History Webcomic / WeaponBrown

* ColdBloodedTorture: Brown does not outright kill the people that have [[ItsPersonal REALLY]] gotten themselves on his bad side. He wants to hear them beg continuously for it first. [[https://www.whatisdeepfried.com/comic/weapon-brown-91/ Just take a look at what happened to poor

* SyntheticPlague: During the war that wrecked civilization, the [[ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} Elbonians]] somehow came up with a virus meant to either kill every person of African descent, or turn their skin white, and for the most part they succeeded. Hughie X and Reilly however avoided its affects due to having [[{{Animesque}} some Japanese ancestry.]]

* VaginaDentata: We get a good look at just how bad Cal's [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2014/07/17/weapon-brown-312/ gynophobia really is]]

%%* {{Animesque}}: [[ComicStrip/TheBoondocks Huey and Riley Freeman]] are half-Japanese.%%And?

* AssShove: Chuck finishes off [[spoiler:Crokk by shoving a flamethrower up his behind]].

%%* BondOneLiner

%%* ChristmasSpecial: [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2011/12/24/merry-christmas-blockheads/ Merry Christmas, Blockheads.]]

* ColdBloodedTorture: Brown does not outright kill the people that have [[ItsPersonal REALLY]] gotten themselves on his bad side. He wants to hear them beg continuously for it first.

%%* DagwoodSandwich: [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2013/07/31/weapon-brown-110/ Here]] and [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2013/08/01/weapon-brown-111/ here]].
%%* DarkerAndEdgier: As many syndicated comic strips as possible, although it started with just "Peanuts".

%%* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:Miss Bucksley.]] Averted with [[spoiler:Annie]].
%%* {{Determinator}}: "Weapon" Brown.

* FanService: Miss Bucksley, Honey Huan, and Anne, all of whom parade around the wasteland in various flavors of MetalBikini.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pops's howl of despair over [[spoiler:losing Olive Oyl]] briefly upsets CAL. Pops's accent is too strong to actually invoke the word itself, but CAL [[BrownNote knows what it's supposed to be]]...]]

* FutureBadass: Just about every character who was a child in their own comic has grown up into a post-apocalyptic asskicker -- except for those becoming monsters.

%%* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Loads.

* PointyHairedBoss: Though he's apparently a more effective chairman than his predecessor, Mr. Dithers, Mr. Horns does show a few tendencies of the original PointyHairedBoss from ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'', such as ignoring his scientist's (an {{Expy}} of Dilbert) well-founded concerns about releasing CAL-v.1N and HOBS, and suggesting that Mr. King add a bureaucracy to his jail in order to make it a prison for the soul as well as the body.

* TakeAThirdOption: When one of Crokk's legionaries have him at gun point, Chuck tells him that the gun is just a chance he lost by not shooting him when he had the chance, and that Chuck will give him a choice. If he tries shooting him now, Chuck will shoot him in the stomach and leave him to a slow, painful death. If he lowers it, he'll get a quick death with a bullet to the head. The legionnaire pulls his gun up to his head and [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled blows his own brains out instead]].

%%* VaginaDentata: [[spoiler:[[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2014/07/17/weapon-brown-312/ SWEET BABY JESUS.]]]]

* GoodOldFisticuffs: When your fists are as huge as Pops', you don't need a gun.

In other words, ''Weapon Brown'' is 'ComicStrip/'{{Peanuts}}'', only set AfterTheEnd and {{Grim Dark}}er than ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. Filled with great art and {{Shout Out}}s to just about every syndicated comic out there.

* BigDamnHeroes: A Big Damn [[spoiler:Dog Army]]!
** Also, The Phantom. [[spoiler:''Without a head.'']]

* MeaningfulName: ComicStrip/BeetleBailey is a disgusting [[HalfHumanHybrid bug-human hybrid]].

In other words, ''Weapon Brown'' is ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'', only set AfterTheEnd and {{Grim Dark}}er than ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. Filled with great art and {{Shout Out}}s to just about every syndicated comic out there.

* AfroAsskicker: Hughie X.

* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler:For Gramps and Hughie, said by Chuck just before finishing off CAL.]]
* AnimalsLackAttributes: Averted with Snoop and HOBS
* AntiHero: Good ol' Weapon Brown. [[WordOfGod Yungbluth himself]] doesn't really see him as one though, see [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2014/01/01/weapon-brown-197/comment-page-1/#comment-20187 his comment here.]]

