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Line 1: {{work}} ''[[Shadownova]]'' is a now-defunct [[Web Comic]], written and drawn by troper [[Tropers/That Guy Who Draws\|Mark Alda]]. It can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20111219122530/http://shadownovacomic.com/ here.] ''Shadownova'' tells the story of Iris Kolrick, an antisocial teenager who finds herself drawn into an ongoing war between [[Invisible to Normals\|the Everto]] and a ragtag [[La Résistance\|human resistance group]]. There is a fair ~~ammount~~amount of action but the main focus is on the characters and their growth, particularly that of the three lead characters [[Broken Bird\|Iris]] [[Jerkass Woobie\|Kolrick]], [[Stepford Smiler\|Jacob]] [[Handsome Lech\|Freeman]] and [[Stoic Woobie\|Nikki]] [[Cold Sniper\|Fawkner]]. It all begins with Iris innocently walking to school one morning. However just before she arrives a fighter plane swoops overhead and shoots several missiles at the school, destroying it. Iris quickly discovers that no one besides herself can see what happened, including a schoolmate who was half killed in the blast. Soon after a man called Cameron Hunter arrives and, after introducing himself as a member of a group called the Everto, tries to kill her. Iris is injured but manages to escape. Line 8: While hiding from Cam and the Everto in a shopping centre Iris is approached by Jacob, who is unaware of her situation and tries to flirt with her but she coldly brushes him off. The everto attack again, interrupting the one-sided would-be romance. Iris goes against character saves the still-ignorant Jacob's life but finds herself cornered as a result. Right when Iris is about to be shot the Everto soldiers and almost everyone else in the area are wiped out by a massive firestorm which Iris stands at the centre of. The artwork has a [[Animesque\|distinctly manga influenced style]] reminiscent of [[David Gonterman]]. ~~and~~ At one time the comic ~~updates~~updated ~~<s>~~three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays~~</s>~~, but eventually [[Schedule Slip~~\|infrequently~~]] struck, leading to its eventual stagnation in late 2010. By 2014, the site had vanished entirely, and can now only be read on the [[Wayback Machine]]. {{tropelist}} ~~----~~ ~~=== ''[[Shadownova]]'' contains examples of: ===~~ * [[Action Girl]]: Iris and Nikki. Anne Caver is implied to have been one before she injured her leg. * [[Animesque]]: Oh so much. Line 18 ⟶ 17: * [[Awesome McCoolname]]: [[Colonel Badass\|Colonel]] Lance Fury * [[Badass Longcoat]]: All of the Everto military except Cam. Fury has a particuarly over the top one. * [[Bandage Babe]]: Iris on [http://shadownovacomic.com/archivechp02pg11.html this page.]{{Dead link}} * [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Averted pretty hard. * [[Blood From the Mouth]]: All of the survivors of the attack on East High have this for the few pages they remain alive. {{spoiler\|Cross}} also has this after he's been shot. Line 33 ⟶ 32: * [[Everyone Meets Everyone]]: When Iris and Jacob meet up with Nikki's team. * [[Fan Service]]: Iris's changing scene in chapter 2 and Jacob's [[Shirtless Scene]] in chapter 3. * [[Foot Focus]]: [~~http~~https://~~shadownovacomic~~web.~~com~~archive.org/~~archivechp02pg11~~web/20210326024637/https://fonts.~~html~~googleapis.com/css?family=Quicksand This page.]{{Dead link}} * [[Freak -Out]]: Iris has had two so far, one right after her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] went on a rampage in chapter 2 and another when the gravity of her situation fully sinks in in chapter 3. * [[General Ripper]]: Major Gereral West * [[Genre Savvy]]: Jacob. His logic in protecting Iris would not work anywhere outside the kind of story he's in. {{quote\| '''Jacob''': ''[http://shadownovacomic.com/chapter2/archivechp02pg29.html I've seen enough movies to know I'm safer siding with the mystery girl with the crazy powers than the army of dudes trying to kill her.]}} Of course, this logic is quite sound even in [[Real Life]] - Siding with "the mystery girl with the crazy powers" is a good way to get a [[Magical Girlfriend]] at best, and will [[Androcles' Lion\|keep her from killing you]] at the very worst. Siding with "the army of dudes trying to kill her" will get you [[Police Are Useless\|locked up and harangued]] at best, and [[Killed to Uphold ~~The~~the Masquerade]] at the very worst. Sorry pigs, you're all just too damned ''mean''. * The [[Alt Text]] even [[~~Lampshades~~lampshade]]s a different opinion. [[Wiki Magic\|Link please!]] * [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Iris is slapped by Nikki during her [[Freak -Out]] in chapter 3. * [[Handsome Lech]]: Jacob * [[Hollywood Healing]]: Subverted. Iris seems to be completely fine immediately after applying bandages to her knife wounds but collapses as soon as she tries to anything more strenuous than sitting around angsting. Line 48 ⟶ 47: * [[Invisible to Normals]]: The Everto * [[Jerkass]]: The way Iris acts towards other people. * [[Killed to Uphold ~~The~~the Masquerade]]: The Everto do this to many people. It pretty much kicks the plot in motion. * [[La Résistance]]: A particlarly well organised one with a base in the mountains. * [[Male Gaze]]: We get Jacob's view of Iris at the top of [https://web.archive.org/web/20210326024639/http://www.shadownovacomic.com/chapter%203%20archives/archivechp03pg28.html this page.]{{Dead link}} * [[Moe Stare]]: Iris is doing this on the site's donate page. * [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Iris does this after she sees what happened while her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] was in control. * [[Mysterious Waif]]: Iris. Played with in that she's the main character and we're exlicitly shown at the start why she can't go home. Jacob doesn't know what we know and definetly sees her as one, mistaking himself for the hero in the process, and heavily [[~~Lampshades~~lampshade]]s her use of the trope. * [[Knife Nut]]: Cam * [[Ordinary High School Student]]: <s>Iris and</s> Jacob. Line 64 ⟶ 63: * [[Scenery Gorn]]: A little after East High is destroyed and after Iris's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] is done rampaging. * [[Shirtless Scene]]: Jacob gets one in chapter 3. * [[Shout -Out]]: The [[Alt Text]] frequently quotes and compares the comic to other works and memes. In the actual story Nikki references [[The Matrix]] while explaining things to Iris and Jacob. * [[Shown Their Work]]: The effects of mixing loaded guns and extremely high temperatures. * [[Strip Buffer]]: The artist tries to have this and fails miserably most of the time. Line 86 ⟶ 85: [[Category:Troper Works]] [[Category:Shadownova]] [[Category:~~Webcomic~~Web Comics]]