Play Nintendo Comics are promotional gag webcomics by Nintendo for their games and published on their children's site Play Nintendo. More recent comics can be viewed here
, while older comics have been removed and are archived on the Wayback Machine.
Games featured:
- Animal Crossing series:
- Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, in addition to its amiibo cards
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- BoxBoy! series:
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
- Dillon's Dead Heat Breakers
- Ever Oasis
- Kirby and the Rainbow Curse Presents
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D
- Pokémon Unite (also available on the Pokémon Unite website)
- Rhythm Heaven Megamix
- Star Fox Zero
- Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido
Play Nintendo Comics provides examples of:
- All Just a Dream: At the end of "Wingo Showdown", it's revealed Captain Toad was sleeping.
- Art Shift: In "So Pretty", the Grab Hand has an instant Animesque makeover done by Elline.
- Black Comedy: In "Give It to Me", Shep tries to persuade Eglantine to give her egg away for cooking. Eglantine ominously warns Shep if he tries to take the egg, his "screams shall heard in kitchens across the worlds".
- Blank White Eyes:
- When Elline's trail is mistaken for poop, she has these.
- This happens when Qbby freaks somebody out.
- Blue with Shock: An unfortunate customer has one of these when she finds a hair in her food.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: The second part of Link's Hijinks has Tatl tell the reader that only you can save the world because Link's too lazy to.
- Catching Some Z's: When Captain Toad sleeps, he has Z's come from him.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: When humans speculate what Martians look like, one person suggests that they look like jellyfish before being shrugged off. He was right.
- Crossover Punchline: Being a Nintendo comic featuring multiple different franchises, this naturally happens.
- "Saved by the Rainbow" starts with Elline saving Kirby, before revealing she was saving him from a Ring Out in a match of Super Smash Bros..
- In "Evening Out", Kirby dresses and speaks like an Italian chef, which Bandanna Waddle Dee mistakes for Mario.
- "Saved by the Rainbow
- Cross-Popping Veins:
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The Captain Toad comics are made from screenshots of the game, though all future comics are drawn. When they made more Captain Toad comics to tie in with the Nintendo Switch / 3DS rerelease, they went back to this format.
- Fireball Eyeballs: This happens in "Give it to me!" when a character wants to cook.
- Idea Bulb: An enemy has one in "Quick Thinking".
- Instant Cosplay Surprise: Elline gives the Grab Hand an instant fabulous makeover.
- It Amused Me: Claycia apparently ripped a hole in space and time "just because".
- Lazy Bum: Link. Playing video games is more important to him than Saving the World.
- Literal Cliff Hanger: Elline saves Kirby just in time with her rainbow trail as he's falling.
- Mood Whiplash: This comic goes from lightheartedness to disturbing threats.
- Pun: Captain Toad says he "makes a splash" after falling into some water.
- Reality Is Unrealistic: Humans predict that Martians will look like typical aliens, but the one person that thinks they look like jellyfish gets shrugged off and turns out to be right.
- Rebus Bubble: Link, when he has the bright idea to use the Ocarina of Time to play his games forever.
- Skewed Priorities: Link is more focused on video games than being hero.
- Sprite Comic: The early Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker comics were mostly screenshots of the game with dialogue added.
- Straight Man: Tatl is this to Link, trying to get him to actually do what he's supposed to be doing.
- Strip Archive: There's one here.
- Suddenly Speaking: Link. He doesn't have dialogue in his home series, but he does here.
- Sweat Drop:
- Elline has one of these when she tries to get Kirby to not be lazy.
- Elline has one when Claycia tries on sunglasses.
- Tatl, when Link is distracted from doing his heroic duties. She has even more
- Link has one when he realizes that his mask lets him hold a boulder with one hand.
- Elline has one of these
- To Be Continued: In the first part of "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Hijinks".
- Toilet Humor: A Cappy and a Waddle Doo mistake Elline's trail for rainbow poop; cue her Blank White Eyes and Cross-Popping Veins.
- Too Dumb to Live: Toadette happily decides to bring a large group of dangerous Mud Troopers to Toad.
- Visible Silence: When Slippy's child photo is shown, this "..." is the only reaction.
- V-Sign: Elline does this when introducing herself.
- Wingdinglish: According to "Language", this is how aliens speak.