* AfterTheEnd: "The Last War", which more or less ended human civilization.
* {{Animesque}}: [[ComicStrip/TheBoondocks Huey and Riley Freeman]] are half-Japanese.

* TheApunkalypse: The comic wholeheartedly embraces the aesthetic of the genre; the only real exception from this is the economically advantaged forces of the Syndicate.
* AssShove: How Chuck finishes off [[spoiler:Crokk. The object getting shoved into the latter is a ''flamethrower''.]]

** Worth mentioning "Pops" as he beats the unconscious Chuck, being warned that they still need to interrogate him and he can't give answers with a broken jaw. "He can write 'em down."
* BaldOfAwesome: Weapon Brown has one strand of hair on his head, drawn in the same fashion as the original Charlie Brown's stylized hair, as a reference to the fact that some readers thought Charlie Brown was bald instead of just having ([[WordOfGod according to Charles Schultz]]) very close-cropped light-colored hair.

** Annie knows one of Brown's actual buttons [[spoiler:(an invitation to play football)]] from the first story [[spoiler:— she uses it to make him have rough sex with her. As in ''he's got his gun to her head'' rough]].

* BlackComedy
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Inverted. Hughie Freeman is the ''last'' heroic character to die.]]
* BlindWeaponmaster: Annie, as a reference to how the art-style of her original comic gave everyone blank white circles for eyes.
* BodyHorror: The mutations from radioactive fallout and the strain of wasteland life has left many recognizable characters [[{{Understatement}} not looking too hot]], especially [[HalfHumanHybrid Beetle Bailey.]]
* BondOneLiner
* BrownNote: [[spoiler:Lucy Van Pelt's conditioning of [=CALv1n=] included such hard-grained gynophobia that the very word "girls" gives him a crippling mental breakdown. When Weapon Brown figures out and invokes the key word, CAL's vivid imagination [[YourMindMakesItReal turns the surrounding Schmoo into the object of his terror]].]]
* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: Does a named, recognizable comic book character exist? There is at least a 70% chance they will appear in ''Weapon Brown'' and die, most likely in gruesome fashion

** (invoked by Yungbluth in the annotations in the softcover edition)
** Snoop being able to drive a car in the original story was just a fun gag, but it [[spoiler:ends up being how he defeats HOBS]].

* ChestBurster: [[spoiler:How CAL kills the Garf.]]
* ChristmasSpecial: [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2011/12/24/merry-christmas-blockheads/ Merry Christmas, Blockheads.]]
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: [[spoiler:The shmoo seems to work this way. Once Weapon Brown finds out its actual origin (that it's the GARF's excrement), he can't get past the idea that he's essentially eating giant bug shit, so it tastes terrible to him. Others in the know, Anne for example, don't have a problem believing the shmoo will taste like whatever they want it to.]]

* CurbStompBattle: Almost every single battle against [[HeroKiller CAL]].
* DagwoodSandwich: [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2013/07/31/weapon-brown-110/ Here]] and [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2013/08/01/weapon-brown-111/ here]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: As many syndicated comic strips as possible, although it started with just "Peanuts".
* DeathByCameo: Many recognizable, syndicated comic strip characters show up for a panel or two and are then immediately killed off - if not dying in the very first panel they appear. Perhaps the most notable of these is [[spoiler:Olive Oyl.]]
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Cal fears and hates women thanks to Van Pelt's "conditioning". When he gains control of the schmoo, it turns against him when it takes the form of Slimy [=girlS=] that he can't Get Rid Of]].
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:Miss Bucksley.]] Averted with [[spoiler:Annie]].
* {{Determinator}}: "Weapon" Brown.
* DeusAngstMachina: The ending of "A Peanut Scorned". [[spoiler: Linus' summoning of the Great Pumpkin fails, and as it collapses he, Sally and the red-haired girl are crushed beneath it before Weapon Brown can do anything.]]

