American Barbarian
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American Barbarian is a comic-book-style webcomic -- rather Kirby-esque adventures -- set in an extremely strange United States -- apparently far future.
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Tropes used in American Barbarian include:
- After the End: The world-ending catastrophe is rewferenced as the "Great Clusterfuck"
- Ancestral Weapon: The Starsword
- Badass Family: The Yoosamon family, guards of the Castle Lionheart.
- Barbarian Hero[context?]
- Base on Wheels: The Moving Fortress, a city built inside a massive tank-like vehicle..
- Battle in the Rain[context?]
- Cain and Abel: Rick and Gunthor
- Cool Horse[context?]
- Curse[context?]
- Deliberately Monochrome[context?]
- Dude in Distress[context?]
- Divided We Fall[context?]
- Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: Dinosaur Riders.
- Fake Defector: Rick pretends to join Two Tank Omen's army in an effort to get "R-E-V-E-N-G-E-!-!-!"
- Fearless Fool[context?]
- Field Promotion[context?]
- Forgiveness[context?]
- Friend or Foe[context?]
- Get It Over With: Gunthor to Rick, once he gets the sword.
- Give Me a Sword: Uli gets back Rick's sword and throws it to him.
- Go-Go Enslavement: Called "Jabba's Technique" in the comments.
- Green-Eyed Monster: the protagonist's brother betrays him because he lost the Tangle of Swords.
- Human Sacrifice: "Meet god!" (actually a Beholder-like entity)
- Immortality[context?]
- Kill It with Water[context?]
- Leader[context?]
- Leave No Survivors: Two-Tank-Omen's modus operandi
- Love Triangle: Averted and lampshaded: Rick is glad that she turns out to be the sister of the other man.
- Mad Oracle[context?]
- Mobile Maze[context?]
- Multicolored Hair: The Yoosamons all have red, white, and blue striped hair. Pa has this pattern in his beard.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Rick is horrified by how his attempt to win Two-Tank Omen's trust give Omen a chance to wreak destruction.
- New Era Speech[context?]
- Non-Action Guy[context?]
- Number of the Beast: The Big Bad has a stylized triple-six emblem on his headdress.
- Odd-Shaped Panel[context?]
- One-Man Army[context?]
- One-Way Visor: Greylock, the Climber, and Gali-Leo.
- Our Dragons Are Different[context?]
- Pride[context?]
- Really Seven Hundred Years Old: The inhabitants of the Moving Fortress.
- Revenge[context?]
- Rule of Seven: Rick is the youngest of seven sons.
- Smooch of Victory: Uli gives Rick one after Gunthor flees and the battle is over.
- Sole Survivor[context?]
- Speech Bubbles[context?]
- Take My Hand[context?]
- Taken for Granite[context?]
- Temporal Paradox: Rick refuses to try something that would lead to this.
- This Is Not a Drill[context?]
- Two Lines, No Waiting: Two-Tank Omen's arrival and the city plotlines were displayed in parallel.
- Written Sound Effect[context?]
- You Already Changed the Past[context?]
- You Did Everything You Could: Uli assures Rick of this after one attempt on Two-Tank Omen failed entirely.
- Youngest Child Wins: Rick