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* [[Almost Kiss]]: [[Moment Killer|Dammit,]] [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/323 Scout!]
* [[And I Must Scream]]: [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/570 Female Shepard probably shouldn't have used the Renegade option] [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu|when backtalking the author.]]
* [[Animesque]]: [[Sweat Drop]]? Check. [[Cross
* [[Art Evolution]] or [[Art Shift]]: [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/630 The November 22nd 2011 comic] had much more detailed shading than previous ones (and Engie-tan dressed like an actual Engineer for a change). It remains to be seen if this is permanent.
* [[Author Avatar]]: The Engineer with short, red hair. She appears more often than the other TF2-tans and is used as Jo Pereira's avatar for Twitter and [[Deviant ART]]. Also, in [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/342 this strip] and [http://nerfnow.com/comic/248 various] [[Mass Effect|Mass Effect 2]] [http://nerfnow.com/comic/244 strips].
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* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: The Zerg. No, seriously.
** And [[The Elder Scrolls|the Lusty Argonian Maid.]]
* [[Deep
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: The ''Team Fortress 2'' classes are joined by ([[Fetish Fuel|hot]]) female couterparts.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: [http://nerfnow.com/comic/189 This] short arc about a newbie [[Distressed Damsel|video game princess]]' first kidnapping.
** [http://nerfnow.com/comic/178 And this] previous mini-arc featuring [[Casual Video Game|a casual gamer]]
** [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/445 Oh] [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/446 God] [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/447 yes.]
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* [[Irony]]: Situational, noted in the [[News Post]] under [http://nerfnow.com/comic/297 Strip 297], the end of the "Nerf" arc.
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/329 What were you expecting?]
* [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You]]: [http://nerfnow.com/comic/376 In Soviet Russia, Tetris plays YOU!]
* [[Jerkass]]: The Sniper.
* [[Kawaisa]]: [http://nerfnow.com/comic/229 Sleeping Zerglings]. Dawwwww.
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* [[Love Hurts]]: Several arcs go take the major relationships to dark places.
* [[Love Triangle]]: [[It Makes Sense in Context|Between a Medic and two Heavies]].
** Between a gamer, [[White
* [[Major Injury Underreaction]]: Sometimes being aflame is just [http://nerfnow.com/comic/170 a chance to flirt]. Or not.
* [[Medium Awareness]]: Sonic, in [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/636 this comic.] Too bad he was wrong about what to expect.
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]: Drone-tan is [[Genki Girl|genki]] about harvesting minerals, Zerglings and Hydralisks are [[Cute Monster Girl|Cute Monster Girls]], and an Overlord is a [[Meganekko]] dangling from a balloon. [[Starcraft|The Zerg]] have never been more precious.
** The Protoss add their Probe-tan to the fray. And when a Probe and a Drone meet in the mineral fields, traditional harvesting isn't on their minds.
* [[Money, Dear Boy]]: Steam-tan.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: [[Diablo III|Bangus the Endowed]]
* [[New Old Flame]]: [[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]], [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/433 personified as Adam Jensen], to Engie-tan.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Nice job [http://nerfnow.com/comic/227 ruining Christmas], BLU Engie-tan...
* [[Not Distracted By the Sexy]]: [http://nerfnow.com/comic/422 Heavy]. [[All Men Are Perverts|Dammit, Heavy]].
* [[Nostalgia Filter]]: Discussed in a ''[[Pokémon]]'' [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/302 comic].
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** The Heavy after joining a team of "babies". Has shown elements of being a [[Papa Wolf]] as well.
** The old man from the "Noob" arc.
* [[Peek
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: [http://nerfnow.com/comic/331 For the Kinect].
** And for the [http://nerfnow.com/comic/334 time manipulation] on ''[[Singularity]]''.
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* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]
* [[Rescue Romance]]: The very first arc. {{spoiler|And it doesn't work out for Pyro.}}
* [[Ripped
* [[Second Love]]: Sniper-tan to Pyro.
* [[Self
* [[Serenade Your Lover]]: Sniper-tan confesses her love for Pyro by singing [[Rick Astley|Never Gonna Give You Up]].
* [[Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue|Roses Are Red]]: [http://nerfnow.com/comic/467 Violet is BLU]
* [[Short Range Shotgun]]: [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/748 Discussed].
* [[Shout Out]]: To [[Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game)|Plants vs. Zombies]], with the Peashooter in all of the [[Left 4 Dead]] arcs.
