** And there was the timerepercussions. Interestingly enough, the devs included Limb-Loss (a parody of Stat-Loss as was used in a [[UltimaOnline real game]]) for [=PKers=] when they were killed as a form of karmic retribution. This is the reason Fred the Dread has a hooked hand. And Drakoola had killed so many players before dying himself, he is literally only a nose by this point.
** Not for lack of trying; their opponents are just too clueless to actually hurt them.
** And there was the time
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* DeathIsCheap: Like most {{MMORPG}}s
** We have seen the PVP'ers heavily de-level someone by camping their corpse, though.
** We have seen the PVP'ers heavily de-level someone by camping their corpse, though.
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* DeathIsCheap: Like most {{MMORPG}}s
** We have seen{{MMORPG}}s, although the PVP'ers heavily de-level someone by camping their corpse, though.
** We have seen
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* FakeUltimateHero: Ohforf has become this [[TheFool completely by accident]], [[spoiler: killing a new raid boss through a series of coincidences]].
** Ohforf didn't even [[spoiler:kill the raid boss]]. It swallowed the new GM, burned its insides on the GM's flaming staff and killed itself on the stalactites, then landed at Ohforf's feet. That's why [[spoiler:the new GM got the uber-buff, not Ohforf'.]]
** Ohforf didn't even [[spoiler:kill the raid boss]]. It swallowed the new GM, burned its insides on the GM's flaming staff and killed itself on the stalactites, then landed at Ohforf's feet. That's why [[spoiler:the new GM got the uber-buff, not Ohforf'.]]
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* FakeUltimateHero: Ohforf has become this [[TheFool completely by accident]], [[spoiler: killing a new raid boss through a series of coincidences]].
**accident]]. Ohforf didn't even [[spoiler:kill the raid boss]]. It swallowed the new GM, burned its insides on the GM's flaming staff and killed itself on the stalactites, then landed at Ohforf's feet. That's why [[spoiler:the new GM got the uber-buff, not Ohforf'.]]
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* TakeYourTime: {{Justified}} by quest givers who aren't really in a hurry to see [[KelptomaniacHero that guy who broke all their barrels]] come back.
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* TakeYourTime: {{Justified}} by quest givers who aren't really in a hurry to see [[KelptomaniacHero [[KleptomaniacHero that guy who broke all their barrels]] come back.
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* KleptomaniacHero: Deconstructed in [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=422 this comic]]. Long story short, [[QuestGiver quest givers]] have to hide their barrels each time a player visits. TakeYourTime [[JustifiedTrope finally explained]] !
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** The head developer drawers the line at physically torturing beta testers...only ''just''.
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* BullyingADragon: Baron Wolfgang Von Epeen became the leader of Efficient Omniscience and decided to talk trash to Absolute Endgame - even after he was told that one of the developers was in their guild.
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* OldShame: Before he became a [=PKer=], Dakilla was part of a role-playing guild.
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* OldShame: Before he became a [=PKer=], Dakilla was part of a role-playing guild.
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** Allusions to movies are pretty frequent as well - there have been references to, at least, ''BladeRunner''[[hottip:* :Sir Bob's "I've seen things you newbies wouldn't believe..." speech]], ''DoctorStrangelove'', ''ForbiddenPlanet''[[hottip:* :the id-monster]], ''TheGraduate''[[hottip:* :Cyborella's attempted seduction of Ohforf]], ''Film/TheWarriors''[[hottip:* :the PK guilds chasing the Outcasts]] and probably some others too.
** DwarfFortress: [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=389 seen on a dev's computer]]
** DwarfFortress: [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=389 seen on a dev's computer]]
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** Allusions to movies are pretty frequent as well - there have been references to, at least, ''BladeRunner''[[hottip:* ''Film/BladeRunner''[[hottip:* :Sir Bob's "I've seen things you newbies wouldn't believe..." speech]], ''DoctorStrangelove'', ''ForbiddenPlanet''[[hottip:* :the id-monster]], ''TheGraduate''[[hottip:* :Cyborella's attempted seduction of Ohforf]], ''Film/TheWarriors''[[hottip:* :the PK guilds chasing the Outcasts]] and probably some others too.
