Mushroom Go

Mushroom Go is a drawn comic based loosely on the Super Mario Bros. series.

A Toad named Go wakes up in the desert alone. He’s suffering from sunstroke and exhaustion, he can’t remember a thing, and he’s lost his hat. Just when he thinks this is the end (and on the first page, no less), he is picked up by the crew of the Chainless, the world’s only sand ship.


 * Go: A Toad. His past is a mystery, even to himself. . Has some magic powers, as all Toads do. Does most of the narrating.

The Badass Crew consists of
 * Captain Martello: A female Koopa. The Captain and resident mechanic
 * McCoy: A Raven, and Martello’s Second in Command.
 * Palma: A Pianta, the youngest member of the Crew.
 * Guy: A Shyguy. Despite his appearance, he’s the weakest fighter in the crew,, and kind of a softy. (not that you should mess with him!) Does most of the household tasks around the Chainless.

This Web Comic provides examples of:
"McCoy: (to Guy) But if you need like, a cool big brother type... I guess I don't mind you following me."
 * Ascended Fanon: The pink bob-omb that Guy befriends was deemed Squishie by the fans, and soon his name in the comic was revealed to be 5QU15H-IE.
 * Badass
 * BFG
 * Big Brother Instinct: McCoy, towards Guy:

"McCoy: What we do encompasses a great deal, really. Looting desert-side cities, treasure hunting and old fashioned grave robbery…"
 * Big Damn Heroes
 * Big Ol' Eyebrows: McCoy’s are orange
 * Clothing Damage
 * Combat Medic:
 * Cool Mask: Guy
 * Crazy Prepared: Martello is showing signs of this.
 * Desert Punk
 * Easy Amnesia: Go
 * Feather Fingers
 * Five-Man Band
 * The Hero: Captain Martello fills all the requirements, despite not actually being the main character.
 * The Lancer: McCoy
 * The Smart Guy: Palma
 * The Big Guy: Guy
 * The Chick: Go at the moment, if only because he's the least physical besides Palma, and has had to be rescued the most.
 * Genius Bruiser: Palma
 * Last-Name Basis: Palma, possibly the entire crew.
 * Meaningful Name: Go. Aside from its connotation as a verb, it's also the Japanese number five--with Go being the fifth member of the Chainless. Also Martello.
 * Also worth noting that "Martello" is Italian for "hammer." Guess what Captain Martello's favorite melee weapon is.
 * Moe Anthropomorphism: Heavy on the latter. The former depends on the character, though YMMV.
 * Mysterious Past: Go
 * Never Gets Drunk: Go, of all people
 * No Name Given: Technically, whose real name is unknown.
 * Original Flavour: Despite having a slightly more serious tone, this world seems very familiar.
 * Peek-a-Bangs: Go
 * Personality Powers: Go's attitude changes depending on what kind of magic he's using.
 * Pirates


 * Pirate Girl: Martello is actually the captain of her ship. There's also Palma, who acts more like she's just along for the ride.
 * Quicksand Sucks: The dry variety.
 * Sand Is Water: Justified. The Chainless handles well on quicksand but not on the regular stuff, and seems to be the only vessel capable of doing so.
 * Shifting Sand Land: takes place in the Trope Namer.
 * Shirtless Scene: Go has a few.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: McCoy has worn a shirt exactly once, and it was open.
 * Sigil Spam: The mascot/logo of the Chainless, as seen aboard the ship and on Martello's belt buckle, is a green eyed Chomp. With no chain, of course.
 * The Silent Bob: Guy
 * Smoking Is Cool: McCoy can make anything look cool
 * Sprite Comic: Averted
 * The Voiceless: Guy
 * The So-Called Coward:

Boarding the Chainless contains examples of:

 * Chainsaw Good
 * Contrived Coincidence: The The Fire Flower, had it not been there, would not have saved Go.
 * Playing with Fire
 * Secret Test
 * Sink or Swim Mentor
 * Shout-Out: to several Mario games
 * Weird Moon: on this page