** To [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] and only the Sniper's not having [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/558 fun]
* [[Shout Out]] / [[Memetic Mutation]]: [http://nerfnow.com/comic/300 #300]
** [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like (Advertising)|I'm on a]] [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/391 pig].
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* [[Super Deformed]]: Particularly the "[http://nerfnow.com/comic/127 Entire Team Is Babies]" arc.
* [[Take That]]: [http://nerfnow.com/comic/220 This] comic makes a [[Castlevania|not-so-subtle]] jab at [[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]].
** Also [http://nerfnow.com/comic/482 this] against [[
* [[There Are No Girls On the Internet]]: [[Inverted]] [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/525 here.]
* [[Tsundere]]: [http://nerfnow.com/comic/245 Jack] from ''[[Mass Effect]] 2''.
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* [[Two Gamers On a Couch]]: Strips involving Jo and Engie-tan have this vibe to them.
* [[War Has Never Been So Much Fun]]: Team Fortress, now with romance!
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[White
* [[Who Wears Short Shorts]]: Engie-tan.
* [[Woman Scorned]]: [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/277 BLU Sniper] discovers that [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/278 RED Demo-tan] doesn't take rejection well.
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Revision as of 22:24, 8 January 2014
[[File:kekekekeke.jpg|link=Starcraft|right|Zerg rushes have never been so adorable.] ]
Nerf NOW!! is a gaming webcomic centering on the RED and BLU Teams' endless battle in Team Fortress 2, though it also includes story arcs taking place in Left 4 Dead, Starcraft, or one-shot comics based on other games. What sets it apart from its rivals is its art, which is Animesque, dangerously cute, and somewhat inappropriate for a scenario involving two factions trying to murder each other, as well as for the fact that the comic is quite capable of telling a story without any dialogue (though more recent arcs have been using more Speech Bubbles).
Tropes include:
- All Men Are Perverts: The Team Fortress crew? Mostly. Mario especially. Which leads to....
- All Women Are Lustful: The ladies are just as willing as the men.
- Almost Kiss: Dammit, Scout!
- And I Must Scream: Female Shepard probably shouldn't have used the Renegade option when backtalking the author.
- Animesque: Sweat Drop? Check. Cross-Popping Veins? Check. Corner of Woe? Check. Luminescent Blush? Check...
- Art Evolution or Art Shift: The November 22nd 2011 comic had much more detailed shading than previous ones (and Engie-tan dressed like an actual Engineer for a change). It remains to be seen if this is permanent.
- Author Avatar: The Engineer with short, red hair. She appears more often than the other TF2-tans and is used as Jo Pereira's avatar for Twitter and Deviant ART. Also, in this strip and various Mass Effect 2 strips.
- And then denied here, where he is apparently a tentacle monster in the comic.
- From time to time, he'll occasionally appear as himself.
- Badass Adorable: Mini Medic-Tan when she gets her Heavy training.
- Badass Old School Gamer: In a mini-arc, Grandpa wants to show the noob kids how it's done, but he fails... [[hottip:*:...Or so it seems at first, before revealing everything went exactly as he planned.
- Batman Gambit: "Master Plan".
- Berserker Tears: He loved that doctor.
- Bishonen: A fix suggested by Engie-tan for Heavy.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Steam-tan. Her true love is money. Of course, this is returned in kind.
- Bittersweet Ending: Drone-tan being forced to become a Hatchery, with some overlap with Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
- Blush Sticker
- Bottom of the Barrel Joke: Hat jokes. Lampshaded here.
- Brain Bleach: You've seen it, Now you can't unsee it.
- Break the Cutie: Drone-tan's first arc.
- Sniper-tan.
- Breast Expansion: 2-up.
- Brick Joke: Harking back to Meet the Demoman, the Sniper, after ticking off Demo-tan, is being stitched back together... "In Hell!"
- Santa didn't forget about what happened to him on Engie's home last year; but he's a forgiving fellow: He even gave her a hat!
- Butt Monkey: The Sniper. Back during the Sniper VS Spy Update, there was a string of comics with the Spy being far superior to the Sniper. He then later pissed of a RED Demogirl, and... it ended badly.
- In contrast, Sniper-Tan has been exempt from this treatment. As of late, however, she has her own problems to deal with.
- YMMV. Sniper-Tan has had some pretty bad luck. Pyro was only interested in her because Engie-Tan was, at the time, dating Scout. After she broke up with him, Pyro started pursuing her again, (or did he?) even though he and Sniper-Tan were still dating. Poor girl just needs a hug.
