Mushroom Go
is a drawn comic based loosely on the Super Mario Bros. series.
A Toad named Go wakes up in the desert alone. He’s suffering from sunstroke and exhaustion, he can’t remember a thing, and he’s lost his hat. Just when he thinks this is the end (and on the first page, no less), he is picked up by the crew of the Chainless, the world’s only sand ship.
- Go: A Toad. His past is a mystery, even to himself. Has some magic powers, as all Toads do. Does most of the narrating.
The Team consists of
- Captain Martello: A female Koopa. The Captain and resident mechanic
- McCoy: A Raven, and Martello’s Second in Command.
- Palma: A Pianta, the youngest member of the Crew.
- Guy: A Shyguy. Despite his appearance, he’s the weakest fighter in the crew, and kind of a softy. (not that you should mess with him!) Does most of the household tasks around the Chainless.
Has unfortunately been put on permanent hiatus. However, an outline on how the plot would probably played out is on the main page and a group of commenters will be collaborating on a comic that takes place in the same universe.
This Web Comic provides examples of:
- BFG: Martello carries a Bullet Bill cannon as a sidearm.
- Berserk Button: Don't suggest that Palma is weak for a Pianta.
- Big Brother Instinct: McCoy, towards Guy:McCoy: (to Guy) But if you need like, a cool big brother type... I guess I don't mind you following me.
- Meaningful Name: Go. Aside from its connotation as a verb, it's also the Japanese number five—with Go being the fifth member of the Chainless. Also Martello.
- Also worth noting that "Martello" is Italian for "hammer." Guess what Captain Martello's favorite melee weapon is.
- No Name Given: Technically Guy, whose real name is unknown.
- Original Flavour: Despite having a slightly more serious tone, this world seems very familiar.
- Personality Powers: Inverted. Go's attitude changes depending on what kind of magic he's using. So, a fire flower makes him more reckless and hot-headed.
- PiratesMcCoy: What we do encompasses a great deal, really. Looting desert-side cities, treasure hunting and old fashioned grave robbery…
- Pirate Girl: Martello is actually the captain of her ship. There's also Palma, who acts more like she's just along for the ride.
- Sand Is Water: Justified. The Chainless handles well on quicksand but not on the regular stuff, and seems to be the only vessel capable of doing so.
- Sigil Spam: The mascot/logo of the Chainless, as seen aboard the ship and on Martello's belt buckle, is a green eyed Chomp. With no chain, of course.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: McCoy has worn a shirt exactly once, and it was open.
Boarding the Chainless contains examples of:
- Contrived Coincidence: The The Fire Flower, had it not been there, would not have saved Go.
Piranha Plant Laboratory contains examples of:
- A God Am I: Thrive:
I am more than a single creature, you see. I am order in its purest form. I am true harmony's product. I have watched this world in patience, in silence since before you beasts fumbled into your existence. I am creation. I am eternity. I am every flower, every tree, every blade of grass united. But for you primitive animals, requiring a guttural sound to be tied to every entity... You may call me Thrive - Badass Boast: *AHEM* "Sir, you seem to think you can take a person's lighter without winning it in a stupid bet first. Do you see this cigarette? I pulled this cigarette out of a dead guy's pocket. It's not even a brand I like. I smoke Reznor Reds, and this —Trust Me— is no Reznor Red. But I'm going to smoke it anyway, and you, you big jackass, you have what may well be the only lighter in this entire stupid building. Not just any lighter, but my lighter. Now, one way or another, I am going to smoke this cigarette and I am going to enjoy every awful second of it. So come on, let's do this."
- Flashback: Palma's/Roxette's memories of how she became so intelligent.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Put... Guy... Down!
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Schedule Slip: from Saturday and Tuesday to just Saturday, and then to Saturday and Wednesday. - Shut Up, Hannibal!: Last time? Last time the room wasn't filling with a highly flammable herbicide, you rambling twit.
- Skewed Priorities: McCoy.McCoy: "Help me search these bodies for cigarettes."
- Stepford Smiler: McCoy without his cigarettes. Being McCoy, he lampshades this.
- Sympathy for the Devil: Palma's speech to Thrive evokes this.
- Willing Channeler: What Thrive tried to get Palma to submit to, though he actually wanted to turn her into a Living Bodysuit.
