Line #119 Webcomic/IjiCaptainLhurgoyf


1	->''"And this is why [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Gurren Lagann]] fans should never be allowed to retell deconstructionist anti-war stories."''
2	-->-- '''The author himself''' at the end of the Recap.
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4	An InteractiveComic by [[Tropers/MasterHand Captain Lhurgoyf]], based on Creator/DanielRemar's game ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'', hosted on [[Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures MSPA Forum Adventures]]. Well, ''mainly'' based on ''Iji'', as it has become a MegaCrossover of epic proportions.
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6	The adventure initially follows the story of a killer game, starting in Iji's house on the morning of Bring-Your-Children-To-Work day. But a few differences appear quickly: For starters, Iji's mental state is already not that good. Her father being a MadScientist and her brother having a crush on her probably didn't help...
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8	And it goes downhill from there as the Alpha Strike happens, Iji wakes up and starts killing, and the boundaries of the universe weaken even more.
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10	The forum adventure eventually stalled [[http://www.medinoc.fr/web/ImagesDiverses/MSPA/HereX-1.gif two thirds within Sector X]], its pictures slowly vanishing from [=ImageShack=] with no backup. It was pronounced dead on September 21, 2014, having collapsed under the weight of its multiple storylines, and rebooted later on as ''[[http://alphastruck.tumblr.com/ Alphastruck]]''.
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12	!!Tropes:
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14	* TheAbridgedSeries: Essentially a cross between one of these, a LetsPlay, and an InteractiveComic. It uses a lot of AbridgedSeriesTropes, except that, due to the side stories, each installment is typically ''longer'' than the original.
15	* {{Acrofatic}}: After the events of ''Homestuck'', Bro Strider has apparently let himself go, but not to the point where he's unable to jump into the sky and cut spaceships in half.
16	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While her appearance doesn't actually change, Iji was ([[HollywoodHomely supposedly]]) supposed to be plain-looking in the game. Here, numerous characters end up crushing on her.
17	* AdaptationNameChange: Asha's name here is Vexorg, a name borrowed from a ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon. RuleOfFunny at work here.
18	* AerithAndBob: A RunningGag - any alien who gets a name who didn't have one in the source material will have a humorously mundane one, so you have, for example, Hel Sarie's son...Wayne.
19	* AliensInCardiff: Technically everywhere, but the majority of the action takes place in Milwaukee (as a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'', a big inspiration for the adventure), and the Alternian Protectorate mostly covers central Asia.
20	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ''Everyone''. No exceptions. [[invoked]]
21	* AngstWhatAngst: Iji isn't ''nearly'' as [[BreakTheCutie broken]] about the Earth being destroyed and having to fight off the invasion as she is in the game, [[{{Reconstruction}} but that's sort of the point.]] [[invoked]]
22	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Ron is prone to bursting into tirades about SCIENCE! and world domination. In front of his children. Who don't appreciate it very much. Vexorg also has an Amazingly Embarrassing ''Aunt''.
23	* AprilFoolsDay: To celebrate, Captain Lhurgoyf did an update claiming that he had been killed by a combine harvester and that, from now on, all updates would be done by his (nonexistent) four-year-old brother. [[StylisticSuck With expected results.]]
24	* ArmedFarces: Neither the Tasen nor the Komato are as serious or as threatening as they are in the game.
25	* ArtShift: Just as in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', suitably badass moments are drawn in a looser, sketchier style.
26	* AuthorAppeal: If, reading the adventure, it comes as a surprise at all that Captain Lhurgoyf's favorite anime is ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', you're obviously not actually reading it.
27	* AuthorAvatar: Captain Lhurgoyf has appeared at least twice, represented by his avatar ([[VideoGame/CaveStory The Doctor]] with a [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering lhurgoyf's]] head). However, he's...[[YourHeadASplode not treated as invincible or a]] MarySue.
28	* AwesomeMcCoolname: The names Krotera and Vexorg's [[ImaginaryEnemy imaginary fiends]] chose for themselves:
29	** Stupid Idiot [=McMoron=] became [[SoOkayItsAverage Okay Alright McAverage]] then Great Awesome [=McEpic=] and Cool Badass [=McAwesome=];
30	** Foolish Imbecile [=McBraindamaged=] became Hero Messiah [=McKarma=].
31	* AwesomenessIsVolatile: The explanation of how Retribution works. Also, [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Spiral Nemesis]] has occurred ''twice'' for this reason (once in a non-canon segment, once in AnotherDimension).