- After exhausting all her options, the now-homeless Engie-tan still refuses to spend the night at Sniper's camper van.
- In contrast, Sniper-Tan has been exempt from this treatment. As of late, however, she has her own problems to deal with.
- Cardiovascular Love: Heart Symbol imagery appear all the time.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Origin-tan.
- Sniper-tan as well.
- Corner of Woe: This one. Can't really blame the Medic for it; over more or less the entire arc, things were going really, really badly for him. Good thing the enemy heavy was sympathetic.
- Creator Cameo: Here. Brain Bleach is that way.
- Crossover: Neon Fortress Senterion, anyone?
- The RPG Elements Valve is adding to Team Fortress 2...
- Cultural Translation: "Localization".
- Cute Little Fangs: Zergling-tans.
- Cute Monster Girl: The Zerg. No, seriously.
- Deep-Immersion Gaming: From kill reports, chat channels, and the fact that they occasionally change classes/games, the two teams are obviously in a video game, though their players are never shown.
- Distaff Counterpart: The Team Fortress 2 classes are joined by (hot) female couterparts.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: This short arc about a newbie video game princess' first kidnapping.
- And this previous mini-arc featuring a casual gamer
- Oh God yes.
- Double Standard [1]: Of the non-gender-issues related variety.
- Downer Ending: The Mega Man 9 arc.
- Early Installment Weirdness: It started as a story-driven Team Fortress 2 comic, but it's mostly a gag-a-day general gaming comic now.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The American Violent Gamer may be violent, but he doesn't violate women. Only Japanese gamers do.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Red haired Engie-tan.
- Expy: The most recent one is how one Engie-tan resembles Rei.
- Fan Service: With a huge engineered lampshade.
- Fan Disservice: Curse you, WoW!
- Fiery Redhead: Engie-tan.
- Foe Yay/Les Yay: Based on his Deviant ART page, BLU and RED Engie-tans.
- And Drone-tan and Probe-tan. Probably NSFW.
- Engie-tans love has jumped from the Deviant ART pages and into the main comic.
- Apparently made canon now. . . or at the very least an extreme Ship Tease.
- French Jerk: Guess who.
- Fridge Logic: In universe, coupled with Eureka Moment: Dr. Wily finds a strategy to exploit Mega Manning.
- What happens if you are already dead to begin with?!
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: This comic lampshades the impossibility of the Engineer's feats in the actual game as a punchline.
- Genius Bruiser: The Heavy, apparently.
- Genre Shift: "She Was Just Level One" is a pretty grim and gritty story for a comic that normally runs on the Rule of Cute.
- Now an Ascended Fanfic.
- Revisited in Revengineer 2.0. Brief but satisfying.
- Girl On Girl Is Hot: The author does enjoy drawing lesbian make-out scenes every now and then, and again...
- It seems Pyro and Demoman in the third comic agree. Scout probably agrees also, he's just impatient.
- Invoked by Chun-Li and Cammy who use themselves as bait.
- Goofy Print Underwear: Considering they're being worn by Pyro, you can probably guess what they are...
- A female example serves as an enjoyable last view for the sniper.
- Hair of Gold: Blonde Engie-tan.
- Hands Go Down: Concerning uses of the new Kinect system.
- Head Pet: Heavy Weapons Guy needs to go Scout to deliver a message, but doesn't have a helmet. Mini-Medic wants to tag along. The solution is obvious.
- Hot Amazon: Heavy Weapons Girl.
- Hikikomori / Crazy Survivalist: This strip.
- Hotter and Sexier: It's Team Fortress plus anime babes.
- Idea Bulb: This comic.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Heavy Weapons Guy and Heavy Weapons Girl compete for the Medic's affections. When Medic chooses HWGirl, HWGuy leaves so as not to come between them.
- I Warned You: When the Engies go out on a camping trip, BLU-Engie brings along her DS and extra batteries while RED brings "her spirit of adventure". When nature dumps a rainstorm on them, keeping them in their tent, BLU rubs it in when RED admits she's bored.
- Irony: Situational, noted in the News Post under Strip 297, the end of the "Nerf" arc.
- Innocent Innuendo: What were you expecting?
- In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You: In Soviet Russia, Tetris plays YOU!
- Jerkass: The Sniper.
- Kawaisa: Sleeping Zerglings. Dawwwww.
- Limited Wardrobe: Averted to hell and back with Engie-tan who has a different (and extremely fanservicey) outfit in pretty much every comic.
