Breakfast of the Gods



Breakfast of the Gods is a now-complete Web Comic by Brendan Douglas Jones, best described as Watchmen played out by breakfast cereal mascots.

The Honey Nut Cheerios Bee's corpse washes up on a beach and all fingers point toward Count Chocula as the perpetrator. Snap, Crackle and Pop disappear shortly thereafter, and Cap'n Crunch and Tony the Tiger investigate. What eventually ensues is an all-out war for the fate of Cerealia, waged between the heroic defenders of everyone's balanced breakfast and the villainous denizens of the night.

This work provides examples of:

 * Altum Videtur: Jarvis's final spell is grammatically correct Latin (except for one word that's in English).
 * Always Night: The area Count Chocula controls. Complete with rainless lightning storm.
 * And That Little Girl Was Me: Jarvis with a short and confusing one here.
 * And This Is For: Alfie delivers the line as he
 * Anyone Can Die: Oh, so true.
 * Arson Murder and Jaywalking: "Here is perpetual night, the darkness suited only to the likes of thieves, murderers, and late-night snackers."
 * For Frankenberry's profile, it's said that the evil deeds he commits for the Count include "kidnapping, torture, murder, [and] grocery shopping"
 * The Berserker:
 * Big Bad: Count Chocula.
 * Big Damn Heroes: When show up for the final battle. The comments on that page were all basically variations of "Holy shit!"
 * Big Good: Cap'n Crunch.
 * The Cavalry: Quisp and the Crunch kids, and  here. Alfie even calls them "the whole danged cavalry".
 * Cereal Vice Reward: Oh so subverted. Giving in to one's cereal cravings is a good way to end up a traitor, a raving junkie or a rampaging engine of destruction.
 * Darker and Edgier / Bloodier and Gorier: A comic that does this really well. Jones manages to darken the tone without resorting to darkening the appearance, except where it's appropriate -- inside the Count's castle, for instance. The bright, cheerful colors just make it worse.
 * Deconstruction Crossover
 * Decoy Protagonist:
 * Despair Event Horizon: Trix Rabbit teeters on the edge of this for quite some time, following his actions at Sam's in Book 2.
 * The Dragon: Frankenberry, to Chocula.
 * Driven to Suicide: tries (and fails) to hang himself in remorse for having betrayed Cap'n Crunch. Boss Moss prevents it.
 * Eyepatch of Power: Tony's
 * Eye Scream:.
 * Fallen Hero: Quake starts off the final battle having been recruited to Count Chocula's side.
 * Fantastic Drug: Cereal. What else? It's how Sugar Bear turns into Super Bear (and why he's trying to stay away from it), how Count Chocula coerces, and how the Count keeps Sonny under his absolute control. As they say, cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
 * Gambit Roulette: Subverted. One of Count Chocula's allies points out near the end that the Count's mysterious "plan" has never been anything of the sort.
 * Go Into the Light: The Quaker Man is cast in the role of God welcoming into the afterlife.
 * Gory Discretion Shot: Involving Twinkie The Kid and Dig'em here.
 * Heel Face Turn Quake, after Quisp tells him to "remember who you are!"
 * Innocent Innuendo: Anything involving
 * Living Battery: The reason was missing is that he was hidden away to be used as this to boost Cerealia's defenses.
 * Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Even more massive when join in the fight.
 * Master of Disguise: The Trix Rabbit.
 * The Mole: turns out to have a pivotal role in saving the day.
 * Neutral No Longer: When Toucan Sam is first introduced, all he's interested in is staying out of the mess, but after he decides he can no longer remain neutral. This is only natural, as he's basically written as Rick from Casablanca.
 * Obligatory Swearing: Provided by Dig 'Em and the Cookie Cop.
 * Pieta Plagiarism/Cradling Your Kill: Here. The character in the "Mary" position is most assuredly not mourning the death of the character in the "Jesus" position.
 * Pre Mortem One Liner: Quake's
 * Redemption Equals Death: Both, and.
 * Sacrificial Lion:.
 * Shown Their Work: The number of forgotten cereal mascots who come into play proves this trope.
 * Stout Strength: Flying Brick Quake has let himself go quite a lot from the old days, but he's still just as powerful.
 * Super Powered Evil Side: Sugar Bear spends most of the comic trying to stay out of the fight because he's terrified of turning into Super Bear. His concern is entirely justified.
 * Take Up My Sword: From Capt'n Crunch to Alfie, via Seadog. It happens here.
 * Took a Level In Badass: Alfie, when he goes up against Jean LaFoote.
 * Torture Technician: Frank. He likes this part of his job. He likes it a lot. He's also very, very good at it.
 * Tragic Hero: Trix Rabbit.
 * Tragic Monster: Sonny and the Fruit Brute.
 * Wacky Wayside Tribe: The webcomic both invokes and plays with this trope with King Ayummayumma and the Fruit Islanders.
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Awesome: Breakfast cereal mascots kicking ass. Yes.
 * Your Head Asplode: Strongly implied, but not actually shown with Twinkie The Kid; see the entry for Gory Discretion Shot.