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2[[caption-width-right:350:[[LeadYouCanRelateTo Andrew]], [[CatsAreMagic Bast]], and and the rest of the cast as dolls. ]]
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4->''"Death is final and cannot be changed, not even by gods."''
5-->-- ''No Future's summary''
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7The God of Death accidentally took the life of Andrew Perkasin before it was his time to go. In an attempt to make up for it, Death asks Era and Aeon, two lesser time gods, to [[TrappedInThePast reverse time]] and warn Andrew of his fate. Andrew is thus given a second chance at living a life as fulfilling as possible before his untimely encounter with death.
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9Andrew must now try to meet his life goals before he dies at thirty-seven, while balancing school, family, his social life, a relationship and living alongside gods.
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11No Future is an {{Animesque}} {{Webcomic}} drawn by Kura L. Seunnapha, who is also the author of Webcomic/RavenWolf.
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13It can be found [[https://tapas.io/series/NoFuture here]] on Tapas. Kura's Patreon is [[https://www.patreon.com/kura?ty=h here.]]
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16!! Tropes:
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18* ActionGirl:
19** All the (adult) female gods seem to be able to fight, but Bast turns out to be the strongest out of all the gods hanging around Andrew.
20** The three sisters of Fate definitely qualify.
21* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Era treats New Aeon this way while they are posing as Andrew's cousins. Andrew seems to consider both of them to be something like this, but his relationship with Alissa, his actual sister, is more of a downplayed version.
22%%* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Most of the gods qualify, some more than others.
23* BabysFirstWords: An extra comic shows a baby Andrew trolling his parents, who disagree on whether he should use "Mum" or "Mom", by happily babbling "Momum" instead.
24* BewareTheNiceOnes: Abaddon is very nice, but if you insult her or hers, she'll remind you she's the God of Death.
25* BisexualLoveTriangle: Andrew is split between his attraction towards Lorelei and Siris.
26%%* TheBully: Nick, with Daisuke as his {{Sidekick}}.
27* DeadGuyJunior: {{Justified}} with New Aeon, because the name Aeon is linked to his job more than his identity as an individual.
28* DeanBitterman: Mr. Lassiter, Nick's father, who is Andrew's school principal. He tries to be professional, and isn't exactly sadistic, but he has little empathy or compassion, which leads to him insulting Andrew and mistreating his struggling son. He can also be petty, as he tries to give Andrew detention for pointing out his son Nick fits the TroubledTeen bill more than Andrew does. Andrew pays it no mind because no other adult heard him give it.
29* DodgeballIsHell: Andrew discovers that [[PhysicalGod Siris]] can throw a ball particularly hard during a game of dodgeball where he [[WeaponizedBall slams Daisuke backwards with his shot]]. He then tries to get him to hit [[TheBully Nick]] in the face. The teacher objects.
30* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: ZigZagged. [[TimeyWimeyBall Andrew has visions of a future that already happened, but hopefully won't.]]
31* DrowningMySorrows: It's downright stated that Future!Andrew did this... and more... what exactly happened to him is still a mystery.
32* DualAgeModes:
33** Era and Aeon can do this. They usually look like adults, but for Andrew's sake they stick to around ten years old.
34** {{Averted}} for the rest of the gods. They need the help of Chronos to age their human bodies up or down if it's not a natural form of theirs.
35* DualWielding:
36** Aeon and Era fight with two... oversized, sharpened clock hands... each.
37** Morta dual wields scissor blades.
38* EnemiesWithDeath: Andrew is enemies with Fate rather than death, although he's really, really scared of the [[GrimReaper Grim Reapers in general]].
39** {{Inverted}} with Death herself, who, while having killed Andrew, likes him and feels extremely sorry about cutting his life short. See PalsWithJesus below.
40* FishOutOfTemporalWater: {{Downplayed}} for the Realm-born, as they have only been taken twenty-three years back and still have access to most of the technology they were used to, like mobile phones, just less advanced. Naga in particular complains that they hadn't been born yet, so everything looks especially old to them.
41* ForeignLanguageTirade: Hannah's father has some angry lines in German. Aeon translates one of them when Andrew complains about his yelling.
42%%* TheGrimReaper: Abaddon and her children.
43* IKnowYourTrueName: Gods use aliases, as letting their true names be known gives power over them.
44* InadequateInheritor: As his only child Epoch was meant to inherit Old Aeon's name and position, but she couldn't learn to control her time powers quickly enough. In the end, someone else was chosen to replace him instead.
45* LiteralMinded: New Aeon, though it's actually {{Justified}} in his case, as he is relearning social interaction from scratch.
46-->'''Andrew''': You're shitting me.
47-->'''Aeon''': ''*{{beat}}*''
48-->'''Aeon''': What does it mean when it's not literal?
49* MamaBear: Abaddon. Even if she's only posing as Osiris' mother, she's extremely protective of him.
50* MissingMom: Andrew's mother died when he was small.
51* NoSell: Realm-born humans are completely unaffected by any god's powers, except Abaddon's. Thus, time was not reversed for them.
52* {{Omniglot}}: Aeon, and likely most of if not all the other gods as well. WordOfGod notes that they ''don't'' know these languages by magic, but learn them, which explains why Aeon still gets confused about non-literal meanings.
53* PalsWithJesus: Andrew has the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the Past and the Future posing as his little cousins, and that's only the beginning.
54%%* PhysicalGod: God''s''.
55* ReformedBully: After learning that he's fated to die young, [[JerkassRealization Nick decides he needs to reform himself]] and [[TheAtoner take steps to be a better person]]. He's getting there.
56* ReplacementGoldfish: ZigZagged with New Aeon. He's meant to be the ReplacementGoldfish for the god of the Past, and has inherited his name and powers, but he's very much his own person, and Era actively rejects him as a brother. This is complicated further when we learn Old Aeon knew New Aeon before he received his name, [[spoiler:and may have died for his sake, as Morta holds New Aeon responsible for Fate's rampage.]]
57* ScarsAreForever: Future!Andrew had a lot of scars, but ultimately it's averted, since time was turned back. Still played straight in that fourteen-years-old Andrew does have a few scars that were still there twenty-three years later.
58* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong:
59** {{Inverted}} in the sense that Andrew was '''meant''' to have the crappy life he used to lead, except he was killed too soon, and never had the opportunity to see his situation become better. What went wrong, the death, cannot be changed, so he is attempting to take a "wrong" path of fate that will lead to him being happy before his untimely death.
60** Played straight from Fate's point of view, as his repeated attempts to steal Andrew's free will would be this. He sees Andrew changing his fate to be happier as a negative thing because [[ForWantOfANail it changes everyone else's future as well]].
61%%* SirSwearsalot: Andrew. He gets in trouble for it at school occasionally.
62* StalkerWithoutACrush:
63** The gods guarding Andrew have to stalk him.
64** Chimera (and the sovereign), as they try to figure out who Andrew is, and why time was reverted back twenty-three years.
65* SymbolSwearing: [[SirSwearsalot Andrew's frequent swearing]] is censored with the * character.
66* TheScottishTrope: Gods never say their true names, for fear of being controlled by whoever knows it. [[FourthWallMailSlot New Aeon refuses to reveal his real name even in a Q&A.]]
67** The Drama club refuses to pronounce the name of [[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} The Scottish Play]] and panics when Andrew picks the name of the eponymous character out as his nickname.
68%%* TimeyWimeyBall: See DreamingOfTimesGoneBy above.
69%%* TrappedInThePast: How the Realm-born are living the time reversal.
70* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Quite a few gods can do this. Osiris' family is particularly prone to this.
71%%* WhereIWasBornAndRazed: Naga's backstory.
72* YourDaysAreNumbered:
73** Andrew has twenty-three years to live before Death inevitably kills him.
74** Everyone else who has the mark of Death will die within that time frame no matter how the timeline changes.

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