Megatokyo: Difference between revisions

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:

** Largo's been [http://megatokyo.com/strip/354 busy:]

** The current page image for [[Nebulous Evil Organisation]], which ''literally'' [http://megatokyo.com/strip/33 starts off with arson and murder:]

* [[Art Evolution]]: Just compare the early strips to the current ones.

* [[Artifact Title]]: Rodney Caston originally bought the megatokyo.com domain and used Largo as his handle because he was a fan of ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]''. The comic is essentially named after its domain name rather than being a [[Shout-Out]].

* [[Enjo Kosai]]: Junko is seen practicing this. She may actually be attracted to older men if her reaction to "Old Snake" from [[Metal Gear Solid|MGS4]] is any indication.

* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Yutaka Kobayashi is madly in love with Yuki, and ''everyone'' (except Yuki) knows it.

'''Yuki:''' OH, COME ON!! EVEN ''YOU'' KNEW?? }}

* [[Hair Decorations]]: [http://megatokyo.com/strip/970 Piroko], [http://megatokyo.com/strip/748 Yuki], [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1078 Miho]... well probably all of them, really.

* [[Filler Strip]]: Dead Piro Day. Also, there are short "omake" stories using Megatokyo characters in popular anime or original stories Fred wrote himself. The most recent one strongly insinuates that the "omakes" are [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Ping's dreams]].

* [[Fingore]]: [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1162 Given a nod and a wink].

* [[The First Cut Is the Deepest]]: Hitoshi to Erika, possibly Miho to Piro

* [[First Girl Wins]]: By way of a coffee pot to the head.

* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Zom-Zom, Yuki's [[Fun Size|Fun Sized]] pet [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie|zombie]] [[Kaiju|'zilla]].

* [[Foe Yay]]: Miho has a lot of this with Piro and Largo. Though she and Piro ''were'' a romantic couple of sorts prior to the start of the comic

'''Miho:''' That's not a very nice way to respond to that question. You could hurt a girl's feelings. In fact, I think I might start to cry. }}

* [[Follow the Chaos]]: Most of the cast falls under this. However with all the random property destruction going around by monsters of the day it could count as a subversion too.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: ''Largo''. He seems completely insane at first glance, seeing everything through the lens of various action games (primarily shooters), but in the few times we've directly seen his thought processes, he's figuring out some of the comic's [[Kudzu Plot|more complicated elements]]. Unfortunately, everyone else is a little bit to used to tuning him out when he talks.

* [[GIRL]]: used straight, inverted then inverted ''again''. Miho struck up a relationship with Piro's female alter ego online, using a male avatar. {{spoiler|She revealed her true identity, letting him see photos of her when she was ill, then broke up with Piro by claiming [[GIRL|she was a man]] after all and the photos were of someone else}}. Bad form, Miho, ''bad form''.

'''Miho:''' Phil's the janitor at the Cave. He's a sweet guy, don't be mean. }}

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Yuki previously. She's since traded up to a ponytail.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Kimiko when told she's been [http://megatokyo.com/strip/417 a busy girl].

** Not to mention Piro, when he finds out [http://megatokyo.com/strip/535 Erika is one of his favorite idols], or when he discovered Miho on his sofa.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Piro and Largo; Kimiko and Erika.

* [[Hidden Eyes]]

*** This might come to an end, or so Piro (and his readers hope) according to [http://megatokyo.com/rant/1050 his rant] about a little discovery in his production process...

* [[Secret Test of Character]]: Once Yuki's dad finds out about her "boyfriend," he spends ten minutes ([[Webcomic Time|and three strips]]) yelling at him, threatening him with grievous legal and physical harm, and [[Noodle Implements|concrete]], as well as insulting the very fiber of his being...then hands the phone to his daughter.

* [[Serial Tweaker]]: Gallager seems to be an artistic version of this; next time you watch the live stream of him drawing the comic, try and count all of the time he goes back to redraw some minor detail that he's already drawn multiple times before.

* [[Sexy Coat Flashing]]

* [[Translation Convention]]: Most [[Bilingual Bonus|(but not all)]] spoken Japanese is portrayed as English in <angle brackets>, along with translations for the more hardcore [[Leet Speak|1337.]]

