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[http://www.forthewicked.net/ '''''No Rest For the Wicked]''''' is a now-defunct [[Web Comic]] by Andrea L. Peterson set in a world where many [[Fairy Tale|Fairy Tales]]s are true, in all their grim glory.
 
Some are [[Fractured Fairy Tale|Fractured Fairy Tales]]s, but that does not prevent them from being as grim as the originals.
 
The main plot features the insomniac Princess November from "[[The Princess and The Pea (Literature)|The Princess and Thethe Pea]]" setting out to save the moon, buried as in the fairy tale "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130313091016/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs/moreenglish/buriedmoon.html The Dead Moon]". She gathers a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] about her from various tales, and they encounter more fairy tale characters along the way.
 
Other included fairy tales are "[[Puss in Boots (Literaturenovel)|Puss in Boots]]", "[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20131207044620/http://surlalunefairytales.com/diamondstoads/index.html Diamonds and Toads]", "[[Little Red Riding Hood]]", "[[Beauty and The Beast]]", "[[Hansel and Gretel (Literature)|Hansel and Gretel]]", "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131020110357/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/armlessmaiden/index.html The Girl Without Hands]", "[[Sleeping Beauty]]", "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131120133914/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/4youthfear.html The Boy Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was]", "[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20131207045438/http://surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/index.html Bearskin]", "[[Snow -White and Rose Red (Literature)|Snow White and Rose -Red]]'' and ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131204111257/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/93raven.html The Raven]''.
 
'''Characters''':
* November, the princess from "[[The Princess and The Pea (Literature)|The Princess and Thethe Pea]]". Suffering from insomnia ever since the moon vanished. (Not that she slept well at any time.)
* Perrault the cat from "[[Puss in Boots (Literaturenovel)|Puss in Boots]]" -- except that he's a [[Funny Animal]], not a [[Talking Animal]]. Still working for his master, the Marquis, until November persuades him to leave.
* Red from "[[Little Red Riding Hood]]". [[Ax Crazy|Has an ax. Uses it freely.]]
* Jack-or-maybe-Hans, The Boy from "The Boy Who Set Out To Learn What Fear Was."
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* Anna & Klaus, two children the witch has kidnapped.
* Prince Ricardo, AKA "Picky Dick", the prince from "The Princess And The Pea". A [[Prince Charmless]] if there ever was one.
 
''No Rest for The Wicked'' seems to have started in late 2002 or early 2003 on a now-vanished website called [https://web.archive.org/web/20030430072223/http://www.icarusfalls.com/wicked/ "icarusfalls.com"]; in October 2005, Peterson moved it to its own domain, where she continued to produce installments until February 28, 2013. The comic abruptly ceased updating after that, with no further posts of any sort by Peterson explaining why, but the site remained functional for another seven years, until some point between the end of January and the beginning of February 2020, when it began returning a WordPress error instead of its content. Fortunately, the [[Wayback Machine]] kept an archive of it; you can read it [https://web.archive.org/web/20191227182426/http://www.forthewicked.net/ here].
 
