Memetic Mutation/Web Comics



Webcomic readers/artists have been known to create their own memes, which are usually adapted from other sources and printed in comic form.

Please add entries in the following format:
 * The name of the webcomic.
 * Meme name: description of meme and how it's used.
 * Source of meme and fandom it relates to in the form of a hot tip.
 * Famous instances (such as the Rickroll during the Thanksgiving parade).
 * Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

Webcomics with their own subpage:


 * Homestuck (has all the memes. All of them.)


 * Several of the character depictions in The Last Days of Foxhound also seem to be trying for meme status, in that characters are exaggerated to one-note, bewildering absurdity. One example is that of Psycho Mantis who in his original appearance showed something of a disdain for reproduction and possibly sex in general whereas in the comic he is shown to go as far as to run around screaming when he is told that a cup of coffee was made by a girl.
 * However, the comic toned-down gag characterizations once it started becoming more plotty.
 * That aside, I'M COVERED IN BEES!
 * Not to forget: Trope naming Chronic Backstabbing Disorder.
 * Shortpacked! Has spawned several memes to do with Batman}, including "I can breathe in space" as well as associating Frank Miller (writer of Sin City) with "whoreswhoreswhoreswhoreshoreswhores".
 * Funky CancerCancer.
 * PvP combined Bats' Parental Abandonment issues with his Badassitude and occasional Wangst to give us the instant classic "MY PARENTS ARE DEAD!" strip.
 * "I'm Batman."
 * Recently, Gleeful Robin (a shot of Robin fangirling over ) has been photoshopped into the background of many other comics.
 * Red Hood and the Outlaws: "I'm bored. Show me your penis."
 * Queen of Wands has a pretty enthusiastic following for the Vagina Dentata song. NSFW and pretty brainbreaky.
 * Also, Charles Darwin and his Chainsaw of Natural Selection.
 * Nazi science sneers at Irregular Webcomic being absent from this list!
 * Also, the Allosaurus, especially as an answer to the site's ever-changing poll questions. How far this meme has spread is impossible to track, though, since the Google results it generates are buried under a bunch of irrelevant paleontological hits.
 * "I'm Jane freakin' Goodall!"
 * Thanks to The Perry Bible Fellowship and 4chan, "weeaboo" is now Western slang for "wapanese".
 * Pro Skub / Anti-Skub!
 * From this comic. There's no way to know what skub really is or why people would fight about it, making it an image board meme for things that cause unnecessary rage.
 * We have memes to interest women, too. For instance, penises.
 * A variation of this has become a catch-phrase on the video game blog Destructoid. Also, cocks.
 * Penny Arcade:
 * DEEPCROW! A creature dreamed up for a single comic has been drawn, statted as a monster for several tabletop RPGs, and now has been forcibly evolved using Spore.
 * WHY AM I SO BALD
 * AND WHY AM I SO PIG-LIKE IN APPEARANCE
 * Tycho and Gabe were not intended as Author Avatars, but so many fans assumed they were that Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik made them so, though they still don't resemble them. Most obviously, Holkins is bald and Tycho has a full head of hair; the meme comes from 4chan Remix Comics about the disparity. As for "pig-like", that's a general joke about Krahulik's face.
 * The meme briefly collided with the Touhou fandom when the final boss of the eleventh game turned out to be a deepcrow. (Well, kind of one.)
 * BEHOLD! I NOW WEAR THE HUMAN PANTS!
 * Before this Darths and Droids strip went up, the phrase "Jar Jar, you're a genius" did not appear anywhere on the Internet. As of 12 days later, Google gave "about 3560" hits.
 * There are now around 558,000.
 * Then that means...IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAND!
 * "I cast Summon Bigger Fish!"
 * "That Jedi has summoned a monster!"
 * "Where are the space dreadnoughts bristling with atomic missiles? Bring on the space dreadnoughts bristling with atomic missiles!!"
 * Something Positive is often credited with popularizing "ROCKS FALL! EVERYONE DIES!"
 * Please remember to spay/neuter your Catgirl.
 * According to A Miracle of Science, Brazil has decided you're cute.
 * Pick an xkcd comic. Any xkcd comic.
 * "RANDALL, GET OUT OF MY HEAD!"
 * "Not cool, Randall. My grandmother, dog, and garden were all killed by memes. Not cool, not funny, not a good comic"
 * You just WON The Game.
 * "Sudo make me a sandwich."
 * "Someone on the internet is wrong!"
 * "My home planet is dead!"
 * Multiple people and even other webcomics have edited or imitated a key panel from Ctrl+Alt+Del's miscarriage Story Arc, either to emphasize Narm or for Dead Baby Comedy. Some examples.
 * Abused to the point where a recent strip had the artist just say "You know what"
 * Speaking of Ctrl+ Alt+ Del.... B^U
 * B^U everywhere
 * Wordswordswordswordswordswords.
 * Also "The miscarriage is often much harder on the man then the woman", with appropriate substitutions such as "The death of the DPSr is often harder on the tank."
 * Tim Buckley: As I was walking past the [reflective object], I caught sight of something beautiful. It was me!
 * Dominic Deegan:
 * Praise be to Lord Dominus]], for he is the all-knowing!
 * Stunt's head. One size fits all.
 * Ah, Stunt's head. It's just like Bumper's head, only smaller and without the killing.
 * Without the killing? Someone is going to pay for this outrage!
 * Gunnerkrigg Court: Nobody likes Boxbot.
 * To the extent that the first Remix Comic thread on the forum is almost solely devoted to photoshopping Boxbot into other scenes, thereby "ruining" them.
 * Everyone loves Robox.
 * THE SADDEST FACE!
 * After this comic the second Remix Comic thread was born.
 * "Fap fap fap." Although Sexy Losers didn't invent this widespread onomatopoeia for masturbation (that would be the VIZ Media translation of the Manga Heartbroken Angels), this webcomic did introduce it to the Internet and popularize it through frequent use.
 * As well as the female version, "Schlick schlick schlick."
 * Also: "Glurkle "
 * Schlock Mercenary brings us The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries—particularly Maxim 37: There is no overkill, there is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".
 * While editing the comic with other ones for humourous effect is a proud tradition in the AZ forums, the only one to spread to the rest of the internet are the ones featuring mash ups of Spare the Rod, with the last panel being a spectacular recent failure
 * If someone had combined this with the miscarriage CAD strip, the internet might have imploded.
 * Nothing Nice to Say had a brief story arc that involved the comic getting taken over by two straw men of the more backwards participants in the punk scene. The resulting Stylistic Suck strips had Fletcher and Blake calling every band they could think of "selloutz!" or "gay selloutz!" and asking "amirite?" after. It caught on, especially on the comments section of punknews.org where people still follow many jokes about bands with "amirite?" (It might actually have been picked up from 4chan.)
 * The Order of the Stick:
 * I AM A SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!
 * SNEAK ATTACK, BITCH!
 * O-chul is Chuck Norris.
 * Evil. A growth industry!
 * I think I just had an Evilgasm.
 * GwaH - Guy with a Halberd is famous on the forums.
 * Kiss our 10 ft. Reach!
 * Is This Troper's editing of this page morally justified?
 * ALL HAIL SNUGGLES THE CAT GOD!
 * "IM IN UR CASSEL ADVIZIN UR KING"
 * WHY SHOULD I CARE HOW MANY PEOPLE I HAVE TO KILL? I CAN JUST MAKE MORE IN MY TUMMY!
 * And while Raekuul's doing some entry pimping, I AM AN ENDLESS BARREL OF EXPOSITION!!
 * Seconded!!!
 * Misfile: "The power of boobs compels you!"
 * Ash doesn't appreciate being so well endowed by his/her Gender Bender, which leads Emily to say that she would abuse their power if she had them.
 * Eight Bit Theater: "Swordchucks, yo!"
 * BOLT-2, MUTHA FUGGA!
 * The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: "Ninjas can't catch you if you're on fire."
 * VG Cats: "Heart!" Literally.
 * How I mine for fish?
 * Bitch be TRIPPING balls!
 * I tie the rat's tail to a stick.
 * It's a RAT-FLAIL!
 * * Waddle waddle waddle* * FACE*
 * *quietly* *storms* *out*
 * Everyone's gay for Abel. Everyone.
 * Better Days has a few:
 * Jessica's tongue.
 * smek smek smek smek smek
 * "Oh balls." Several gag edits of Better Days use this alone as its gag, altering the faces as needed.
 * Kate Beaton's Ooh Mr. Darcy strip from Hark! A Vagrant is often parodied, replacing the titular Darcy with various Memetic Sex Gods such as Nick, Korra, Sherlock Holmes, Kotetsu, and Spock.
 * "Reading: This shit is crazy. It's crazy".
 * The term Rule 34 came from a little known(and now defunct) webcomic Zoom-Out which is featured on the trope page. It was actually the first of the internet rules, the rest were made several weeks after Rule 34 caught on.
 * I'M A SHARK!!
 * I'M A SHAAAARK!
 * SUCK MY DIIIIICK
 * I'M A SHAAARK!!
 * Las Lindas:
 * "DAMNIT FREEHAVEN!"
 * "Fabulous, hon. Fabulous." <3
 * The Parking Lot Is Full: "IT'S GOOFY TIME!"

