YMMV / Romantically Apocalyptic

• Awesome Art: Comic is made with original photography shot in abandoned places around the planet, digital painting in Photoshop, 3d modeling in blender and 3d fractals.
• Crazy Is Cool:
  • Don't give The Captain a reason to storm your base. Really, just don't.
  • Pilot. When The Captain gives him the order to attack, he immediately charges The Cancer with nothing but a katana.
• Estrogen Brigade:
  • Mr. Snippy has quite a lively following, to say the least. Probably due to a combination of Ho Yay, his Dark and Troubled Past, and the fact that he's the Only Sane Man, the Chew Toy, and The Woobie.
  • His tumblr certainly doesn't do much to abate it, though the person who operates has said she will no longer be drawing Original Characters with Snippy on tumblr. Why? Case in point: "There are quite a few OCs who are... rather infatuated with Snippy, and as cute as that is, this is not the place for that."
  • Acknowledged here:
    Facebook User: Hey, Charles. I think your fangirl following may have just completely skyrocketed after seeing you with your mask off. Thoughts?
    Mr. Snippy: If they *Squee*, I quit.
• Growing the Beard: The comic got off to a strong start, with hilarious comedy and beautiful artwork, but the alien arc and the appearance of the Biomatrix result in the comic improving immensely; the characters were given more depth with Snippy going from a bland straight man to a far more interesting badass Iron Woobie, the comic gained long-running story arcs, and the artwork somehow got even better.
• Ho Yay:
  • The Captain and the Pilot enjoy giving each other piggy back rides and reenacting romantic scenes from Titanic (1997) together.
  • Captain to Snippy: "So, what are you wearing?"
  • It should be noted that there's no way of knowing if any of these examples really qualify as Ho Yay, since Zee Captain is Ambiguously Gendered throughout, and though Pilot, Engi and Snippy are revealed to be male, at first they are also ambiguous.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Like Snippy was really going to die from getting impaled and absorbed by The Cancer.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • A few instances, despite the comic's humor. Among them are the... thing in the second panel of this strip, and the monster that inadvertently rescues Sniper and chases him across the city.
  • Sniper gets a big dose of this when he's embedded in the belly of a giant spider-beast, which is made up of other living bodies and skeletons, all embedded together in a scene out of Dante's Inferno. Oh, and the spider-beast screws with his mind as well.
  • Pilot's journals defeat any notions of Obfuscating Stupidity and demonstrate just how truly insane and unstable he is, in a rather chilling fashion. It doesn't help at all that they're written in all caps.
  THE CITY OF THE DEAD IS MY HOME. THE DEAD LIKE TO PLAY GAMES AND TALK TO ME, BUT THEY AREN'T VERY INTERACTIVE, UNLESS PROVOKED. IF YOU LOOK FROM THE CORNER OF YOUR EYE, YOU CAN SEE THEM MOVE.
  • This puts his interactions with skeletons in a whole new light. Especially after you read this.
  • It turns out that Sniper's mask and clothes are fused to his skin.
  • The creature that is Zee Captain.
• Tearjerker:
  • Pilot trying to rescue Snippy from a tidal wave caused by ANNET would be heartwarming... if Pilot hadn't killed Snippy before reverting to his amnesiac self moments before, and wasn't totally oblivious to it.

    Pilot: I won't let you go... my friend.

  • #195 tells the origin of Jenkins Klauss, the monstrous bellhop of the hotel Captain and his crew stay in after the city is destroyed. Before the apocalypse, Klauss adopted the last bee, only to let it escape when he thought it was worthless. Then he realized that the bee would sell for tons of money, and started pursuing it, even shoving Snippy, who was looking at the bee curiously, out of the way to get it (he failed). Eventually, he hired a pre-amnesia Pilot to track it down, which resulted in Klauss discovering the bee had landed in Engineer. Engineer, being allergic to bees, threw it in the incinerator just as Klauss arrived in his office; an enraged Klauss punched him out, and Engineer, in one of his usual fits of paranoia, concluded he was an assassin and had him turned into a DEX, stripping away his memories and sending him to work as a bellhop at the hotel. After the apocalypse, Klauss mutated and regained his memories; when Captain and his crew arrive, an Older and Wiser Klauss tries to apologize to them, but it proves pointless, since Pilot is too far gone to know what he's talking about, Snippy can't understand him, and Engineer's mind is currently trapped somewhere else.
• The Woobie:
  • Sniper. Bad things continuously happen to him, and his "only friend" is kind of a jerk. The fact that Word of God states he's actually a nice guy makes it even worse. His waking life was made difficult when the Good Directorate copyrighted sleep.
    From the forum's character thread: "He's the intelligent, kind, yet highly unlucky character in the series. He questions the captain's motives, but still follows him, having no belief in anything else."
  • Iron Woobie: Snippy remains (probably) the Only Sane Man and a complete badass no matter how much crap the world throws at him.

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