YMMV / Tails Gets Trolled

• Ass Pull: There are comics where the writer tries to pay off things that were not set up earlier, there are comics where the writers are clearly making it up on the fly, there are comics where the writers make things up to write themselves out of a corner, and then there are comics where the writer throws a lasso round this and rides it like a waterskiier across a lake. Tails Gets Trolled is the latter kind of comic, and it's all the more hilarious because of it.
  • Quite a few plot twists come right out of nowhere, like the revelation that the guy with no ears is a Dragonborn, or Elmer Fudd being a necromancer.
• Awesome Art:
  • Is it possible for a comic to straddle this audience reaction and its exact opposite simultaneously? Most of the comic is amateurish at best, but for MS paint webcomics, it's got some damned impressive fight scenes. The fight between Garry and Demaro, in particular, has some amazingly detailed particle effects for MS Paint.
  • The facial expressions on the characters, despite or possibly even because of the crude and Off-Model artwork, are surprisingly expressive for the medium.
  • The surprisingly emotive expressions have led to a huge amount of Memetic Mutation, with many panels being used as reaction images throughout the web.
  • Forget the "for an MS Paint webcomic" standards. The cover art◊ for Chapter 23 is awesome by anyone's standards. For a shitty MS Paint webcomic, it's astoundingly good.
• Bile Fascination: Practically the poster child for bad fanart webcomics, every part of it is gratuitous or laughable, and yet oddly entertaining in a way that keeps the audience coming back for more. It does help that both the art and writing improve greatly as the comic goes on, though.
• Broken Base: The art in chapter 23. Opinions among the fandom differ greatly on whether it's a treat to see the writers' visions brought to life in such vivid detail, or if having unironically good art goes against the whole spirit of the comic.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Gory violence + gratuitous swearing + terrible artwork = pure hilarious webcomic bliss.
  • Vector returns, the only survivor of Sonic and Team Chaotix, horribly beaten and missing an eyeball, and begs Shadow to listen to his mission report. When he finds Shadow, Vector vomits out a massive spray of blood all over Shadow's face and delivers this gem of a line:
    Vector: They're deader than a black guy in a town of racist rednecks.
  • Shadow shooting Daffy is already pretty extreme, but Elmer's response is one for the ages:
    Elmer: I didn't know today was duck season!
  • Shadow gets another one where he opts to drop a black hole on a village, complete with the gory visuals of the denizens having their flesh ripped off of their bodies before being consumed. We then immediately find out that it wasn't a troll village, Shadow just blew up a completely innocent place on pure spur of the moment anger impulses. Shadow is horrified into silence, while Knuckles just walks off proclaiming he's done with this shit and gonna go get high.
  • Much of the trolls' dialogue in general crosses the line at least twice, but the undisputed winner is Underbite Troll's jaw-droppingly extreme◊ put-down from the "Troll-Off."
  • Everything about Mario and Luigi's Hilariously Abusive Childhood.
    Mario's dad: I'd like to talk and all, but COPS is about to come on.
  • Porky Pig returning home to find the horribly mutilated bodies of both his parents? Horrifying and more than a little stomach-churning. Finding that someone has made bacon out of their corpses? Hilarious.
  • Knuckles getting an STD from a threesome with Rouge the Bat and Donkey Kong? Tasteless, albeit rather funny (and completely absurd). This turning out to be a major part of his plan is some kind of twisted genius.
• Designated Hero: In general, the protagonists often do things that make them no better than the trolls. Shadow and Sonic are the biggest offenders. However, as the story goes on this starts to gets subverted a bit as Sonic's attempt at revenge on the trolls leads to him being killed brutally. And after the failure of the fucking awesome plan, Shadow is painted in a much more negative light to the point that even Knuckles calls him out on his brutality.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Knuckles, Elmer Fudd, and Silver the Hedgehog if comments on Lazerbot's DeviantArt page is any indication.
  • Rob the Guy With No Ears is a priceless source of comedic moments, still genuinely badass and he never hogs the spotlight. In other words, basically the exact opposite of every stereotype about bad Creator's Pet Sonic OCs.
  • Garry also counts. On a Facebook poll, he was voted the most popular villain in the comic.
  • Vector, the Only Sane Man of Team Chaotix, is fairly well-liked despite not having appeared much since his debut.
