Affectionate Parodies in Webcomics.
- 8-Bit Theater is an affectionate parody of console (specially Final Fantasy) and table top RPG's (the fantasy genre in general) that also contains an epic story line.
- An American Nerd In Animated Tokyo is an affectionate parody of most Eastern RPGs and many Shōnen anime, mixed in with some Western Animation jokes.
- Angel Moxie: Of Magical Girl series.
- Anime News Nina had a couple of Affectionate Parodies of various anime genres, the one that appeared the most was Ultimate Mop Daisuke DX, which showed how ludicrous To Be a Master Shonen stories could be by applying the same concept to janitorial work.
- Brawl in the Family primarily focuses on the Super Smash Bros. series and the video games affiliated with its participants (particularly Kirby).
- Buttlord GT is a very harsh parody of all the most stupid aspects of Dragon Ball Z. The laser-precise humour, however, marks the author as someone who obviously watches it religiously.
- Charby the Vampirate started off as a loosely linear, dark comedy, based on horror movie send ups.
- Chasing Ice started life as an artwork affectionately parodying Yuri!!! on Ice. The comic still celebrates certain yaoi tropes and the romance genre as a whole.
- Kristofer Straub's Checkerboard Nightmare was a lovingly critical exploration of webcomics. His current project, Starslip, embraces and skewers sci-fi tropes in equal measure.
- The Cockeyed Comix series Cliche City is this to Sin City
- Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman, is an affectionate parody of Half-Life 2, as the title suggests.
- Consolers parodies events in the the game industry, presenting video game news and history through Anthropomorphic Personifications of video game companies.
- Darths & Droids imagines the Star Wars films were never made and was instead the homebrew creation of a bunch of eclectic tabletop gamers. The authors have a clear knowledge of both subjects and the jokes are never mean-spirited.
- Dating a Team Magma Grunt is a romance-comedy about the main protagonist of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire dating a team magma grunt.
- DM of the Rings used screencaps from the movie to show it as a Tabletop RPG — complete with players whining about the DM's railroading and loquaciousness.
- I Don't Want This Kind of Hero is a humorous (sometimes, at least) Deconstruction and parody of the superhero genre.
- Erma parodies just about anything related to horror genre.
- Dorito Faced Sempai-san and Shota Boy was an Affectionate Parody of Animesque So Bad, It's Good Yaoi, before eventually taking a life of its own and having several memetic mutations along the way. Now it's basically become a celebration of them.
- George the Dragon performs affectionate parody of all sorts: from fine art, to movies, to Saturday morning cartoons.
- Girl Genius parodies pulp 1940s serials, old-school Science Fiction, Victorian-era Steampunk in the vein of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, Fairy Tales, and every Mad Scientist trope in the book (the main characters all suffer from a trait which causes both madness and scientific genius... and by "suffer", we mean they enjoy every minute of it).
- The "Legends of Celida" story-line of El Goonish Shive is a parody of The Legend of Zelda series and deconstructs how Zelda's Sheik form works.
- Imperial Entanglements is a parody of Star Wars: The Old Republic, following the storylines, but with wacky characters and unique jokes and dialog.
- The Last Days Of Fox Hound is about as affectionate of a parody as you're going to find of Metal Gear Solid.
- Link's Log captures the quirky feel of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker in a stylized manga.
- Living with Insanity sometimes goes this route, such as the Talent Scouting arc where David attempts to kidnap Lar DeSouza of Least I Could Do and Looking for Group. While making jokes about him and Ryan Sohmer, the arc is much more a loving tribute and Herbert has stated he has a lot of respect for the pair and their work. However, Paul does sort of ruin it by not even bothering to draw them to look anything like the real people.
- Looking for Group started as a parody of World of Warcraft, but eventually turned into a parody of the High Fantasy / MMORPG genre as a whole.
- Lovely Lovecraft: Although this webcomic has its share of serious moments, it is also a funny but reverent take on the works of H. P. Lovecraft (with occasional homages to other Cthulhu Mythos authors).
- Monster of the Week is parody of The X-Files with Agent Mulder and Agent Scully pointing out stupider aspects, but The Rant shows author is really fan of the show.