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'''This webcomic provides examples of:'''
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Claire strongly implies that the village parents are like this.
* [[All Trolls Are Different]]: This one lives under a bridge.
* [[An Arm and Aa Leg]]: Claire's hands were lopped off.
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Red.
* [[Angel Unaware]]: The innkeeper asks Perrault
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: November has one planned in the background.
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Clare has a pair of silver gauntlets that work like mechanical hands.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Red, literally.
* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: Red says that three people died in a certain bed, and she was one. Perrault wonders how she's alive.
* [[Badass]]: Red definitly qualifies.
* [[Badass Normal]]: To be just, Ricardo can pull this off.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Prince Orson
* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04i-02.html The boy's meeting with Ricardo.]
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: November's mother knows this
* [[Berserk Button]]: Perrault speaks of "Beauty" to the Beast, as an abstraction; Beast assumes it's his Beauty and goes berserk.
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Red at the witch's
* [[Big Fancy House]]: The Beast's
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: November's mother is named Avril, which is French for "April" (thus fitting into the [[Temporal Theme Naming]]).
* [[Blackmail]]: Perrault accuses November of this.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: November denies stories about a witch in the woods.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Red and Clare both went through hell in their backstories; Red, especially, is a [[Broken Bird]].
** Clare is just as much of a [[Broken Bird]], but expresses it in more of a [[One Piece|Nico Robin]] sort of way.
* [[Burn the Witch]]: Clare almost gets this treatment. {{spoiler|The actual Witch does, though less publically.}}
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Perrault.
** Red gets snarky comments in every chance she gets. They pretty much make up half her dialogue.
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: {{spoiler|Clare's parents made one with the actual devil to get riches in exchange for her. Luckily, the Moon intervened, though she still lost her hands.}}
* [[Death Byby Despair]]: Beauty thinks the Beast's condition is caused by this.
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: Limited Palette; Red's cloak is red, as are the roses at the Beast's castle.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Claire may not actually have fallen over it, but she came very close; she was saved by external forces and
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: The Boy's threw him out. Even his foolish and cheerful nature does not entirely protect him from this; he is wistful about how November's father loves her.
* [[A Dog Named "Dog"]]
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* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: A Jack the Boy remembered.
* [[The Empath]]: November is extraordinarily sensitive. Against her, this means that she gets hurt by things such as ''having leaves fall on her face''. More impressively, she can sense death, tell when people have noble blood, and is usually able to surmise the intentions of the people she brings into the group(she senses Perrault's boredom, as well as Clare's innocence). This is a [[Call Back]] to her source story, The Princess and the Pea, where it is the Princess's sensitivity that is used to determine her royal lineage.
* [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bears]]: Or so the characters assume.
* [[Fair -Weather Friend]]: Red calls Perrault this.
* [[Fallen Princess]]: November.
* [[Famed in Story]]
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* [[Funny Animal]]
* [[Ghost Story]]: When November was little, her sister September told her about how a queen once wished her daughter into a raven.
* [[Girl Withwith Psycho Weapon]]: Red and her axe.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: "Aha, I can see where this is going. Mysterious old beggar women need to be handled very, ''very'' carefully."
** Invoked intentionally by Perrault when tricking an inn keeper to let them stay the night for free. He convinced the man that they were fairies, figuring he probably knew his fairytales well enough that he wouldn't question strange forms of payment (like a dead bird) if they came from the Fair folk.
{{quote| '''Perrault''': Now, if you were to bury this bird behind your inn...should you then find, say, a golden tree with diamond fruit growing upon that very spot three days later...well, that would be quite something, wouldn't it?}}
* [[Get Out!]]: Red to November, during the fight with the witch. It's for her protection.
* [[Grammar Nazi]]: Prince Ricardo.
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* [[The Hedge of Thorns]]: Prince Ricardo tackles the one around Sleeping Beauty's castle, and is apparently the only prince to have successfully done so.
* [[Hitchhiker Heroes]]: The group.
* [[Home, Sweet Home]]: November wants it.
* [[Honorary Uncle]]
* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]: September's problem.
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: The witch had long since become one of these by the time November's group encountered her.
* {{spoiler|[[I Am a Humanitarian]]}}: In the ''[[Nightmare Fuel|worst]]'' way possible.
* [[I Am Not Left -Handed]]: Ricardo, though the princess had to take his word for it.