  • There's also Coyote. When Lazerbot made a poll asking readers whether they liked Coyote or not, literally every vote said they liked him.
  • Don't forget Underbite Troll. He got popular enough to have a miniature spin off.
• Evil Is Cool: The Troll King, who's probably the best drawn character in the entire comic and a total, legitimately threatening badass.
• Fridge Horror: In Donkey Kong's first appearance in the comic, he was shown sleeping after having a threesome with Knuckles and Rouge. In his most recent appearance, he's prevented from helping the Troll Slaiyers out because Rouge gave him Gonnorhea. No points for deducing what this means for Knuckles.
  • It becomes Ascended Fridge Horror after the weed party: Knuckles knew he got the clap from Rouge so he invited her to the party (along with several other girls Knuckles gave the clap) to pass it onto Cheeto Man.
• Fandom Rivalry: Tails Gets Trolled often gets mistaken for a parody or knock-off of Sonichu, much to the chagrin of the TGT fanbase. Lazerbot eventually referenced this himself by including Sonichu as a troll in Tails Gets Trolled as a jab at people who compare the two.
  • This also applies to Friday Night Funkin', due to its Tails Gets Trolled mod greatly surpassing the popularity of the original comic.
• Genius Bonus: In Chapter 24, a troll insults Luigi by calling him a Denisovan.
• Growing the Beard: At first, the comic gained attention due to how ridiculously bad it was. But as the story went on, the characters become more rounded, and Lazerbot's art improved drastically, and as a result, many people have actually become invested in the story, and have grown to like it unironically. It's difficult to pinpoint an exact moment at which people actually started caring about the story, but many will proclaim the 4th chapter, to be the point where the comic starts making big improvements, quality wise.
  • Grew the beard to the point that, upon the comic's original creator's departure in May 2021 Know Your Meme did a lengthy interview about the comic and its evolution.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Knuckles Comforting the Widow towards Amy after Sonic's death is given a rather swift What the Hell, Hero? by Shadow and forgotten about. Then we find out about the aforementioned rape, which even Knuckles hadn't known about the entire time, and it turns out he was in love with her. Something only fully expressed shortly before her death. Even worse, when they do have sex to give her the clap, all Amy can see in her depressed stupor is Sonic, further cementing the tragedy.
  • Sonic's "i'm gonna go have sex with my girlfriend so i'm not so mad" line is comedy gold. Then we find out that Eggman raped Amy for possibly years and Sonic immediately going to Amy for some sort of comfort after that scene destroyed their already-strained relationship. It even re-contextualizes his Dark Super Sonic transformation.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Sonic loses his head in the fourth chapter, which wouldn't be the first time this happened to the Decoy Protagonist of a series beginning in 2011...
  • This series gives us a version of the Incredible Hulk who speaks clearly and articulately (well, as clearly and articulately as anyone in the comic does) a full eight years before Avengers: Endgame.
  • Knuckles? Being The Stoner? It's more likely than you'd think.
  • Troll Face's portrayal in this comic may as well be Trollge a decade early.
• I Am Not Shazam: Chester Cheetah is named "Cheeto Man".
• Jerkass Woobie: Ronald McDonald due to his Berserk Button and having his sister trolled in front of him.
• Memetic Badass: Rob, the Guy With No Ears, who the fanbase considers to be the sighted-but-hearing-impaired version of Daredevil
• Memetic Mutation: Probably the reason why it has gotten so much attention on the internet is for its combination of So Bad, It's Good art and tongue-in-cheek humor, both of which have generated quite a few memes. Many panels from the comics have been used as reaction images on imageboards and avatars on forums. We could sit and discuss them, but we'd be here forever, so for the really well-known ones:
  • "I'm so mad. im gonna have sex with my girl friend so I wont be so mad"
  • Underbite Troll's legendary put-down◊.
  • In one panel, Bugs Bunny is shown with the caption "the gay". It only took a few moments to guess how memetic the phrase eventually became.
  • "High shovel" has also became a popular meme.
  • Captioning crossdressing characters with Bugs' explanation^note "I used to be trolled but I found out a way to stop it. I do all kinds of stupid and gay shit. they cant troll you if you dress up as a girl and kiss them. I dont like doing it but it works." of how he fends off trolls.