* DirtyOldMan: Colonel Halftraque, who takes this trope's tendencies in the [[ComicStrip/BeetleBailey original Colonel Halftrack]] and dials them UpToEleven for a mixture of [[RuleOfFunny comedy]] and FanDisservice.
* EnfantTerrible: [=CALv1n=]

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Almost too many to count, but the most notable ones are probably [[spoiler:Crokk getting dismembered, brutally tortured and finally has a flamethrower shoved up his ass and fired, and CAL-v.1N getting fed the Schmoo until he explodes]].

* FanService: Miss Bucksley, [[spoiler:the late]] Honey Huan, and possibly Anne, if she didn't have eyes like that thing in ''Film/{{Splice}}''.
* FauxAffablyEvil: [=CALv1n=] in spades.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pops's howl of despair over [[spoiler:losing Olive Oyl briefly upsets CAL. Pops's accent is too strong to actually invoke the word itself, but CAL [[BrownNote knows what it's supposed to be]]...]]

* FunWithAcronyms: [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Cyber Augmented Legionnaire - version]] [[Letters2Numbers 1]] [--N--] [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes and his Heuristically Optimized Bonding Surrogate]]; [[ComicStrip/USAcres U.S. Agro-Commerce Research & Engineering Station]].
* FutureBadass:
** Just about every character who was a child in their own comic has grown up into a post-apocalyptic asskicker.
** Except for those becoming monsters. The Katzenjammer kids are impersonating Kuato from the original ''Film/TotalRecall1990''.
* FutureFoodIsArtificial: [[ComicStrip/LilAbner Schmoo.]] You really ''don't'' want to know [[NauseaFuel what it is.]]
* GoneHorriblyWrong (or maybe GoneHorriblyRight): CAL-v1.N.

* GratuitousFrench: General Crokk has the habit of calling Weapon Brown ''Arme Brun'', that is (you guessed it) a literal translation of "Weapon Brown" in French.
* GuileHero: Miss Bucksley. [[spoiler: She hides her schmoo ration in Weapon Brown's canteen without his knowledge (she was somehow carrying it in her breasts; Weapon Brown mistook it for breast milk when Miss Bucksley offers him some RescueSex, and she didn't correct him), keeping it from falling into the Syndicate's hands.]]

* HeartbrokenBadass: Weapon Brown will probably never get over losing the red-haired girl. [[spoiler: Pops is also devastated when Olive Oyl is killed during the evacuation of U.S.A.C.R.E.S. They commiserate briefly [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2014/07/31/weapon-brown-320/ after the battle.]]]]

* HeManWomanHater: Cal does not like women. [[spoiler: If you were "conditioned" by Van Pelt you'd probably develop a phobia too.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Miss Bucksley, offscreen. She kills herself to avoid being tortured and possibly giving up the location of U.S.A.C.R.E.S.]]
* HeroKiller: ''CAL.'' In a single engagement, he and HOBS slaughter [[spoiler:Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant, Steve Canyon, Gil Thorp, ''and'' the Phantom.]] [[CurbStompBattle Among others.]]
* HollywoodCyborg: Chuck.

** Obviously to American NewspaperComics, but in addition, the art, plot, and general style take major cues from ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD''.

* HotterAndSexier: Amongst other things, "Mint" Patty and Marcy are bisexuals in a BDSM relationship. Surprisingly, [[BodyHorror given what happened to her boyfriend]], [[spoiler: post-apocalyptic Olive Oyle looks pretty good (and surprisingly curvy). Or rather, ''looked'']].
* HumanoidAbomination: Beetle Bailey. Chuck mentions that these have become common since the Last War, thanks to the radiation and chemical weapons that have mutated much of humanity.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: HOBS]]. On a souped-up ''Zamboni.''
* InfantImmortality: Averted with (most of) [[spoiler: ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'']].

* LaResistance: Anne and her crew, against the Syndicate.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Loads.

* NightmareFace: [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2013/02/05/weapon-brown-10-u52/ Beetle]]. It’s even apparent [[https://www.whatisdeepfried.com/comic/weapon-brown-9-kbv/ a page earlier]] when he [[TransformationHorror puts on]] his {{Game Face}}.

* NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay: Despite being fucking ''decapitated'', [[spoiler:the Phantom]] distracts Cal at a critical moment [[BigDamnHeroes while Brown is down and Annie defenseless.]]

* PietaPlagiarism: [[spoiler: [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2014/03/24/weapon-brown-245/ ME GOYLE]]!!]]
* PokemonSpeak: [[RentAZilla Garfield.]]