At Twisters Borough contains examples of:
- Arson Murder And Jay WalkingThe Sheriff: I'm placing you under arrest for robbery, fraud, kidnapping, arson, attacking officers, indecent exposure... Anything I'm missing?
Martello: I am surprised you did not mention murder. - Bar Brawl
- Boom Town
- Breather Episode: Intentionally made to be one, but this is soon subverted.
- Cattle Punk
- Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: A side effect of fusing magic and alcohol.
- The Dreaded: The Koopas view Mario as such.
- Drowning My Sorrows
- Gayngster: Birdo (probably), and co. The other two members are a Camp Gay and a Butch Lesbian, respectively.
- Grievous Bottley Harm: How Haze knocks out Go.
- Humans Are Cthulhu: The story of an encounter with Mario makes him sound like this."Any crazy stories you've heard about him are probably true. He can break bricks with his bare hands. He can leap 30 feet into the air if he chooses not to fly."
- Implacable Man: Mario. From the Koopa side, he's a nightmarish fusion of multiple badasses all rolled together into a short, pudgy little body. Nothing can stop him.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Haze and Charlie. In fact, Haze has pink hair and Charlie wears blue clothes.
- Mook Horror Show: The flashback with Martello’s father shows Mario like this. He's seen (by the Koopas at least) as an unstoppable force of nature that can wipe out whole ships worth of elite troops.
- Noodle Incident: A couple times.Go: And that's why I don't eat the mega mushrooms any more.
McCoy: Indecent exposure? When did that happen? . . . Wait, yeah. Nevermind. I'd arrest me for that, too. - One-Man Army: Mario. He's considered the Mushroom Kingdom's real army. Look down to Shrouded in Myth and you'll start to see why. The fact that he can fly, throw fireballs, and perform feats of strength and agility no other mortal being can match may explain it.
- Shout-Out: Those crates look awfully familiar.
- Shrouded in Myth: Mario himself. "Any crazy stories you've heard about him are probably true. He breaks bricks with his bare hands. He can leap 30 feet in the air when he chooses not to fly. Some even claim that he's not a Toad at all—that he's somethin' else, somethin' from beyond." The fact that we know these stories are true only makes Mario viewed from the Koopa standpoint all the more terrifying.
- Wretched Hive
Bob-omb Battlefield contains examples of:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Pink Bob-Ombs are a pacifist variation. They can comprehend nonexistance, and therefore are afraid to detonate, leading to their desertion.
- Art Shift: Drastically in
page 79, less drastically in page 80 following the fan outcry the previous update. - Body Horror: When we see what happens to those poor souls captured by Smithy's minions.
- Not to mention what happens to Go when he taps into an unfamiliar Vim.
- Cute Machines: The Bob-omb Buddies. Guy doesn't seem to think so, though.
- Cuteness Proximity: Palma's reaction to the bob-ombs.
- King Mook: Big Bob-Ombs are control units for Bob-Omb cadres. They tend to go for a royal appearance to underscore their authority.
- La Résistance
- Large and in Charge: The Big Bob-omb.
- Off with His Head!: How McCoy beats the Big Bob-omb.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: The Big Bob-omb is a southern royal robot explosive.
- Rapid-Fire "No!": Martello in page 96, although subverted, since the end of the comic cuts her off.
- Suddenly Voiced: Guy begs 5Q15H-13 not to detonate himself.
- Troubled Fetal Position/Cower Power: Guy's reaction to the "automatons".
- Unwilling Roboticisation: The fate of Guy's tribe once the Smithy Invasion starts.
- Wrestler in All of Us: The Big Bob-omb.
Battle at Pokeyhead contains examples of:
- Art Shift: Right back to the original artist.
- Now, after being brought back from the dead, it has a new artist: The Dand Mom
- Now, after being
- Back from the Dead: The Big Bob-omb, now calling himself Shrapnel.
- Sherlock Scan: Martello mixes this with I Shall Taunt You to win against Fabes
- Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Detective Fabes, though his information might be erroneous.
The final notes contain examples of:
- And the Adventure Continues: The comic would have ended with the crew building a starship and travelling in space.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Go, after grabbing a Power Star as a last resort.
- Battle in the Center of the Mind: In Go's mind, against Thrive.
- Samus Is a Girl: Guy is female underneath her mask.