  • "Sorry tails if this looks gay to the viewers." ^ExplanationSonic says this while cradling an injured tails, but without that context it looks like he's simply hugging him.
  • Unsettled Tom ^ExplanationOne panel showing an extreme close-up of Tom looking very concerned became very popular as a reaction image meme for acts that turn out to be poorly planned, ill-fated, or squicky with context. For example.◊
  • "What? I don't have fucking ears"
  • Bugs telling Rob "Hey can you put that on a coaster?"
  • The panel of Elmer Fudd revealing he has the powers of necromancy is also extremely popular for somewhat obvious reasons, especially when showing it to people who haven't read the comic and asking them what's happening in this panel. Actually, just mentioning "Elmer Fudd is a necromancer" on its own is a fairly popular meme, and is probably one of the comic's best-known plot twists.
  • "I'm starting to get sad" ^note Elmer Fudd is smiling when he says this.
  • "Have you ever been bitch slapped for lack of listening? lack of doing what your told? cuz im not far from slapping you"
  • "Tails wake up! You fucked up big time" "Knuckles"
  • TIME PRISON ^ExplanationA popular fan edit in which Shadow discusses his experience in "TIME PRISON", having repeatedly broken every bone in his body out of sheer boredom after several thousand years to the point where he irreversibly altered his own skeletal structure. The dialogue in this edit sounds so authentic to the comic that many casual or non-fans mistake it for actual dialogue from the comic.
  • "Never call me stupid, especially not that many times. That was a lot of times."
  • This page◊ has become memetic for the panels involving the car ride, specifically, Tom's infamous Mood Whiplash line about car crashes^note " "did you know that even with seatbelts people die all the time in car crashes? i thought that was interesting". The panel has been redrawn many times with various characters from different franchises.
  • The image of Tails with a disgusted expression on his face from the first comic became popular as a reaction image.
• Moral Event Horizon: Pretty much every single Troll with any known kills to their name probably crossed this at one point. Shadow crosses it in his attempts to kill Trolls just because he wants to, even wiping out a completely innocent village because he didn't bother to check if they were actually Trolls or not. And the Cheeto Man crossed it long before the story started when we see the hooker ditch filled with any and all female sex workers of his that acquire any sort of STD. With Amy's relatively-fresh, gored corpse in the pile as an afterthought because of his vengeance over contracting one himself.
• Narm: Oh god, just about the entire thing. Moments that aren't narmy are the exception, not the rule, and part of what makes it so damned entertaining.
• Narm Charm: At first glance, you'd think this is an textbook example of a So Bad, It's Good fancomic - and you'd be right. However, Lazerbot's artwork improves so much and the whole thing is played so totally serious that many people have admitted to becoming unironically invested in the story and characters after the first few chapters. Not to mention that the fight scenes are genuinely well drawn and some of the dialogue is actually quite clever and funny.
• Nausea Fuel: The Gorn can sometimes be a bit too far on the heavy side, mainly with Cheeto man's hooker ditch in Chapter 20.
  • The dream sequence in Chapter 24. If Amy making out with Tails while she's a realistically rotting corpse doesn't get you, her vomiting maggots into his mouth during the act itself certainly will.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Dr. Eggman raping Amy to the point where she attempted suicide, not at all played for laughs.
  • The extreme gore actually gets pretty disturbing at times, even with the simple artwork. Vector graphically getting his eye ripped out and Porky coming home to find the horribly mutilated bodies of his parents are two good examples.
  • What Shadow does in chapter 11: He creates a black hole that covers an entire town in darkness, and we get to see the townspeople's skin graphically getting ripped off by the vortex. What's even worse about it is that it was just a random town that had nothing to do with the trolls at all!
  • The Skeletal Worm that kills Garry in chapter 13, apparently named "Miladox". It just comes up out of nowhere and has a legitimately creepy design that looks more like an Angel than the regular cast of colorful cartoon characters. The fact that we never learn anything about where it is or where it came from just makes it all the worse.
  • The Weed Party seems fairly innocuous by all means until Knuckles enacts his plan against the Cheeto Man, but what most fail to notice is a Paranoia Fuel-inducing surprise: Ronald McDonald was hiding in a number of backgrounds, silently and creepily observing Tails the entire time.