- MS Paint Adventures parodies many RPG and Gamebook tropes.
- Problem Sleuth does double duty, poking fun at the convoluted puzzles of the Adventure Game and the convoluted plot-lines, combat abilities and sheer scale of Limit Breaks of Fantasy RPGs.
- Homestuck continues the trend with the notorious Inventory Management Puzzles. Later in the story, it becomes difficult to tell the difference between video game parody and actual plot elements. Also, as the page quote indicates, it likes to parody the hell out of individual fictional works like Con Air.
- My Life as a Background Slytherin is a very loving parody of Harry Potter.
- My Mamma is In — Burned is Out! does not mock either side of the "based alternative" debacle, but instead focuses on the absurdity of the situation by showing what it could become in the future and how stupid reasons for changing the words can be.
- The Noob is a very insightful parody of MMORPGs and the people that play them.
- The Order of the Stick affectionately parodies the 3.5 edition of Dungeons & Dragons, as well as numerous fantasy tropes and tabletop roleplaying games in general.
- Our World: "Mysteries of the Unexplained" to Unsolved Mysteries.
- Persona 3 FTW is this of Persona 3, and its sequel, Persona 4TW, is this of Persona 4.
- Pocket Princesses makes fun of the Disney Princesses as only a die-hard fan could.
- Poison Ivy Gulch spoofs The Western, using stock Western Characters like the marshal, undertaker, prospector, saloon girls and so on in funny situations, much in the tradition of Blazing Saddles and Tumbleweeds.
- Sluggy Freelance does this quite a bit. Star Trek and Alien in "The Sci-Fi Adventure", Voltron and Star Wars in "GOFOTRON Champion of the Cosmos", World of Warcraft and other MMORPGs in "Years of Yarncraft", Harry Potter in the "Torg Potter" stories, at least to begin with.
- Super Megatopia is a cheesecake laden parody of every superhero in existence. Highlights include Ferret Man (a combination expy of Batman and The Punisher — Oh, Crap!!), Buxom Gal (an expy of Power Girl, right down to the costume, except Buxom Gal's powers are tied to her ever increasing bust size), Avatar (she's a god/dess! She doesn't know which one she is at any given time, but she has alien technology to help her prove her point).
- In addition, "Crushed: The Doomed Kitty Adventures" parodies Sword and Sorcery fantasy games in general, but on-line RPG gaming in particular (such as the Temple of Infinite Lives and Crushed having to trek back to her body to retrieve her gear).
- Radiant Dumb is an affectionate parody of Fire Emblem and its various game mechanics. Occasionally, it pokes fun at the story of Radiant Dawn and Path of Radiance.
- Doing these was the whole point of the original run of Zortic, prior to its Cosmic Retcon.
- In Anime News Network's Anime News Nina, the Show Within a Show Ultimate Mop Daisuke DX is an affectionate parody of the Shōnen genre (but especially Naruto).
- San Peng Guo's Three Kingdoms Comics is this trope of Dynasty Warriors.
- Teh Gladiators is a parody of World of Warcraft, but a gentle, loving one.
- Tomics by Tom Gould is a lighthearted take the stories of Jesus and the saints he grew up with being raised Catholic.
- Voodoo Walrus reveled in this in introducing an entire team of overly muscled, gun toting mercenaries ala the comic anti-heroes of the late 80's and early 90's. The overuse of pouches and loud colors might suggest poking fun at Rob Liefeld's creations.
- The cast of Times Like This occasionally do this, discussing what could've happened in Star Wars; or Gilligan's Island; or various commercials redone with historical figures. They even re-enacted the opening to a TV show.
- Welcome To Hereafter does this an arc with the sunism church and Christian/Jewish dogma — Jesus even lampshades it. What makes even funnier is that all (real) religions get a comedy treatment.
- Moonstuck is a pony-centered parody of Homestuck.
- Meanwhile, both MSPA series get a Touhou Project-centric parody in Create.swf Adventures.
- Humon's not-so-Affectionate Parody of James Bond, Agent 300, became a popular enough Breakout Character to get his own Original Flavor fanfic spinoff, Secret Agent Men.