Title Drops in webcomics.
- In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, chapter titles often get dropped as well in a visual gag, as in "Punch Dracula" (guess what the good doctor finds himself forced to do?) and "Revenge of the Hundred Dead Ninja" (appears on a theater marquee at the beginning of the strip)
- Agents of the Realm has one during Paige's Info Dump in chapter 3:"This event is what began the cycle of the agents of the realm — warriors chosen by the amulets to maintain balance and order."
- On page 167 of Alien Hand Syndrome when Nick is trying to persiade Erin that Mina is possessed, Erin suggests the eponymous (real-life) syndrome as an alternative theory, although she doesn't actually know its name and Dan is the one who comes out with it.
- Subverted in Awful Hospital.Celia: Staphie, what's a word for something "full" of "awe," in a bad way?Staph: "Sucks."
- Awkward Zombie has a veeeeeeery subtle one here
. - The last two words of Better Days were...well, just that.
- Each chapter of Blood Splattered Socks is named after a line within it.
- Boobs Ahoy! pulls one here. The only surprise is that it took this long.
- Guess what? It happened a lot sooner than you think.
- Guess what?
- Books Don't Work Here does this here. in the second chapter.
- It was the worst case of Chopping Block he'd ever endured.
- The Code Crimson drops the the title of each issue at least once.
- A Complete Waste of Time does this so often, and in response to events which are, well, a complete waste of time, that it's become something of a Running Gag.
- Curse Quest: Avalon picks up a curse quest at the convention. Evidently a curse quest is a quest so deadly that no sane adventurer dares go on one. Avalon soon asks for twelve. Unlike other quest scrolls, a curse quest seems to be on fire, but that may just be an effect and not actual fire.
- Cyanide and Happiness: "What's it made out of?"
- On the final page of Dangerously Chloe.
- The first chapter of Darths & Droids is called The Phantasmal Malevolence. 828 episodes later, in the middle of A New Generation, we get this:Clone Trooper 2: Do you think he's dangerous? This... phantasm?Clone Trooper 1: He's malevolent, you mark my words.
- Parodied in this Dinosaur Comics comic.
- This one advocates ending everything ever with a title drop. It actually works pretty well.
- This one
- Done in +EV here.
- El Goonish Shive lampshaded this by featuring a goon in one comic for this exact reason.
- The sidestory "Escape From the Mall" had a strip where Catalina whisper-exclaimed precisely that, in a dramatic font. The Rant begins "*GASP* She said the thing! SHE SAID THE THING!"
- The sidestory "Escape From the Mall" had a strip where Catalina whisper-exclaimed precisely that
- Experience Boost: Keran tries to name the guild that she and Vedrana are starting "Experience Boost". Vedrana is having none of it.
- Fans! occasionally dropped their title into the story, notably in this strip toward the end of their first Grand Finale, before the Revival;Rikk: People might call us crazy, and once in awhile me might almost believe them. But we're used to that. We're Fans!.
- Girl Genius:
- when Gil is outsmarted by Agatha again.
Bang: I mean, if they ever write this down, they ain't gonna be calling it "boy genius".- Various non-canon chapters end with "tune in for the next adventures of Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius". It's finally done in-canon with a Heterodyne play courtesy of Master Payne's Circus of Adventure, followed by the tagline "Adventure, romance, mad science!" a few pages later.
- Guilded Age: In the Alt Text of this strip.
- Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name gets this in the second strip (which runs continually from the first), when the narrator first meets Hanna.
- Hark! A Vagrant does this here.
- In Harkovast this happens on the very first page and again here.
- Heroine Chic: Zoe starts out as an intern working for a designer who makes fashionable super-suits for big-name heroes. When she strikes out on her own, Zoe names her business "Heroine Chic."
- Referenced in Homestuck:Sometimes you feel like you are trapped in this room. Stuck, if you will, in a sense which possibly borders on the titular.
- Teased again when examining the Cruxtruder early in Act II
"Of all the places for Rose to drop the infernal thing. More than ever you feel...what's the word you're looking for?"
"Of course. Housetrapped."- The term "Homestuck" does ultimately appear in the lyrics of the track Chain of Prospit from the Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido album.
Hold up, there's data structures you can bone up
You might be feeling like you're home stuck- The titles of Homestuck's acts are all dropped with the exceptions of Act 4 and Intermission 2 (which doesn't even have any text, as it consists only of a single flash). Act 6 Act 1's can be found in a walkaround flashnote in Act 5 Act 2 as part of an item description, but is not dropped within the act itself.
- Several of Homestuck's albums have titles based on in comic quotes, such as Heir Transparent, At the Price of Oblivion, and coloUrs and mayhem.
- In Hue Are You, the main protagonist, Build-a, gets asked this question a lot during the beginning of her adventure
- Title dropped here in I HATE YOU Chapter 7: page 21
- Parodied, along with so many other things, in I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space!!!. Once an Episode the main character informs someone, sometimes herself, that she has been kidnapped and by whom.
- In Kill Six Billion Demons, Zoss shows up in every book to make a speech including the book's title. By the fourth book, the author's commentary in the Alt Text even refers to the "title drop part" of the book.
- Happens in Last Res0rt a couple of times.
- In Least I Could Do, John does this and gets bitchslapped by the creator.
- While the first strip, and a few afterwards, of Lightning Made of Owls make reference to its Non Sequitur title, referring to the title is discouraged on the comic's submission page.