What pumpkin? You are certain there has never been and will never will be a pumpkin meme in this room.
 * "No, Dad, no!"
 * In some circles, has crossed over with Super Smash Bros.. Fox, Wolf, or Lucario against Ness, Lucas, or Young/Toon Link. Appropriately colored costumes optional.
 * Erfworld: I can taste key lime pie."
 * Megatokyo "Sad girls in snow."
 * Mac Hall: "Hey, what time is it?" "Shirtless O'Clock." (removes shirt) "I thought so."
 * An in-universe example: Buttsex!
 * Brawl in the Family has turned its take on Waluigi into a meme, mainly among the comic's own forums but rapidly spreading.
 * Expecting an example here? TOO BAD. WALUIGI TI-
 * Stop
 * Waluigi has entered the room. What will you do, Master Belch? ... That is incorrect, Master Belch.
 * Pretty much anything to do with Sonichu.
 * MS Paint Adventures:
 * > Pose as a team cause shit just got real.
 * > Add pumpkin meme to TV Tropes Page.
 * What pumpkin?
 * A popular redub of the webcomic The Black Blood Alliance spawned a few mini-memes. "I will deflect the cat's fangs... WITH MY FACE!" "Stupidclaw? STUPIDCLAW NOOOO!"
 * Looking for Group:
 * FOR PONY!!
 * "Im no docter, but there appears to be a dagger in my chest."
 * The Fork of Truth!
 * "OH MY GODS!"
 * "CHICKEN!"
 * "Female of unknown pedigree."
 * Fellbunny!
 * Commander Kickass
 * Pella crushing people in her thighs.
 * You've nowhere to HIDE! Nowhere to RUN! Your village will BURN like the heart of the sssuuunnnn! With infinite glee! It's going to be ME! That Slaughters The Woooooooorld!
 * One line from The Broken Mirror: "Stay here for a minute whilst I go and get some ice creams", an example of the "flowery" language used by some of the characters in the comic.
 * Achewood has a few circulating among its forum:
 * "OOH, THESE KNIVES!"
 * I THINK MY HEART'S EXPLODIN'! THESE KNIVES!
 * "THE DUDE HAS NO MERCY!"
 * "Never be a dick to a stranger.", which has become the official admonishment to trolls.
 * A forum-only example thanks to finicky code tags: "GODDAMN YOU BBCODE"
 * "Philippe is five. Philippe is always five."
 * Tomorrow's recipe is chicken.
 * I proved myself a coward who would desert a dying man.
 * While not really known outside the fandom, anyone familiar with Cuanta Vida will recognize 'pickle thief'.
 * Zoë Lives!
 * Questionable Content: Awkward Zone Defeated!
 * AND THEN THEY ALL FUCKED!
 * Law For Kids parodies. They were asking for it.
 * You are both suspended.
 * Even the passenger gets in trouble!
 * Goblins:
 * * WHEEZE*
 * [[media:IMSAD 8925.jpg|I'M SAD]]
 * Penny and Aggie
 * WORSE THAN HITLER!
 * Lesbian mares.
 * Wine coolers.
 * YEAH, BITCHES!
 * Respond moistly. With your hoo-hoo.
 * Hee.
 * Horndog: "God is 'dog' spelled backwards. I'm a dog, therefore I'm God".
 * World of Fizz: HAWT FURRY EROTICA
 * Freefall: One does not shake the box containing the STICKY NOTES OF DOOM!
 * Carnivorous waffle irons.
 * used for anything from possible Informed Obscenity to outright Not Safe for Work stuff.Naked vixen.A Bowman's wolf! And she wears a bikini!
 * The Insecticomics has "Locust porn":
 * After the issue that mentioned it, there was an upsurge of actual locust porn on the internet.
 * Narbonic: "What? But Dave never smoked!"
 * Due to having quit via Time Travel, Dave gets this reaction from the gang when he mentions his former habit. Now that the comic is in reprints, fans have responded thus to older strips that showed him smoking.
 * I don't like bees! I don't like glue!"
 * The Dumbing of Age comment section would like you to shut your FAAAAAAAACCCCCEEEEE.
 * With you penis.
 * In your mom. For a nickel.
 * But I need my femurs to live!
 * Nuzlocke Comics has a few.
 * "Man, they don't PAY me enough to..."
 * "I believe this is all happening for a reason..."
 *  MAGNITUDE 
 * Starslip: "WEAR IT LIKE A HAAAAT!!"
 * Was notable enough to be mentioned on the SCP Foundation's page explaining memetics.