* PresidentEvil: [[spoiler:Daddy Warbucks]], the last president the US had before the last war, basically started the war and refused to end it, even when things got so bad that it was obvious there would be no winner. At one point, he literally called [[ComicStrip/FlashGordon Premier Ming]], the leader of the opposite side, to the bargaining table for the sole purpose of spitting in his face. This was the "Man In The Fancy Hat" solely responsible for turning the world into a nuclear wasteland, and for what is likely to turn out to be the inevitable extinction of the entire human race. [[spoiler:Chuck is sincerely happy to meet him, since if it weren't for him he probably wouldn't exist.]]
** The creepiest thing about him? He still thinks that the war is going on, and that they still have a chance to win.
* ProphetEyes: [[spoiler: [[ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie Anne]] has them]]. What, did you think ''everybody'' has eyes like that?
* PsychoPsychologist: Lucy van Pelt, who was responsible for "conditioning" the Syndicate's {{Super Soldier}}s, i.e. breaking their wills to make sure they always obeyed orders. She was responsible for breaking Chuck's psyche by constantly humiliating him by forcing him to play games of "Kick the Football" (she would always take the football at the last second of course) as well as instilling CAL-v.1N's extreme hatred and fear of women into him. She also came up with Chuck's TriggerPhrase "Blockhead", as well the one of CAL; "[[spoiler:girls]]".

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Val (ComicStrip/PrinceValiant) and Gordon (ComicStrip/FlashGordon) are easily disposed of by CAL once he and the Legion arrive at Anne's hidden facility under Bone City.]]
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: For the bad guys since CAL kills Garf.]]

* ShoutOut: Oh god, hundreds.
** In a ShoutOut not related to the source materials, the origin of the shmoo [[spoiler:it's the excrement of the Garf]] is likely a tribute to [[spoiler: the secret behind the soft drink Slurm on ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'']].
* SlasherSmile: Many from [[spoiler: CAL-v.1N]], such as the last panel [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2014/02/19/weapon-brown-227/ here.]]

** The monster is called the Garf. The huge boneyard it lives in is thus a Garf-field. Garf is also a CAT-erpillar.

* ThisWasHisTrueForm: [[spoiler: HOBS reverts to a cuddly toy upon death. Snoop rips his head off just to be sure.]]
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler: During their assault on U.S.A.C.R.E.S., the Syndicate legionaries kill Olive Oyl, who you should know is Pops' goyle. ''Big fucking mistake.'']]

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: Happens to Weapon Brown himself once CAL arrives. He attempts to attack CAL from behind and CAL kicks him in the face without even turning around, putting him out of commission for a while.]]

** The surviving subjects of the Syndicate's SuperSoldier project attacked each other, starting by ganging up on the smallest-- a seven-year-old boy. [[spoiler: [[InvertedTrope He slaughtered them all.]]]]

* [[spoiler:BrownNote]]: [[spoiler:Lucy Van Pelt's conditioning of [=CALv1n=] included such hard-grained gynophobia that the very word "girls" gives him a crippling mental breakdown. When Weapon Brown figures out and invokes the key word, CAL's vivid imagination [[YourMindMakesItReal turns the surrounding Schmoo into the object of his terror]].]]

** HalloweenEpisode: [[spoiler:Linus (and about a hundred other guys) uses Sally's body to summon the Great Pumpkin but only succeeds in getting "The Cold Ones" (three spirits based on the non-/mutant BedsheetGhost costumes in the original ''Great Pumpkin''), who reveal that Sally was too in love with Linus during the "ceremony" and the Great Pumpkin requires ''fear''.]]

* EvilCounterpart[=/=]EvilKnockoff: [=CALv1n=] and HOBS are sort of this for Chuck and Snoop. Of course, Chuck isn't exactly ''good''...

* [[spoiler: [[PopGoesTheHuman Pop Goes the CAL-v.1N]]]]: [[spoiler:[[MythologyGag GOOEY]] [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2014/07/24/weapon-brown-316/ KABLOOIE!]]]]

* [[spoiler: ShootTheShaggyDog: For the bad guys since CAL kills Garf.]]

