Line #54 Webcomic/PolcompBall


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2	[[caption-width-right:200:There's an ideology for anyone here. [[note]]Left to right, top to bottom: [[BombThrowingAnarchist Anarcho-Communism]], [[ChummyCommies Democratic Socialism]], [[CommieNazis Strasserism, National Bolshevism]], Falangism, [[ThoseWackyNazis National Socialism]], [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinism]], Communalism, [[EagleLand Neoliberalism]], [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour INGSOC]], [[HiveMind Hive Mind Collectivism]], [[EmperorScientist Technocracy]], Mutualism, National Capitalism, [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety Libertarianism]], [[{{Ubermensch}} Avaritionism]], [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety Anarcho-Capitalism]], Authoritarian Capitalism, Georgism, Geolibertarianism, [[TheDitz Kakistocracy]], [[EcoTerrorist Eco-Fascism]], [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs Soulism]], [[ContemporaryCaveman Anarcho-Primitivism]], [[OneNationUnderCopyright Corporatocracy]], [[ItsAllAboutMe Anarcho-Egiosm]], Liberalism, [[WarHawk Neoconservatism]], Minarchism, [[MightMakesRight Kraterocracy]], Paleolibertarainism, [[RoyaltyAndNobilityTropes Monarchism]], [[ActualPacifist Anarcho-Pacifism]], [[TrueNeutral Apoliticism]], [[GrayAndGrayInsanity Horseshoe Centrism]], [[{{Cyborg}} Transhumanism]], [[StrawNihilist Anarcho-Nihilism]], [[AnarchyIsChaos Mother Anarchy]], Fascism, [[{{Ghostapo}} Esoteric Fascism]] [[/note]] ]]
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4	Polcompball is a series of user-generated comics about spherical representations of Political ideologies heavily inspired by Webcomic/{{Polandball}} used to satirize political events and online political discourse.
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6	The series has primarily a following on Website/{{Reddit}}.
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8	[[http://www.reddit.com/r/polcompball/ Examples can be read here]]
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10	!!List of tropes:
11	* AIIsACrapshoot: Posthumanism wants nothing more than to get rid of all humanity and replace them with robots.
12	* AllThereInTheManual: The Polcompball Wiki contains much of the lore behind the series.
13	* AllIssuesArePoliticalIssues: Some comics get involved which are barely political.
14	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The resident off-compass libertarian left ball Soulism's ultimate goal is to liberate themselves from not just capitalism and the state but the very laws of reality. Their solutions include TheSingularity, esoteric studies, LotusEaterMachine, and HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs. [[TheStoner Especially drugs.]]
15	* AssimilationPlot: Hive-Mind Collectivism is an off-compass [=AuthLeft=] ball that takes communist-style collectivism to its LogicalExtreme, with it wanting to assimilate everyone into its HiveMind, turning them into it in the process.
16	* BodyHorror: Titoism is almost always depicted CoveredWithScars or even worse, openly wounded [[ChestBurster with ex-Yugoslav countryballs popping out of his wounds.]]
17	* BigBrotherIsWatching: [=IngSoc=] in comics is always portrayed in this manner.
18	* BombThrowingAnarchists: Mother Anarchy and Ancom will generally be seen with a Molotov, Ancap with a nuclear variant.
19	* BrokeTheRatingScale: In a meta-sense, Off-Compass Ideology Balls fall under this trope, considering they are so politically extreme, that they're generally off the political compass. Examples include Hive-Mind Collectivism, [=IngSoc=], Kraterocracy, Communalism, Social Darwinism, Soulism, Egoism, and Avaritionism.
20	* CommanderContrarian: Contrarianism is a ball whose only personality is opposing the status quo of whatever country it's in.
21	* CommieNazis: Any ideology that combines extreme socialist economics with ultranationalist social views, but especially National Bolshevism and Strasserism.
22	* ContemporaryCaveman: Anarcho-Primitivism is usually portrayed like this, as he represents an ideology that rejects the agricultural revolution.
23	* {{Cyborg}}: Transhumanism within comics is usually portrayed as some form of cyborg as can be seen with his vizor.
24	* TheDitz: Kakistocracy represents the "rule of the worst", and as such is usually portrayed as an idiotic child who speaks with a combination of ElmuhFuddSyndwome and [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Temmie dialect]].
25	* EatTheRich: Often used by left-wing ideologies, plays in food-related jokes.
26	* {{Eagleland}}: American Model is the representation of the general "American" ideology, and is mostly the Boorish type, similar to Polandball USA.
27	* EcocidalAntagonist: Climate Skepticism is portrayed as a nature-hating strawman who likes burning down forests and polluting as much as possible.
28	* EcoTerrorist: Radical Environmentalism, Eco-Authoritarianism, and Eco-Fascism are portrayed as using extreme methods to save the planet. Eco-Fascism, fittingly, will even go as far as using solar-powered gas chambers to [[FinalSolution round up everyone who dares desecrate Mother Earth and kill them all]].
29	* EldritchAbomination:
30	** Senatorialism is an off-compass ideology with tentacles and nobody, including itself, knows what he stands for.
31	** Hive-Mind Collectivism is depicted as TheAssimilator, with three eyes and the ability to devour other balls.
32	* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Kakistocracy, being depicted as a child to better symbolize his stupidity, speaks in this manner in comics.