  • Chapter 4: seeing Cream's charred corpse. While characters have been offed in bloody ways before, Cream is burned alive and Lazerbot makes sure to draw all the details out for the viewers. The surprising quality of the panels contrasted with the jank anatomy and general "MSPaint weirdness" of the panels beforehand make it an especially striking moment.
  • Page 17 of Chapter 20. The culmination of the Cheeto Man arc and the reveal of the pipe really drives home just how powerful and how feared Cheeto Man is. The corpse of Amy serves as another gut punch to the already shocking reveal.
  • Tails' Nightmare Sequence in Chapter 24. See Nausea Fuel.
  • Pori going Ax-Crazy in Chapter 25 and he shows just how powerful he truly is against Silver
• One-Scene Wonder: Emerl only appears in Chapter 4, but is well-remembered for holding his own against the Troll King, Luigi, Alex, and Garry all at once and lasting longer than anyone else, including Super Sonic.
• The Scrappy: Demaro isn't really well liked by the fanbase as far as villains go. His insufferable arrogance prevents him from being as cool as The Troll King or Alex. And he's not hilariously depraved like Troll Face or Garry. The fact he's been the main focus for quite a while and basically every situation he's encountered has led to rather contrived new uses for his powers doesn't really help either.
• Signature Scene:
  • The Weed Party
  • "The Porkening" In which Porky gets demonic powers by accident, is hunted down by his church, is left by his wife, gets his parents turned into meat, gets his child and wife shot in front of him, and gets abandoned by the "friends" led to him getting demonic powers, making him kill himself
  • The revelation that The Defenders are actually bad people, and evidence of such has been in front of the viewer and Tails the whole time, but he hadn't been paying attention.
• So Bad, It's Good: Very much so, although the story manages to be oddly compelling and memorable in spite of the so-bad-it's-good elements.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Likely deliberate. The trolls are sociopathic assholes and necrophiles, while the heroes range from being Idiot Heroes at best to deranged murderers ( i.e. Shadow killing an entire village of innocent people) at worst. The extreme Gorn is both Played for Drama and Played for Laughs at the same time, and any attempts to deescalate or put an end to the conflict are marked by constant setbacks, betrayals and failure.
• Unexpected Character:
  • With members such as Batman, Doug Funnie, and Hello Kitty, the members of the Defenders were a surprise to everyone.
  • Sonichu appearing in Chapter 22.
• Vindicated by History: Whilst during the first five years of its run the comic was ridiculed for its poor art, spelling and downright bizarre concept, being compared to Sonichu, the series managed to build an engaged fandom from its surprisingly in-depth plot and characters, Lazerbot's art style improving consistently, and whilst the spelling and grammar aren't that much better, the dialogue became much more natural-sounding and witty, to the point where fans have pointed out that the early chapters do contain a surprising amount of the surprisingly clever dialogue the comic would later be known for.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Alex the Emo Troll. Some people unfamiliar with the comic have commented on him being a girl.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Despite having a cast consisting of characters from Sonic, Mario and Looney Tunes, it contains lots of swearing and gore.
• The Woobie:
  • Tails. The title says it all, "Tails gets trolled." He also gets beaten down constantly by the trolls, gets ridiculed by them, and loses his best friend Sonic to the trolls.
  • Porky Pig. He's a religious fellow that got involved in a ton of bad events, eventually making him one of the Neutrals. When the Church he is a part of finds out, they see him as evil incarnate and kill his father and his mother before he has a chance to see them, and then murder his wife and child in front of him. It's no wonder that he is Driven to Suicide.
  • Mario and Luigi. One of the biggest moments of Mario's flashback is them meeting their parents, only to be told that they aren't loved and that their father just enjoys having unprotected sex. Luigi more so, because he was mostly dragged into doing all of this for the sake of his brother.
  • Amy Rose in "The Storm". Her peaceful life came to an end when she met Sonic, which led to Eggman making her into a sex slave for 4 years.
  • Any of the Defenders who aren't willingly working with Cheeto Man, but instead kept in line through Cheeto Man employing blackmail or I Have Your Wife. Kermit, Pac Man, Spyro, and Arthur are confirmed to be in this situation.

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