* [[I Am X, Son of Y]]: The Boy: "I'd tell you 'Jack, son of...' ...but my dad made me swear never t' let on I'm his."
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Red explains that the witch was already dead.
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* [[Ironic Echo]]
* [[The Insomniac]]: November
* [[ItsIt's Not You, ItsIt's Me]]: November to the Boy.
* [[I Was Beaten Byby a Girl]]: The Boy asks if this trope applies to Ricardo.
* [[The Jeeves]]: Perrault, albeit somewhat frustrated with it.
* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]: Ricardo accuses the Boy of this.
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: For witches
{{quote| '''Perrault''': ''[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-63.html There is a reason why fire is the traditional method of dealing with your kind.]''}}
* [[The Leader]]: November
* [[A Light in Thethe Distance]]: Gives November hope for a refuge.
* [[Lightning Reveal]]: In the storm, the one bright panel is with lightning.
* [[Literary Allusion Title]]
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* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]
* [[Meaningful Rename]]: When November asks Red to give her her name, Red pretends to believe it's asking for this.
* [[Minor Flaw, Major Breakup]]: This pretty much defines Prince "Picky Dick" Ricardo's entire life.
* [[Mixed Metaphor]]: One of those minor flaws.
* [[Morality Pet]]: November, for Red.
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* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Taken to nightmarish levels with the Witch.
* [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling]]: November can tell there was death in that bed.
* [[Nice to Thethe Waiter]]: November is genuinely kind, but she also deliberately invokes this; she doesn't want anyone to see the king's daughter being unkind to a beggar.
* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: in Red's backstory
* [[The Nose Knows]]: Red
* [[Not Good Withwith People]]: Red.
* [[Not Now, Kiddo]]: A mother to her daughter about Red.
* [[Not Quite Dead]]
* {{spoiler|[[Not So Different]]}}: Red and The Witch, as [[Lampshade Hanging|Perrault pointed out.]]
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Perrault is standing by November when the wind blows a leaf into her face and bruises her. Red reacts badly.
* [[Odd -Shaped Panel]]: [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04-50.html feather-shaped].
* [[Off Withwith His Head]]
* [[One for Sorrow, Two For Joy]]: November's sisters teased her for using the rhyme for ravens.
* [[Only in It For Thethe Money]]: November tries this on Perrault.
* [[Overprotective Dad]]: November's orders The Boy to bring her back or not return.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Clare says she suffered it, and now knows she's no better. (She used to have a baby with her. It's gone now, and she refuses to explain.)
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* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Inverted.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: The Boy gets one.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Perrault's name. Among others.
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Red.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-47.html And how!]
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*** '''ME TOO.'''
* [[So Proud of You]]: Colette says this of November's mother.
* [[SpeechbubblesSpeech Bubbles Interruption]]: The boy to Ricardo.
* [[Standard Hero Reward]]: The Boy got November, the youngest of three sisters, and half a kingdom.
* [[Stay Onon the Path]]: Perrault prefers it to following Red.
* [[Stick 'Em Up]]: Claire tried this.
* [[Stranger in Aa Familiar Land]]: {{spoiler|Hansel and Gretel finally get rescued from the witch and taken back to their weepy father... ''but they still remember how he sent them off to die alone in the woods''.}}
* [[The Strategist]]: why November sought out Perrault
* [[Talking Animal]]
* [[Tasty Gold]]: Slightly non-standard use: while rummaging through a room full of gold, Perrault bites a ring to confirm that it's [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/02-28.html enchanted].
* [[Temporal Theme Naming]]: November, her sisters August and September, and their father, King January.
* [[Tender Tears]]: Anna cries over the freed Klaus.
* [[They Do]]: Claire and King Gareth did.
* [[Thicker Than Water]]: The Beast resents this.
* [[Think Nothing of It]]: The innkeeper tries this.
* [[Thoroughly Mistaken Identity]]
* [[Town Withwith a Dark Secret]]: The village where they find Clare. That there is a witch in the forest is well-known. {{spoiler|But few parents try to stop their hungry children from wandering in.}}
* [[The Tragic Rose]]: Red is drawn to them.
* [[The Undead]]: The forest witch. She can [[Our Zombies Are Different|still control bits that get hacked off her main body, and re-attach them to the whole.]]
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Red. It's [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] with a blatant reference to ''[[Monty Python and Thethe Holy Grail]]''.
{{quote| '''November:''' Well obviously she ''recovered!''}}
* [[UpperclassUpper Class Twit]]: The Marquis.
* [[Visible Silence]]: Often invoke.
* [[Weakened Byby the Light]]: The Moon used to keep creatures of darkness at bay.
* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: When November, Red, and Perrault reach the Beast's estate's gate, Perrault, having gotten on the other side by himself, lays out a detailed plan of tricking the then-unknown-owners of the mansion into vacating the place and letting the other two in. Red just smashes the gate in.
* [[Wicked Witch]]: Attributed to both Red and Clare. It's not true for either.
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