**DwarfFortress: VideoGame/DwarfFortress: [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=389 seen on a dev's computer]]
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* ShouldersOfDoom: Apparently, the lead dev trying to outdo ''WorldOfWarcraft'' in [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything bigger shoulder pads]]. One rejected design had cranes on it to assist lifting [[{{BFS}} epic weapons]].
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* ShouldersOfDoom: Apparently, the lead dev trying to outdo ''WorldOfWarcraft'' ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' in [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything bigger shoulder pads]]. One rejected design had cranes on it to assist lifting [[{{BFS}} epic weapons]].
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* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: The [=SDLGDEDDL=] (Shadow Dread Lord Gods of the Dark Evil Dead Doom Legion).
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: This is how the other [=PKers=] view Dakilla and his enthusiasm for the game lore.
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* RunningGag: Powerful characters are always getting KilledoffForReal by Clichemon.
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As the comic has gone on, the focus has shifted from Ohforf himself to various other characters in the game world, including the Outcasts (a band of [[PlayerKilling Player Killers]]/{{Heroic Comedic Sociopath}}s whose storyline included a pastiche of TheWarriors), another, smarter, female newbie called Hypatia, Sir Bob the veteran player, the hapless members of a roleplaying guild and the game developers themselves. The comic spends much of its time mocking {{MMORPG}} tropes and the absurdities of the genre, along with the players and developers of such games, but with [[AffectionateParody far too much insight to be truly malicious]].
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As the comic has gone on, the focus has shifted from Ohforf himself to various other characters in the game world, including the Outcasts (a band of [[PlayerKilling Player Killers]]/{{Heroic Comedic Sociopath}}s whose storyline included a pastiche of TheWarriors), ''Film/TheWarriors''), another, smarter, female newbie called Hypatia, Sir Bob the veteran player, the hapless members of a roleplaying guild and the game developers themselves. The comic spends much of its time mocking {{MMORPG}} tropes and the absurdities of the genre, along with the players and developers of such games, but with [[AffectionateParody far too much insight to be truly malicious]].
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** Allusions to movies are pretty frequent as well - there have been references to, at least, ''BladeRunner''[[hottip:* :Sir Bob's "I've seen things you newbies wouldn't believe..." speech]], ''DoctorStrangelove'', ''ForbiddenPlanet''[[hottip:* :the id-monster]], ''TheGraduate''[[hottip:* :Cyborella's attempted seduction of Ohforf]], ''TheWarriors''[[hottip:* :the PK guilds chasing the Outcasts]] and probably some others too.
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** Allusions to movies are pretty frequent as well - there have been references to, at least, ''BladeRunner''[[hottip:* :Sir Bob's "I've seen things you newbies wouldn't believe..." speech]], ''DoctorStrangelove'', ''ForbiddenPlanet''[[hottip:* :the id-monster]], ''TheGraduate''[[hottip:* :Cyborella's attempted seduction of Ohforf]], ''TheWarriors''[[hottip:* ''Film/TheWarriors''[[hottip:* :the PK guilds chasing the Outcasts]] and probably some others too.
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* Poopsocking: {{Poopsocking}}: Parodied.
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** TheBigBad: Fred the Dread (main leader of the P Kers and causer of the most mayhem) or Drakoola (the actual Guild Leader)
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** TheDarkChick: Drakoola (he's mostly off doing his own thing and rarely with the rest of the P Kers), or D34dly D34dly (as the comic relief and stupid one)
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** TheDarkChick: Drakoola (he's mostly off doing his own thing and rarely with the rest of the P Kers), [=PKers=]), or D34dly D34dly (as the comic relief and stupid one)
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* FakeUltimateHero: Ohforf' has become this [[TheFool completely by accident]], [[spoiler: killing a new raid boss through a series of coincidences]].