33	* FictionalPoliticalParty: Not Political Parties per se, but polcompball has made a couple of fictional ideologies to be used in comics, for example, Anarcho-Frontierism and Communalism (not the bookchin type).
34	* GayConservative: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Homoconservatism]]. There's also Homofascism, its more extreme variant, which is basically just fascism but with LGBT thrown into the mix.
35	* HiveMind: Hive Mind Collectivism the ball representing Authoritarian Left taken beyond the realms of the reasonable portrays this trope.
36	* TheHorseshoeEffect: Horseshoe Centrism is used to mock the followers of this line of thought, with him seeing the complete opposites such as Anarcho-Capitalism and Marxism-Leninism as the same.
37	* ItsAllAboutMe: Egoism and its subtypes, such as Soulism and Avaritionism are a representation of this trope. Egoism is mostly apathetic to anything that doesn't directly concern them, while Avaritionism is closer to the classic [[TheSociopath sociopathic type]]. Soulism is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} just plain weird.]]
38	* TheNecrocracy: Necrocracy. In addition to the stereotypical "rule by the undead" concept, it is also sometimes used to refer to ceremonial variants such as Kim Il-Sung's position as "Eternal President" of UsefulNotes/NorthKorea.
39	* MassiveNumberedSiblings: All Anarchist Ideologies are either children or grandchildren of Anarchism, which is portrayed as a mother as a reference to the song "Mother Anarchy Loves Her Sons". Due to there being a lot of variants of anarchism and that new variants of anarchism are easy to make, it results in a rather large family.
40	* MightMakesRight: Kraterocracy believes that the strong should subjugate the weak.
41	* MotorMouth: Accelerationism talks like this.
42	* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Certain ideologies in the Authoritarian Right will be portrayed like this, eg. White Nationalism and Alt-Right.
43	* NaziSuperScience: National Transhumanism is often used to portray this trope.
44	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Most balls follow the standard "ball with two eyes" pattern, but quite a few have unorthodox traits. For example:
45	** INGSOC, Post-Anarchism, and Cultism each have a single eye, and they are the only ones with pupils.
46	** Liquid Democracy is a literal liquid and has to be contained in a bottle or cup.
47	** Zionism and other Jewish/Israeli ideologies are represented as cubes, a reference to Webcomic/{{Polandball}}'s Ziocube.
48	** Demarchy is the only cube-shaped Polcompball that isn't associated with Zionism/Jewishness, being drawn as a literal dice.
49	** Apoliticism and Marxism are the only Polcompballs with hair drawn on them.
50	* NuclearOption: Posadism wants to eliminate Capitalism with nuclear war, then rebuild society into a utopia with the help of socialist aliens.
51	* {{Ouroboros}}: Used within the comics as the symbol for Circulus theory.
52	* OneNationUnderCopyright: Corporatocracy is a ball used to represent the concept.
53	* PatrioticFervor: Nationalism can represent both favors, with Ultranationalism being mostly the bad variety and Patriotism being mostly the good variety.
54	* PoliticalOvercorrectness: State Liberalism and Revolutionary Progressivism seek to enforce political correctness on the world through violent means.
55	* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: Anarcho-Capitalism and ideologies related to it (like Hoppeanism) are used to represent this trope.
56	* PlagueMaster: Bio-Posadism intentionally spreads diseases in an attempt to collapse capitalism.
57	* ReallyGetsAround: Mother Anarchy is depicted as an extremely promiscuous character, with her having sex with basically every other ball. This is done to justify the [[MassivelyNumberedSiblings the massive number of children in the form of subideologies she has]].
58	* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Many of the most "evil" ideologies are usually red symbols on black backgrounds. These include [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinism]], [[EvilutionaryBiologist Eugenicism]], [[PatrioticFervour Ultranationalism]] and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Welfare Chauvinism]]. Authoritarian examples overlap with RedAndBlackTotalitarianism as well.
59	* StrawCharacter: Pretty much every ball has been used this way. Exactly which ball is "right" and which one is "wrong" [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the writer]].
60	* TheTheocracy: Predictably features theocracies for just about every religion you can name, including Christian Theocracy, Islamic Theocracy, Jewish Theocracy, Buddhist Theocracy, Hindu Theocracy, Sikh Theocracy, and more.
61	* ThoseWackyNazis: National Socialism of course, but also its relatives such as [[ManlyGay Homo]][[StrawMisogynist fascism]], [[{{Ghostapo}} Esoteric Fascism]], and National Capitalism.
62	* ToiletHumor: Circulus Theory lends itself to this, being based on the idea that taxes should consist of citizen's ''feces.'' [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, really.]] It's fair fertilizer, right?
63	* TotalitarianGangsterism:
64	** Kleptocracy represents the rule of criminals.
65	** There an ExaggeratedTrope version of this in the form of Avaritionism, a combination of [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety Anarcho-Capitalism]], [[ItsAllAboutMe Egoism]] and [[TheSocialDarwinist Darwinism]]. Which ends up being rule by the most brutal of criminals who subjugate and exterminate the weak by all means necessary with no state to get in their way.
66	* WarHawk: Neoconservatism and Trotskyism want to spread capitalism and socialism, respectively, by war. Posadism takes it even further with him explicitly wanting nuclear war.

Context Webcomic / PolcompBall