- Loners Are Freaks: The original TF2 Sniper is a Butt Monkey due to his exaggerated loner reputation.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: Redhead Engie-tan.
- Love Hurts: Several arcs go take the major relationships to dark places.
- Love Triangle: Between a Medic and two Heavies.
- Between a gamer, Steam-tan and Origin-tan.
- Major Injury Underreaction: Sometimes being aflame is just a chance to flirt. Or not.
- Medium Awareness: Sonic, in this comic. Too bad he was wrong about what to expect.
- Moe Anthropomorphism: Drone-tan is genki about harvesting minerals, Zerglings and Hydralisks are Cute Monster Girls, and an Overlord is a Meganekko dangling from a balloon. The Zerg have never been more precious.
- The Protoss add their Probe-tan to the fray. And when a Probe and a Drone meet in the mineral fields, traditional harvesting isn't on their minds.
- Money, Dear Boy: Steam-tan.
- Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Bangus the Endowed
- New Old Flame: Deus Ex, personified as Adam Jensen, to Engie-tan.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Nice job ruining Christmas, BLU Engie-tan...
- Not Distracted By the Sexy: Heavy. Dammit, Heavy.
- Nostalgia Filter: Discussed in a Pokémon comic.
- Also Cool Old Lady GOG-tan.
- NSFW: Parodied.
- Older and Wiser:
- The Heavy after joining a team of "babies". Has shown elements of being a Papa Wolf as well.
- The old man from the "Noob" arc.
- Peek-a-Bangs: The Demogirl has these in lieu of an Eyepatch of Power.
- Power Perversion Potential: For the Kinect.
- And for the time manipulation on Singularity.
- The Protoss find a new purpose for Observers.
- Puppy Dog Eyes: Only it's larva eyes for zergs.
- Rage Quit: In the Little Red Riding Hood episode.
- Reality Ensues: Here, though instead of making the story more realistic, it's Played for Laughs.
- Rebus Bubble: Used for the dialogue-free arcs.
- Red Eyes Take Warning
- Rescue Romance: The very first arc. And it doesn't work out for Pyro.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Just about each of the major Team Fortress 2 updates have garnered a reaction strip or three, but other examples include: Backstab, Karma, and Lottery.
- Second Love: Sniper-tan to Pyro.
- Self-Deprecation: "I got bored of butchering the english language. Now I butcher grammar in japanese too." [1]
- Serenade Your Lover: Sniper-tan confesses her love for Pyro by singing Never Gonna Give You Up.
- Roses Are Red: Violet is BLU
- Short Range Shotgun: Discussed.
- Shout Out: To Plants vs. Zombies, with the Peashooter in all of the Left 4 Dead arcs.
- To My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic and only the Sniper's not having fun
- Shout Out / Memetic Mutation: #300
- Smoke Shield: This strip, complete with Big Damn Heroes moment.
- Stealth Pun: Tonight's Jeopardy special guest: Dracula.
- Guess who's in the pit of snakes.
- Stripperiffic: The female Team Fortress 2 characters' outfits can be dangerous distractions.
- Stop Having Fun Guy: Apparently, the Starcraft scene is nothing but this.
- In other strips, SHFG's are depicted as grey-brown skinned cultists in purple robes with "Mr. Yuk" on them.
- Super Deformed: Particularly the "Entire Team Is Babies" arc.
- Take That: This comic makes a not-so-subtle jab at Twilight.
- Also this against game reviewers and Xkcd.
- There Are No Girls On the Internet: Inverted here.
- Tsundere: Jack from Mass Effect 2.
- Title Drop: Here.
- Two Gamers On a Couch: Strips involving Jo and Engie-tan have this vibe to them.
- War Has Never Been So Much Fun: Team Fortress, now with romance!
- What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: Mineral Scan!!!
- White-Haired Pretty Girl: Soldier-tan and Steam-tan.
- Who Wears Short Shorts: Engie-tan.
- Woman Scorned: BLU Sniper discovers that RED Demo-tan doesn't take rejection well.
- Hell hath no fury as an AI scorned. Master Chief really should have cleared his browser history.
- More like Anthropomorphic Personification scorned, but...
- Worlds Smallest Violin: Requiem.
- Wrench Wench: Engie-tan, of course.
- Yandere: Everyone.
- Your Cheating Heart: Pyro and Sniper-Tan both cheat on each other and regret it.
- ↑ With a dash of Hypocritical Humor