** Oforf' didn't even [[spoiler:kill the raid boss]]. It swallowed the new GM, burned its insides on the GM's flaming staff and killed itself on the stalactites, then landed at Oforf's feet. That's why [[spoiler:the new GM got the uber-buff, not Oforf'.]]
** Oforf' didn't even [[spoiler:kill the raid boss]]. It swallowed the new GM, burned its insides on the GM's flaming staff and killed itself on the stalactites, then landed at Oforf's feet. That's why [[spoiler:the new GM got the uber-buff, not Oforf'.]]
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* FakeUltimateHero: Ohforf' Ohforf has become this [[TheFool completely by accident]], [[spoiler: killing a new raid boss through a series of coincidences]].
**Oforf' Ohforf didn't even [[spoiler:kill the raid boss]]. It swallowed the new GM, burned its insides on the GM's flaming staff and killed itself on the stalactites, then landed at Oforf's Ohforf's feet. That's why [[spoiler:the new GM got the uber-buff, not Oforf'.Ohforf'.]]
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* LoudOfWar: [=OhForf'=] is punished by listening to the bards, and temporarily goes crazy.
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** Oforf' got his name because the guy playing him got frustrated after being unable to find a version of the name Aragorn that wasn't already taken.
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** Oforf' Ohforf [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=3 got his name name]] because the guy playing him got frustrated after being unable to find a new version of the name Aragorn that wasn't already taken.a famous fantasy character.
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* PersonalEffectsReveal: The first rat that Oforf kills has a tiny little wallet with a crayon drawing of his son expressing his love for his daddy.
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* SexyPackaging: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=186 the expansion pack.]]
* StopHavingFunGuys: (InUniverse). Al, the lead developer, is also a [=PvPer=] who despises all [=non-PVP=] content and constantly fights with the other developers when forced to work on "carebear content".
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* SexyPackaging: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=186 the The expansion pack.]]
* StopHavingFunGuys: (InUniverse). Al, one of thelead developer, developers, is also a [=PvPer=] who despises all [=non-PVP=] content and constantly fights with the other developers when forced to work on "carebear content".content". [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=285 He later gets his revenge.]]
* StopHavingFunGuys: (InUniverse). Al, one of the
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[[http://www.thenoobcomic.com The Noob]] is yet another gaming {{webcomic}}, which sets itself apart from most others by focusing almost entirely on parodying {{MMORPG}}s. The story originally revolves around Ohforf'Sake, the PlayerCharacter of an [[TheEveryman Everyman]] gamer who [[WalkingTheEarth wanders aimlessly]] and [[IdiotHero cluelessly]] around the world of [[EverQuest Clichequest]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a brutally stereotypical fantasy MMORPG]] and gets into and barely survives ([[DeathIsCheap or not]]) all kinds of shenanigans.
As the comic has gone on, the focus has shifted from Ohforf himself to various other characters in the game world, including the Outcasts (a band of [[PlayerKilling Player Killers]]/{{Heroic Comedic Sociopath}}s whose storyline included a pastiche of TheWarriors), another, smarter, female newbie called Hypatia, Sir Bob the veteran player, the hapless members of a roleplaying guild and the game developers themselves. The comic spends much of its time mocking {{MMORPG}} tropes and the absurdities of the genre, along with the players and developers of such games, but with [[AffectionateParody far too much insight to be truly malicious]].
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!!The comic provides examples of:
* AnAdventurerIsYou: Clichequest uses, as expected, pretty typical MMORPG classes.
** Rangers are incredibly overpowered, [[AuthorAppeal due to the lead developer's liking for playing them]]- something many real game devs are accused of doing, [[ScapegoatCreator true or not]].
* AIIsACrapshoot
-->"The AI in this game is starting to worry me. It's so advanced, it whines."
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Cyrus to Fred the Dread.
