YMMV / Megg, Mogg and Owl

• Adaptation Displacement: The characters are based on the Meg and Mog cast, which has since faded into obscurity in comparison to this comic.
• Jerkass Woobie: Diesel and Jaxon are constantly acting out in destructive ways. However, it's clear that they're like that because of Werewolf Jones' parenting (or lack thereof).
  • Jaxon in particular is often seen trying to get his dad's attention. Considering that Jones admitted he doesn't love Jaxon as much, the pup's behavior takes on a sad undertone. Jaxon has never known any genuine affection from his negligent, deadbeat father. This becomes a plot point in "Crisis Zone," where Jaxon (who's shown to be kinder and more thoughtful than he lets on in earlier strips) befriends Owl and starts to see him as a surrogate father figure.
• Memetic Mutation: A panel of Werewolf Jones saying "I'm going to make this weird" has achieved some popularity as a reaction image.
  • "Owl's Room," also known as the strip where Megg and Mogg write variations of movie titles including the word "rape" all over Owl's room. The panel of Mogg holding a "rape-scented" candle was even made into a banner on 4chan.
• Moral Event Horizon
  • Megg, Mogg and Werewolf Jones beat up Owl, and WWJ and Mogg sexually assault him as a "Prank", while Megg watches. On his birthday. It's the thing that finally drives Owl to realize his "friends" honestly don't care about him and move out.
  • Another candidate for Werewolf Jones crossing this is in Below Ambition, where he defaces another band's CD stand, and to avoid getting beat up by an angry band-mate, frames a random kid, which would be bad enough considering the kid could get killed, but he also hallucinated said kid to be his own son Jaxon and still framed him anyway. We never find out what happened to the kid after he's dragged off by the band-mate...
• Nausea Fuel: The gross-out gags get insanely graphic, with the characters pissing, puking, crapping and jizzing all over the place with less and less censorship every time; culminating with Below Ambition showing Megg getting the actual shit fucked out of her - literally, completely uncensored, twice.
• Nightmare Fuel
  • In "Last Resort," Megg and Mogg go to a shady drug dealer's house to buy weed. The dealers in question immediately come across as hostile weirdos, which only worsens when they demand that Megg expose herself before they sell to her. The whole exchange is tangibly uncomfortable, not the least of which because one of the dealers is a giant, realistically drawn tarantula. It perfectly captures what it's like visiting a scuzzy trap house full of malevolent drug fiends.
  • As outlandish as a lot of Werewolf Jones' behavior is, it has an underlying realness that makes it creepily believable. Obviously, the more cartoonish stuff like the ram raids and the felt hat business are purely in the realm of fiction, but his explosive anger, manipulative tendencies, casual cruelty, and thirst for validation all make him come across as realistically psychotic. It can hit close to home for anyone who's spent a sufficient amount of time around stoners and outcasts. There are real-life monsters who are like him, even if only in the broader strokes. Jones can be thought of as a sort of amalgamation of all the disgusting, amoral psychos you've ever met at parties.
  • Many of the horrible, bizarre things that happen in the titular characters' lives are based on Simon Hanselmann's own life experiences... including Owl being sexually assaulted as a prank.
• Parody Displacement: The comic is now better known in many circles than the original Meg and Mog books that it parodies.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: As vile and monstrous as Werewolf Jones is, there are numerous strips that show the pathetic reality of his existence. He lives in a filthy, cluttered house, he's almost middle-aged but has done nothing with his life except party, the friends that haven't abandoned him yet rightfully hate him, and he continually tries (and fails) to get rich from his felt hat business. Beneath his outrageous behavior and happy-go-lucky demeanor, he's a broken shell of a (wolf)man. He's vaguely cognizant of how horrible his life is and how he's failed at being a good friend and father (such as during "Worst Behavior," when he candidly reveals that he doesn't enjoy being alive). Word of God says that his underlying motivation for all the evil he does is a desire to be loved, suggesting he had the same upbringing his own kids are experiencing. He's far from sympathetic, but he's pitiful in the same way that you'd feel pity for a rabid dog.