* [[Translation Train Wreck]]: Ping's English "transl33tor" approaches this after Largo tweaks it, causing it to translate everything into [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1148 nonsense blended with porn advertisements.] He tries to fix it, and temporarily causes her to achieve a flawless communications link with [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1166 Cuckooland.]

* [[Tsundere]]: Erika, using the original tsundere definition. Ping also enters a Tsundere mode that leads to unstoppable robot rampages.

** Even ''Piro'' exhibits typical tsundere characteristics whenever [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1272 Miho is involved].

** The same is true for anime references and products sold in the store where Piro works.

* [[Weirdness Censor]]: There are ''multiple forms of censorship running simultaneously'', explained [http://bridgebunnies.com/?p=619 here]. It'd be easier to say that there are multiple mutually exclusive [[Extra-Strength Masquerade|Extra Strength Masquerades]] in effect -- look in the right direction at the right time with the right eyes and you can see anything from [[Kaiju]] to entire [[Magical Land|Magical Lands]]. There's an [[Anime]] population, full of [[Magical Girl|Magical Girls]] and [[Sentai]] groups battling [[Monster of the Week|various threats]]. There's the [[Morality Tropes|Morality]] population, where [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|Shoulder Angels]] attempt to guide the human race to their own ends. On top of both is the [[Government Conspiracy]], which attempts to [[Hero Insurance|regulate the destruction created by the Anime heroes]] without [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|getting the world blown up in the process]] -- they drive [[Humongous Mecha]] [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|on the street in broad daylight]]. And some censored populations are subject to censorship themselves! Heroes only see their own threats, and can get pushy when they are interfered with by [[Police Are Useless|cops]] or [[Let's You and Him Fight|other heroes]]. No one sees Shoulder Angels save their clients. The mecha-riding regulators tear their hair out on a regular basis trying to deal with the madness. '''''And the [[Muggles]] can't even agree on what to ignore.''''' While Yuki {{spoiler|is still coping with being a Magical Girl}}, she apparently finds [http://megatokyo.com/strip/803 being told to stay in the mech to be mundane enough to be infuriating.] And while Junko freaks out over Ping's light pole save, [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1169 the owner of the car that would have hit Junko freaks out not over it being crushed by said light pole], but for Junko's carelessness which brought it about.

** In the fifth collection of Megatokyo, Gallagher FINALLY detailed [[Word of God|his explanation for this phenomenon]]: "[http://wikitokyo.mt-talk.net/wiki/What_is_Megatokyo_all_about%3F ...the main theme of Megatokyo is how everyone has different perceptions of the world around them...]" Everyone sees the world slightly differently. Piro and Largo are on the extreme ends of the scale--Piro only sees "mundane" things (and dismisses the fantastic things as mundane things) and [[Crazy Awesome|Largo]] only [[Cloudcuckoolander|sees "fantastic" things]], and [[Go Mad From the Revelation|comes up with fantastic explanations for the mundane things he sees]]. Everyone else is somewhere else on this scale, nearly always between those two extremes. In this world, there are no [[Muggles]]: Piro can't see Largo's world and Largo can't see Piro's world, and they both think the other is crazy.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: [http://megatokyo.com/strip/682 "If I sleep with you, will you go away?"] Undoubtedly a ''very'' dick move on Erika's part, and ''the'' reason Largo tries to [[Drowning My Sorrows|drown his sorrows]].

* [[You Didn't Ask]]: Sonoda says this exact line when Largo demands to know why he wasn't told about the existence of a [[Kill Sat|high intensity satellite-based laser]].

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: One character has purple hair; another's changes from gray to pink to blue green. Though the latter is a sort of subversive joke, since the comic is mostly in black and white; hair color can only be determined from occasional colored strips or when a character points it out.

* [[Your Makeup Is Running]]

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: just about every female character has had an A-grade at one time or another. And if you've clicked all the links on this page thus far, you've probably seen it for about half of them already (heck, Kimiko's got it in the page image here). [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1103 Here's one more for you.]