* {{Bowdlerize}}: Parodied. When a player named himself Dick Tracy, a GM changed his name to !@%& Tracy (and banned him for a week).
** The Devs briefly introduced a filter to censor all homophobic comments, which rendered D34dly incomprehensible. It was gay.
* BullyingADragon: Baron Wolfgang Von Epeen became the leader of Efficient Omniscience and decided to talk trash to Absolute Endgame - even after he was told that one of the developers was in their guild.
* CallBack: Arsemode has shown up several times, in increasingly elaborate variants.
** Quantum-arsemode!
* DeathIsCheap: Like most {{MMORPG}}s
** We have seen the PVP'ers heavily de-level someone by camping their corpse, though.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Don't sass the devs.
* DulcineaEffect: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=53 "So, when are we leaving?"]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Fred the Dread and Your Name Here consider it bad form to trash talk well matched or undermatched opponents. Subverted by D34dly, who... doesn't.
* {{Expospeak}}: In-universe example: The developers use these as 'lore-nukes' to put players in coma, to hide that the game content isn't done yet.
* FakeUltimateHero: Ohforf' has become this [[TheFool completely by accident]], [[spoiler: killing a new raid boss through a series of coincidences]].
** Oforf' didn't even [[spoiler:kill the raid boss]]. It swallowed the new GM, burned its insides on the GM's flaming staff and killed itself on the stalactites, then landed at Oforf's feet. That's why [[spoiler:the new GM got the uber-buff, not Oforf'.]]
* FiveBadBand: The [=PKers=], although the band's lineup could be interpreted one of two ways.
** TheBigBad: Fred the Dread (main leader of the P Kers and causer of the most mayhem) or Drakoola (the actual Guild Leader)
** TheDragon: Dakilla (if Fred is the Big Bad) or Fred the Dread (if Drakoola is the Big Bad)
** TheEvilGenius: D34dly D34dly (as the spellcaster) or Dakilla (the guy who pays attention to the game lore)
** TheBrute: Your Name Here (both versions)
** TheDarkChick: Drakoola (he's mostly off doing his own thing and rarely with the rest of the P Kers), or D34dly D34dly (as the comic relief and stupid one)
* {{Flanderization}}: D34dly D34dly started out as a bit ditzy. He evolved into someone who seems to be functionally retarded about everything that isn't [=PvP=].
* GeniusDitz: D34dly D34dly. He's pretty damn good at PVP, but doesn't seem to have even the slightest bit of common sense about anything else.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Around 80% of the things the devs do. HilarityEnsues.
* IdiotHero: Ohforf, from the start.
** This is lampshaded when Hypatia convince the roleplayer guild's leader to let Orforf in...on the basis he's roleplaying a retard. He's fooled immediately
** His later actions reflect more ignorance and naiveté than actual stupidity, though.
* JerkassGods: The GM's and developers are only godlike in-game, of course, but apart from this they are a prime example (when they're not just [[NeglectfulPrecursors plain lazy]]).
* KarmaHoudini: The Pking pros kills almost everyone without repercussions.
** Not for lack of trying; their opponents are just too clueless to actually hurt them.
** And there was the time the devs included Limb-Loss (a parody of Stat-Loss as was used in a [[UltimaOnline real game]]) for [=PKers=] when they were killed as a form of karmic retribution. This is the reason Fred the Dread has a hooked hand. And Drakoola had killed so many players before dying himself, he is literally only a nose by this point.
* LoudOfWar: [=OhForf'=] is punished by listening to the bards, and temporarily goes crazy.
* OldShame: Before he became a [=PKer=], Dakilla was part of a role-playing guild.
* OverusedCopycatCharacter: Spoofed, with all the elves trying to think of new ways to call themselves [[TheLordOfTheRings Legolas]]).
** Oforf' got his name because the guy playing him got frustrated after being unable to find a version of the name Aragorn that wasn't already taken.
* PatchworkMap: The Crossroads!
