Minion (Web Comic)

Minion is a fantasy webcomic by Andrew Fox. It follows the adventures of Gin, a young man honoring a childhood promise (and also looking for a place to stay), and his employer the Dark-Witch-for-Hire Meryl.

Partly High Fantasy, but mostly laugh-out-loud comedy. Updates Wednesdays, probably. For the unrelated webcomic produced by Minion Comics, see Minion Comics.

"Gin: "Don't be ridiculous. I'm not going to throw you off a cliff." [BOOT] "Technically, I'm kicking you.""
 * Art Evolution: Oh yeah.
 * Battle Butler
 * Berserk Button: When Antonie talked about wanting to do things to Meryl, Gin beat the tar out of him. When he also remembered that Antonie had tried to eat Rico and Ellaine...

"Kid!Meryl: "Someday, I'm going to be a powerful dark witch!" Kid!Gin: "Cool! Can I be your minion?" Kid!Meryl "...Okay.""
 * Also, Meryl when anyone insults her spellwork or appearance.
 * But Your Wings Are Beautiful: Kid!Gin thought that Kid!Meryl's red eyes were awesome.
 * Childhood Employment Promise:

"Rico: "No way! We came here to get rid of her! And nothing you say is going to change our minds! Nothing!" Gin: "Oh? Well that's too bad...And here I had this GREAT chocolate chip cookie recipe just lying around the tower--" Rico: "DEAL!!!""
 * Deadpan Snarker: Rico, so very much.
 * Death Trap Goes Click
 * Delicious Distraction:

"Rico: "Um...can Gin come out and play?""
 * Drill Hair: Sister Madeline.
 * Elemental Embodiment: The eight elemental planes are home to an assortment of entities that magicians can summon. So far we have Shari, a treasure guardian from Fire, and Hai'dan, an omniperceptive yet somehow still incompetent scout from Darkness.
 * Evil Sorceress: It's a lucrative business.
 * Expecting Someone Uglier: When The Knight came to challenge the dark witch, and Meryl came out, he asked who the heck she was.
 * Face Palm: Meryl. She'll probably be doing that a lot.
 * Fantastic Racism: Gin has been hunted like an animal ever since he was a teenager because he's a werewolf. He's an incredibly nice guy.
 * Friendly Neighborhood Werewolf: Gin, of course.


 * Hired Dark Witch, plus minion.
 * Hypnotic Eyes: Count Antonie the Vampire tries this on Meryl. She of course sees right through it, clobbers him, and has Gin throw him out.
 * Idiot Hero: Gin
 * Licked by the Dog: Cats hate Gin, but dogs all seem to love him. There's a reason for that, by the way.
 * Load-Bearing Hero: Gin did this to a magic-proof Descending Ceiling trap.
 * Marshmallow Hell: here
 * Minion with an F In Evil: Gin again.
 * Mundane Utility: Meryl's illusion spells.
 * Nigh Invulnerability: Parodied. Antonie's vampiric powers make him nigh impossible to kill...but still dead easy to beat up.
 * Non-Action Guy: Alfred.
 * Our Werewolves Are Different: Gin. He's usually a normal, friendly guy (albeit super-strong and Made of Iron), but he turns into a type 4 werewolf as a Defense Mechanism Superpower.
 * Paper Tiger: Count Antonie's vampiric powers make it nigh-impossible to kill him...but merely beating him up is a dead easy.
 * Rummage Sale Reject: Gin has been on the run constantly for six years. His clothes are literally rags.
 * Schedule Slip: The author is currently experimenting with regular weekly updates, but historically the comic has been drawn on a "whenever the author isn't busy" schedule.
 * Servile Snarker: Hai'dan.
 * She's A Friend: The gang meeting Shari.
 * Tagalong Kid: Rico and Ellaine.
 * Totem Pole Armor: The Knight that came to slay Meryl was in fact Rico and Ellaine wearing a helm and a cloak. It's a good thing the cloak blew open when it did, since the Knight had by that point hit several of Meryl's Berserk Buttons and she was about a second away from blasting "him" into cinders.
 * Trash of the Titans: Meryl's tower, before she got a minion to clean up. Gin sees this and comments that she's gotten a lot tidier since they were kids.
 * Trouser Space: Alfred has very big pockets.
 * Unusual Ears: Meryl's weird three-pointed ears. Also, Ellaine has pointy elf ears.