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* Most of the "drama" in ''[[Walkyverse|Roomies]]'' and ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky]]'' is either [[Narm]] or [[
* Ellen describing her "second life" in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' would have worked wonders as a dramatic climax... but gets shoved forcibly into this territory when you realize that, aside from one reference almost two ''years'' prior, none of what she's talking about was ''hinted'' at before the [[Info Dump]]. By the time she starts discussing Archie, the chimera without a sex drive, you'll find it impossible to take it seriously.
** Of course, that's how Dan lulls into distraction the readers with short attention span. Archie was foreshadowing that became more and more transparent later.
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*** "Raven" is the only actually meaningful (playing for a large picture) part.
** Ellen's song in the Birthday Party arc was ''painfully'' cheesy. First off, singing scenes in comics are probably impossible to do well. Secondly, she chooses a song to tell {{spoiler|Nanase}} how she feels, [[Sarcasm Mode|because serenading your loved one is never sappy]]. Thirdly, she scores a perfect 100 after the song's done. She must have put her soul into it.
* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'': A woman's misplaced hatred caused her to attempt to kill several people by [
** Also noteworthy [https://web.archive.org/web/20100102090514/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2006-07-19 is this much parodied strip.] Spoilers in that strip! Be warned!
** [
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** Jacob's revelation that "Death is not zombies" could have been worded better.
** When Cthulhu-[[Fan Nickname|TIM]] and Celesto were tearing up Lynn's Brook for some time, there's a scene where Dex and his ex-wife are desperately cowering behind a piece of rubble as people all around them are getting slaughtered. It would have been a much more emotionally powerful scene if the people getting slaughtered looked more like they were desperately running for cover and less like they were out for a casual morning stroll.
* The page image above is from ''Incontinent Student Bodies'', a parody of ''[[Associated Student Bodies]]''. One of the characters is playing with his friends and then suddenly [[Potty Failure|pisses and shits himself]], at which point he screams "BAWWWWW!" and starts to cry. This was a grown man--[[Furry Fandom|or bunny rather]]--by the way.
* The [[Very Special Episode]] of ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'', in which Ethan's girlfriend Lilah has a [[Convenient Miscarriage]]. This happened in a webcomic in which the main character built a wacky human-hating robot out of an [[
** The [[Very Special Episode]] was particularly special; for some, its narm made it the funniest ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'' storyline ever.
** The recent wedding arc might as well be Narm incarnate. From the vows ("Life dropped an epic husband") to the ''Hawaiian Mafia(?)'', it's just jam-packed.
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** Hell, the Art style itself can be narmy. The body proportions and reactions are so exaggerated!
** Everything about Chief's death. The initial reaction is over-the-top, and then Thac0 delivers this ''priceless'' line:
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** The ''excessive'' amounts of gore, the ridiculous facial expressions, how the characters try to pull of a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment or badass pose every other strip... yeah, this comic is really narmy.
* [[Your Mileage May Vary|Depending on who you talk to]], ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'' is either prime [[Nightmare Fuel]] or Narm Incarnate. Between the cartoony art, the constant over-the-top attempts to [[Darker and Edgier|address shocking issues]], and story arcs like the Rape Arena, Jack has earned many a derisive snort and angry fist-shake over the years. And, oh, yes, it's furry, which is another chip in the pile for some.
* ''[[Tales of the Questor]]''... when the [[wikipedia:Green Fairy|green fairy]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130227023230/http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00541.html gives Quentyn her] [[True Name]].
** And the author would have done the same for the ''blue'' fairy's true name-- if he could have found a beverage that went by the appropriate name...
* ''[[PS238]]'':
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** Of course, there's the next layer of comedy in ''who'' says this.
* Considering it's a webcomic that underwent heavy [[Cerebus Syndrome]] while retaining a cartoony, stick-figure-based art style, you'd think ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' would be awash in Narm; surprisingly, it mostly dodges it. However, Bozzok's attempt at a [[Bond One-Liner]]--"I'm bringing the onions...to make you cry!"--is wince-worthy, and if it was supposed to be so on purpose, then it was still too bad to be [[So Bad It's Good]]. The Thieves' Guild in general is narmy because everyone acts as if they're a credible threat with far-reaching plot implications...and then they go down like a kobold with a lung infection.
** Hinjo's speech to Miko [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0409.html here]. It's clear to the reader that Miko was wrong to {{spoiler|kill Shojo}}, and so seeing Hinjo explain ''why'' it was wrong in such great detail is annoying. Especially cringe-worthy is the line "yours. were.," where each word gets its own voice bubble. It wasn't clear to ''all'' the readers that Miko was wrong, unfortunately. Hinjo had to explain things both to the [[Misaimed Fandom]] and to the crazy lady with the sharp sword.
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* In [[Abstract Gender]], Brian's mother is shot and killed. This is supposed to be the single most tragic event. But it feels random and a little silly.
** It's like the author spun the Convenient Cliched Dramatic Death Wheel and landed on "mugging gone wrong" between "skiing accident" and "plane crash"
* In [http://www.drunkduck.com/Harkovast/index.php?p=481389 this]{{Dead link}} page of ''[[Harkovast]]'', many people found Shogun's expression of rage in the final panel more comical then anything else.
** How about this page? [http://www.drunkduck.com/Harkovast/index.php?p=537197\]{{Dead link}} There's the, uh, wolf's face in the third panel, and this line:
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* The 4U City arc of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is full of clunky dialogue due to the fact that the government has everyone on ridiculously high levels of antidepressants and risk a more permanent version of being sent to the cornfield if they are not happy enough. [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20100524 A particularly good example:]
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* [[Anders Loves Maria]]. The sheer amount of human misery hoisted upon these characters goes past the point of believability when {{spoiler|Anders is arrested for assault after a night of angst-induced cocaine-binging incited by a sleazy reporter who plans on selling the story, during which he struck someone (causing his arrest), landing him in the same cell as the man who he had arrested for assault earlier who is ALSO the brother of his baby mama, forcing him to miss the birth of his child and the DEATH of said baby mama.}}
* A less obvious example in [http://www.supernormalstep.com/206/ this] recent strip of [[Supernormal Step]]. It features a freaky girl appearing on some screens and singing a song that's really creepy... until you realize that it perfectly fits the meter of the Gilligan's Isle theme tune. At which point it becomes hilarious.
* During its run, ''[[Supermassive Black Hole a Star]]'' had an art shift to a darker, [[Film Noir]] art style. While some characters' looks were tweaked slightly, others weren't, resulting in [http://smbhax.com/cgi-bin/d.pl?e=0011&d=0072 dramatic lighting for a character whose nose is bigger than the entire rest of his head].
* "[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lelcqjWint1qdromdo1_500.jpg WOW! Hot a What Baabhabhiat]"
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*** But then, considering it was half leading up to the callback of having Jadesprite echo alternate-future-daves conversation with Calsprite, and the point and that her dreamself is rather overly emotional and flighty about things that Jade herself is not...it does all make it a rather less tragic either way.
** Also, when Karkat reveals that {{spoiler|he didn't perfect the genetic sequence of the frog that created the kid's universe, dooming their timeline, he says that he gave their universe cancer. While it is a very shocking and upsetting development, the line "SORRY I GAVE YOUR UNIVERSE CANCER" has been met with laughter and many distasteful cancer jokes.}}
* ''[[Awkward Zombie]]'' [http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=072814 illustrates]:
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