Webcomic / iToons

iToons is a spin-off of Square Root of Minus Garfield, started in June 2015. Basically, it takes the idea of "anything goes" Remix Comics that Square Root of Minus Garfield made famous and applies it to almost any newspaper or webcomic out there. Originally hosted on Blogger, it joined SRoMG on mezzacotta in late 2015.

The only comics off limits from remixing:

• Garfield (obviously)
• Prior to its integration into mezzacotta, edits based on Irregular Webcomic! or any of mezzacotta's features were also off limits (so as to avoid offending the Comics Irregulars, whom iToons' creator is on good terms with).

Dinosaur Comics used to be off-limits as well; due to its "same artwork every strip" gimmick, only rewrites were thought possible, and The Dinosaur Whiteboard already fulfills that purpose. After a user demonstrated other ways to edit Dinosaur Comics, this restriction was lifted.

List of tropes used:

• Aerith and Bob: This comic takes off from an original Peanuts in which the "Aerith" names were mostly preppy names.
• Adaptational Alternate Ending: How The Jungle Book Should Have Ended applies this to The Jungle Book (1967), depicting an alternate ending wherein Mowgli stays in the jungle instead of settling in the Man-Village.
• Bait-and-Switch: The description of Red Spiders 3, wherein a man is startled by two very large "red spiders", one of which clearly painted itself red.
  This actually happened to me once. It was pretty awful. I'm glad I kept the paint out of my eyes.
• Call-Back: This comic ends with a cameo from Orlando Bloom, who previously appeared in this rather strange one.
• Cut and Paste Comic:
  • Repetition is sort of self-explanatory.
  • We're an Individual, as well.
  • I should come up with a good title has Fritzi conclude that she should "copy and paste less".
  • Taking Xeroxing pretty seriously, which does this a Calvin and Hobbes strip about "Xeroxed talking heads".
• Digital Bikini:
  • Parodied in "I See Cleo...", which thus destroys the original strip's joke.
  • Inverted in "Grin and Bare It", which redraws Imy's one-piece swimsuit into a bikini
• Formula-Breaking Episode: "How The Jungle Book Should Have Ended" and "Wronger Lever" do not use a comic strip as a base source and instead use animated movies as their respective sources (The Jungle Book (1967) and The Emperor's New Groove respectively), with edited movie screencaps arranged into a comic strip format.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: Role With The Punches changes the punchline of a Calvin and Hobbes comic so that it ends with the reveal that Calvin and Hobbes have switched bodies.
• Giant Spider: The two spiders in Red Spiders 3, with a stick figure for comparison. One is merely a bit taller than the stick figure; the other is, according to the transcript, the size of a house.
• Hurricane of Puns: "Nori-cane of Puns" adds three curtain-based puns to Nori's original one. Appropriately, the strip title is a pun on the trope name.
• iProduct: In this case, it's both a pun on iTunes and a math reference (the "i" stands for imaginary numbers - which fits, given that these are imaginary comic strips).
• Made of Explodium: Charlie Brown, apparently.
  I would explode if I was Charlie Brown!
• Makes Just as Much Sense in Context: "Orlando Bloom?!" (Even the transcript is bewildered.)
• Pokémon Speak: "Cathymon" edits a Cathy comic so that Cathy only speaks in "AACK!", including the author notes.
• Pun-Based Title: See iProduct above.
• Shout-Out: It's a spinoff of the Reference Overdosed Square Root of Minus Garfield, goes without saying. See the Shout Out page.
• Song Parody: Sam Petty and the Helixbreakers has Sam and Helix sing one of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "Free Fallin'" as a Stealth Pun on the title of the source comic.
• Spin-Off: From Square Root of Minus Garfield, natch.
• Stealth Pun: Sam Petty and the Helixbreakers has Sam and Helix make one by singing a Song Parody of "Free Fallin'".
• Take That!: Also common, in SRoMG tradition. See the Take That page.
• Toilet Humour:
  • This strip is pretty self-explanatory.
  • This one, even more so.
• Translation Convention: Loss of Communication implies the possibility of this in any furry-based work by showing a Cloudscratcher comic, before being translated from Cattish (and Doggish for that one line).
• Translation Train Wreck: "This is America" takes a U.S. Acres comic and runs all the dialogue through Yandex Translate.
• Vaudeville Hook: "Relaxing Plops" would be a good name for a laxative describes this happening to the author in the author's note, due to their making a pun based on the contents of the strip.
  KelpTheGreat: I'm sorry, guys, I know you deserve better than this. I tried my best on this, but this comic is just crap.
  
  A large cane mysteriously appears to the author's left, which hooks around his torso and whisks him away, vaudeville-style
• We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: Emoji of the Ci--, wherein Heart's use of a poop emoji causes the strip to crash ^note referencing two SRoMG strips that had their scripts broken after emojis were inserted.
• Word-Salad Humor: A handful of comics involve the dialogue in the edited comic being edited to say off-the-wall and nonsensical things, often with surreal visual edits to go with them, creating what seems to be the closest thing one could get to a print version of a YouTube Poop. Some comics in this vein include "Can You Geggs?!" (a Buttersafe edit), "The Croquet Game" (a Peanuts edit), and "Lubberly Glaums: Fiddlesticks" (an edit of mezzacotta's own Awkward Fumbles), the last of which coins the term "geggslike" (in reference to "Can You Geggs?!") to refer to surreal comic edits like these.

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