Piranha Plant Laboratory contains examples of:
"Mc Coy: "Help me search these bodies for cigarettes.""
 * A God Am I: : I am more than a single creature, you see. I am order in its purest form. I am true harmony's product. I have watched this world in patience, in silence since before you beasts fumbled into your existence. I am creation. I am eternity. I am every flower, every tree, every blade of grass united. But for you primitive animals, requiring a guttural sound to be tied to every entity... You may call me
 * Badass Boast: *AHEM* "Sir, you seem to think you can take a person's lighter without winning it in a stupid bet first. Do you see this cigarette? I pulled this cigarette out of a dead guy's pocket. It's not even a brand I like. I smoke Reznor Reds, and this --Trust Me-- is no Reznor Red. But I'm going to smoke it anyway, and you, you big jackass, you have what may well be the only lighter in this entire stupid building. Not just any lighter, but my lighter. Now, one way or another, I am going to smoke this cigarette and I am going to enjoy every awful second of it. So come on, let's do this."
 * Combat Tentacles/Tentacle Rope
 * Dynamic Entry
 * Flash Back: Palma's memories of
 * Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
 * Hannibal Lecture/"The Reason You Suck" Speech
 * I Am Legion
 * Intelligence Equals Isolation: Apparently what happened to
 * Man-Eating Plant/When Trees Attack
 * Plant Person:
 * Psychic Link: Between Palma and
 * Schedule Slip: from Saturday and Tuesday to just Saturday, and then to Saturday and Wednesday.
 * Shut UP, Hannibal: Last time? Last time the room wasn't filling with, you rambling twit.
 * Skewed Priorities: Mc Coy.


 * Stepford Smiler:
 * Sympathy for the Devil: Palma's speech to evokes this though Your Mileage May Vary.
 * It might have qualified for a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming if it had worked.
 * This Is Sparta:
 * Willing Channeler: What tried to get  to submit to, though  actually wanted to turn  into a Living Bodysuit.

At Twisters Borough contains examples of:
"The Sheriff: I'm placing you under arrest for robbery, fraud, kidnapping, arson, attacking officers, indecent exposure... Anything I'm missing? Martello: I am surprised you did not mention murder."
 * Alternate Character Interperetation: In-universe of
 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking

"Go: And that's why I don't eat the mega mushrooms any more.
 * Bar Brawl
 * Boom Town
 * Cattle Punk
 * Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: A side effect of fusing.
 * Drowning My Sorrows
 * Gayngster:  (probably), and co.The other two members are a Camp Gay and a Butch Lesbian, respectively.
 * Grievous Bottley Harm:
 * Implacable Man: Mario. From the Koopa side, he's a nightmarish fusion of Superman, Chuck Norris, and the Terminator, all rolled together into a short, pudgy little body. Nothing can stop him. NOTHING.
 * Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Haze and Charlie. In fact, Haze has pink hair and Charlie wears blue clothes.
 * Mook Horror Show: The flashback with Martello’s father shows Mario like this. He is seen (by the Koopas at least) as an unstoppable force of nature that can wipe out whole ships worth of elite troops.
 * Noodle Incident: A couple times.

McCoy: Indecent exposure? When did that happen? . . . Wait, yeah. Nevermind. I'd arrest me for that, too."


 * One-Man Army: Mario. He's considered the Mushroom Kingdom's Army. Its REAL army. Look down to Shrouded in Myth and you'll start to see why. The fact that he can fly, throw fireballs, and perform feats of strength and agility no other mortal being can match may explain it.
 * Shout-Out: Those crates look awfully familiar.
 * Shrouded in Myth: Mario himself. "Any crazy stories you've heard about him are probably true. He breaks bricks with his bare hands. He can leap 30 feet in the air when he chooses not to fly. Some even claim that he's not a Toad at all--that he's somethin' else, somethin' from beyond." The fact that these stories are true only makes Mario (viewed from the Koopa standpoint) all the more terrifying.
 * Wretched Hive

Bob-omb Battlefield contains examples of:

 * Art Shift: Drastically in page 79, less drastically in page 80 following fan outcry the previous update.
 * Badass Mustache:
 * Body Horror: When
 * Not to mention what happens to Go when he taps into an unfamiliar Vim.
 * Cute Machines: The Bob-omb Buddies. Guy doesn't seem to think so, though.
 * Cuteness Proximity: Palma's reaction to the bob-ombs.
 * La Résistance
 * Large and In Charge:
 * Off with His Head:
 * Rapid-Fire "No": Martello in page 96, although subverted, since the end of the comic cuts her off.
 * Troubled Fetal Position/Cower Power: Guy's reaction to the "automatons".
 * Unwilling Roboticisation :
 * Wrestler in All of Us: