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Chase Connors. Power: Having moxie.
Created by some artist cough, Scott, cough, Nerf This
follows the adventures of the aggressively stylish Chase Connors, his horribly adorable pet monster Monty and their group of oddball friends. Updating Monday. Wednesday and Friday, this Webcomic has been running since March 2009. Sadly, the comic stopped updating in 2017 and as of 2021, the site no longer exists.
The series is notable for its Mundane Fantastic universe and its later strips being more plot oriented as opposed to a joke-per-strip comic.
Not to be confused with Nerf NOW!! (a gaming comic).
Nerf This contains examples of:
- Abandoned Info Page: The cast page is a few story arcs behind and missing several main characters.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Taryn's mother, Destiny, may or may not actually be the universal force known as destiny.
- Art Evolution: Later comics are noticeably sharper and more detailed than the earlier comics.
- Beta Couple: Tony and Steph, engaged almost from the get-go.
- Beware the Silly Ones: You do not want to make Chase Connors angry.
- Bifauxnen: Taryn's friend Aiden gets confused for a guy by multiple characters.
- Birds of a Feather: Taryn and Chase, so alike it's creepy.
- Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Averted, Chase is often at his worst with Taryn, even when they first meet.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Snarky, Taryn's pet, hasn't been seen for a while.
- Referenced, then averted.
- Though the koalas haven't shown up for a while either...
- Disney Death: Chase during Tony's wedding.
- Also, Monty during the rescue from the carnival. Chase goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge for him.
- Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: And how, poor Chase is usually the one to end up duct taped in a carboot.
- Dysfunctional Family: Zoey's 20-year game of hide-and-seek with her father.
- After his 12th marriage, Chase's dad stopped buying wedding rings instead opting for pregnancy tests.
- Eyes Always Shut: Destiny in half her appearances thus far.
- Fun Personified: Chase's happy-go lucky nature means he's usually up for anything.
- Gentleman Adventurer: a core concept of the comic, most easily seen in Taryn's father, a member of the Killing Things with Their Bare Hands Club. They have T-shirts.
- Henpecked Husband: While Taryn's father may be a walking embodiment of manly manliness, his wife wears the pants in the house.
- High-Class Glass: Chase at one point dons a tophat, fancy mustache and two monocles. So does his girlfriend.
- I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: The first of many, when Chase and Taryn meet.
- Nonaction Guy: Both Chase and Tony, although Chase does have his moments. Tonys dad.
- Official Couple: Chase and Taryn, Tony and Steph.
- Older Than They Look: Nergil says that he's "Old as balls."
- The Pollyanna: Chase.
- A Real Man Is a Killer: Almost a word for word quote:Taryn's Father: A man's hands aren't meant for hugging. They're meant for killing.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Chase and Tony, most easily seen when they were children.
- Smug Snake: Destiny Mills
- Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: Literally, Taryn's monster is called Snarky.
- Stalker with a Crush: Taryn's friend Zoey is this to Chase.
- Testosterone Poisoning: Taryn's Dad, natch. Killed 50 bears and has a Ragestache capable of inducing puberty.
- Wham Line: I am Nergil Pendleton, The greatest wizard who has ever lived!
