Foe Yay/Web Comics

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Examples of Foe Yay in Web Comics include:

  • Fuse: Bastardface often teases Starkeeper by telling her how much he likes her.
  • Penny and Aggie: Despite seeing it first through the eyes of Sara's suppressed lesbianism... well, let's just say these two gave her subconscious plenty to work with, and indeed, the main plot thread in the last third of the strip is the two of them realizing she was probably right after all.
  • The Non-Adventures of Wonderellahas it as a bit of a running gag on Wonderella, mostly with Hitlerella as the foe but occasionally Jokerella assuming a more "unrequited crush" position. Like this:

Hitlerella: ...Honey, come back, I'm sorry.

Wonderella: Whaa?! I fight you all the damn time!
Hitlerella: You call that fighting? I spend weeks building a huge death machine... Then you show up, flip it on its back, Wham! Bang! and you're gone! I need someone who will listen to my monologues, Dana. Someone who'll be there till the police show up.
Wonderella: Hitlerella, I swear I am that someone.

  • It comes to a head in this Super Stupor.
  • String Theory has major Foe Yay between Schtein and...well, everyone. Especially true in his competitive relationship with Armoured Closet Gay Dr. Langstrom, and fellow prison inmate Drew Mac Manus.
    • Langstrom has a tendency to address Schtein as 'Hervy' and 'darling'. Feel free to draw your own conclusions.
    • Mac Manus and his prison gang actually corner Schtein in the showers, and the possibility of rape seems very, very real.
  • The Adventures of Dr. McNinja has our favorite McNinja and Hortense. In fact, this trope turned out to be actively invoked by our favorite ninja-doctor's parents. It figures that their idea of playing matchmaker would involve their son and his potential love interest trying to kill each other with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
    • Of course, that's at least a partial lie from Hortense, who was actually hired by Big Bad King Radical to steal the Inocktek tablet for him, but it wouldn't be surprising for both to be true.
  • There's always 'The Event' from Order of the Stick when Belkar, drunk on New Year's, grabbed Vaarsuvius and kissed him/her. Fortunately for V, Belkar didn't remember a thing afterwards. V made a point of increasing his/her explosive rune usage on Belkar as a direct result of this incident.
  • Lackadaisy: Viktor and Mordecai. Mordecai kneecapped Viktor just before leaving the Lackadaisy Gang, but they have a history. At the very least, they were the closest thing either of them had to a best friend.
  • Megatokyo‍'‍s Piro and Miho had a somewhat nebulous relationship some time prior to the start of the comic, and Miho maintains that they were "lovers," though Piro contends otherwise (we eventually learn that this is because he considers the current Miho to be separate from the one he had a relationship with, claiming that "that girl doesn't exist; she isn't real; she never was."). Miho, for her part, has spent the majority of the comic playing various mindgames with Piro, up to an including attempting to seduce his best friend, Largo (who hates her even more than Piro does, making this almost an example of a Foe Yay love triangle).
  • Parts of Sinfest have vaguely 'couples' counseling'-type moments with God and Satan... Also, the third panel of this strip. For the lulz.
    • Oh, come on. I can't be the only one who saw a little foe yay between Seymour and Lil Evil.
  • In Unwinder's Tall Comics Unwinder starts Shipping Jaded Lament and Colonel Gunarm after watching a few episodes of Tokyo Delta Jetlag D.
  • In Girl Genius, Othar Tryggvassen (Gentleman Adventurer) and Gilgamesh Wulfenbach have a lot of this going on, according to Othar's sister. She also reassures him that she's okay with it, having been desensitized to homoeroticism during her time among the mechanical narwhal pirates.
    • Word of God has also implied that Othar views Agatha as a potential love interest.
    • Some het examples is Zola towards Gil and Tarvek. She seems to have Villainous Crush on Gil and regards Tarvek as hers.
    • There's also the Foe Yay between Gil and Tarvek, which stems both from misinterpretations of past events as well as from the fact that they're both chasing after the same girl. The fact that lately they've been getting along a lot better, with Gil having twice endangered his life to save Tarvek's, has made it seem that their relationship may be changing to Vitriolic Best Buds instead. Many fans, hoping for a One True Threesome ending, play up these angles, especially since the authors have done this sort of thing in previous works.
  • Homestuck has this in spades... specifically, it is one of the four cornerstones of troll romance, represented by the suit of Spades much as "normal" romance is represented by Hearts. The Trolls call it "caliginous" romance, based on completely hating the other person's guts, followed not long after with Black Queen/Jack Noir given as an example. It even plays a role in the trolls' complicated reproduction cycle, since each troll must supply the Mother Grub with DNA from a pitied one and hated one.

You're not supposed to kiss her. You're supposed to KILL HER.


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