- Little Nuns: In the arc leading to episode 1000, a runaway girl who came to the convent looking for her cousin is writing in her diary with each episode. In the second page (#982), she writes that little nuns came with ducks when they noticed her.
- This strip of Love Not Found drops its title when Abeille tries to search for "love" as a valid requirement for a satisfying sexual experience, only to get an error message: "LOVE NOT FOUND."
- "I gots me some Mob Ties!"
- Muted: Athalie drops it in Episode 45 after Camille exposes her Green Thumb powers in front of her.Athalie: You'll be Muted for this, Camille.
- No Need for Bushido does this at least twice, once very early in the comic and once a hundred or so strips in.
- At the beginning of The Noob, Ohforf meets a level 75 character who calls him a noob.
- In Oceanfalls, this is Parodied when Nino falls into the Cave of Illusions.Suggestion Prompt: Nino: Did you just Ocean-fall?
WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN-
THIS IS NOT EVEN AN OCEAN-
AND-
NOW IS NOT THE TIME-- Invoked by Nino himself later when Kaji interrogates him.Kaji: An' well, where'd you come from, weirdo?
Nino: I came from...
Suggestion Prompt: Nino: Say "THE SEA" as loud as possible.
You nearly say "THE SEA" as loud as humanly possible, but then you almost instinctively pause for a split second. You feel like the universe brought you to this very spot for a better answer than that. It would want you to answer with something thematic, something more appropriate, yes...
Something like...
Nino: THE OCEAN
Yeah. Like that. That satisfies a few unknown forces out there.
- Invoked by Nino himself later when Kaji interrogates him.
- "Phantomarine" is the name of the local Power Crystal, which generates light to repel seaghosts, not needing an electrical current like the related Revenite. Interestingly, Pavel was given a lantern with Phantomarine in it when all of the substance in the known world should be in the Lighthouse Road.
- Happens in Plume after Vesper goes on her Roaring Rampage of Revenge:My father used to say that revenge is like a plume of smoke.
- Occurs twice in Prague Race, here and much later here. We still don't know exactly what it means, though.
- Precocious: Here.
- qxlkbh discusses this in 9: title drop, where it's pointed out that qxlkbh is a meaningless string that would be hard to fit into a sentence... if qxlkbh wasn't so willing to break the fourth wall:
- Doctor: But we've got to preserve some sense of logic in qxlkbh somehow!
- Used in one of the first Schlock Mercenary strips. The name has not been used since.
- Until it was used as the name of the cartoon Show Within a Show about the Toughs.
- Then when the narrator mentions it here.
- The "Massively Parallel" chapter has several missions going on at the same time. The doctor throws in a title drop on a totally unrelated subject.
- In Second Empire, a Doctor Who comic centered on the Daleks, a multi-page exchange between two Dalek characters incorporates practically every episode title of Dalek-centric stories from Doctor Who. For a Title Drop, it's about as subtle as being hit upside the head with a bag of hammers, but Second Empire holds its tongue very much in cheek.
- Subverted in Shortpacked!, making reference to Roomies! when the main characters share a house.
- And inverted in a strip where Amber's counterpart describes Shortpacked's bizarro twin store McAwesome's as "overstocked on happiness!"
- And inverted in a strip where
- Sluggy Freelance:
- It took about two decades for Pete Abrams to reveal just what "Sluggy Freelance" actually means. That didn't stop him from dropping one of the two words without the other here and there like delicious, fan-baiting sprinkles before.
- Played straight but simultaneously unsuccessfully invoked in the story "Rescue Mission to the North Pole".
Squishydodo: Attention, Black Op Elves! We have a plea for help on a dangerous mission. And though [reverb] NONE OF US MAY SURVIVE, we must try to rescue Christmas and attempt... the rescue mission to the North Pole!Squishydodo: You were supposed to reverb the "rescue mission to the Nort Pole" part.Squintyhoyo: Sorry, MY BAD! - "In the caves behind my house I found A Softer World
- Something Happens appears in the introductory strip and the final strip of book one. Not that Something couldn't Happen more often.
- In one of Something*Positive's early strips:"Davan, this has to stop, okay? You're always so negative and angry, and it really worries me. You're not nearly the bad person you think you are, and things WILL get better. You've got to go do something positive with your life. I say this as a friend who cares about you."
- Bonus points for being the title's meta-origin: in Real Life the author started the comic because his friend Clarine, who served as inspiration for Aubrey's character, gave him this same speech, "something positive" included.
- Stand Still, Stay Silent: early into the comic in a significant way, as it's defined as the post-apocalyptic world's first rule on the info page.
- Super Effective: CHARMANDER used METAL CLAW! IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!
- "We're Team Fortress 2. And you're dead."
- The "Trying Human Chip" in the comic Trying Human
- In Undead Friend, the title is the same name as the game the main characters get stuck in, so the title show sup frequently. It is shown in-comic first in Chapter 2 (though not said out loud until Chapter 6).
- Unsounded: Duane name-drops the site on which the comic is hosted (casualvillain.com):Duane: Such casual villains we are.
- Yellow Brick Ramble: The title is dropped on the cover page of Chapter 12. Since it is the chapter title, this also qualifies as a Title Drop Chapter. The significance is that, since the comic has 22 chapters, the cover page of chapter 12 is exactly half-way between the comic's start and finish.
- Zebra Girl: Viv eventually calls Sandra "Zebra Girl".
- Cameron Walden has quite the terrible case of Zoophobia.