* PersonalEffectsReveal: The first rat that Oforf kills has a tiny little wallet with a crayon drawing of his son expressing his love for his daddy.
* PointyHairedBoss: The lead developer of the game, not that his employees are much better. Some are even worse.
* Poopsocking: parodied.
* PurpleProse: Many [[TheRoleplayer roleplayers]] talk like this.
* RainbowPimpGear: {{Lampshaded}} of course, but Sir Bob's outfit actually wouldn't look out of place as a medieval noble.
** A later bit character (a [[SmallNameBigEgo raid leader]]) is wearing so many shoulder pads, one on top of another, that his guildmates require a ladder to help him put a new pair on.
* ResetButton: '''CLICHEQUEST.EXE ERROR: SERVER CONNECTION LOST''' appears whenever the story gets a bit too far from the status quo.
** Rather literally, with how the devs use that button.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: It's a MMORPG, what do you expect? The beginners quest building has a floor for "Rogues and Rouges"
* SexyPackaging: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=186 the expansion pack.]]
* StopHavingFunGuys: (InUniverse). Al, the lead developer, is also a [=PvPer=] who despises all [=non-PVP=] content and constantly fights with the other developers when forced to work on "carebear content".
* {{Stripperific}}: Parodied. Hypatia complains about it, and not to mention the cover for the game's patch...
* ShoutOut: Directly to ''CityOfHeroes'' at one early point. Not to mention that in many ways Clichequest seems to share a little too much in common with ''UltimaOnline'' and ''EverQuest'' to be a coincidence.
** Given the name of Clichequest, it's not exactly likely to be a coincidence...
*** The Noob shouts out to Everquest repeatedly. Over and over again. From the gag about the elven population dwindling because the newbies walk out of the treetop city and fall to their deaths (city of Kelethin), or when the new expansion was marketed by including a 3D bustline on the package (Firiona Vie), to the author acknowledging that one of the strips was based on an experience of "camping" a monster for 17 days...
** Allusions to movies are pretty frequent as well - there have been references to, at least, ''BladeRunner''[[hottip:* :Sir Bob's "I've seen things you newbies wouldn't believe..." speech]], ''DoctorStrangelove'', ''ForbiddenPlanet''[[hottip:* :the id-monster]], ''TheGraduate''[[hottip:* :Cyborella's attempted seduction of Ohforf]], ''TheWarriors''[[hottip:* :the PK guilds chasing the Outcasts]] and probably some others too.
** DwarfFortress: [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=389 seen on a dev's computer]]
*** And the [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=412 cofounder]] as well.
* ShouldersOfDoom: Apparently, the lead dev trying to outdo ''WorldOfWarcraft'' in [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything bigger shoulder pads]]. One rejected design had cranes on it to assist lifting [[{{BFS}} epic weapons]].
* SmallNameBigEgo: The lead developer, and several players.
* StealthPun: "Switch yourself off, fool! You'll [[LampshadeHanging attract attention]]!" - Sir Bob to a spy disguised as a [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]].
* TwentyBearAsses: Hilariously lampooned in an early strip.
* UnfortunateImplications: In-universe; the GM default model looks an awful lot like a Klan member. Other moments from the devs like this are a RunningGag.
** The Klan-costumes are intentional. The AltText mentions how the [=GMs=] in early [=MMOs=] really looked so intimidating. And it's also used as a RunningGag
* VendorTrash: Lampshaded in [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=17 this]] strip.
* WalkingTheEarth
As the comic has gone on, the focus has shifted from Ohforf himself to various other characters in the game world, including the Outcasts (a band of [[PlayerKilling Player Killers]]/{{Heroic Comedic Sociopath}}s whose storyline included a pastiche of TheWarriors), another, smarter, female newbie called Hypatia, Sir Bob the veteran player, the hapless members of a roleplaying guild and the game developers themselves. The comic spends much of its time mocking {{MMORPG}} tropes and the absurdities of the genre, along with the players and developers of such games, but with [[AffectionateParody far too much insight to be truly malicious]].
