History Webcomic / TheNoob

* {{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. [[http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/348 It was gay]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer: This is how the other [=PKers=] view Dakilla and his enthusiasm for the game lore.

* TwentyBearAsses: Hilariously lampooned in an early strip.

** The lead developer is known in-game as Lord Saxon--a shout out to Lord British of ''{{Franchise/Ultima}}'' fame.

** His later actions reflect more ignorance and naiveté than actual stupidity, though.

* 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.

** After the Head Dev was introduced to the concept of microtransactions, he had a system installed where raiders could pay money to make bosses easier. Or, for more generous donations, [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=441 kill themselves]] for the raiders' convenience

** The [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=194 healing]] [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=224 macro]].

** The Devs briefly introduced a filter to censor all homophobic comments, which rendered D34dly incomprehensible. [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=348 It was gay]].

* CallBack: [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=79 Arsemode]] has shown up several times, in [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=88 increasingly]] [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=348 elaborate]] variants.
** [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=236 Quantum-arsemode!]]

* CripplingOverspecialization: MinMaxing [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=373 taken to the extreme]], because a boss can only be beaten this way.

* DulcineaEffect: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=53 "So, when are we leaving?"]]
* EscortMission: The [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=447 "escort quest NPC"]]

* ExplosiveBreeder: [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=208 Rats are mass-produced this way.]]

* IWasQuiteALooker: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=168 Drakoola]], before limb-loss reduced him to just his nose.

* 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]] !

** Ohforf [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=3 got his name]] because the guy playing him got frustrated after being unable to find a new version of a famous fantasy character.
* PatchworkMap: The [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=225 Crossroads]]!

* {{Poopsocking}}: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=406 Parodied.]]

* ScarilyCompetentTracker: [[http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=82 Dakilla]] and the Aragorn Syndrome.
* SexyPackaging: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=186 The expansion pack.]] The expac featured a boob-tastic Firiona Vie parody. The head developer said it wasn't sexy enough. The boobs were then made three dimensional.

** VideoGame/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.

* [[StopHavingFunGuys "Stop Having Fun" Guy]]: (InUniverse). Al, one of the 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". [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=285 He later gets his revenge.]]

* ThatCameOutWrong: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=172 He]] actually ''is'' talking about a nose.

* VendorTrash: Lampshaded in [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=17 this]] strip.

* WouldHurtAChild: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=449 Apparently]], the baby is a mob too.

* KarmaHoudini: Unsuprisingly, the [=PKing=] pros kill almost everyone without repercussions. 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.

* ShoutOut: Directly to ''VideoGame/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 ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' to be a coincidence.

** Allusions to movies are pretty frequent as well - there have been references to, at least, ''Film/BladeRunner''[[note]]Sir Bob's "I've seen things you newbies wouldn't believe..." speech[[/note]], ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''[[note]]Your Name Here and D34dly facing the horde of PK:ers[[/note]],''Film/DoctorStrangelove'', ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}''[[note]]the duped brooms[[/note]], ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet''[[note]]the id-monster[[/note]], ''Film/TheGraduate''[[note]]Cyborella's attempted seduction of Ohforf[[/note]], ''Film/TheWarriors''[[note]]the PK guilds chasing the Outcasts[[/note]], ''Film/FatalAttraction''[[note]]Fred's spurned lover Bethany boiling his headdress[[/note]], and probably some others too.

** Allusions to movies are pretty frequent as well - there have been references to, at least, ''Film/BladeRunner''[[note]]Sir Bob's "I've seen things you newbies wouldn't believe..." speech[[/note]], ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''[[note]]Your Name Here and D34dly facing the horde of PK:ers[[/note]],''Film/DoctorStrangelove'', ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}''[[note]]the duped brooms[[/note]], ''ForbiddenPlanet''[[note]]the id-monster[[/note]], ''TheGraduate''[[note]]Cyborella's attempted seduction of Ohforf[[/note]], ''Film/TheWarriors''[[note]]the PK guilds chasing the Outcasts[[/note]], ''Film/FatalAttraction''[[note]]Fred's spurned lover Bethany boiling his headdress[[/note]], and probably some others too.

''[[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.

* ShoutOut: Directly to ''VideoGame/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.

-->'''Clichequest EULA:''' [[DivineComedy Through me you pass into the city of woe]], [[{{Hell}} Through me you pass into eternal pain.]]

** Allusions to movies are pretty frequent as well - there have been references to, at least, ''Film/BladeRunner''[[note]]Sir Bob's "I've seen things you newbies wouldn't believe..." speech[[/note]], ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''[[note]]Your Name Here and D34dly facing the horde of PK:ers[[/note]],''DoctorStrangelove'', ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}''[[note]]the duped brooms[[/note]], ''ForbiddenPlanet''[[note]]the id-monster[[/note]], ''TheGraduate''[[note]]Cyborella's attempted seduction of Ohforf[[/note]], ''Film/TheWarriors''[[note]]the PK guilds chasing the Outcasts[[/note]], ''Film/FatalAttraction''[[note]]Fred's spurned lover Bethany boiling his headdress[[/note]], and probably some others too.

* MyGreatestShame: Your Name Here and D34dly were about to kill Sir Darkblade when they were killed by an errant GM fireball. They, however, thought they got PK'd by a roleplayer.

* WouldHurtAChild: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=449 Apparently]], the baby is a mob too.

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 ''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]].

** TheBigBad: Fred the Dread (main leader of the [=PKers=] and causer of the most mayhem) or Drakoola (the actual Guild Leader)

* 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.

* WalkingTheEarth: Much of the strip has been Bob dragging Oforf all over the world looking for levelling opportunities.

* SexyPackaging: [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=186 The expansion pack.]]

* WalkingTheEarth

** The Devs briefly introduced a filter to censor all homophobic comments, which rendered D34dly incomprehensible. It was gay.

* EvilerThanThou: Cyrus to Fred the Dread. While Fred the Dread is admittedly a bloodthirsty PKer, he genuinely grinded for levels rather than resort to hacking like Cyrus did. According to Dakilla, he also researched many exploits.

* FatGirl: Tacobell

* 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.

* KarmaHoudini: Unsuprisingly, the Pking pros kill almost everyone without repercussions. 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.

* LoudOfWar: [=OhForf=] is punished by listening to the bards, and temporarily goes crazy.

* OverusedCopycatCharacter: Spoofed, with all the elves trying to think of new ways to call themselves [[TheLordOfTheRings Legolas]]).

** Quantum-arsemode!

* PatchworkMap: The Crossroads!