* [[spoiler:VaginaDentata]]: [[spoiler:[[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2014/07/17/weapon-brown-312/ SWEET BABY JESUS.]]]]

In other words, ''Weapon Brown'' is ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', only set AfterTheEnd and {{Grim Dark}}er than ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Filled with great art and {{Shout Out}}s to just about every syndicated comic out there, ''Weapon Brown'' SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove.

* AnimalsLackAttributes: Averted with Snoopy and HOBS

** Don't hurt Snoopy. Weapon will not be pleased.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Snoopy stays with Annie; Jeffy joins Chuck to destroy The Syndicate and avenge his family; Chuck notes that since the world has a second chance, there'll be things worth fighting for again. The "strange shadow" Chuck sees spreading out over Bone City is the schmoo from the exploded Garf, which is turning into vegetation, bringing life back to the wasteland.]]

** Snoopy being able to drive a car in the original story was just a fun gag, but it [[spoiler:ends up being how he defeats HOBS]].

* EvilCounterpart[=/=]EvilKnockoff: [=CALv1n=] and HOBS are sort of this for Chuck and Snoopy. Of course, Chuck isn't exactly ''good''...

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The witch Hilda knows that Snoopy can understand her. Why? Because she [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2014/02/11/weapon-brown-221/ can see his thought bubbles]], which even the ''readers'' can't see.

* ThisWasHisTrueForm: [[spoiler: HOBS reverts to a cuddly toy upon death. Snoopy rips his head off just to be sure.]]

Surviving -- no, ''thriving'' -- in this world is "Weapon" Brown, a cybernetic mercenary with absolutely no pity and balls that could crack diamonds. Together with his man-eating dog Snoopy, they eke out a living as a pair of mercenaries. If you want something done to someone, don't need any questions answered, and absolutely ''need'' to make sure the poor bastards suffer, you call Weapon Brown.

* NightmareFace: [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2013/02/05/weapon-brown-10-u52/ Beetle]]

* AdaptationalBadass: Absolutely everyone, as a consequence of the GenreShift from all-ages funny pages comic to [[RatedMForManly hardcore balls-to-the-wall]] post-apocalyptic action.

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:

* AnyoneCanDie: And they do, in droves. Scores of recognizable comic book characters are killed off in droves, sometimes only showing up [[DeathByCameo for a panel or two before dying.]] By the end of the story, the only major combatants left alive are [[spoiler:Chuck, Annie, Snoop, Riley, and Pops.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: And they do, in droves. By the end of the story, the only major combatants left alive are [[spoiler:Chuck, Annie, Snoop, Riley, and Pops.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: And they do, in droves.

* AnimalsLackAttributes: Averted with Snoopy and HOBS.

* AnimalsLackAttributes: Averted with Snoop and HOBS.

** Don't hurt Snoop. Weapon will not be pleased.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Snoop stays with Annie; Jeffy joins Chuck to destroy The Syndicate and avenge his family; Chuck notes that since the world has a second chance, there'll be things worth fighting for again. The "strange shadow" Chuck sees spreading out over Bone City is the schmoo from the exploded Garf, which is turning into vegetation, bringing life back to the wasteland.]]

** Snoop being able to drive a car in the original story was just a fun gag, but it [[spoiler:ends up being how he defeats HOBS]].

* EvilCounterpart[=/=]EvilKnockoff: [=CALv1n=] and HOBS are sort of this for Chuck and Snoop. Of course, Chuck isn't exactly ''good''...

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The witch Hilda knows that Snoop can understand her. Why? Because she [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2014/02/11/weapon-brown-221/ can see his thought bubbles]], which even the ''readers'' can't see.

* ThisWasHisTrueForm: [[spoiler: HOBS reverts to a cuddly toy upon death. Snoop rips his head off just to be sure.]]

Surviving -- no, ''thriving'' -- in this world is "Weapon" Brown, a cybernetic mercenary with absolutely no pity and balls that could crack diamonds. Together with his man-eating dog Snoop, they eke out a living as a pair of mercenaries. If you want something done to someone, don't need any questions answered, and absolutely ''need'' to make sure the poor bastards suffer, you call Weapon Brown.