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!!The comic provides examples of:
* AnAdventurerIsYou: Clichequest uses, as expected, pretty typical MMORPG classes.
** Rangers are incredibly overpowered, [[AuthorAppeal due to the lead developer's liking for playing them]]- something many real game devs are accused of doing, [[ScapegoatCreator true or not]].
* AIIsACrapshoot
-->"The AI in this game is starting to worry me. It's so advanced, it whines."
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Cyrus to Fred the Dread.
* {{Bowdlerize}}: Parodied. When a player named himself Dick Tracy, a GM changed his name to !@%& Tracy (and banned him for a week).
** The Devs briefly introduced a filter to censor all homophobic comments, which rendered D34dly incomprehensible. It was gay.
* BullyingADragon: Baron Wolfgang Von Epeen became the leader of Efficient Omniscience and decided to talk trash to Absolute Endgame - even after he was told that one of the developers was in their guild.
* CallBack: Arsemode has shown up several times, in increasingly elaborate variants.
** Quantum-arsemode!
* DeathIsCheap: Like most {{MMORPG}}s
** We have seen the PVP'ers heavily de-level someone by camping their corpse, though.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Don't sass the devs.
* DulcineaEffect: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=53 "So, when are we leaving?"]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Fred the Dread and Your Name Here consider it bad form to trash talk well matched or undermatched opponents. Subverted by D34dly, who... doesn't.
* {{Expospeak}}: In-universe example: The developers use these as 'lore-nukes' to put players in coma, to hide that the game content isn't done yet.
* FakeUltimateHero: Ohforf' has become this [[TheFool completely by accident]], [[spoiler: killing a new raid boss through a series of coincidences]].
** Oforf' didn't even [[spoiler:kill the raid boss]]. It swallowed the new GM, burned its insides on the GM's flaming staff and killed itself on the stalactites, then landed at Oforf's feet. That's why [[spoiler:the new GM got the uber-buff, not Oforf'.]]
* FiveBadBand: The [=PKers=], although the band's lineup could be interpreted one of two ways.
** TheBigBad: Fred the Dread (main leader of the P Kers and causer of the most mayhem) or Drakoola (the actual Guild Leader)
** TheDragon: Dakilla (if Fred is the Big Bad) or Fred the Dread (if Drakoola is the Big Bad)
** TheEvilGenius: D34dly D34dly (as the spellcaster) or Dakilla (the guy who pays attention to the game lore)
** TheBrute: Your Name Here (both versions)
** TheDarkChick: Drakoola (he's mostly off doing his own thing and rarely with the rest of the P Kers), or D34dly D34dly (as the comic relief and stupid one)
* {{Flanderization}}: D34dly D34dly started out as a bit ditzy. He evolved into someone who seems to be functionally retarded about everything that isn't [=PvP=].
* GeniusDitz: D34dly D34dly. He's pretty damn good at PVP, but doesn't seem to have even the slightest bit of common sense about anything else.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Around 80% of the things the devs do. HilarityEnsues.
* IdiotHero: Ohforf, from the start.
** This is lampshaded when Hypatia convince the roleplayer guild's leader to let Orforf in...on the basis he's roleplaying a retard. He's fooled immediately
** His later actions reflect more ignorance and naiveté than actual stupidity, though.
* JerkassGods: The GM's and developers are only godlike in-game, of course, but apart from this they are a prime example (when they're not just [[NeglectfulPrecursors plain lazy]]).
* KarmaHoudini: The Pking pros kills almost everyone without repercussions.
** Not for lack of trying; their opponents are just too clueless to actually hurt them.
** And there was the time the devs included Limb-Loss (a parody of Stat-Loss as was used in a [[UltimaOnline real game]]) for [=PKers=] when they were killed as a form of karmic retribution. This is the reason Fred the Dread has a hooked hand. And Drakoola had killed so many players before dying himself, he is literally only a nose by this point.
* LoudOfWar: [=OhForf'=] is punished by listening to the bards, and temporarily goes crazy.
* OldShame: Before he became a [=PKer=], Dakilla was part of a role-playing guild.
* OverusedCopycatCharacter: Spoofed, with all the elves trying to think of new ways to call themselves [[TheLordOfTheRings Legolas]]).
** Oforf' got his name because the guy playing him got frustrated after being unable to find a version of the name Aragorn that wasn't already taken.
* PatchworkMap: The Crossroads!
* PersonalEffectsReveal: The first rat that Oforf kills has a tiny little wallet with a crayon drawing of his son expressing his love for his daddy.
* PointyHairedBoss: The lead developer of the game, not that his employees are much better. Some are even worse.
* Poopsocking: parodied.
* PurpleProse: Many [[TheRoleplayer roleplayers]] talk like this.
* RainbowPimpGear: {{Lampshaded}} of course, but Sir Bob's outfit actually wouldn't look out of place as a medieval noble.
** A later bit character (a [[SmallNameBigEgo raid leader]]) is wearing so many shoulder pads, one on top of another, that his guildmates require a ladder to help him put a new pair on.
* ResetButton: '''CLICHEQUEST.EXE ERROR: SERVER CONNECTION LOST''' appears whenever the story gets a bit too far from the status quo.
** Rather literally, with how the devs use that button.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: It's a MMORPG, what do you expect? The beginners quest building has a floor for "Rogues and Rouges"
* SexyPackaging: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=186 the expansion pack.]]
* StopHavingFunGuys: (InUniverse). Al, the lead developer, is also a [=PvPer=] who despises all [=non-PVP=] content and constantly fights with the other developers when forced to work on "carebear content".
* {{Stripperific}}: Parodied. Hypatia complains about it, and not to mention the cover for the game's patch...
* ShoutOut: Directly to ''CityOfHeroes'' at one early point. Not to mention that in many ways Clichequest seems to share a little too much in common with ''UltimaOnline'' and ''EverQuest'' to be a coincidence.
** Given the name of Clichequest, it's not exactly likely to be a coincidence...
*** The Noob shouts out to Everquest repeatedly. Over and over again. From the gag about the elven population dwindling because the newbies walk out of the treetop city and fall to their deaths (city of Kelethin), or when the new expansion was marketed by including a 3D bustline on the package (Firiona Vie), to the author acknowledging that one of the strips was based on an experience of "camping" a monster for 17 days...
** Allusions to movies are pretty frequent as well - there have been references to, at least, ''BladeRunner''[[hottip:* :Sir Bob's "I've seen things you newbies wouldn't believe..." speech]], ''DoctorStrangelove'', ''ForbiddenPlanet''[[hottip:* :the id-monster]], ''TheGraduate''[[hottip:* :Cyborella's attempted seduction of Ohforf]], ''TheWarriors''[[hottip:* :the PK guilds chasing the Outcasts]] and probably some others too.
** DwarfFortress: [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=389 seen on a dev's computer]]
*** And the [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=412 cofounder]] as well.
* ShouldersOfDoom: Apparently, the lead dev trying to outdo ''WorldOfWarcraft'' in [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything bigger shoulder pads]]. One rejected design had cranes on it to assist lifting [[{{BFS}} epic weapons]].
* SmallNameBigEgo: The lead developer, and several players.
* StealthPun: "Switch yourself off, fool! You'll [[LampshadeHanging attract attention]]!" - Sir Bob to a spy disguised as a [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]].
* TwentyBearAsses: Hilariously lampooned in an early strip.
* UnfortunateImplications: In-universe; the GM default model looks an awful lot like a Klan member. Other moments from the devs like this are a RunningGag.
** The Klan-costumes are intentional. The AltText mentions how the [=GMs=] in early [=MMOs=] really looked so intimidating. And it's also used as a RunningGag
* VendorTrash: Lampshaded in [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=17 this]] strip.
* WalkingTheEarth