32	* BadassAdorable: Iji is portrayed here as a [[TheDitz ditzy]], oblivious FanGirl who borders on ManChild at times. She's also just as badass as in the original game, only with her fear and hesitation replaced with [[HotBlooded hot blood]].
33	* BigApplesauce: Parodied. New York is one of the few places in the world that ''wasn't'' affected by the Tasen invasion. No one knows why.
34	* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The ghost of Franz, the star of Pulp Archaelogist Adventurer (another adventure by the same author)]], appears to help Iji during the fight with Iosa.
35	* BreakoutCharacter: Many unnamed {{Mooks}} are, by reader suggestions, given names and their own subplots. Even ''the two Scouts standing on either sides of a pit in Sector 1'' served as ThoseTwoGuys for quite a while, and the diary writer's girlfriend (or Denise) is more important than the diary writer (or Katelyn) now.
36	* BrotherSisterIncest: Dan likes Iji...a little too much. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally, he was supposed to be]] StraightGay, but an early suggestion changed that.
37	* ButtMonkey: Dan, Vexorg, the Tasen in general, and occasionally Iji ([[IronButtMonkey but she can get herself out of it]]).
38	* CampGay[=/=]MachoCamp[=/=]ManlyGay: Vexorg bounces around the spectrum seemingly at random.
39	* CanonWelding: Captain Lhurgoyf's first adventure was an ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' parody called ''Pulp Archaeologist Adventure''. He's since worked the two plots together, with the BigBad being Iji's ancestor and [[BeenThereShapedHistory the protagonist inadvertently starting the Tasen-Komato War.]]
40	* CaptainErsatz: Due to Captain Lhurgoyf's inspiration from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', many of the characters parallel members of its cast. For example, Iji is Simon [[CompositeCharacter with some traits from Kamina, Yoko, and Nia]], and Vexorg is a cross between Viral and Cytomander. On the OriginalCharacter side, there's an Elite who dresses like Kamina and pilots a mech resembling the Gurren Lagann...
41	** Also, all the generic Assassins talk and act like the Spy from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''.
42	** Tor is ''[[BlatantLies totally not]]'' [[Series/MasterpieceTheatre Alistar Cooke]].
43	** Iji's attitude towards explosions also recalls [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Jaya Ballard.]] Given that the author's username comes from a ''Magic'' creature, this isn't that surprising.
44	** Not to mention Ron's [[spoiler:adopted]] oldest son Simon, who is a dead ringer for [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] and wields [[VideoGame/SengokuBasara Tadakatsu's]] drill-spear.
45	* CasanovaWannabe: Dan, who hits on basically any female who comes his way. He doesn't seem to have any standards on it, seeing as he's hit on his sister, an alien, and an imaginary woman. Most of the time, they want nothing to do with him.
46	** CluelessChickMagnet: Conversely, any girl that approaches ''him'' (The Gensokyans, Kelsey) finds him astoundingly attractive. He even inadvertently causes the events of Touhou 12.3 when the girls realize there literally isn't enough of him to go around, and decide to have a tournament with him as the prize.
47	* TheCassandra: [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The]] [[CrazyHomelessPeople Crazy Homeless Man]]. If anyone paid him any attention, they might have been able to defend against the Alpha Strike. Problem is, he's a homeless old man who everyone assumes is completely insane.
48	** He does survive, and spends most of the comic's events in a dumpster.
49	* CelebrityParadox: Mentioned by name. ''Everything'' relating to ''Iji'' as a game is replaced in this universe by references to ''VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden''.
50	** Culminating in the sector 9 intermission, which is about the out-of-work indie game developer Creator/DanielRemar in his quest to escape [[VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden Tales Of Game's']] shadow.
51	* ChessWithDeath: Used repeatedly and with many different deaths and different results. Most notably, during the Dead Writers' Revolt death basically has to abandon his post to deal with hundreds of people challenging him to consecutive games.
52	* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Row Row Fight The Power]] is quoted multiple times, for one. See DoNotDoThisCoolThing.
53	* CosplayOtakuGirl: ''Iosa''.
54	* CosyCatastrophe: From what we see of the survivors of the Alpha Strike (besides Iji), life is still fairly normal for most people by six months after the initial attack. Most people even are still able to live in the bombed-out ruins of their houses. Sweden even has a government intact, although that's because they had the help of Notch somehow making the physics of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' work in real life.
55	* CrossOver: With ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''
56	** MegaCrossover
57	* CurbStompBattle: Iosa the Invincible vs Iji. Before ''and'' after losing the exoskeleton.
58	* DeathIsCheap: The mechanics of the afterlife were borrowed wholesale from ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth''.
59	* DeathTakesAHoliday: Various Deaths have their hands full because of the dead writers' revolt.
60	* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: It takes a while to get to the actual game, mostly because Captain Lhurgoyf needed to finish a run-through he was already on.
61	* DoingInTheScientist: Nanotechnology and other things from the original game are still technological, but there's a ''lot'' more metaphysical weirdness going on behind the scenes. In the cases where this does affect what was in the games, the Null Driver is explained as containing a [[SealedEvilInACan sealed]] EldritchAbomination, and Sector Z is an EldritchLocation accessed through black holes.
62	* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The very reason for this adventure's existence.
63	-->''[[SelfDeprecation This is why Gurren Lagann fans should never be allowed to tell deconstructionist antiwar stories.]]''
64	** Additionally, one of the major morals of ''Iji'', in addition to WarIsHell, was inevitability and the inability of one person to change the ways of a group of people no matter how hard they tried. It ''might'' not be best suited to taking on the ethos of a series containing a song best known ([[RefrainFromAssuming if mistakenly]]) as "Row Row Fight The Power".
65	** A more subtle example is how the Alternians coming back from the dead and taking over large areas of Earth is portrayed in a positive light (in fact, out of the three alien races, they're the nicest - while the Tasen want to wipe out all life on Earth and then colonize it and the Komato want to blow the planet up, the trolls just want control over the planet) - Captain Lhurgoyf has said elsewhere on the forums that he thinks it would be cool being a troll on Alternia, and despite Andrew's [[CrapsackWorld clear intentions]], he believes that [[StrawmanHasAPoint the things the trolls do make complete sense for what they are]]. After all, when you recruit everyone on your planet to help maintain your empire, do you ''want'' to keep someone who's physically incapable of fighting around?
66	** In a subversion, Captain Lhurgoyf has made it clear that he knows perfectly well that his interpretation of the game is the complete opposite of the original intent, but he's just having fun going along with it anyway.
67	* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Vexorg Asha Surnamedoesntmatterinsten. He was named after his aunt.
68	* ExpendableClone: Ron has plenty of them. He's already gone through more than four hundred before the adventure.
69	* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: One sideplot involves a slowly-growing group of Touhou characters getting involuntarily shunted around between AlternateUniverse versions of Gensokyo, some of which greatly suffer.
70	* ExpressiveMask: The original game made extensive use of FacelessGoons, and the author didn't have any idea how he'd draw them unmasked, but needed them to show expression, so...
71	** In fact, at one point, Krotera closes his eyes...which causes his visor to narrow down to a single line.
72	* EldritchAbomination: Lots, notably Zorspoink, the Non-Euclidean Bat. And the null driver.
73	* FanonDiscontinuity: Although ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is canon to the adventure, everything after and including Tavros's death is disregarded (as well as a few plot points before that that Captain Lhurgoyf thought were bad ideas, such as the ectobiology update), as this is when Captain Lhurgoyf thought the comic had JumpedTheShark and stopped reading it.[[invoked]]
74	* FantasyKitchenSink: You've got aliens, nanotech, magic, other worlds and dimensional anomalies all at once.
75	* {{Flanderization}}: In the original game, Iosa was a relatively calculating, intelligent person who just so happened to be fanatically devoted to battle and a [[TheBerserker berserker]] in combat. In the adventure, she's basically an Angry Marine. Within the adventure, there's also Iji's relation to ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'' - originally, she was just supposed to like ''the comic'', the joke being that [[TheDitz she's too oblivious to realize]] [[MisaimedFandom it's supposed to be ironic]]) and, before the adventure was placed in the ''Homestuck'' universe, it was uncertain as to whether or not she realized it was supposed to be a ShowWithinAShow. After Dave himself started making appearances and Iji visited his blog, she ended up being a giggling fangirl who wants to bear his child.
76	* ForScience: Just about everything Ron ''does''. The sole exception being devising the plans for Iji's cybernetic enhancements, which was intended as a defense against the Tasen. Sometimes, he even ''shouts'' it.
77	* FourLinesAllWaiting: There are a ''lot'' of plotlines, and they're technically all going on at any given time. They only intersect when they happen to veer in that direction and none are allowed to seriously change the course of the "main" plotline. Virtually every update includes scenes from multiple groups who have never even met each other.
78	** The huge recap in sector 8 is 12.5 pages long in Word. It required multiple corrections due to events the author himself had forgotten about and plotlines that hadn't been revisited in a while.
79	* [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]]: With a [[Webcomic/TurnSignalsOnALandRaider "FREEM"]] sound effect.
80	* FusionDance: [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Bro]][[VideoGame/YumeNikki boa]].
81	* GameMod: The first one made since Daniel released the sources of ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'', no less! It mainly adds weapons, but also some other elements like Asha's new name.
82	* {{Gaydar}}: Andy is somehow able to "tell people's orientation by looking at them." Mostly, this was because one command had him explore the outside of the Komato base in Sector 3, and Captain Lhurgoyf liked the idea of him having a crush on Denise but knowing that he'd never get with her due to her being both a Tasen and gay.
83	* GranolaGirl: Ansaksie, ''[[VerbalTic maaaan]]''.
84	* HairTriggerTemper: Iosa.
85	* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Well, technically more like Hilariously ''Neglectful'' Childhood, but it is implied that Ron does use his children as test subjects.
86	* HotBlooded: The author has admitted that Iji here has more in common with [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simon]] than [[ReluctantWarrior her]] [[BreakTheCutie canon]] [[TheWoobie counterpart]].
87	* HulkSpeak: "CYBORG GORILLA SMAAASH PUNY SPACEMEN!"
88	* ImaginaryEnemy: Both Krotera and Vexorg create one they want to humiliate and torment (resp. named [[NameMcAdjective Stupid Idiot McMoron and Foolish Imbecile McBraindamaged]]), but those quickly turn the tables on them.
89	* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon:
90	** Dual-wielded four-barreled sawed-off imaginary phantom hammers with chainsaw lightsaber bayonets, a product of Krotera's active imagination.
91	** Foolish Imbecile [=McBraindamaged=] later gets chainsaw shotgun crutches.
92	* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Ron and Vexorg.
93	* {{Irony}}: A RunningGag in the prologue was characters denying the existence of anything that anyone who played the game would know would happen. In a meta sense, despite [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing his treatment of]] [[WarIsHell the source material]], Captain Lhurgoyf is an ActualPacifist (he just doesn't have a problem if it's not ''real'' people being hurt).
94	* KlingonPromotion: [[{{Troperiffic}} They actually call it that.]] Apparently, this is how the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (most notably Death) work.
95	* LateArrivalSpoiler: If you haven't played the game prior to reading the adventure, prepare for having a lot of plot points revealed sooner than they would be otherwise.
96	* LighterAndSofter: To the nth degree, as the comic turned the game's serious situations into silly gags.
97	* MadScientist: Iji's father Ron, complete with TheyCalledMeMad and WhosLaughingNow dialogue.
98	* ManBitesMan: Dan bites Vexorg when kidnapped, [[spoiler:Which somehow nano-enhances his teeth]].
99	** [[spoiler:TheMagicTouch: Said nano-enhanced teeth have the power to temporarily augment anything they bite with the same capabilities as nano-weapons (allowing them to damage things with nano-field shielding as though said shielding didn't exist). The first thing Dan does with this is bite his hands and punch Komato.]]
100	* ManipulativeEditing: Some times, Captain Lhurgoyf has to edit his screenshots to make them match up with the events of the story. Usually, this comes from editing the numbers on the ammunition counter, but on one occasion he recolored an Assassin to have Iji have a proper fight with Vexorg after using the Nuke in the original boss fight.
101	* MemeticBadass: reallyjoel's Dad makes a cameo fighting flying sharks with lasers on their heads over the Himalayas and Imaginary Gensokyo goes into [[AwesomenessIsVolatile Spiral Nemesis]] when Creator/ChuckNorris, Creator/MrT, UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, Vin Diesel, and [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] stop by. In-universe, [[VideoGame/HeroCore Flip Hero]] has Chuck Norris-style "facts" written about him.
102	* MisaimedFandom: In-universe, Iji thinks that ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'' is unironically hilarious. Out of universe, the author intentionally puts himself here by taking [[WarIsHell the]] [[YouBastard killer]] [[{{Deconstruction}} run]] [[BreakTheCutie of]] ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' and playing it for laughs and awesomeness.
103	* ModernMajorGeneral: Krotera. He handles his job as a military leader by being an asshole to everybody, but his imagination makes him a borderline RealityWarper.
104	* NameMcAdjective: The names Krotera and Vexorg used for their imaginary fiends: Stupid Idiot [=McMoron=] and Foolish Imbecile [=McBraindamaged=].
105	* NextSundayAD: It takes place in 2016, apparently too early for there have been no apparent technological or social innovations but just enough for Iji's lust for Dave Strider to not come across as paedophilia.
106	* NonMammalMammaries: Averted, as Captain Lhurgoyf has stated that the Tasen and Komato, who are descended from dinosaurs in this version of the story, don't have breasts. [[AllThereInTheManual This isn't mentioned aside from one note of commentary, though]].
107	* NoodleIncident: In "an epic adventure the likes of words can never describe, other than that it involved a dumpster, a ceiling fan, and ARADIA", Crabsprite ended up on earth.
108	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Invoked when Death Demonhead Mobster Kingpin, Bec Noir, Team Sleuth, and every single ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' character other than Team Sanae get into a giant battle...when we only see a reaction shot from a spectator describing how awesome it is.
109	* OneSteveLimit: Averted with General Tor and Tor Johnson.
110	* PowerCreepPowerSeep: In the game, Nanofields are supposed to be impenetrable to the majority of non-Nanoweapons. In the adventure, Dave slices countless Tasen apart with an ordinary katana. To the point where he ends up AtopAMountainOfCorpses that is apparently so tall it leaves his sword in throwing range of ''space''. If this was the original game, not only would he not be able to do anything, he'd probably be killed in seconds... Unless he was actually wielding a [[http://deusex.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon%27s_Tooth_sword_%28DX%29 Dragon's Tooth]] from ''VideoGame/DeusEx''[[note]]''[[VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar Invisible War]]'' version since it's a katana[[/note]], probably obtained through Alchemy.
111	* {{Reconstruction}}: Of the action genre.
112	-->'''Captain Lhurgoyf:''' I was looking at the original game and the people who played it, and saying, "Hey, what are you doing feeling guilty over engaging in virtual explosion-filled sci-fi combat? Have you forgotten it is AWESOME?".
113	* RuleOfCool: A not-insignificant number of reader commands were driven by this.
114	* RuleThirtyFour: Richter Belmont makes an unpleasant encounter with a werewolf porn magazine. To top it, it's in Dracula's possession.
115	* SavedByTheFans: Multiple cases. Vateilika and Yukabacera were originally going to die fighting Iji, but reader suggestions asked for them to come back. And [[spoiler:the adventure was going to follow the path where Dan dies, but giving him a DyingMomentOfAwesome with a quick HesBack moment from Iji,]] but the way things had set up by that point prevented it. [[invoked]]
116	* SchrodingersCast: The adventure features a few ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' characters and takes place 7 years afterwards, but is running at the same time. As a result, there are a few characters that died in ''Homestuck'' but are alive here, most notably [[spoiler:Bro and Crabsprite]]. There's also a note about how the ''Homestuck'' trolls all lived in the Veil until they eventually died of old age. Of course, this ''is'' a universe where DeathIsCheap.
117	* SelfDisposingVillain: [[spoiler:Iosa]].
118	* SerialEscalation: It's ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' inspired.
119	* ShoutOut (ShowWithinAShow): To ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', ''VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'', ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'', ''Comicbook/{{Doom}}'', ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Missile Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]''...
120	* ShoutOut (other): Many.
121	** At one point, Bro Strider was prompted to combine items using meat paste, like in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing''.
122	* ShonenHair: Iji's was more of WildHair in the game, but here she has it even ''before'' falling into a coma, mostly due to RuleOfFunny, recognition, and it being more fun to draw. And the adventure adheres to {{Shonen}} principles quite nicely, considering its [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann inspiration.]]
123	* SickeninglySweethearts: Denise and Katelyn, to the point where one Commander outright asks them if they ever get tired of each other. Apparently, they don't.
124	* SillinessSwitch: Forget the scrambler. Here, the switch is broken in the "ON" position.
125	* SillyReasonForWar: According to the adventure, the Tasen-Komato War started when the Komato received a message insulting them claiming to be from the Tasen [[note]]It was actually sent by Franz Harvey Wallace by accident when he picked up the Crystal Skull, as stated in ''Pulp Archaeologist Adventure''[[/note]]. Up until that point, they were allies.
126	* SpaceX: Parodied with a reference to the ''Space Geneva Convention''.
127	* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', of course, but in addition, Captain Lhurgoyf got the original idea from a MSPAFA playthrough of ''VideoGame/CaveStory''.
128	* StealthPun: Although it was unintentional on Captain Lhurgoyf's part, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armchair_General Tor is introduced reclining in a leather armchair...]]
129	* TheStoner: Dan, though we don't see him engaging in drug use very often. Also Madotsuki, by implication.
130	* StopBeingStereotypical: Daniel Remar (who is Swedish)'s response to being [[HelloInsertNameHere named]] "Sven [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Moose]][[Series/TheMuppetShow Bork]]esson."
131	* TakeThat:
132	** The [=GameBro=] review of ''VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'' contains some verbatim quotes from a Destructoid review of ''Iji'' that basically admitted to not paying any attention to the storyline. Iji brushes it off as misinformed.
133	** The fact that Vriska spends all of the trolls' meetings locked in a cage and only being let out on the battlefield, with the other trolls mentioning that the only reason they allowed her back in the first place was that they needed all the help they could get, should tell you something about how Captain Lhurgoyf feels about the character.
134	** SelfDeprecation: In the conversation between Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley over respect for the classics, they bring up the author intentionally completely missing the point of the original story.
135	* TookALevelInDumbass: Iji.
136	* TotallyRadical: Parodied with Bro. [[JiveTurkey Half of the words out of his mouth is some sort of slang from the 80s and 90s]], he wears the same Kamina shades and baseball cap, and he owns an ''even gaudier'' rapper puppet (this was before he was shown to have repaired Lil' Cal), but he's not a teenager any more.]]
137	* TrulySingleParent: Ron. Justified in that he idolises UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla and is thus celibate, but needed someone to test his experiments on and/or succeed him when he achieves world domination.
138	* TwentyFourHourArmour: The Tasen and Komato are seen wearing full armour while doing ''everything'', including eating and sleeping. See ExpressiveMask for the rationale.
139	* UnusualEuphemism: Primarily "[[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Belgium]]"
140	* WalkingShirtlessScene: Komato Assassin [[strike:Asha]] Vexorg and reallyjoel's Dad.
141	* WebcomicOfTheGame: Ayup, it's one for ''Iji''.
142	* {{Wingdinglish}}: Specifically, alien writing uses the [[VideoGame/CommanderKeen Standard Galactic Alphabet]]. With an actual font, [[BilingualBonus so you can theoretically read it if you know the code.]]
143	* WorldGoneMad: ''Yes.''
144	* ''[[WorldOfBadass Multiverse]]'' [[WorldOfBadass Of Badass]]: Everyone here is way tougher than their canon counterparts.
145	* WorstNewsJudgementEver: In the prologue, Dan goes to a news website where the front page story is "Bob Smith is a Jerk". This is because Captain Lhurgoyf couldn't find any fake news website generators that weren't supposed to be used for pranking your friends.
146	* YaoiFangirl: Iji is mentioned to ship Sweet Bro/Hella Jeff, and once attempted to send fanfiction to Dave in the past.
147	* YouBastard: [[{{Reconstruction}} Surpr]][[LighterAndSofter isingly]], this actually ''does'' show up, but not in the way one would expect. When a command calls for the last duck on Earth to explode humourously:
148	-->[[CrossesTheLineTwice Congratulations, you just laughed at the extinction of an entire species. I hope you're proud of yourself, asshole.]]
149	* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: One of the two ways to become Death (the other being [[StockQuotes inventing the atomic bomb]]).
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151	!!Tropes from the reboot, ''Alphastruck''
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153	* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Ron obviously was not a bad guy in the original game and even in the previous comic, his mad scientist persona was played for laughs. Here, he's actively working with Komato to take over what's left of the Earth.]]
154	* ArtEvolution: With a heavier emphasis on drawn panels, the art improves considerably over the course of the comic. The character's physical proportions and the coloring in particular are significantly better.
155	* TheCameo: Chuck the plant and the Crazy Homeless Guy from the original run both appear in the prologue.
156	* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Asha finds himself disturbed by how willing Ron is to use his own son as bait to capture Iji.]]
157	* {{Goth}}: Mia apparently was going through this phase just before the alien attack.
158	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After Chapter 8, Ron.]]
159	* LoserProtagonist: Iji, by her own admission, is a twenty-year-old whose best accomplishments are having only held one part-time job and getting out of bed before 9 am. The fact that Ron is homeschooling her is all that keeps from being a {{NEET}}.
160	* MagneticHero: Iji's pacifism allows her to recruit a number of allies to her cause.
161	* TruerToTheText: This version ditches all the crossover, afterlife and other added aspects to create an experience far closer to the original game.
162	* WhamShot: At the end of Sector 6, we see the Komato have an ally they didn't in the original game...[[spoiler:Ron Katakaiser, Iji's dad.]]
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