The comic started out as a side project to cartoonist, Jason Yungbluth's, comic, ''DeepFried''. The first Weapon Brown story was called ''A Peanut Scorned'', and was originally included as a bonus in the printed versions of issues 1-4 of ''Deep Fried''. It starts off by telling the origin story of Charles "Weapon" Brown, and sequences into his quest to save his red-haired girlfriend from his insane former friend, Linus van Pelt, who plans to use her in his attempt to finally summon The Great Pumpkin, all while he runs into other characters from the ''Peanuts'' universe.

* AffectionateParody: Judging from the seer amount of {{Mythology Gag}}s and visual references, both to ''Peanuts'' and numerous other newspaper comics, a lot of love and attention to detail has clearly been put into the comic.
* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler: For Gramps and Hughie, said by Chuck just before finishing off CAL.]]

* AssShove: How Chuck finishes off [[spoiler: Crokk. The object getting shoved into the latter is a ''flamethrower''.]]

** Worth mentioning "Pops" as he beats the unconscious Chuck, being warned that they still need to interrogate him and can't give answers with a broken jaw. "He can write 'em down."

** Annie knows one of Brown's actual buttons [[spoiler: an invitation to play football]] from the first story [[spoiler: she uses it to make him have rough sex with her. As in ''he's got his gun to her head'' rough]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Snoop stays with Annie; Jeffy joins Chuck to destroy The Syndicate and avenge his family; Chuck notes that since the world has a second chance there'll be things worth fighting for again. The "strange shadow" Chuck sees spreading out over Bone City is the schmoo from the exploded Garf, which is turning into vegetation, bringing life back to the wasteland]].

* [[spoiler: BrownNote]] : [[spoiler: Lucy Van Pelt's conditioning of [=CALv1n=] included such hardgrained gynophobia that the very word "girls" gives him a crippling mental breakdown. When Weapon Brown figures out and invokes the key word, CAL's vivid imagination [[YourMindMakesItReal turns the surrounding Schmoo into the object of his terror]].]]

** The flesh-eating kudzu [[spoiler: is what finally destroys Bone City and the invading army]].

* ChristmasSpecial: [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2011/12/24/merry-christmas-blockheads/ Merry Christmas, Blockheads]].
** HalloweenEpisode: [[spoiler: Linus (and about a hundred other guys) uses Sally's body to summon the Great Pumpkin but only succeeds in getting "The Cold Ones" (three spirits based on the non-/mutant BedsheetGhost costumes in the original ''Great Pumpkin''), who reveal that Sally was too in love with Linus during the "ceremony" and the Great Pumpkin requires ''fear''.]]
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: [[spoiler: The shmoo seems to work this way. Once Weapon Brown finds out its actual origin (that it's the GARF's excrement), he can't get past the idea that he's essentially eating giant bug shit, so it tastes terrible to him. Others in the know, Anne for example, don't have a problem believing the shmoo will taste like whatever they want it to.]]

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: Cal fears and hates women thanks to Van Pelt's "conditioning". When he gains control of the schmoo it turns against him when it takes the form of Slimy [=girlS=] that he can't Get Rid Of]].
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Miss Bucksley.]] Averted with [[spoiler: Annie]].

* DiedStandingUp: Walker, The expy of [[spoiler:ComicStrip/ThePhantom]] gets his head blown clean off. Not only does he die standing, he [[spoiler: becomes ''[[CatchPhrase the corpse that walks]]'']]!

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Almost too many to count, but the most notable ones are probably [[spoiler: Crokk getting dismembered, brutally tortured and finally has a flamethrower shoved up his ass and fired, and CAL-v.1N getting fed the Schmoo until he explodes.]]

* FanService: Miss Bucksley, [[spoiler: the late ]] Honey Huan, and possibly Anne, if she didn't have eyes like that thing in ''Film/{{Splice}}''.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pops's howl of despair over [[spoiler: losing Olive Oyl briefly upsets CAL. Pops's accent is too strong to actually invoke the word itself, but CAL [[BrownNote knows what it's supposed to be]]...]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Miss Bucksley, offscreen. She kills herself to avoid being tortured and possibly giving up the location of U.S.A.C.R.E.S.]]

In other words, ''Weapon Brown'' is ''{{Peanuts}}'', only set AfterTheEnd and {{Grim Dark}}er than ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Filled with great art and {{Shout Out}}s to just about every syndicated comic out there, ''Weapon Brown'' SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove.